The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The following is quoted by the
Gaulois from a French government re-
port: 80 cut off his head is the most
serious insult that can be shown to
CamSodian: happily, this prejudice is
not shared by the other people Of lndo-
China"
Mrs. Alice Galleher Sessums, wife
of the Right Rev. Davis Sessums'
bishop of Louisiana, has received from
the United States Patent Office letters
patent covering an improvement upon
the bodkin. Mrs. Sessums has already
received three fattering offers for the
patent.
"A fan on which are written the
names of all the members of the Ber-
lin Congress belongs to the Baroness
Won Langen (nee Won Prillivtz). The
possessor obtained the signatures at
several soirees given in honor OF the
congress at the English embassy ana
the Austrian embassy.
The cotton industry of Italy IN
creases in Importance and is distrio-
uted among $50 factories and employs
over 1876, 900 hands. More than half the
factories are worked by steam, the re-
mainder by electricity and hydraulic
power. Out of $4,000 looms employed,
60, 900 are mechanical. The total pro-
duction is now calculated at an annual
value of over &12, 100000.
"A newspaper clipping bureau in
Manhattan has collected STA news
paper stories about the late Senator
Hanna since his death. On an order
from Elmer Dover, Mr.. Bur-
ellie. the proprietor, has ar
ranged these clippings in an album,
consisting of 1872 pages. 1t will con-
sist of eight volumes and 1t will con-
tain matter equal to 16,921,536 words.
At the close of 1903 the Grand
Duchy of Baden owned and operated
about 1,OS5 miles of railway, which in
cluded all the important lines in the
province. OF these railways 908. miles
were main and branch lines, while 127
miles were short local lines, generally
of narrow gauge and cheap construc-
ton. The state railway debt at the
close of 1902 was approximately 1884,
100000.
-Thirty-one thousand. three hundred
and eighty-three homestead entries
were made in the northwest provinces
III Adlldud III AJUO Of,UOV nOtIlCSlCeiu
entries have been received in the North
west in the last three years, equal to
100000 acres. The entries for 1903
were double the number for 1902 and
as many as for three years previous.
These entries mean an addition of 49,
907 to the population.
Men who have worked a lifetime in
fashioning cast iron under the lathe
are greatly surprised on learning that
the same material, when employed in
the heating pipes of a blast furnace
stove, grows from six inches to a foot
in length from constant use. And the
furnace man is equally unprepared to
hear that the core bars used for cast
ing pipes lose as much as three inches
in casting twenty or thirty pieces.
The wealth of Russia in furs is be-
ing rapidly sapped. 1t is reported that
in a certain district of the Yenesei gov
eminent, where fifty years ago hunt
ers annually shot $4,000 sable, 5000
bears, $4,000 foxes, $4,000 blue foxes,
100000 squirrels, 5000 wolves and 2OO,-
900 hares, hardly a sable can be found
to-day. The blame is laid to the wan
ton destruction of wild animals in the
course of the hunting expeditions.
John Philip Sousa, the conductor,
has received notice of his promotion
from Officer de rAcademie Franchise
to Officer de INSTRUCTION Publique of
France. The new distinction gives
Mr.. Sousa the golden palms and rosette
of the French Academy. He is the only
American who has received this decor
alton. He is also a member of the
Royal Victorian Order of England,
having been decorated by King Ed
ward VII three years ago.
What proof" means as applied to
the quality or the measurement of the
strength of whisky is not understood
by many people. The standard of the
United States revenue is a liquor half
of which, by volume. is alcohol. This
is 100 proof. If whisky, then, is de-
scribed as 80 proof it means that it
contains 100 measures of water and
ninety measures of alcohol. Whisky
of 120 proof contains 100 measures of
water and 100 measures of alcohol.
Gus Danguisse, resident of Port
land, Ore, was brought before Jus
tice Hoyne of the municipal court,
charged with ill-treating his wife. The
evidence showed that he had choked
the woman brutally. The court di-
rected Officer Goetz, an immensely
powerful man, to choke the prisoner, in
order that he might have practical
knowledge of how his wife suffered.
The officer obeyed with a will, holding
the wife-beater until the brutal fellow
became limp. Then Justice Hoyns SEN
fenced him to thirty days in Jail.
The Oroyo Railroad, which now
runs from Callao to the gold fields of
Cerro de Pasco, is considered one of
the wonders in the Peruvian world.
Commencing in Callao, it ascends the
narrow valley Of the Rimac, rising
nearly 5000 feet in the first ffty-six
miles. Thence, it goes through the
intricate gorges of the Sierras till it
tunnels the Andes at an altitude of 49,
Gas feet, the highest point in the world
where a piston rod is moved by steam.
This elevation is reached in seventy
eight miles.
When it was first proposed to lay
a marine cable many intelligent per-
sons said it would not sink to the bot
ton, but would remain suspended at a
certain depth because of the density
of the water due to pressure from
above. OF course the pressure in
creases with the depth on all sides Of
the cable in its descent through the
sea, but as practically everything on
earth is more compressible than water
ii is obvious that the iron wire warn