The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Hamburg has a Mediterranean, or
refuge for girls, at which, last year, g.
315 young women were provided with
sleeping accommodations at Z to IL
cents a night.
Every year 5000 tons of Congo rub
Der are sold in the market of Antwerp.
This rubber is gathered by natives,
who get so cents a week and pay their
own expenses.
Twelve hundred working permits
have been issued for children between
the ages of IA and 16 years by parents
in Milwaukee, in almost every instance
on account of the father being ad-
dicted to the use of intoxicants.
The Democratic National conven-
ton of 1852 was in session for six days
and forty-nine ballots were taken on
the nomination of a candidate for Pres
ident. Franklin Pierce did not receive
a vote until the fOrtieth ballot, when
tN7enty-nine were cast for him. ON
the forty-ninth ballot he was unani-
mously nominated.
in order to encourage industrial en-
terprise the municipality of Cautania
Italy has decided to award a premium
of $4,000 to any new industry which is
established in the town and employs
not fewer tran 100 workmen or indi-
viduals daily. Such an industry which
further develops will receive $1,000 for
each batch of fifty individuals employ
ed in excess of the first 100.
in the British navy the engineers
have a curious way of killing sharks
They seal up a dynamite cartridge in
an empty can, and put the can inside
a lump of pork The pork is thrown
overheard on a wire which has been
connected with an electric battery
When the shark takes the bait the en-
gineer presses a button which explodes
the cartridge and kills the fish.
Party nominations for Vice Presi-
dent have been declined a number OF
times. In the Democratic National
convention of 1874 Silas Wright of New
York was nominated for Vice President
on the first ballot. receiving 256 of the
266 votes. He declined to accept, and
George NJ. Dallas of Pennsylvania, was
nominated on the ticket with James X.
Polk. The Democratic ticket was sue
cessful in the election. The nominal
ton for second place on a national
ticket by third parties has been sew
eral times declined.
An ordinary echo is a curious thing.
hut, according to the statements of a
Frenchman at a watering place in the
Pyrenees, one echo on the Franco
Spanish frontier is so far from ordinary
that it must have started in America.
AS soon as you have spoken" said
the Frenchman. who had secured an
audience of wide-eyed tourists, you
=. ~ H.
to rock, from precipice to precipice
and as soon as it has passed the from
tier it assumes the Spanish tongue!
But yes. have heard it often"
Builders of locomotive engines ar.
steadily exceeding past achievements
and constructing titans of the rails that
excite the amazement of every behold
er. At Schenectady a colossus has been
turned out for the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad which surpasses anything and
everything seen before. This giant
weighs 10000 pounds, has six pairs of
driving wheels and a boiler thirty-eight
feet in length and seven feet in diam
eter. 1t is estimated that this locomo-
tive viii be so Pc cent. more powerful
than any other ever put together.
The sun should be regarded as an
incipient binary star" says Prof. Bige-
low in the Weather Review. Recent
scientific work in investigating the cir
culation Of the solar atmosphere in ac-
cordance with the laws governing the
connective and radiative action of a
large mass Of matter contra citing bv its
own gravtation, have led Prof. Rieeloyy,
to the hypothesis that the single fiert
envelope conceals two disks" a series
of observations extending over many
years on the period of solar rotation
at various points in the surface shows
that 1.-THE same meridian of the sun is
seen twice in a single rotation of the
entire mass, first as the Eastern limb
ana second. thirteen days later as the
Western limb" Therefore the sun ha Z
a dumbbell figure of rotation.
In the course Of a recent lecture
at the Royal Institution on Sound
shadows" Lord Rayleigh referred to
Marconi's feat Of signalling across the
Atlantic, and said that the explana-
ton OF II was obscure. because from
what is known of these sound shadows
the ethereal waves could only mass
with great difficulty around such an
object as was constituted by the m
tervening sea, which rose something
like a hundred miles above a straight
line between the two wireless stations
Although il Is difficult for a sound
wave 10 pass around a convex surface
IN the case Of concave surface the
effect Is reversed. The familiar Whis-
perlng galleries are Illustrations ~
this. The sound seems 70 cling 70 the