The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-28

educational principles in the English
language and in accordance with the
most modern high school and college
methods. This institution is the Canton
Christian College.
The custom of marrying girls when
they are mere children of 8 or 10 years
is increasing rather than decreasing in
Bengal and other parts of India. The
resulting racial degeneration is becom-
ing so obvious that laws have been
passed in several regions forbidding the
marriage of girls under IA.
Man will eat 200 or 300 more foods
in the year 1000 than he eats now"
said a chemist. "A movement is on foot
among the worlds governments to in
crease the varieties of our foods, and
every week, from somewhere or other,
a new vegetable or fruit or nut is add
ed to the international bill of fare"
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
introduction of electric traction into
Germany will soon be celebrated in
Berlin. On Oct. 1. 1903, there were no
fewer than $500 kilometers of rails
used for electric traffic, and STOP cleo
trio motor cars, with $50 ordinary
cars attached to them, in use in Ger
many.
An insurance doctor at Leipzig has
collected facts which show that the
changes in the human blood vessels
(arteriosklerose) brought about by the
use of alcohol. tobacco and other ex-
cesses, including overwork, cause %
per cent. of all deaths, whereas the
much-dreaded tuberculosis is respon-
sible for only per cent. in that city
1t is said that a single mesquite
seed was taken from Angora to the
Hawaiian Islands in 1873, and planted
there. The seed took root and grew,
spreading as only the mesquite bush
can, and now there are said to be So
600 acres of it in the islands But it
has adapted itself to its new surround
lngs and is quite different from the
parent plant.
The projected electric railway be-
tween Berlin and Hamburg would cost
10000, 900 marks, single track, and no.
100000 marks double track The dis
lance is to be covered in an hour and
hfty-1ve minutes. 1t is estimated that
$4,000 passengers a year could be
counted on, and a single-track road
would pay expenses if there were only
$4,000; for double track $4,000 would
be required.
unfortunately the largest diamond
in the world is not of the crystalline
SORT used as a gem. If it were its
value would be fabulous. for it is sew
enteen times larger than the famous
victoria diamond, the largest of mod
ern flnds, which was sold for 81, 500, 900.
Its value depends upon the use to
which it can be put when broken up.
for il is of the
technically as carbon.
Navigation on the Danube and the
Elbe has had to be stopped because the
rivers are without sufficient water for
the boats to keep af1oat The boats
that left Budapest for OrsoVa only got
as far as Moldova. For some time
past the boats which were drawn by
tugs could only be half loaded. on
the lower Save, where at this time of
the year an active export of timber is
usually carried on, there is not water
enough to float RATS.
There are still in use at Versailles
cast iron water pipes dating from
1864 to 1888. The total length of these
pipes is fifteen and a half miles.
large proportion are twenty inches in
diameter, the remainder being twelve
and three quarter inches. They have
been laid in lengths of forty inches.
and are coupled by means of f1anges
and bolts. The twenty-inch pipes are
one and three-eights inches thick and
the others seven-eighths of an inch.
Theodore Stavarche, living in the
town of Hermezin, near Bucharest.
mad his fortune told sixty-five years
ago by a Gypsy, who said that he
would die by the bayonet He fought
through the Russo-Turkish War. was
decorated for conspicuous bravery at
PleVna and Smarden, and never re-
celved scratch. The other dav
however, at the age of rs, he committed
suicide with his grandsons bavonet
thus fulfilling the ancient prophecy.
There are 3S2,OOO,OO0 Chinese speak
ing the same language, making Chinese
the most spoken language. There are
so many dialects which are entirely
Inherent that they seem scarcely to he
long to the same tongue. The inhab-
ltants of Mongolia and Tibet can
barely understand the dialect of the
people in Picking. Putting Chinese
aside, the most spoken laneua gas are
as follows, in millions: English 12o.
German, 20; Russian, IS; Spanish, "A;
Portuguese, 80.
A" q lCtIer sent TO a native
prince is often very elaborate ar
fair. The paper is specially made for
the purpose and is sprinkIed with gold
leaf. Only the last few lines of tha
somewhat lengthy document contain the
purport of the letter, while the rernaind-
er is made up of the usual roundahout
ana complimentary phrases, IT is
FOLDED in a peculiar way. with the
maps outward, and placed in a muslin
bag, and this latter into one of Grim
son and gold tint, with a slim knot of
gold thread, attached to which is a
ponderous seal. The address. written
on slip of parchment, is attached 70
the outside bag. These details arc
very important for polite letter writ
ing in India, and If any one Of thar,
were omitted il would be an insult 70
the person addressed.
The landing of the Pilgrim Fatb-
ers at Provincetown is to be common
GRATED by a monument $50 feet bioL
on High Pole Hill, which is In ths ca1-
Ter OF the old Cape Cod town THE
Mayhower compact, the first DECLARE
ton of civil rights on this continent
ana the torerunner of the Declaration
OF independence, was drawn IN there
on Nov. IL (Nov. 21, new style1 The
opelisk is to be erected by the Cane
Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association
which has raised about ST.. 900 THE
town has been authorized bv the Teg-
islature to contribute $4,000. ana he
state will duplicate any amount which
reaches 250O0. One hundred thouss,,d
dollars will be necessary to buiId az