The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the German army is the healthiest, the
Italian second and the British third.
The London Tailor and Cutter
gives this valuable advice to lovers of
sport: For cricket, boating, tennis and
football jewelry must be eschewed,
but for motoring fishing and golf jew
elry is indispensable.
Patent medicines are never sold
in the apothecary shops of Sweden.
The government limits the number of
these shops and there are only $50 in
the whole country. Stockholm, with a
population of 100000, having only TWEEN
ty-two.
The corn-producing states of Aus
tralia are New South Wales and
Queensland-New South Wales having
1878 acres, producing 3,S44, 1913 bushels
or 22.9 bushels an acre, and Queens
land 1888 acres, producing 1853, 118
bushels, or % bushels an acre.
After the cessation of hostilities in
South Africa the two shafts of the
knights deep mine were found to be
flooded out. The electric pumps and
cables which had been used at the
mine had been under water for quite
wv eSAld Ol1S- lldII years. NOTWITHSTANDING
ing, the motors were brought out, dried
and set to work again.
There are now in Belgium four
schools for the instruction of fisher
men. The pupils are taught how to
read weather charts, how to make the
best use of currents, what the bottom
of the sea is like, how to make their
own nets, how to manage a boat in a
ST Orn how n the in C
in the line of fishing apparatus, etc.
There are about $50 pupils now in these
schools.
In Nagasaki, Japan, there is
fireworks maker who manufactures py-
rotechnic birds of great size that, when
exploded, sail in a lifelike manner
through the air and perform many
movements exactly like those of living
birds. The secret of making these
wonderful things has been in possess
sion of the eldest child of the family
of each generation for more than 400
years,
Maj. Jameson said in the British
Parliament the other day that the sud-
den resort to khaki uniforms was a
''senseless craze" Because the Beers
wore khaki and SLOUGH hats the whole
army was clapped into similar cos
tune. If the Zulus had beaten it, the
army would have gone about in feath-
ers and paint. Three streaks of paint
and an ostrich feather would have
been the uniform of a field marshal.
Six hundred and sixty men, women
and boys, employed in the wooden fac
tory of Mr.. T. F. Taylor, at Bately
England, recently received IS each
from Mr.. Taylor as a reward for alb
staining from tobacco for the last
twelve months. A hundred and for
ty-one men and boys and 519 women
had kept the pledge which they were
invited to take year ago. AS a re-
suit of the years experiment, forty of
the men have decided to give up to-
bacco altogether.
The Baltic is equipped with an cleo
trical device for preventing collisions
with other vessels. The moment an
other ship enters the magnetic field"
of the Baltic the needle of the indicat-
ing instrument points in the direction
OF the vessel approaching or being
overtaken, and the steersman knows at
once what course to take. Even the
rhythmic beats of an unseen steamer
screws are registered by means OF this
delicate apparatus. Another safeguard
is an electrical contrivance to show if
the ships lights are burning properly.
Cleveland has the nucleus of a
municipal art gallery slowed away in
a vault in her City Hall. The collec-
| ton consists of four paintings and an
| ivory carving which were bequeathed
to the city by Mrs. Mary A. Warner,
who died sixteen years ago. Mrs.
| Warner left $4,000 to be expended for
| the prospective art gallery, but no
| part of this fund, which, with inter
est, now amounts to nearly $4,000, has
ever been applied to the object for
which is was given. The pictures have
never seen the light of day since they
| were presented to the city.
"A handy explosion motor for boats,
| a French invention, is being made in
England. Any one taking this steer
| ing propulsion" to a lake. river or the
seaside may attach it TO any boat ne
finds there that is within it's range of
power. A rudder is unnecessary, the
boat being steered by varying the an
gle of the axis of the propeller makes
with the keel. AS the propeller can be
completely turned around a reverse
action is given. A twelVe-horse-power
propulsor has been successfully applied
to a launch, which towed a 300-t ton
canal barge with load of $50 tons of
sand.
A favorite card game of the Japa-
nese, says the Washington Post, is
played as follows: One hundred we'll
| known proverbs are selected, each di-
vided into two parts, and each part
printed on a separate card. The host
| of the evening has the hundred first
| halves, which he reads aloud, one by
| one; the hundred second halves are
| dealt to the other players, who place
| their hands face upward on the ia
tamil" or thick mat of rice straw,
on which they sit. AS the first half
| of any proverb is read the holder of
| the second half throws it out or if
| he sees it unnoticed among his neigh
| boris cards, seizes it and gives him
| one of his own. The player who is
| first "out" wins. 1t is a very simple
| game, but it affords great entertain
ment to the players; for the quick
| sighted and keen-witted are constant
| ly Selling the cards of their dull and
slower neighbors, and this leads to
| much laughter and many good-nat-
| ured sarcaSms.
The new astronomical observatory
buildings which have been under con-
struction at the University of Califor-
MIA for the last few months have just
been dedicated. The new buildings,
which house the additional apparatus
were designed by Supervising Archi-
tect John Galen Howard. They con-
sist of one main building, containing
two large rooms, two domes, a dark
room, and store rooms, besides a sepa-