The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ed in Winnipeg. Experts say that
the Canadian tobacco is hardly distin-
guishable from the Havana product.
The statistical maniac calculates
there is one piano for ever seven houses
in the United Kingdom, and as each
instrument costs on an average of 500
the enormous aggregate is 500, 900.
The Australian detectives find
football useful. Criminals will hide six
days in the week; but they have to
come out on Saturday to see the foot
ball game, and the police are on hand.
-Ex-King Prempeh Of Ashantee ad-
mired Joseph Chamberlain to such an
extent that he ordered for himself a
complete suit of clothes and monocle
like those worn by the ex-colonial sec
rotary.
An English farmer has had sew
eral cats killed, stuffed and placed in
threatening attitudes among the
branches of his fruit trees. Not a
bird will come anywhere near the or
chard.
The chief procurator of Russia, in
q report to the Car on the state of
Russian religion, states that there was
$3.50 churches in the empire. During
the last year 1913 new places of worship
were consecrated.
In his will Mr.. Harry Ogden Mel
Tor, solicitor, London, said; Il wish
my body to be burned and my ashes
scatterd, having an adherence of the
barbarouS practice of burial of the
human body in the earth"
On June "a London took over the
management of it's own waterworks,
after paying about $50, 900 to pri-
vate companies. The water at present
is gathered in 122 reservoirs, and the
filtering works cover 14S acres.
To wash his hands in the G. W. r.
lavatory at Windsor a licensed victual-
Ter laid on the slab his diamond ring,
worth G30. While he turned his back
for moment it vanished, and a long
search has failed to discover it.
1t is stated that the bill ''for the
regulation of wireless telegraphy,"
which the Postmaster General is to
submit to the next Parliament, aims at
making wireless telegraphy a govern
ment monopoly throughout the United
Kingdom.
After the famous Blarney Stone
the Treaty Stone of Limerick is the
best-known object of it's kind in Ire
land. Tradition has it that it was on
this stone that the historic treaty of
Limerick was signed by Gen. Sars-
field in 1891.
Divorces in Japan, which can be
obtained on the most trivial preten-
sion, have somewhat diminished in
number in recent years, but they still
occur at the rate of one to every three
marriages. In 1902 there were 349, 4S9
marriages and 113,49s divorces.
All new schools in Switzerland have
portion of the ground floor appro-
priated for baths. Each class bathes
once a fortnight, summer and winter.
Soap is used, and a warm bath is fol-
lowed by a cooler one. Sick children
and those having skin diseases are ex-
cluded.
-Banagher, in Kings county, where,
as an Irish correspondent has told us,
Charlotte Brontes husband now re-
sides, is presumably the Banagher of
the Irish saying, THAT bangs Bana-
CHER, and Banagher bangs the world"
| 1t is small market town on the
| Shannon.
London may soon see Macaulay's
New Zealander sitting on it's bridges.
1t is to have a Maori comic opera by
| a New Zealand composer with a Ii
bretto by an Australian journalist.
| The piece will be called "Tapu," and
| twenty-four native Maori dancers will
| take part in it.
AT the end of the nineteenth CEN
fury the number of merchant vessels
| of 10000 tons and over was under half
a dozen, but since then huge steamers
have multiplied to such an extent that
| at present they are not far short of
| one hundred. More than half belong
to Britain and are employed in trade
with the United States.
The exports from the United States
to Hungary are steadily increasing,
and those American exporters who still
| sell through a third country will do
we'll to look up the Hungarian market
and find direct connections. Merchan-
| disc imported through a third country
| losses its nationality. Statistics often
classify these imports with those of
continental origin.
Paul Dehn, in his book, New For
nations in World Economics" says
! that no people have invested so much
nonev in foreign countries as the
| English. Taking it's income tax paid
| on foreign investments as a basis for
| measurement. and reckoning per cent.
| as the interest on investments, he finds
that the amount of English capital in
foreign investments is as follows: 1880
81, $2,S56,O 900, 900; 1S90-91, S., 307, 400, 900;
19OO-19O1, 1881 zoo, 900; 1902, $3.50 900,
900.
The United States petroleum trade
in Germany and other parts of Europe
finds itself somewhat hampered by
| public sentiment favorable to Russian
and other European oils, even though
of inferior quality to the American
product. How far this sentiment has
served to hasten the development o.
the European fields and to facilitate
the transportation and Introduction of
European oil is perhaps a question.
That II has had its effect there can be
no doubt whatever.
During the first boom of the bicy-
Gle industry, and even within the early
part of the last decade, American b.
| cycles reigned supreme in many mar
kets and challenged competition. A
number of years ago American wheels
| flooded the German empire. Then came
a check, and step by step the German
bicycle began The process of crowdine
out at home. Soon also foreign mar
kets opened up to German wheels. Sc
complete was this reversal in the bicy-