The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-1uG Olu DOAl4hC NdAS
on French railways are being gradual
ly displaced by vestibuled cars of a
more modern type.
Less than 100000 of Russia's 49,
100000 inhabitants are employed in
manufactures and the greater part of
their work is on government orders.
The tramway system of Hull, Eng
land, town of 25OOOO inhabitants.
which is owned by the city, is supe-
rior almost to any American road, and
at a 2-cent fare for all distances nets
annually more than $4,000 for each
mile of double track.
"A Berlin firm sent to Moscow some
time since an order for the supply
of $4,000 magpies, which will be shot
to provide trimmings for women's
hats. Agriculturists deplore this
wholesale slaughter of birds" which
feed largely on noxious insects"
The chemical committee of the
British Royal Agricultural Society in
vestigated some new food" stuff
which purported to be rice meal and
was sold at the rate of $40 so ton and
found it to consist of the groundup
husks of the rice grain and not worth
S2.50 a ton.
There is a curious old platform on
Piccadilly in London which was put
there to relieve porters in the old days
when they We're wont to carry heavy
burdens on their shoulders. They could
shift them to this platform and so get
little rest. For some reason the
old platform is always kept in re-
pair.
In 1863 the first Japanese newspa-
per, with some news translated from
the Dutch, was published. Now Japan
has 1900 daily newspapers and peri
odicals. 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 produced by Japanese exclusively.
American railroads carry more
freight than do all the other railroads
of the world. 1t is only when it comes
to passengers that the American roads,
from handling 675,00O00O in year. take
back place compared with the 3,120,
100000 passengers that are carried by
the worlds other lines. OF these for
eign passengers, the European roads
alone carry 2.SO0,OO0,O00 a year.
Scientific bedmaking and scrubbing
as taught by Miss Marion Talbot dean
of women and professor of housekeep-
ing in her new domestic science school
at the University of Chicago, appealed
so strongly to three of the midway
girls that they invested their fudge
money by renting house and adver-
tised for rOOmers-"just to see if all
of Miss Talbot's theories really work"
"A lady in Belfast, Me, recently
was caught out in a shower in the
evening, and as the kitchen stove was
only partially cooled off when she got
home she placed her hat in the oven
and then forgot all about it. Her hus-
band built fire next morning and the
oven was not used for getting the
breakfast. When the lady remember
ed her hat she fastened to the oven
only to find the charred remains of that
once handsome specimen of millinery.
To-day in a country of $4,000, 900
population transcontinental trains are
running across desert stretches where
water is worth almost its weight in
wine; where no freight save the wat
er and coal hauled for the railroad is
ever dumped; where only the coyote,
the rattlesnake, the prairie dog, and
the cactus and the sage brush thrive.
But over these stretches of waste lands
trains that are palaces in their make
up and appointments run east and
west, in daylight and in dark.
The International Postal Union,
formed by the Postal Congress, held
at Berne on Sept. Is, 1874, now extends
over forty million square miles of ter
ritory, peopled by LOO, OO0, 900 persons.
The number of pieces of mail handled
in 1900 amounted to about 100000
day (29,000.000,000 a year,. The chief
terms We're: Letters, 1900, 900; post
cards. 100000 900; printed matter and
samples, 1900, 100000 The mail routes
had an aggregate length of 1864, O00-
600 miles, about twenty times the dis
lance of the earth from the sun.
An electric railroad is to be built
up Mont Blanc, on the plans of NJ
Ballot, an engineer of great ability.
The cog wheel system used on the
Jungfrau road will be employed, and
the railroad, which will start from a
point $3.50 feet above the sea level.
Will terminate only $40 feet below the
summit of the mountain. The tourist
will be 1870 feet above the sea when
he steps out of the cars. In making
the ascent of the lilo feet from the
starting point the road will traverse
nearly eleven miles. to lower the
grades as much as possible and OBJ
tain the most favorable conditions
for construction.
The Association of German Tool
Manufacturers has urged the imperial
government to prevent the further in
roads of American manufacturers I'M
on their special branches 1t is claim
ed that in the first quarter of the wear
the import of tools had more than
doubled, having increased from 245
tons to 526 tons, and that in the seq
ond quarter the increase threatens n
become even larger. Special emphasis
is laid on the fact that the United
states government levies a tax OF Ak
per cent. on German machines. against
the German tariff of per cent and
they insist that German machines ara
III no wise inferior to the American
and that there is no need whatever
for the introduction of Amerirsn
machines and tools into Germany.
Flowers were advocated as a cure
for consumption by DR.. Frances Bart
lett in paper which she read before
the Botanical Society of Pennsylvania
at the University of Pennsylvania last
night, says the Philadelphia press
Why send consumptives and sufferers
to Colorado to benefit by the climate
when we can bring that climate INTO
their homes by the simple expedient
of having growing plants I'M their
rooms?' was the gist of DR. Rart