The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

This country takes more than one
half OF the baled leaf tobacco which
Cuba exports. but less than one-fourta
OF the number Of cigars sent out BY
the dusky Queen of the Antilles. So
enormous is the quantity Of cigars
rolled IN manufactures in the United
States that the sources Of supply OF
the material outside Of that raised IN
der the Stars and Stripes are many
and important.
A French company Of wireless te-
legraphy is arranging TO provide the
Russian government with a wireless
system which viii enable il TO COM
municate between stations thirty miles
apart. The Japanese vessels were so
fitted out before hostilities began and
they were using a wireless apparatus
between Korea and Japan, an inter-
mediate station having been placed
upon an island in the Korean strait.
Emile Terquem has a unique rec
ord in the French book trade. in that
he has been chosen by the Cercle de
IA Librslrie 20 direct every large ex-
hiblt OF French books az the interna-
tionai expositiOns for the last thirty
years. He is credited with the sue
cess OF the French exhibits AT the
Centennial and In Chicago: he was in
charge al the Paris worlds fairs in
1873, 1883 and 1900. and he is coming to
St Louis.
From s12. So. 900 to s15.5730oa
worth Of butter is now exported from
Siberia. OF more than twice the value
OF the wheat export of 1850 the last
favorable harvest year. The Siberian
cow yields little milk, but the quality
is notable for richness. About nine
teen pounds of milk in winter and
twenty-five pounds In summer are suf-
lcient TO make a pound of butter,
while IN Denmark twenty eight pounds
are needed.
The sovereign who reigns over the
smallest monarchy in the world is
the King of the Cocos, a group of is
lands near Sumatra- These Islands
were discovered about 500 years ago
by the captain OF the Keeling. but
were comparatively little known till
1875, when Mr.. Ross. an Enghshn1an,
visited them. was struck by their
beauty, and took up his abode there
It is his grandson, II. George Reiss.
who now holds sway over the Cocos.
The lily. the pink and the rose are
not the Easter flowers among the Jap
anese Christians. There the cherry
trees are in full bloom at this season,
and the beautiful blossoms form the
tokens Of Easter rejoicing. There is
much feasting. and the professions are
many. AS for Russia, dolls and eggs
are given to the children. Easter
eggs. Of course, are an old story 60
Us, but the giving of dolls at this time
would Ia ,sr,e- Ii s1zr
prerOgative.
Whether or not Japan lacks swear
words, the Europeans constant use of
them, according TO the London Chroni-
Gle has so impressed the japanese that
they call foreign sailors "Damyoureyes
san" San, of course, is the inevitable
honorific; the former word is onoma-
topoetic. In the same way the call
foreign dogs "kaTni." This is the Jap
anese version of the Come here"
in Yokohama are always shouting TO
their straying dogs.
A underwriting apparatus is in
successful use in London. 1t is claim
ed that the apparatus does away with
the necessity for chimneys, as il pro-
duces the exact amount Of draught re-
qUired for complete combustion. and
depriyes the smoke Of its noxious prop
critics. 1t consists of an electrically
driven fan. which draws the smoke
from the fire and passes it into a
stream Of water. which extracts the
sulphurous and consumed particles. 1t
works automatically and only re-
quires that the water in its lower part
should be cha nged at regular inter
walls.
-"Shikata go nail" (''There is no
help,) is heard in Japan as often as
"Manana" in Latin America. 1t ex-
presses at once the fatalism and the
Spartan resolution of the Japanese
character. When a mother hears that
her son has been killed in battle she
does not weep or show any visible
sign of emotion. She bows her head
and calmly says, "Shikata go nai!'
When a man is sent by his officer TO
certain death he does not sit down and
write his last letters home or go
around shaking hands with his com
rades for the last time, as white men
would do in the same case. He sim
ply mutters ''Shikata go nai! and
walks out of the officers tent straight
to his mission.
One Of the Oldest institutions in
the city of Melbourne, Australia,
known as the IS o'clock rush. is in
danger of extinction. For half q CEN
fury a philanthropic restaurant pro-
prietor has given free meal at
O'Clock every evening to newly arrived
immigrants or respectable persons who
were temporarily down on their
luck" No professional loafers or
chemically unemployed were encour
aged. The attendance averaged about
100. and every Melbourne journalist
considered it his duty to write a de-
scription of the scene at least once
IN his career. The proprietor Of the
restaurant is now retiring from bust
ness. He is said to have received iega-
cies from people whom. he thus be-
friended and who afterward prospersd.
A curious correlation between the
ages of husband and wife appears to
have been established in the course of
the recent investigation OF the inner
itance of physical qualities by Prof.
Karl Pearson Prof. Pearson's re-
suits, published IN Biometrika, may be
briefly summarized: These data have
shown that there is a very definite cor
relation between the degrees of lon
gevity OF husband and wife. Things
take place as If men destined to live
to old age, while short-lived men gen.
orally marry short-lived women. There