The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lily. The dog did not recover for two
OF three days.
Fishermen on the Lake of Neu-
chatel are using automobile boats.
They are driven by a benzine motor
and lighted by electricity. They are
flat-bottomed, glide noiselessly over
the water, do not frighten the fish
and are a great success.
The Archbishop of Westminster
has become a total abstainer. Like
Cardinal Manning. he has recognized
the havoc made among his flock by
drunkenness, and as he must preach
teetotalism to those who need it, he
has decided to practice it as we'll
Mayors appear to have had their
troubles two centuries ago. At Belle
field. Germany, there is a tombstone
with this inscription: Here lies
Johannes Burggreve, who considered
his election as burgomaster of the city
the greatest misfortune of his life"
Mount Sangay is the most active
volcano in the world. 1t is in Ecuador.
is 17120 feet in hight, and has been
in constant activity since 1928. The
sounds of its eruptions are sometimes
heard in Quito, $50 miles distant, and
267 reports were once counted in one
hour.
When the war broke out the libra
rises on the Japanese ships were clear
ed of all fiction and Illustrated papers,
only technical treaties being allowed
to remain. This is in significant con-
trast to the Russian ships at Port Ar
thur, which were provided with ping
pong tables.
DIR. Waldo, city of London coroner,
said in a lecture recently that a
weapon in the hand of a man who
had been murdered is always tightly
grasped, so that the fingers sometimes
have to be severed before it can be
released. In the case of suicide there
is no grasp at all.
A fan on which are written the
names of all the members of the Ber-
lin Congress belongs to the Baroness
Won Langden (nee Won Prillivtz) The
possessor obtained the signatures at
several soirees given in honor of the
Congress at the English embassy and
the American embassy
John Roberts, a noted London bill
lard player, now in this country, hav-
ing nearly circled the globe, says that
in India and China particularly the
English game is played. In Java he
found the American, or French, game
mostly in vogue. English tables are
different from the American and the
game differs from that played here,
being, he says, more scientific than
three-ball billiards.
The University of Freiburg had a
grand celebration the other day-pro-
cessions, fireworks, Examinations. ad-
dresses-the occasion being the round
ing out of the number of students to
1000. One of the speakers referred to
the fact that the number 1000 was
reached in 1885, and he was much APP
plauded when he pointed at a babe
in the arms of a nurse as the future
four thousandth student.
Among the recent inventions which
poultry fanciers find interesting at the
Worlds Fair is a pair of goggles to
be placed on chickens to prevent them
from picking out the eyes of one an
other. Pugnaciously-inclin birds on.
farm can do a great deal of harm
to the others, and, as a protection
against damage being sustained to the
eyes, it is proposed to equip the men,
bers of the flock with the goggles.
"A movement is on foot in Russia
to diminish the excessive number of
holidays for students. During a, four
years course at a. Russian university,
the work done covers only one year
and 295 days. In France the time
covered is two years. seventy-four
days; in England, two years, 1853 days;
in the United States, two years, 210
days; In Germany, two years, go
days. Denmark stands at the head
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OF all fruits Zanzibar apples are
perhaps the rarest. Dozens of trees to-
gether will only bear a few, and tho
time of picking them has to be care
fully selected. They must be gathered
just month before they ripen. other
wise they will very quickly spoil.
THESE apples have reached the enor-
nous price of 800 each. They are not
large, probably containing about ten
bites at $40 a bite.
The harbor of Valparaiso the I'M
portant port of Chile, is only an omen
roadstead, in which 152 ships have been
wrecked through storms causing them
TO drag their anchors The water in
the bay is very deep in most places.
ana 1t has been declared impractfcable
TO build wall across the mouth of
the bav. Therefore a number of
walls or break-waters will be built at
a cost of $1O,95O,O0O.
Probably the highest sum ever
paid for a sermon goes each year to a
lucky German preacher. who receives
$4,000 for his effort. In 1890 a wealthy
French baron named Fayari who lived
in Elberfeld died and bedueathed his
money to the Protestant Church there
on the condition that 1t should be in
vested and the interest given annually
to some clergyman, chosen haphaza I'd
from those holding the poorest livinss
in the see, on condition that he preach
snort sermon extolling the good
deeds OF the dead baron.
The phenomena OF the figure 7 and
its multiples occurring in the New Tes-
lament have been touched upon nv
Ivan Panin, Russian student of the
Bible, who for a number Of years has
made his home at Grafton. Mass
says the Chicago Tribune. This sig.
nihcance of the seven Rroup will
not be lost, even upon the superstiti
Gus, who are outside the pale of Scrip-
tural points, and, as Mr.. Panin has
SHOWN them, their relations OF their
groupings to the first eleven verses ~
the New Testament must suggest that
they were scarcely chance. For in
stance, in these first II verses of Maj.
thew, the vocabulary consists of 40
words or seven sevens; of these words
there are q, or four sevens which
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