The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


is 2.400 miles in length. is navigable
by steamer for over 1000 miles.
The Herreros, whom the Germans
are now fighting in Southwest Africa,
number 10000 fighting men, of a class
far superior to most of the African
native races.
Mrs. Maybrick's figure in wax.
which has been for many years in
Nine. Tussauds exhibition in London,
has been withdrawn. Whitaker
Wright's has taken its place.
"A notable industry in Paraguay
is the preparation of essence of orange
leaves. Some $50 years ago, the Jesuit
priests, who then ruled that country,
planted the orange groves, which now
have developed into immense forests.
This essence is largely imported into
France and the United States for use
in soap and perfumery making. 1t is
also used in Paraguay as a healing
ointment and a hair tonic.
The Hongkong Daily Press says:
THE European seeker after curios out
here is a source of revenue to many an
INSCRIPTIONS native vendor. The
method whereby the appearance of CEN
a dog and place the new comparatively
valueless porcelain in its inside, after
ward burying it in the earth. At the
end of year the ware is transformed
into a choice specimen of veritable an
tique.
Keen observers have lately noticed
a reddish ring enclosing a whitish glare
around the sun; that phenomena,
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the Krakatoa eruption. This peculi-
arity has been since named Bishops
ring. The ring had a diameter of 70
degrees in August of 1902, but had di-
minished in size to 20 degrees in De-
cember, 1903, although a settlement of
coaster dust was expected to increase
its dimensions.
An English engineer is said to
have found a process for manufac-
turing ozone that is much simpler
than those used heretofore and per-
mlts of a larger production. Ozone
is by him produced in an apparatus
into which atmospheric air is forced
by means of an air pump. An cleo
trio alternating current of 100 volts
in three amperes, changed through
transformer to LOO volts, is then in
troduced. Through electric discharge
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The Berlin fire brigade is expert
menting with device called a water
hat. 1t consists of the addition to the
ordinary helmet of a circular rose,
which sprays water at an angle of As
degrees in a downward direction. The
pipe which leads to the rose to be at
tached to the nozzle of an ordinary fire
hose. When in use, the fireman is
nr0tRCt66 far a bic haad mr. 70
are concerned, by a curtain Of water,
which, besides its GOODNESS, gives him
pure air to breathe, even in the midst
of dense smoke, as it acts as a con-
densing medium and also as a filter.
Some of the items at a recent sale
of decorative furniture at a house in
I.owndes Square, London, sold as fol-
lows: Set of eight eighteenth century
mahogany chairs in the Hepplewhite
style, with oval concave, Sits; a
Chippendale cupboard, with carved
holdings and ormolu mounts, $500; a
small Chippendale table, $3.50; an Ad-
ans satinwood secretaire inlaid with
various woods, $3.50; an Adams side
board, with festooned carving in re-
lief, $210; a mahogany Sheraton cabi-
net, fitted with book shelves. $275: and
three-tier mahogany dumb waiter,
on a curver pillar and tripod s275
The most important river system
of the northwest part of Russia, which
empties into the Baltic, is the Dvina,
whose source is not far from that
of the river system of Southwestern
Russia, namely, the Dnieper. By con-
Meeting these two systems through a
deep canal passage for ships of
heavy draft will be opened and a con-
tinuous waterway established from the
Baltic to the Black sea. A careful
study has proved the possibility of
building canal without locks. A plan
for this work has been submitted to
the Gar by a prominent Russian engi-
neer. The total length of the route
would be lao miles, the canal proper
sc. The cost of improving the rivers
and building the canal is estimated to
be $3.50 900 900.
"A few devotees Of the whimsical
and the eccentric are talking of break
ing and training zebras for family
pleasure driving IL Hyde Park, Lon
don, says the New York Tribune
Friends of the zebras say they can
easily be made docile and tractable in
drawing smart wagons, and will af-
ford a refreshing novelty of contracts
among the horses and the automo-
biles. Quaggas are also well thought
Of Its a great pity that CRATES are
now so rare and hard to get. How
agreeable a spectacle a four-in-h hand
team of spotted skyscrapers, import
ed from Africa, would afford in Rot
ten Row! Two enormous ostriches,
wearing superb plumes of their own,
would also doubtless crafty the spec
tators if hitched to a big park phae-
ton.
Beauty always constitutes an asset,
but according to a judgment just pro-
nounced at Milan there may even be
property in prospective good looks
The case was singular in several re-
spects, says the New York Tribune A
little girl, aged 8, to a dairy farm for
some milk, and while there a cock flew
at the child, pecking her in the left
eye, which had to be removed. When
the action for damages came on, the
dairyman pleaded in vain that the
mother had only herself to blame for
letting the child run about the court
yard. In Italy neither a bird nor a
beast has a right to first bite" A
verdict was given for $50, avowedly
on account of the prejudice likely to
be one day sustained by the girl in
the marriage market from the dis
figurement to her face.
The feat of moving a two-story
brick building weighing $50 tons from
Sharpsburg to Allegheny, Pa, will be
attempted in the course of a few days.
The work Of moving the building over