The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The King of Denmark is likely to
live until descendant of his. has been
a Queen or a King in almost. every
country of Europe.
One of the twelve-inch guns of the
Italian warsllp Brul is to be named
Wilhelm H. after the Kaiser. 1t is
the first compliment of the kind paid
to anybody in Italy.
There may be another Jefferson
Davis member of the United States
Senate. The reelection of Gov. JEFF
ferson Davis in Arkansas has started
a movement to make him United
States senator as successor to Mr.
Berry, whose term expires in 1907.
A monument which it is proposed
to erect at Paris this centennial year
of George Sands birth will stand in
the Place des Vosges, near the Victor
Hugo museum. 1t will represent the
great writer in her youth, and she will
be shown standing holding sheets of
manuscript and a pencil.
A point in flag etiquette was set
tied in London on. the day the Duke
of Cambridge died In ordinary cir
cumstances the official flags would have
been half-maSted. But as it was the
birthday of the Princess Louise, the
flags were full-masted--a birthday out
ranking deathday in the royal fam
lily.
Samuel Bovine, a farmer of Bed
ford township, Calhoun county, Michi-
gan, has a remarkable family record.
1t is an unbroken genealogical record
reaching back for 300 years to his an
cestry in England. From that time
to this every member of the Bovine
family has been a Quaker. Every
family has had a son named Samuel.
Climatic conditions in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, are the most favor
able to health, at all seasons of the
year, of any section of the United
States. The death rate for February,
1904, as announced by the State Board
OF Health, was .33 per 10000. Sub
stracting the number Of deaths caused
by imported consumption, the rate falls
to between and 10 per 10000.
-Hungarians. Germans. Slovaks and
Jews all emigrate from Hungary be-
cause the wages are higher in the
United States than in Europe: on the
other hand. a larger proportion than
formerly return by direct instigation
relatives, who are constantly slim
ulated by the Hungarian press, in or
der to spend the higher American
wages on cheaper European manufac-
lures in their old age. While in the
larger cities of Hungary food and rent
are becoming nearly as dear as in the
United States. they are not so in the
country places, to which most emf
grants return.
Uranium pitchblende ore, from
which radium is derived, occurs main
~ in mica slate. The places where it
is found are the deep workings of the
former levels of the silver mines of
Joachimsthal. Prof. Becke of Vienna,
recently made experiments with urani-
UNI pitchblende ores at the Imperial
Museum of Natural History, which
have been in possession Of the museum
since 1906. The experiments demon
strated that, in spite of their age, they
have lost absolutely nothing of their
intensity of radio-activity and OF the
energy Of their electric properties. They
do not differ in any way from the ores
now taken at JoachimsthaI.
Intelligence was received at Queens
town on Monday from Bermuda that
the first-class cruiser Drake, belong
ing to the cruiser squadron under Rear
Admiral Fawkes. had broken the
worlds record for warship's speed in
recent run from England to Las Pal
mas on speed trial. The Drake aver
aged twenty-four knots an hour, and
practically ran away from the other
ships of the squadron. On the subse-
quent run from Jamaica to Bermuda,
the Drake made another splendid run,
leaving Jamaica on Saturday night
and reaching Bermuda on the follow
ing Monday morning. During these
trials the engines worked in a highly
satisfactory manner and there was
no overheating of any parts.
DIR. Welwitsch brings news of
wonderful tree which he found grow
ing in the west of Africa and named
for himself. the welwitsch. The ex-
traordinary proportions of a trunk four
feet in diameter, with a hight of only
one foot, make the plant look like a
round table. The tree never has more
than two leaves. and these are the
seed leaves. which appeared when the
plant first began to grow and which
it never sheds or replaces with others.
They are in themselves remarkable
productions, often attaining a length
of six feet, with a breadth of from two
to two and a half feet, each being cut
into numerous ribbo1like segments.
The flowers form crimson clusters
something like those of the larch. These
trees form forests on a lakeland some
six miles broad, at hight of from 900
to 400 feet above the sea on the west
coast OF Africa.
photographic stone is in good de-
n1and, says the Baltimore Sun. The
worlds supply comes mainly from So
lenhofen, Bavaria, and while litho-
graphic stone has been often reported
at various points in the United States
there is as yet no domestic production.
The annual imports amount to about
100000. Under the circumstances the
discovery of stone in Iowa, which has
been thoroughly tested and proved to
be of good quality, is of considera BILE
interest. The beds in question belong
to the DeVonian, and were. discovered
by the Iowa Geological Survey. Mr..
Hoen whose wide experience in litho-
graphy gives great weight to his opir-
ion, subjected the stone to careful
chemical and physical tests to discover
its composition, texture and absorptive
power. He concluded that the Mitchell
county stone is at least as good In
quality as the Bavarian stone for
photography in all its branches, and 1t
remains to be determined whether or
not it can be had in such sizes and at
sueh cost as would warrant it's enter