The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


of ozone, which will prove of great use
in hospitals, theaters and other build
ings.
I'm the manufacture of knives the
division of labor has been carried to
such an extent that one knife is han
died by seventy different artisans from
the moment the blade is forged until
the instrument is finished and ready for
the market.
The cash-on-delivery parcel post
system has worked successfully in Ger
many for forty years. France, Aus
tria, Switzerland. Italy. Holland, and,
in fact, practically every country on
the continent, has adopted it, as also
has the United States.
Little Elmer is fond of Bible stories,
and often refers to them in unexpect-
ed ways. One day, after absorbing a
potash loZenge that had been given
him for his sore throat, he said: Mann
ma, that fellow Esau was a chuiRp to
trade his birthmark for a mess olNthat
stuff"
On a wager of $1,000 two men left
Vancouver, B. c.. on May 81, 1901, on
a tour around the world in an Alaskan
Indian canoe. They crossed over to
Australia, and. when last seen, some
weeks ago, were getting provisions at
Durham, Natal.
The largest loaves of bread baked
in the world are those of France and
Italy. The pipe" bread of Italy is
baked in loaves two feet or three feet
long, while in France the loaves are
made in the shape of very long rolls,
four feet or five feet in length, and in
many cases six feet.
Count de Guberntais. professor of
Italian literature in the University of
Rome, is in Chicago and has given to
the University of Chicago an invitation
to send an official representative to a
celebration of the six-hundredth ami
versary of the birth of Petrarch, to be
held in Rome. next summer.
In Pegu may be seen an English
sentry keeping guard over a Burmese
idol. The Burmese believe the idol is
asleep, and that when he awalkes the
end of the world will come. The SEN
try is there to prevent any one from
entering the pagoda, which is his place
of repose and awakening him. His
slumbers have lasted 5000 years.
In 1868 the first Japanese newspa-
per, with some news translated from
the Dutch, was published. Now Japan
has 1000 daily newspapers and periodi-
Gals. Toxic has twenty; but there are
no evening newspapers among them.
one of the Toxic papers; the Japan
Times, is printed in English, but is pro-
duced by japanese exclusively.
M. Emile Merwert, secretary gem
eral of French Guiana, has sent to the
Jardin des Plantes in Paris two pairs
OF ventriloquial fowls. These birds are
greatly amusing to visitors to the gar
dens, who assemble round their cage
by their cries, which at one time APP
pear to come from the trees, at others
from the sky and sometimes from the
midst of the crowd itself.
From eight to twelve cats are part
of the equipment of every great ocean
liner, and they duly appear on the
ships books, where their rations are
accounted for. Each cat is stationed
at a different part of the ship. and
certain stewards are told to feed them
daily. There is not a little rivalry be-
tween different stewards when the re-
spective merits as rat-catchers of Diff
ferent cats under their charge are be-
ing discussed.
The st. Petersburg Physico- Chem
ical Society contemplates a new Arc
tic expedition for the following objects:
Observations of solar radiation and at
mospheric refraction, of cloud move
ments, and of atmospheric electricity
in connection with the extinction Of
ultraviolet light; determination of the
phenomenon of terrestrial magnetism
and of electric currents in the ocean:
chemical analyses of the composition
of the air and water, and examinations
of the polar ice.
The grating of fruit trees has TO-
day become such common operation
says Public Opinion, that there is no
need to present the ordinary meth
DDS, but what is less we'll known is
that one may take young fruits of GER
tain species and graft them on the
branches of other trees. La Nature.
Paris, publishes photograph showing
how pear of one variety was grated
on a branch not it's parent. The bark
was slit at the end of a branch and
into this slit the stem of the fruit was
inserted, the fruit ripening as though
it had never been disturbed from the
original place of growth. This method
seems TO open up wide field as well
from the scientific as from the prac-
teal point of view. 1t is easy to see
all the advantage that could be de-
rived from the method for the pur-
pose of transporting fruits from trees
too heavily loaded to those which have
few fruits upon them.
The present year, says the Sum- is
the 300th anniversary of the planting
of the potato in England. The seed
brought from America by Sir Walter
Raleigh was first planted in 1897 in the
garden of Gerard the botanist, For
200 years the use of the tuber was con-
fined to the so-called higher classes.
says Harper's Round Table. 1t was
not until the close of the last century
that it became a common article of
food among the masses. To the i'm
provement of no other vegetable has
been given such solicitous study. In
this respect the United States has
taken the lead, and the various sorts
which have originated here are ac-
cepted throughout the world as repre-
sentative of the highest attainment in
quality rapidity of growth and size.
In some directions this has led to the
loss of distinctive flavor and texture.
as in the case of the Bermuda potato.
Through the general use of the seed
of our early varieties, the tuber now
grown in Bermuda has undergone a
radical change. The merit of the Ber-
muda potato was due to its firm. close.
waxy flesh, which peculiarly adapted
1t to certain forms of culinary treat