The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Paul, Mimi. which doctors claim
causes diphtheria. Its bite causes a
membrane to form in the throat.
Gold bearing quartz has been found
in Ceylon, but it remains to be seen
whether it is present in sufficient guam
tity to be commercially successful.
The incense tree never attains to a
hight of more than 70 or Is feet. 1t is
a squatty, thorny tree, unsightly-like
the myrrh and acacia-and, again like
them. grows in a desert country.
An invasion of mice is reported
from all parts of South Australia, ow-
ing, it is said. to the large quantities of
wheat left on the ground during the re-
cent unfavorable harvest weather.
German medical journals are rec
ommending as a remedy for appendi-
citis walking on all tours twenty min
utes four times a day. The exercise
strengthens the abdominal muscles.
Alden enjoys the distinction of be-
ing the export market of four articles
of commerce to which no other port
can in any way be a rival. These four
articles are aloes, civet, myrrch and in
cense.
There is a legend that the first
lace was made by a girl who preserved
beautiful bit of seaweed by attaching
all the dainty parts of leaves and
stems to a piece of linen with fine
thread.
In fasting feats the sect known as
the jams, in India is far ahead of all
days are very common and once a
year the people abstain from food for
seventy-five days.
Gov. Gen. Tsen of Canton is said to
have urged the Empress of China five
times to declare war against Russia.
and to have sent Geographic messages
to all the leading mandarins in the
empire to support him.
The summer lemon crop of Sicily is
| about average in yield: the quality is
exceptionally good. The quantity for
export will be about 100000 boxes
Prices, $1.93 to 1922 per box. Freight
per box to New York, BOA cents.
One frequent sight in the tobacco
districts of Connecticut is the uncov
cred framework for the tents, where
the shade growing experiments were
| conducted last year. A field of tent
tobacco in Connecticut this year is
rare.
From Bombay presidency a native
petition has been forwarded to the
| government of India praying, that the
| sale of feathered caps, ETC., through
out British India may be prohibited
| by law on account of the cruelty in
volved.
An important scheme is being in
| itiated for the establishment on a gil
gantic scale of a projected sugar in
| dustry in the south of Ireland. Ar
| rangements have been made near Cork
for the planting of over 5000 acres of
| land with sugar beets. Factories for
the manufacture of raw beet-sugar will
then be erected.
| -Myrrh is a gum resin that exudes
from the cracks of tree found in Ara
| bian and East African countries. 1t
| flows rather freely, but the natives, in
| order to get larger supply of the ar
| ticle, often bruise the trunks of the
trees with rocks. The myrrh tree it.
self is low tree. growing about 10 or
IL feet high, with thorny branches.
There are 1sO,227 professional beg
gars in Spain, of whom 1884 are wom-
en-. In some of the cities beggars are
licensed to carry on their trade. Seek
ing aims is recognized as legitimate
| business, and the municipality de-
mands a percentage upon the collect
! tions. Seville is the only city in the
kingdom which forbids begging in the
streets.
Among the curious things that ar
| rest the attention on arriving in Mos
COW is the entire absence of whips
among drivers of cabs carriages and
all sorts of vehicles. There is a law
prohibiting their use. There is not
a single whip in use in Moscow. The
excellent condition of the horses at
tests the benefit of this humane law.
Nothing can exceed the beauty of the
sleek and well groomed horses used in
the carriages of Moscow.
There nave been innumerable plans
for preventing seasickness, but per-
haps the most remarkable of any is
a device by which a German navy
engineer would obviate the malady
by overcoming the motion which
brings it about. He is Mr.. o. Schlick
of Hamburg. His apparatus is de-
signed to increase considerably the
period of oscillation in the rolling of
a vessel, and at the same time dimin-
ish the amplitude of oscillation.
In February last the German steel
syndicate was formed. 1t embraces
twenty-seVen out of the aggregate
twenty-nine German steel works, only
two-the Phoenix and the Bochum We
rein-holding aloof. The immediate eff
feet of this coalition will be the uniform
regulation of the preponderance Of the
steel production of Germany in man.
ner similar to that which has obtained
for some time in the Rhenish coal in
dustry through the Westphalian GOA
syndicate.
-Naturalists have discovered many
animals. which seem to need no water
or which drink only at rare intervals.
There is a certain breed Of gazelles
which never drink and the llamas OF
Patagonia live for years without TAX
ing water. There is particular class
of cattle near Losere, in Frence, that
rarely touches water. but in spite OF
this fact these cattle give milk OF
rich quality. from which excellent
cheese is made. Many naturalists
have the theory that hares do not
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