The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

--Ine Dd1nDOO IS not d lIOpiS1l piehiiI'
as commonly supposed. 1t grows in
regions where the SHOWS are so heavy
that they often break down the young
stems and where the thermometer
drops to Is degrees Fahrenheit below
the freezing point. The largest OF the
Japanese species grows and forms
large groves.
The Korean never cuts his hair
or beard. To do so is considered a
mark of dishonor to his parents, whom
he strongly reVerences. Any hairs that
may happen to come out ana even
the parings of his finger nails are care
fully saved and put into the comm WIN
him in order that he may go pack 10
mother earth intact.
March, 1903, the Swiss physicist
Henri Dufour, announced that the IN
tensity of the solar radiation on the
earth's surface had been decreasing
considerably for some time. M. Dufour
found that the weakening of intensity
dated from December, 1902, and that
it had progressed up to March, 1903,
afterward gradually diminishing.
There are S,64S,64O acres of moss
land in the province of Norrbotten'
Sweden, not including 1,2S5,520 acres at
Pajala and the peat deposits near the
coast, and it is not at all improbable
that a fifth of this area is covered
by peat moss of considerable depth
Calculated at a low fuel value TINS
would correspond to a supply for 200
years of the present coal import to
Sweden.
Both Russia and Germany display
two-headed eagles on their standards.
Yet this symbol is considered by some
heralds to be merely the result of the
heraldic practice of Humiliation This
was simply a child's way of impallng
two coats-of-armS on the same shield
by the primitive method of cutting each
in half and taking the dexter half OF
one and the sinister half of the other
and placing them back to back, as 1t
were.
Some idea of the delights of travel
ing in Korea is given by the follow
ing description by a traveller of the
bridges" in that country first
class bridge in Korea is simply an as
sortment of planks nailed together.
These are scarce. A second class
bridge is a series of isolated stones
from one to another of which the Wis
itor may jump. A third class bridge,
y
visible, its position being indicated by
a couple of posts, one on each side
of the river. They mean that you may
safely wade across, as the water will
-probably-not go much above your
chest!
The impassivity of John China
mans countenance is now at least par
TALLY explained, says the New York
1ahn 10 hoe in hi
This interesting bit of information
comes way from Oregon, where the
dentists have been having state
meeting. One of the speakers, who
makes no claims to painless dentiS-
try" said he had tinkered with the
teeth of many Cinnamon, and never
once had known one of them to whim-
per. The only thing in regard to
which they show the least anxiety is
to Secure any teeth they have pull
ed, which they want to take back
or send back to China in order that
they may have a full set when they
are reincarnated" Chinaman would
be a good subject for painless den
fist" to use in public demonstration.
One of the wagons sent out by the
Salvation Army to collect old papers,
books, magazines and household arti-
Giles has sprung an innovation in the
shape of talking machine, which the
driver sets up on his vehicle to draw
a crowd at the noon hour and secure
a collection, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. The talking machine gives
various selections, between which the
man explains what he is about and
intimates his willingness to receive
whatever is forthcoming. The ma
chine and its records show a good
deal of hard use. and are at times
overcome with hoarseness or similar
trouble, which makes it difficult to I'M
derstand them, but the man has a flow
of language that would assure his for
tune as street faker, and the combi-
nation never fails to draw a large
number of curious people. While the
machine or the man is talking another
soldier goes among the crowd distribut-
ing circulars, which further explain
the purpose of the campaign. The
records put into the machine consist
of songs and recitations, very few
if any, of which are of a sacred
character.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
London Chronicle, is reproducing in its
columns some Egyptian war cartoons
5000 years old, says the Baltimore Sun
Pharaoh's chariot is drawn by dogs, his
soldiers are represented by rats. The
enemy's army is composed of cats.
single combat between a rat and u cat,
each armed with a sword, is graphi-
cally depicted. 1t is explained that this
drawing was the work of a carica .ur-
list of renown in the year HOO B. C.
Another cartoon represents a donkey
and lion playing a war game of
draughts. The caricaturist was also a
writer. He describes the soldier of the
period as the victim of bad victuals"
and water. This would indicate that.
like Uncle Sam, the Egyptians had
their "embalmed beef" problem. Many
of the ideas expressed by the ancient
cartoonists in their productions are
found in the drawings of modern carl
caturists There is nothing new under
the sun. A wise man once observed
that all the funny stories are based
upon and are variations of five humor-
Gus stories originating with the an
clients. Apparently the cartoonists and
the joke makers of the twentieth CEN
fury are revamping some mighty old
material.
The storing of coal at Gibraltar is
accomplished by means of a very
curious plant. which has Just been
completed for the pumping sta ton at
Landport by a firm of Leeds contrac-
tors. In this huge rock-fortress the
coal store, boiler-house and the en-
CINE room adjoining, are worked I'M
der compressed air, and are necessari-
ly air-tight. The store to which the
coal has to be conveyed is hewn out
of the solid rock. and is absolutely
bomb-proof A special feature is the