The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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of service of wireless biography at
Lake Baikal, which is almost complete,
and will be in working order soon. 1t
will consist of three stations, one of
which will be on board the ice breaker,
which will be enabled to communicate
with both shores during. its passage
across the lake.
The pyramid of Cheops is the
largest permanent structure Of any
kind ever erected by the hand of man.
Its original dimensions at it's base was
764 square feet, and its perpendicular
hight at the apex is 4S8 feet. 1t COW
ers about four and one-quarter square
acres of ground and an English arch
itect estimates its cost at $3.50, 000 900.
The copper mines at Ell Cobre,
Cuba, have been abandoned for over
thirty years. After the Spanish War
an American company bought the
mines and proceeded to pump out the
water. In one of the shafts was found
what once represented an iron pickax,
as we'll as some crowbars. The metal
in these implements had turned to
copper.
in the year 1882 there were 1921
breweries in Germany, while in 1901,
although the production of beer in
creased, the number of breweries de-
creased to 6,674. Since 1901 the decrease
in the number has been even more
marked. The indications are that
brewing is an occupation which it is
more profitable to conduct on large
than a small scale.
The great field of erystallizeed salt
at Salton, CAL, in the middle of the
Colorado desert, is 264 feet below the
level of the sea, and is more than a
thousand acres in extent. It's surface
is as white as snow. and when the
sun is shining it's brilliance is too
dazzling for the eye. The field is con-
stantly supplied by the many salt
springs in the adjacent foothills.
"A school to accommodate from 100
to 125 children is to be built in the
depth of the Junfernheide Woods, near
Berlin, and the children will remain
there the whole day, special arrange
ments being made to supply them with
their meals. They are only to receive
from two to three hours instruction
daily, and are to spend the rest of
the day in taking healthy exercise in
the forest.
1t has been learned that the ex-
petition which left England last Feb
ruary under Lieut.. Boyd Alexander
for the forest region between the
west coast of Africa and Lake Chad,
arrived in canoes at hi, $50 miles up
the Binue river, in April. The ex-
plorers had already made some col
lectfons on the Binue when last heard
from and intended landing at hi with
the view to pushing north into Banchi.
The year 1860 marks the entrance
of woman upon the stage. At about
the same time movable scenery was
introduced and music and dancing fol-
lowed. Women had been prohibited
from appearing on the stage, perhaps
because the female parts were not of
character for feminine presentation.
At that time the standards of the thea
ter were low. due to- the era of license
which the restoration of Charles Il.
inaugurated.
On the statute book of Scotland is
still an act passed in 1924, ordering
that mo man play at futeball," be-
cause it is esteemed to be Improbable
sport for the common guide of the
realme and defense thereof" There
is also statute against alien immigra-
ton, passed in 1926, and authorizing
all his ntajesty's good subjects to
take, apprehend, imprison and execute
to death the said Egyptians (gypsies),
either men or women"
The finest example of sardonyx
cameo is in King Edwards collection
at Windsor Castle. The stone measures
10 by 1875 inches, and is cut upon a
rich Oriental sardonyx of four strata
1t is contemporary portrait of the
Emperor Claudius. The ground is in
the dark-brown stratum, the laurel
wreath and front of the cuirass in
the honey brown and the head and
hair in the white. The whole is sur
rounded by raised border enriched
with molding cut in the thickness OF
the stone.
An English railway has an in
geniOus contrivance for giving a To-
connective its trial trip without leaving
the scene of its construction. The en-
| CINE, after being placed on the ma
| chine, runs on wheels fitted with tires
which correspond to the tread and Sec
ton of the permanent way. A clever
braking arrangement secures a repre-
sentation of the difficulties encoun-
tered in running on the metals, and
all the tests usually made on a triaI
with all the appliances at hand.
AT a recent medical exhibition in
London a new anaesthetic called SOM
noform, was shown. 1t is a liquid
whose boiling point" is % degrees be-
low zero. The moment it comes II
contact with the air 1t becomes a gas
The exhibitor broke a glass capsule
of somnoform to illustrate it's charac.
ter. AS soon as the glass was chip.
ped there was a rush of what looked
like steam, and sevenpence worth Of
somnoform was loose in the Queen.
Hall trying to asphyxiate the exhibit
tors. Its great virtue, from a medi
cal point of view, is that breathinl
stops before the heart when 1t is ad
ministered.
According to report by the di.
rector of plantations of quinia for Brit.
ish India, the Madras government
manufactured in 1902 1911 pounds o
quinine and Bengal 1927 pounds, E
| total production for. India OF 27 00S
pounds. The island of Java produced
and exported 1880 pounds. The diff.
ferent countries producing the BARI
exported In 1902 the following quaint.
ties: Java, l4,726000 pounds; India
1920, 900 pounds; Ceylon, 100000 pounds
South America, 775.000 pounds; Africa
17S,S72 pounds; a total of 1906, 81.
pounds. There are twenty establish.
ments In the world manufacturing qui.
| nine. distributed as follows: Five II
France, three in England, two in Ger.