The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The average age of the Jaranese
navy is lower than that OF any other
navy in the world. No one over TWEEN
ty years old is accepted for enlistment.
The average hight is feet inches
less than the average hight OF any other
navy In the world.
On the docks of London in one
year 76,SOO rats have been destroyed,
but the medical officer of health for the
| port is doubtful whether that was as
much as the natural increase OF births
over deaths, and more vigorous meas
ures are to be taken.
The Cossacks. of the Russian army
are said to be "a mixed race of Russian,
Polish, Tartar and other elements.
Their principal homes are the steppes
| of the Don and of Ciscaucasia and a
region at the southern end of the Ural
| mountains. on the borders of European
Russia and Siberia They are re-
| garded by the Russian government as
a military division of the people, and
the males eligible for service are or
| ganized in eleven voiskos or corps. In
| addition to the cavalry there are in
| fantry and field artillery. The total
number of the race is probably be-
total war strength was estimated last
year at approximately 100000 men,
with $4,000 horses.
The total catch of food fishes in the
United States and Alaska, as shown
by the last canvass, was 1913, 314 S24
pounds, valued at s$45. 5S1,165. The num-
Der of men employed was 2l4,056 and
the capital invested was T2.26l 64S.
The salmon pack of Puget sound alone
in 1901 exceeded $4,500,000, an amount
more than four times as great as the
| entire silver output of the whole re-
gion drained by the Columbia river.
The salmon output of Alaska for 1908
is valued at $10,000000, which exceeds
! by more thane$2,500,00 the amount
which Alaska cost US; and if we add
| to the salmon the value of the cod,
| halibut and other fisheries of Alaska,
the total greatly exceeds all the other
| resources of Alaska combined.
"A writer in the Washington Post
declares that nearly everybody pro-
nounces the word Niagara incorrectly.
According to this authority, the accent
| should be placed on the penultimate
| syllable. 1t is an Indian word, and it
is averred that the Indians accent the
penult in nearly all their names of
| places. The following instances are
| cited in which our pronunciation con-
forms to the Indian practice: To-
ronto Mississippi, Allegheny, Maria
gansett Tuscaloosa, Conshohocken,
| Wissahickon. The writer says Mag
ara is a Huron word, and if you find
Huron you will find that he accents
it as he does Saratoga or Tuscaloosa.
do not know how we have fallen
| into the habit of accenting it wrong"
"A farmer near Jackson raised a
colt that was as bare of hair as a
Mexican dog, says the Detroit Tribune.
| The parents of the freak were of the
ordinary, covered kind, and no theory
| is advanced as 10 the cause of the
offsprngs ridiculous nudity. The an
| imal grew to horsehood. but seemed
so sort of repulsive like" that the
owner was ashamed to drive him to
| town, and kept the hairless monster
at work on the farm. A Jackson man
| heard of the horse and for $40 be-
came his owner, and now has an offer
of $500 for him, sum which ne has
refused on the ground that the freak
is worth much more. In all respects
except his shameless en- deshabille, the
hairless horse appears respectable and
well-behaved.
1t is said that if a woman lives in
harmony with the laws of nature she
will grow more beautiful as she grows
| older. She should be more beautiful at
| 40 than at 16, if she is not a victim to
| the ravages of disease. Most of the
world-famous beauties reached their
zenith at 40. Helen of Troy was first
heard of at that age. Cleopatra was
| considerably more than 80 when she
CT oaf Ant AGFa ocin xTra- GyrraT.
| she married Pericles, and was still a
brilliant figure twenty years later
Anne of Austria was 38 when pro-
nouneed the most beautiful woman in
| Europe. Catherine of Russia ascend
ed the throne at SO and reigned IS
years. Mile. Reeamier was at her
zenith at 40. From IS to so should be
| the richest and best years of a wom-
ans life.
There has just been constructed at
Preston, England, for the exclusive use
of the medical officer of the Rhodesia
Railway, in Africa, a unique car,
which provides for comfortable accom-
mediation by day and night and suita-
bly, arranged for the climatic conditions
| of South Africa, says the Philadelphia
| Record. Each window opening pro-
vides for glass frame, a louvre frame
and gauze dust-proof frame, each Of
these acting independently in separate
runs The glass frame is provided
with spring sash balances, and the
| louvre and gauze frames furnished
with springs and lifts. The independ-
ent gauze frame is entirely an inno-
walton, and one which is absolutely
essential, If comfort is to be consider
| ed, owing to the sand and dust storms
| so prevalent in South Africa. The body
of the carriage is divided into four
artments-namely, dining ROOM
surgery, layatory and kitchen, with a
balcony at one end for the cooks use
| The living room is fitted up complete
with a woven rattan spring couch, two
revolving armchairs, flap tables, ward
robe with mirror front, writing desk
with cupboards and drawers, and two
basket racks over side windows. The
surgery is fitted UP with hooks and
| rings in roof, and also with a guards
valve to the vacuum brake. The kitch-
en- is fitted with an open and closed
coal stove, having two ovens and wa
| ter boiler complete. The Pennsylva mia
Railroad has ordered a somewhat sim
liar equipment for its line.
Comprehensive and INSCRIPTIONS
as is the Russian censorship system.
it is not infailibe by any means, saws
the New York Times. BY the aid of
a little intelligence it may be BETRAYED
into publishing the very intelligence
for the suppression of which it is most
anxious. A correspondent of a London
paper tells how Jewish mother in
Warsaw received recently a letter
from her son, young surgeon who