The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

opened in Yokohama, where there are
400 Germans, mostly merchants. In
Kobe there are 100 Germans, in Tokyo
only so.
A committee has been appointed
by the British United Billposter AS
ISOLATION for the purpose of passing on
the posters to be put up in England
Every poster now issued by any print
ing firm passes before this committee
If the subject is Objectionable a ballot
is taken. and the decision of the COM
mittee is final.
The ranches of Colorado, June /,
1900 numbered 24,7O0, and were valued
at $1O6, S44, 035. OF this amount $16,OO2,-
512, or 10 per cent, represents the
value Of buildings and $90, 341, 1923, or So
per cent, the value of land and i'm
provements other than buildings. On
the same date the value of ranch i'm
plements and machinery was $4,746, 1865,
and of live stock. $49,954,311. These
values added to that of ranches gives
s161, 045,111, the total value of farm
property.
The taste for horse flesh is steadily
on the increase in Paris. A veterinary
and sanitary report just issued states
that in 1896, at the public abattoirs,
21,430 horses, asses and mules were
slaughtered for the different dealers in
horse flesh in the French capital. In
1897 the number was 22,O29; in 1898, a.
512; in 1899, 23,S0S in 1900, 26,4S4; in
1901, 1858; in 1902, 1884. OF the
number in this last year there were 3D.
799 horses, 4S5 donkeys and 40 mules.
Much of this food is sold in the shape
of sausages.
A Dallas CTex.) dispatch states
that the Daughters of the Confederacy
are taking steps to preserve the Alamo
and the historic grounds surrounding
it. Pro rata financial assessments are
being made in the different counties
to raise a fund of $4,000. Subscrip-
tons of more than $4,000 have been
procured. At the little town Of Ma
son last night 800 was raised a
movement is on foot to get a plank in
the Democratic state platform, de-
handing sufficient state aid to preserve
the Alamo.
The trustees of the will of the late
Cecil Rhodes announce for the infor-
nation of the college trustees in the
United States and Canada that quail
flying examination for Rhodes schol-
arships will be held simultaneously in
each state or province beginning April
49, The committees of selection Will
be furnished with examination papers
prepared at Oxford and circulars will
be mailed by the 18th to the commit
tees of selection, who will be asked to
fix a place for the examination. George
R. Parkin, the representative of the
trustees, will leave England for New
York about March Is.
On account of the depressed con-
dition of the salmon market. many
canneries in Alaska will not be OF
Grated this year. Other packing COM
panies will go further north, where
they will catch less pink and get more
red salmon. Reds" are now selling
at SLIPS on the coast, while ''pinks"
are very low, the minimum quotations
being so cents. This is below the cost
of production, and there is no profit
for those companies the bulk of whose
packs consists Of "pinks." The cause
of the unfavorable condition of the
market is overproduction. An effort
has been made to maintain prices, but
without avail.
"A query about Scotch whisky"
writes H. P. M. in the London
World, sis. Does color indicate age?
Theoretically it should; actually it does
not. Whisky is stored in sherry casks
to mature and takes color from the
wood. Sherry, however, covers a wide
range of shades. and a spirit stored
in cask which had held a pale va
riety would obviously not be colored
to the same extent as a spirit stored
for a like time in a. cask that had pre-
viously held a dark-brown wine though
as regards maturing both would he
equally improved. The general pub
lie, however, could never be got to
understand that two bottles of whisky
differing in color were absolutely iden-
tical in every essential point, and
therefore most brands maintain a
standard of color by means of harm
less coloring ingredient, namely, burnt
sugar"
How many persons know that there
is right here in North America "holy
railroad?" This is little line twenty
one mile long, from Quebec to Ste.
Anne de Beaupre, says the New York
Commercial. 1t is sacred because 1t
claims to run especially for the ac-
commodation of pilgrims" and above
all, because at its opening a few years
since it was formally blessed, with all
its belongings, by Cardinal Taschereau.
Every Sunday the trains are crowded
by devotees in search of the blessing
Of the good Saint Anne, who Is credit
ed with the miraculous power of heal.
ing, and on July 26, Saint Anne's Day,
the road cannot accommodate the
enormous crowds which flock to her
shrine. Think of riding on a holy
railroad! But those who have travelled
on it know that they must not ex-
pect the comforts of Paradise. 1t may
be called holy" but it seems to be
run, none the less, with an eye to
dividends. The charges are high and
the service poor.
In many parts of India Hindu girls
are welded not with ring, but with
a necklet or thali. At the wedding of
the daughter of leading native Moul-
mein there were present among the
numerous guests a Hindu maiden and
her lover, whose suit had not so far
progressed to his satisfaction. While
the wedding ceremony was in progress
the young man suddenly went up to
her and, before any one suspected
what his object was, pulled out a
thali from his pocket and quietly tied
1t round her neck. OF course saws the
London Telegraph, there was a hub
hub and parental lamentations over
this dramatic episode, but so great is
the generation for the thali among
Hindus that no one dared to remsve
it from the neck of the astonished
maiden. All concerned, therefore, re-
paired to the Marianne temple, where
the act was ratified and the maid who
went to the wedding of her friend
fancy free left the scene as the legal
wife Of a bold and successful husband.