The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The three important wheat states
of Australia produce 100000 bushels.
The yield to each acre in New South
Wales is 1916 bushels In South Aus
tralia 60 bushels and in West Aus
tralia as bushels.
"A Partisan who has been much an
noyed by duns has connected his bell
handle with a powerful electric bat
terry and switches on the current at
psychological moments. SO far the
police have declined to interfere.
james F. Hyde. city treasurer, city
controller and deputy collector of
Lincoln, III, is said to be the oldest
municipal officer, the Oldest bookkeep-
err and the busiest nonagenarian IN
the United States. He is in his ninety
first year.
A Bavarian journalist thinks he
has made the discovery that there are
more original thinkers among the pro-
fessors at Austrian universities than
among those in Germany; and he thinks
the reason is that the Austrian pro-
fessors are less overburdened.
The French village of Aumore
ranks as the healthiest spot in the world.
1t contains only forty people. TWEEN
ty-eight of whom are over 80 years
of age, and three have passed a CEN
fury. There are no graves in the place,
and the Oldest inhabitant cannot re-
member seeing a funeral.
The British Medical Journal sug-
gests that "as luxuries hould be tax
ed rather than necessaries a superiority
of fat, which is mostly the result of
L. a..
regarded as "a fitting object of taxa
ton" One municipality in Sweden
already taxes superfiuity of fat.
The harbor of Valparaiso, the i'm
portant port of Chile. is only an open
roadstead in which 152 ships have been
wrecked through storms causing them
to drag their anchors. The water in
the bay is very deep in most olaces,
and it has been declared impractical
to build a wall across the mouth of
the bay. Therefore. a number of walls
or breakwaters will be built at a cost
of slO,95O0OO.
-Peremptory notices to the public
are SO general in this city, says the
New York Tribune, that no one asks
whether they are good manners or
not Everybody is so used to being
| hidden to step lively" by the I'M
kempt servants of public service cor
porations, or sternly commanded to
EXCUSE me" by hurrying pedestrians
who runs one down, that keep off the
grass" does not seem offensive. 1t is
interesting to know, though, that that
sign has been banished from London S
parks. mo smoking allowed" which
used to adorn many public and pri-
vate rooms, has assumed a less min
| atory form. The London County Coun-
Gil has set good example in the tone
of its necessary warnings, which gen
orally contain a reminder that their
property is the peoples own property.
The politest notice, perhaps, is one in
London churchyard: You are
kindly requested not to throw paper
or refuse into the garden"
AS a rule, says Social Service, a
Russian village is a forlorn- looking
place, where the huts of the poor are
made of birch logs, with upright oak
or pine supports, ceilings of strips of
the same birch and walls lined with
the crude branches. In these huts there
are only two rooms, one of which is
not for everyday use, but is kept for
best occasions. This room houses those
1 sacred images so dear TO the heart OF
every member of the Greek Church, to
| which belong the great mass of the
| Russian people. The other room serves
the purpose of both kitchen and sleep
ing room, as one of the principal ideas
Of comfort to these people, ice and
snow bound for so many months of the
| year. is warmth. In many of the peas
| ant hutS no beds are used, and the TOP
of a great stove, reaching nearly to
| the roof, is a much-sought sleeping
| place. Although the conditions make
dirt and the accompanying results in
separable in the domestic life of these
| peasants, they are deVotedly fond OF
bathing. The vapor bath in a crude
| form may be called national institu-
| ton. and a not unusual picture of a
summer afternoon is the village pond
| filled with women and children bathers
The Prince of Monaco has gra-
eiously consented to let the mystery
| of his finances be unveiled in the
| Figaro, says the New York Tribune
He would have done this before if
he had thought that the world took
| any interest in the matter, according
| to the London Chronicle. But he has
| been brought to see that it is in
| furious to his reputation to have il
| generally believed that he lives out
| of the tribute of the gaming tables
4 at Monte Carlo. The Monaco Budget
is duly presented in the Figaro, and
| it appears that the principality has
| an ample revenue quite apart from
| the gamblers. why, a thousand a
| year is raised upon matches alonei'
| The company which provides the re-
| freshing seabaths of Monaco, to say
nothing of the theater and sports
pays a handsome contribution. So
| modest are the Princes personal wants
that his minister of finance has not
given him a halfpenny for three years
| The total income from the Casino is
| devoted to the cause of charity and
| the advancement of science. "If you
have lost all your money at the ia
bles, be consoled by the thought that
1t is healing some poor creature in
the hospital, or otherwise spreading
the arts of peace" This should be in
scribed in letters Of gold over the por-
tails OF the Casino.
An article upon the route of the
Tibet Mission, published in a London
paper, contains an interesting record
of temperatures and conditions of life
| at high attitudes. The mission has
necessitated the continued exposure
of a very large number of untried men
to life at attitudes ranging between
| 10000 feet and 1900 feet, and the gen
eral results are of considerable value.
The lowest temperature yet reached
on the route has been 26 degrees F.
! at Chuggia, on the Tangia, which was,
however, only an encampment Of ac-
! tual nightly exposure to cold of men
and animals Tuna probably holds the
record with II degrees F. But Phari
1 has 81 ILL.,