The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Much amusement is being chused
in South Africa by the adoption by
ladies of young calves as pets.
The contents of small stores in
Seoul, Korea, are in many cases worth
not more than dollar or two.
According to the census of 1900
there are 141,6S7 males and 1S5,O62 fe-
males in Utah, the headquarters of the
Mormon Church.
Switzerland is inaugurating a sys-
tenn of itinerant school teachers, who
will visit and spend some time in the
isolated outlying villages.
"A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress to appropriate $4,000 for the
erection of a monument to Gen. An
thony Wayne at Defiance. o.
The returns of the work at the
Paris mint in 1903 show the value Of
gold coins struck off for France and
its colonies as $17, S22,620, silver 1916, 700,
nickel 100000, and bronze a$1O8,79O
In order to get at the grain raised
in Lee county, Illinois, the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad has contribu-
ted $1,000 to help the farmers of that
section build good public turnpike.
There are upward of $4,000 inhab-
itants on the slopes and skirts of We
suvius. If it were not for the fertil-
izing effect of the volcanic products
not more than one-tenth of that num-
Der would be able to find means of
subsistence there
The first foreign venture of the
British Bible Society was to have part
of the New Testament translated into
Mohawk by chief with the extraor-
binary name of Observation-Disclosures,
but who finally reduced it to Nelson
and became a British officer and fought
this country in the War of 1872.
The French naval experts have hit
on another novel scheme. This is the
use of balloons in coast and harbor
surveys. 1t has been found that the
shallow places in the sea show plainly
from a balloon as well as rocks which
are but a short distance below the
surface. For this reason it has been
suggested that the survey ships be fit
ted with a captive balloon to aid them
in their work.
The art of land surveying owes 1t
origin to the fact that the Egyptians
were unable to keep permanent monu-
mentS on land which was overlooked
every year by the Nile. Under such
circumstances it became necessary to
have some means of reidentifying the
various pieces of land. The instru-
ments and mathematical methods of
astronomy, with suitable notifications,
nGnd nv tho Mountains nd
surveying.
The Chicago Board of Education
has set the seal of condemnation on
the vertical system of writing. Through
its official bulletin the board says: 1T
is an injustice to the child to impose
a system of handwriting upon him
and force him to adhere to it through
his growing years at the cost of not
only suppressing his individuality in
this acquired mode of expression, but
also at the sacrifice of his time and the
mental ffuency that comes with the
ease which accompanies a mode of ex-
preston fitting the individuals char
acteristics."
During feast which he gave not
long ago the Emperor of Korea had the
misfortune to break a tooth. His aug
gust majesty at once threw the chief
cook and all the latter's assistants
into prison. A dentist who was tour
ing the hermit kingdom heard of the
trouble and gave relief to the royal
sufferer and was paid 1000 yen (about
5000 for his services. Then the i'm
prisoned kitchen force was set at lib
erty, but the chief cook was sentenced
to serve three months without pay.
The Emperor ordered another feast to
celebrate the fact that the imperial jaw
no longer ached.
"A company has been formed to re-
port to exploit Victoria falls, in the
Zambesi, and will build a hydro-elec-
trio generating station, with the ex-
pectation of supplying power to the
Waukie cold fields, Buluwayo, the
Gwelo, Eabaskive and Hartley gold
fields, all of which are within 300 miles.
The falls are over 400 feet high, and,
while the total amount of energy run
ming to waste at Niagara is 100000
horse power, the corresponding figure
for the Victoria falls in the wet sea-
son is $4,000, 900. The railway has now
been completed to within seventy miles
of the falls, and will reach them be-
fore the end of March.
The tramway system at Hull, Eng
land, is owned and operated by the
city. The cars are double-deckers and
the fare is Id e cents) on all lines and
for all distances. The financial results
of this low-fare system are equally in
teresting. During the latest twelve
months reported on there were ten
miles of double track, or twenty miles
of single track, in operation. The gross
income is about $445,000; the cost of
operation was about 1900. This left
a gross profit of $212, 200, and, deduct
ing interest on the investment and the
sinking sum, a net profit of 1922, 900, or
an average of over $4,000 a mile of
double track, which went into the city
treasury.
There is a big boom in potatoes Lin
colnshire way, and the hearts of the
raisers rejoice, says the Sheffield eng
land) Telegraph A Sheffield gentle
man has pust invested in a quantity of
"Sutton's new discovery" at rs Cd
($4.20) a pound. That seems a fairly
good price for potatoes of any sort.
but even that long figure is easily
beaten. In Peterborough market the
other day one pound of Eldorado pota-
toes fetched G100 ($4S7). The owner
who sold the Sheffield gentleman his
little lot writes him that there has
been on his premises a raiser who de-
clined $50 (S146) for a single potato
eclipsed at the Smithfield show on
Wednesday, when firm of York no.
tato merchants sold four pounds of Ell
dorados at the rate of G15O ($72S) a
pound. This is reckoned to work out
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