The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-10

During the last fiscal year the
United States army lost Z per cent. of
its enlisted men by desertion, or enough
to make six full regiments. Half as
many more were dishonorably dis
charged.
Chicago reports a list of forty-one
persons killed by cars in that city
during the month of February. OF the
total thirty-five were victims of steam
roads at grade crossings, while cable
and trolley cars took six lives.
AS a means of keeping American
lumber out of Canada, lumbermen of
the Canadian Northwest have agreed
to reduce the price 81 per 1000 feet,
providing that the railroads would al
so reduce rates from 40 cents hum
dred to 80 cents.
Experiments made by the scientists
appointed for the purpose by the
French government show that the re-
sistance of the atmosphere to the mo-
ton ola high-speed train often amounts
to half the total resistance which the
locomotive must overcome.
The Russian government intends to
distribute next year a sum of over
$3.50, 900 as a subsidy to private steam
ers on the rivers Amur Plethora and
Lena, and their affluents. and on
Lake Baikal, for the transportation of
mail matter at regular intervals.
Congressman Kluttz, of North
Carolina, who refuses to stand for an
assured reelection, comes from the
same district in which, in 1915, a
oil n
serve because he did not propose to
ride to Washington in the mud"
The Berlin Tageblatt resents the
statement made by an American COM
mercial journal that haggling is still
the custom in German stores. So far
as Berlin is concerned, it says that
there is scarcely respectable store
in the city, which has not fixed prices.
The first almanac was published in
1472 by Martin Ilkus, at Buda, Poland,
and in 1913 almanacs were compiled
nearly in their present form by John
Muller, a printer, at Nuremburg. The
first almanac printed in England was
Richard Pynson's, which appeared in
1497.
Two hundred and fifty students
at ZIG OAlANCAolbg III 0AAooOOtl- 4AcbNC
cided to live on two meals day for
the next four months, in the belief
that such a course will make them
more brilliant intellectually and
stronger physically. If the experiment
shall prove successful the innovation
is to be made permanent.
The number of suicides in Berlin
is alarmingly on the increase. In 1900
the number was 434: in 1901 it was
525; in 1902, 564, and in 1903, 661.
Whereas the population in this time
has increased only 315 per cent, the
rate of increase in suicides is IS per
cent. In 1900 there were twenty-three
suicides to every 100000 of population.
In 1903 the number was 81.
"A curious sight was witnessed at
Goodland, Kan, the other day, &C
cording to The Kansas City Journal.
A Rock Island ice house containing
$50 tons of ice caught fire and en-
tirely burned away, leaving the huge
pile of ice standing stark and grim
against the scenery. 1t is said that
the ice pile melted only around the
edges. In the contest of elements fire
couldn't win.
The Kansas City Journal tells of
a Kansas man who went to a rural
butcher shop in Kentucky to order
porterhouse steak. II have just start
ed in on this beef" said the butcher,
land L won't be down to the porter
house until about 2 o'clock" His
method was to lay half a beef on his
block and commence at one end and
cut along until it was gone, serving
his customers with pieces all the way
from the hoof to the neck, regardless
of their preferences.
"A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal gives an interesting
explanation of the origin of two queer
names Of places. The mountains of
Kentucky afford many queer names of
streams, peaks, towns and villages, but
perhaps none are more remarkable
than Kingdom Come and Why Not.
The first of these is the name of a
stream in Leslie county, is taken from
the Lords Prayer, and is the scene
of John Fox, Jr.'s recent story, Lit
tie Shepherd of Kingdom Come" The
second is the name of a small post
office in the county, and originates
from the old song why Not To-
night?'' 1t is said that an interesting
religious revival was once held in this
locality, at which this song was sung
a great deal, and the, people became
so carried away with the music that
the place was ever afterward called
Why Not.
"A curious relic of the century be-
fore last is still to be seen in Shelf
field, says the London Tattler. This
is nothing less than the first UNI
brella that ever created a sensation
in the streets of the city of cutters.
1t belonged originally to John Greaves
of Fargate, who faced the ridicule of
the townsmen under its shelter, and it
was handed down to his descendant,
Miss Law, of Western Bank. A mar
vel of ingenuity is this old Sheffield
umbrella. Nothing could be less like
it's slim and genteel modern repre-
sentative. Instead of being folded in
present-day fashion the handle un-
screwed and the ribs were hinged in
the middle, so that the cover could
be doubled back. The whole rolled up
like a constable's cape, and, packed in
a cover, 1t was little over a foot long.
1t could, and probably did, go easily
into the capacious pockets of 1870. An
old-time master-cutler William Trick
EFT, soon followed the example of
Greaves, but the first time he appeared
in the streets with his umbrella he
was mobbed by the crowd. His own
brother led the mob shouting: "Hey.
laads, abr Bills gotten walkin' stick
VII petticuts on"
The burial of Lord Stanley of AL
derley as Mussulman came as a. sur
prise to many people, although his
conversion to Islam had been known