The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-12

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active preparations to carry on its
excellent work in a thoroughly eff
cient manner during the present war
in the Far East.
The Italian legation at Pekin has
been provided with wireless telegra-
ply station which enables direct COM
munication to be maintained between
the legation and vessels of the Ital-
ian fleet in Chinese waters.
The last report of the British
royal commission on sewage disposal
states that there is no doubt that
many cases of typhoid fever, as well
as other Diseases are caused by eat
ing shellfish obtained from waters
contaminated by sewage.
The establishment of factory of
agricultural machines and implements
in Tomsk, in Western Siberia, is an
nounced. At present the factory
turns out only winnowing machines
and plows. In the spring the factory
will begin making threshing machines.
Heretofore the leading newspapers
of Alabama, with a single exception,
and that in Birmingham, have omitted
publication on Monday morning. The
WAR IN In6 Far EdSL anu OIlACl
ments have now caused the Montgom-
cry Advertiser and the Mobile Regis
ter to issue papers on that day.
The largest searchlight in the
world has been completed and tested
at an electric plant at Lowell, Mass.
The machine weighs 1000 pounds, is
of 5,25o,000 candle-power and pro-
iects a beam of light seven feet in
7 will no used for 9dVPF-
Using purposes at the Worlds Fair.
The smallest school in the Ger
man Empire is that on Nordstrand-
ischmoor. a small island in the North
sea- This island is being steadily re-
duced in size by the wear and tear
of the ocean waves. Fifty years ago
fifteen, including two children, for
whom there is salaried teacher.
The idea that fish is particularly
useful as brain food, because it con-
tains phosphorus, probably had its
origin, according to the Lancet, in
the phosphorescence of fish in the dark.
In reality fish contains no more phos-
phorus than do ordinary meat foods.
Its easy digestibility, however, makes
it useful for brain workers.
! -Manchuria corresponds in latitude
to Manitoba, North Dakota, South
Dakota. Minnesota and Nebraska. It's
area of 362,3 $40 square miles is only
10000 square miles less than the COM
bined area of these great grain states.
1t is two and one-half times greater
than California, and is as big as Texas.
Alabama and Louisiana combined. Tn
the northern part of the province are
thousands of square miles of rich
wheat land entirely untouched Man
churia has a possible wheat area as
! great as that of the United States.
On account of the depressed con-
dition of the salmon market. many
canneries in Alaska will not be operat-
ed this year. Other packing comma
MES Will go further north, where thew
will catch less pink and get more red
salmon. Reds are now selling at 81 "a
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 COM
panies the bulk of whose packs; are
pinks. The cause of the unfavorah HE
condition of the market is overproduc-
tion primarily. An effort has been
made to maintain prices, but without
avail.
In addition to the gold and dia-
mond mines of Africa, says Harper's
! Weekly, iron promises to be an i'm
! portant industry, as the first blast
furnace has just been erected near
/ Pretoria, on the line of the railway.
and is located in the center of iron de-
posits and in close proximity to coal
supplies. The furnace, which win have
a weekly capacity of 500 tons of mig
| IRON is to be followed by rolling mills
ana steel-converting plant. The
ore is OF the hematite and magnetic
variety, and runs IS to 81 per cent. OF
I metallic iron. A survey above ground
ana cross-cutting indicate that there
sight. 40
Finger rings for men are no long
er considered proper" said the young
man behind the counter in the fash
lonaihle jewelry shop. according to the
/ Philadelphia Record. AS the French
would say, they are not au fait. The
best dressed men, those who are sup
posed 70 set the fashion, no longer
wear rings, not even the signet. You
can take my word for IL that when you
see man with a diamond ring em-
Dlazoned on his finger he Is q book
maker, saloonkeeper. or some per-
son Of that sort, Finger rings for
men are almost a. dead ~ earrings
for women, relic Of barbarian that
has died n natural death, although n
took = loHg time 70 kan t. Where y