The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

fresh water on the top and salt water
on the bottom The lake rises and
falls with the tide and is evidently con-
nected with the sea by an underground
channel.
Chinese styles come up from the
south. Shanghai, being the Paris that
sets the fashions for all people save
the court Manchus. Just now the
Worth and Doucet of Shanghai have
trimmed the baggy, loose-sleeved
Chinese coat down to the scantiest
lines.
Central Africans make a kind OF
sweat beer which is effervescent and
tastes a good deal like champagne
1t is made by mixing water and banana
juice and allowing this to turn sour
1t is said to be wholesome, but
it is drunk only by women and
children.
-Orrin f. Haskins of Lskeville. Ct,
discovered a turtle on his premises
which was marked "F. w, 1925" An
other one close by was inscribed "E
T., 1857" The former was doubtless
marked by Francis Washburn, and
the latter by Elias Thrasher, both
former residents of the town.
Mrs C. A Cunningham, of Oak
land, Me, has a floral curiosity in
her yard in the shape of an evening
primrose. The surprising rapidity with
which it buds develop into very hand
some blossoms shortly after shutdown
is a wonder to all persons not
familiar with plants of this kind.
Homer Hill, a 12-year-old boy,
was attacked by a large black bear
near his home at Waterford, VT, a
few days ago. The boy got away
from the animal and threw a cobble-
stone, striking the bear in the head
with such force that the latter
fell to the ground and the lad
escaped.
The presence of moisture in tobac-
co is, the London Lancet believes, of
some Importance to public health, since
the combustion of tobacco containing
a large proportion of moisture is inn
peded, while as the generation of Vapor
is increased, so are the changes of
the poisonous principle being carried
into the mouth.
The fellow who jumped into print
recently with the assertion that mules
do not kick can obtain useful infornfd-
ton by applying to Alfred Carl, Hahne-
mann Hospital. Philadelphia Carl
pushed lighted cigarette into the
mouth of a mule and got a good
impression of a good luck" en-
blem embossed on his cuticle.
Siberia has the greatest known cold
in the world. At Yakutsk the aver
age for three winter months is 40 de-
grees below zero while Individual drops
to IS and 76 degrees below are not un-
known. But at Verjohansk the aver
age for January, 1885, was SO 8 degrees
below zero, and the mercury at one
time dropped to 90.4 degrees below,
the lowest on record anywhere in the
world.
The heart of Elberfeld in particu-
lar is labyrinth of queer little crook
ed streets. in which the keenest sense
of direction is apt to be at fault: but
they have made room for magnificent
town hall, occupying a commanding
and central position, and have driven a
new street through the crowded build
ings hard by. The town hall cost f1S5,-
600 ($900,SO3) and the new street 1850
600 ($2,1S9,925).
"A Russian who fought with Kos
suth in the rebellion of 1S4s-49 received
a bullet wound in the shoulder in the
battle of Isaazegh. The bullet could
not be extracted, but the wound heal
ed satisfactorily and it's presence was
never felt until recently. Not long go
the soldier began to suffer pain in the
region of the wound and modification
set in. He died from the wound fifty
six years after receiving it.
There have been innumerable plans
for preventing seasickness, but per
haps the most remarkable of any is a
device by which a German navy engi-
neer would obviate the malady by
overcoming the motion which brings it
about. He is Mr.. o. Schlick of Ham
burg. His apparatus is designed to in
crease considerably the period of os-
cillation in the rolling of a vessel,
and at the same time diminish the am
plitude of oscillation.
The Australian Postmaster General
recently invited competitive designs
for pictorial post cards to be printed
and issued by his department for use
throughout the commonwealth. Pre-
miums of $50, $25 and SIS, respectively,
will be paid for three series of twelve
designs, each adjudged by the POST
master General to be first, second and
third in order of merit, in the case of
exclusively of Australian subjects.
1t is announced by a German pub
LEGATION that there are 52O,955 miles of
railway in the world. The North Amer
lean continent has 233, 1856 miles Europe
follows with 1S3,907. South America has
only 2S,S22; Asia, 44,35S Africa 1854;
Australia, 1903. The mileage of the
United States alone is about 207 ,000 or
40 per cent. of the entire railroad
mileage of the world. Great Britain's
railroads represent the highest cost per
mile, $3.50, S39. The railways of Europe
appear to be much more costly than
those of the rest of the world. 1t is
estimated that the European roads rep
resent an investment of STA $50 a mile,
while those of the rest of the world
average $4,000.
One of the first things to impress
itself upon a foreigner in Japan is
the popularity and the excellence of
the physical training given to Japa-
nese youth, says Leslies Weekly. They
are a race of miniature Spartans, and
they have become so through such
patient painstaking toll and endurance
as would appall the average American
youth, Injured to softnesses. The Japa-
nese schools are nearly all modelled
after American institutions: or, as the
people like to believe, after a com
posite of all that is best In the schools
of America, England, France and Ger
many The students are not, of course
trained in modern athletics, and could
hold hold their own at nothing of this
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