The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-27
ITEMS of INTEREST.


cred in the vicinity of Cumberland,
British Columbia, and the mine is be-
ing developed. Samples contain SO per
cent. carbon and 5.75 per cent. ash.
The coal is compact and lustrous in APP
pearance.
The fish caught on the Siberian
coast formerly went to Japan as a
fertilizer. The catch in 1902 as a fer
tilizer would have brought but S515. 000
but by sailing and curing the same
fish and selling them at the lowest
price they brought three times as
much.
Oslo having paid the last of her
debts there are now six states without
outstanding obligations. They are Illi-
nOis, Iowa, Nebraska, New Jersey,
West Virginia and Ohio. The debts of
Delaware, Kansas. Michigan, Nevada.
South Dakota and Wyoming are only
nominal.
The manufacture of cigars from
Java tobacco is still successfully car
ried on at Samarang, and the output
increased greatly last year. These
cheap local cigars are retailed to the
Chinese and natives at ! Dutch cent
Cess than 0.5 cent in United States
currency each.
In 1883 there were in operation six
ty-two factories i'll India, with 1854, 900
spindles and $1,000 looms; in 1903 the
numbers had increased to POI factories,
with 5,164000 spindles and nearly A.
600 looms. OF these factories 113 were
for spinning exclusively, 4 for weaving
only and "a for spinning and weaving.
Of
head of the Galops canal, in Canada,
and extending for lover two miles, a
channel has been cut 300 feet wide. BY
the use of this channel the large ves-
sells now navigating the st. Lawrence
are saved the tortuous and dangerous
passage by the south channel through
American water.
Reports from Panama tell of the
successful equipment of the cruiser
New York with a full set of wireless
biography. Other ships of the Pacific
station will be fitted out in a short
time and experiments carried on SINH
lar to those on the Atlantic coast.
Shore stations on the Pacific coast are
also to be established.
An international exposition will be
held in Paris from August to Novem-
Der, 1904, comprising exhibits of life
saving apparatus, health. fishing,
sports, medicine, FIRST help to the
wounded. industrial arts, and social
economy. 1t is under the official pat
ronage of the various French ministers
and the chambers of commerce.
Considerable attention has been
paid during late years to the buoying
and lighting of the upper st. Law
renee, until to-day a good, clear chan
mel, with fourteen feet of water at any
season, is clearly marked all the way
from Kingston to Montreal Modern
gas buoys, burning acetylene gas, light
the channel at all needed points.
Progress in medicine and surgery
will be shown by an exhibit of appli-
ances, instruments and apparatus for
surgery and medical research in the
Palace of Liberal Arts at the Worlds
Fair. A complete modern hospital,
with all of the accessories and appa-
ratus known to the most advanced sur
gerry will be the most prominent fea-
ture of this group.
AT a recent examination of young
men in England three of the answers
to the question, What is the Monroe
doctrine?" were: "The religion of
America taught by DR.. Monroe on the
TRANSPORTATION of souls" THE doc
trine that people may be married sew
eral times" "One that has to do with
the vaccination and smallpox: it was
brought out by Prof. Monroe"
The adulteration of and use of in
tferfor materials in the ufaking of
candy are beginning to attract much
attention in England. Prof. Ooston re-
Gently lectured on saccharomaniacs."
He expressed the opinion that future
scientists would place the evils of sugar
gluttony on a pedestal as conspicuous
as the drink question as causing de-
terioration of individuals and races.
Both master BARRIERS and assist
ants are well organized in Austria.
The master BARRIERS organization are
obligatory and under government con-
troll, assuring a sick benefit to assist
ants according to wage received. A
monthly contribution of about IS cents,
one-third of which is paid by the mas
ter barber, assures to the assistant
sick benefit of about $3.50 per week for
four months.
Whether the people of Kentucky
shall return to the system of viva voce
voting is to be decided by them at the
state election in 1905. During the dis
cussion of the matter in the House CT
Representatives one member said that
one open ballot would prevent voters
from sailing under false colors, and
another member retorted that it would
result in the corporations getting con-
troll of the elections. Only two Demo-
cratic members of the House voted
against the measure, and only one Re-
publican voted in its favor.
1t is noteworthy that out of Asia
came our alphabet and our Arabic nu-
merals, says the Portland Oregonian.
The compass we owe to the Chinese
who knew the magnetic needle as early
as the second century A. d. Gunpow-
der originally came out of Asia, and
so did the art of printing and the man
ufacture of paper. The Chinese invent
ed movable types in the middle of the
eleventh century, $50 years before Gut
enberg. They also made silks long be-
fore Europe, and porcelain that has
never been equaled by Europe. Truly,
Asia is the cradle of the race. On the
original ideas of the Persians, the Ara
bians, the Hindoos and the Chinese our
modern society has been built.
The st. Petersburg correspondent
of the Paris Aurore publishes some
particulars of the course adopted by
Russian official anti-Semitism in the
war preparations. He says that the
minister of the interior claimed for
himself the privilege of partly revis-
ing the list of reservists to be called
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