The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ly ind it imperative to shoot the
Boer and Kaff1r cattle. The disease
is incomparably a worse evil than the
rinderpest.
1t appears, from a decision of the
French courts, that a man may fight
a duel with pistols or swords, and if
fatality results there is no penalty. But
if one cannot afford these weapons,
and fights with humber means, there
is no such immunity, as two men who
fought with knives were given four
months each in prison.
Staff Captain ell Senior Leib, the
social superintendent of the Salvation
Army of Jamaica, commissioned by
the headquarters in London, has ar
rived at Panama to arrange for the
running of cheap food and shelter de-
pots for the canal laborers and poor,
combined with efforts to raise the
spiritual and moral tone of the men.
Great success Is being achieved in
the arid sections of Colorado in the
raising Of small grains without irriga-
ton. BY scientific cultivation of the
soil, the earth is made to conserve the
moisture, and large crops are being
obtained. AS high as forty bushels OF
wheat an acre have been raised with
out the aid of irrigation in the vicinity
of Berthoud. Col
--Civet is pasty. yellowish sub
stance, that is taken from a pouch, near
certain glands of the civet cat, which
is found in Abyssinia. 1t Is first of
yellowish color that gradually turns
darker. 1t has a strong, musky odor
that to many is very disagreeable, but
by many of the women of AbySsinia 1t
is considered an Indispensable article
of perfume. There Is only produced an
nually from $50 to 300 pounds of this
article, about one-half of which is ship
ped to New York. A considerable
amount goes to France, and the ball
ance is used by the natives in its nat
ural state.
"A German writer says that in 1870
German blood ran in the veins of about
one-fifth of the population of the United
States. In 1880 the Anglo Saxon-Puri-
tan element numbered 2964,717; the
German element 2,695,167, and the
American population, in which the sew
eral European strains had already be-
come so thoroughly blended as to be
no longer easily dlstinguishable, 4,852,-
III. At the century's end he finds in
the United States 25,4775s3 Germans,
as compared with 12,713,0S6 descend
ants Of the american" inhabitants In
1880, and 12,11S, $40 Anglo-Saxons. The
Teutonic element Germans, Scandi-
navians, Dutch and Belgians) is given
as 43 per cent. of the total white pop
ulation.
Instances of letters being delayed
in transmission are by no means rare,
but surely the record length of time
in this respect must have been achiev-
ed by a letter which has just been
returned to its sender after a delay of
forty-five years. In the fifties sailor
from Kiel, named Jens Jensen, was
on board the Danish brig Kourier, on
the east coast of South America. On
Jan. 90, 1859, a brother living at Mar
stall wrote to him, and addressed the
letter to the care of the Danish con-
sulate at Buenos Ayres. The letter
was never delivered, and a few days
before Whitsuntide was returned to
the sender. 1t bears the postmarks of
Hamburg and London and a collection
of stamps that cost some IT shllings.
What became Of it during its forty-flve
years journeying is and is likely to
remain mystery.
The Ex-Emperor Of AMMAN, Ham
Nghi, has been petitioning the French
government that his two young
nephews may be allowed to come to
him at FL Biar, in order that they may
bear him company in his Algerian
exile, which has now continued since
1888. The Colonial Minister has, how
ever, refused the request. Ham Nghi,
who was famous for his uncomfortable
antipathy to the French conquerors of
his country, is said to Have shown
himself altogether inconsolable in his
place of exile and to lament his home
continually. He ii was who was re-
sponsible for the unexpected attack up
on the French at Hue in 1885, when
several French officers were killed. He
then fed, and his flight was the signal
for a general revolt. Ham Nghi was
not captured until three years later.
1t is related of him that previous to
this rebellion he once showed his an
tipathy by calling upon the French
resident in AMMAN and sending in his
visiting card printed in Chinese char
acters. Great was the CONSERVATION OF
the official interpreter, who read upon
the card the words Death to all
Europeans"
-Skeptical housewives may smile
when told that liquid air and its prod
ucts, oxygen and nitrogen, will ever he
Of economic value to them in cooling
the house. says Good Housekeeping
There is every indication, however, that
within the next decade these conmodi
ties will be delivered at the door for
cooling purposes, just as milk and ero-
certes are delivered to-day, and al a
minimum price. When this time ar
rives architects will plan for cooling
pipes just as they do now for heating
apparatus. Inventors have now per-
fected their systems, however, to the
extent that they are building a plant
whlcn Will manufacture every twenty
four hours liquid air which in cooling
effect will be equivalent to 200 tons IF
ice. At first they purpose to interest
large establishments where the LIQUID
air VIII be delivered ready for use, at
one-twentieth of the present cost, Lat
er, when its value is recognized, it will
De delivered to the housewife in jnsu
lated containers ready to attach to the
pipes leading to the coil overhead. This
coil, by the way, will be made as orno-
mental and conspicuous as possible. and
VIII cost no more than the hea ting
pipes As nitrogen is one of the most
perfect personalities known, 1t is pre-
dicted that when Ii becomes plentiful
through the manufacture of LIQUID air
1t Will be possible to do away with ice
so far as the kitchen refrigerator "a
concerned.
Dealers in boats say there Is an in
creased call this year over last for
Households, and some of them believe
that this way Of taking a summer out-
Ing is at last coming into popular favor
AFTER delay that has always been in
eXplicable, says the Philadelphia. Rec
ord. In London the fad has flourisbed