The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


savings banks. All kinds of policies
will be issued and the insured will
participate in the profits of the bust
ness.
There is gold mine in Australia
which is 5000 feet deep, and the vari-
Gus tunnels are so hot that cold water
has to be continually sprayed over the
miners working the lode. The tenn
perature is usually about los degrees,
and the men have to work almost
naked in order to stand the, heat.
There are considerably more than
5000 doctors in London alone, while
the total of Great Britain and Ireland
comes to 37,730. The doctors increase
at the rate of about 400 year. but
ten years ago. when, the necessary
curriculum was four years, instead of
hve. the average increase was twice
this number.
Preliminary returns issued by the
Department Of Mines, New South
Wales. show Dig increase in the gold
production of that state for 1903 as
compared with the output for 1902
The yield for 1903 is valued at Fl, 0S0, 029,
which represents an increase of 1885,
O59 over the total for the previous
Vsar.
Germany and the United States will
have competitive forestry exhibits at
the St. Louis fair, which will include
large tracts of land given UP to plant
ing, transplanting, training and prun-
ing the trees. A complete labora tory
will be erected in which diseased trees
will be shown under treatment by in
oculation.
The monks who used to make Char
treuse and who were expelled from
France last year. are about to take
possession of the monastery Forneta
in Spain, there to continue the manu-
factura of the Iiqueur which in France
brought them nearly 100000 The
name will have to be changed. how
ever, as "Chartreuse" is the property
of the French government.
The telephone system is of more
general use in Sweden than anywhere
else in the world. Everybody practi-
cally son the line from banker to
washerwoman. The service is thus
available because of its cheapness.
Competition between the general and
National Companies-the latter a gov
eminent concern-makeS it possible to
get house telephone for $40 year
and several business instruments for
$27. 80. For a conversation at a booth
telephone one pays 8 cents.
The news comes from Maine that
the heavy snow is playing fast and
loose with the big game. One man
who went into the woods from North
east Carey early in the month reports
finding moose yard with a huge bull
and seven cows in it. They were so
thin that they looked like skeletons,
and so hungry that they ate bacon
from his hand, and then tried to follow
him. In the yard were the bodies of
starved to death.
Northwestern University is to
establish an American Institute of
Germanics as a part of it's College of
Liberal Arts. The purpose is to de-
velop and foster in this country a.
wider and deeper interest in the re-
suits of German scholarship and Gull
ture, and to draw closer the bonds
uniting Germany and the United
States. A special building is contem-
plated which will house a library de-
voted to the history of German achieve
ment in art, music, science, literature,
arms. and Jaw.
The Church of England enjoys an
income of about $1,OOO,OOO a week.
Statistics compiled by the Zemtvos
of forty-nine provinces of European
Russia showed that S91, 900 peasant
families, representing a population of
perhaps 100000, had only nine acres
of land to the family, and that 2.219,-
444 peasant households, representing a
population of about $4,000, 900, had only
n ~. IA
dreds OF thousands of such households
consisted of from eight to twenty-five
members.
Grants in aid of research have re-
Gently been made from the Rumford
fund of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences as follows: To
Prof. E. w. Morley. for his research
on the nature and effects of ether
drift, $500; to Prof. Carl Barns. for
his research on the study by an opti-
cal method of radio-actively produced
condensation. 5000; to Mr.. ]. A. Dune.
for his research on fluctuations in
solar activity as evinced by changes
in the difference between maximum and
minimum temperature. 5000.
That the smart set" of England
and of America is a modern develop
ment is denied by Sydney Brooks in
some interesting remarks in the cur
rent Harper's Weekly. There has been,
smart set" he points out, in all
capitals of all countries at all ages.
and the pretense that there is any
thing exceptionally new about the fri
volties of the smart set in London
is wholly without a base in history.
reason, or even common experience
Things are pretty much as they al
ways have been, and there is scarcely
an inanity of to-day that one could
not parallel from the past"
1t has been announced that some
time in the coming spring a gift of
twelve and one-ilalf grains of rsdiim
will be made to Princeton University
This gift is to be made as a recogni-
ton of the valuable services rendered
by Prof. Alexander H. Phillips in be-
ing the first person to extract radium
from American ore. A company which
has been formed in Buffalo to put the
new mineral on the market at cheap
er price will be the donators. The
radium to be given Princeton will be
the first produced by the new company
and will he, Ii is asserted, of 10000
activity. The radium will be used for
experimental purposes only.
The guns of the artillery service
of Japan used to be purchased abroad.
but are now chiefly manufactured in
Osaka, says "A Handbook of Modern
Japan" There is an excellent arsenal
in the Koishikawa district of Toxic.
1t is on part of the site of the mag
nihcent mansion of Prince Mito, whose