The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

British manufacturers appear to be
steadily losing ground as regards agri-
cultural machinery in Russia, says the
Mechanical Review OF London, while
America and Germany are continually
increasing their output to that dis
tr!ct.
in Cuba, two hours before paper
is distributed, a copy must be sent,with
the editors name, to the government
and one to the censor. When the pa
per is returned with the censor's in
dorsement the paper may go to the
public.
Belgium exports annually $500, 00o
worth of eggs. The shipments are al
most entirely to England. where the
demand is for eggs which run IA to
the pound. The Mediterranean breeds
-Leghorns, Spanish Minorcas and An
dalusians-are the most popular.
DIR. Jaques Bertillon, the famous
chief of the statistical bureau of Pa
ris, has written a volume entitled AL
coholism and the Way to Fight It,"
Drink, he declares, is likely to prove the
ruin of the French race. unless some
thing is done to overcome the habit.
A big parade called the Parade
of People and Beasts" will be a fea-
ture of Pike day at the Worlds Fair,
June 4. Six thousand natives from
all climes, speaking thirty tongues,
will take part. Thirty thousand dol
lars will be spent on the demonstra-
ton.
In 1903 Minnesota showed an in
crease in the total number of wage
earners of Il 81 per cent. over 1902;
that Of the male adults was II. 81 per
cent; that of the female adults 9.G6
per cent. and of children a decrease
from last years number of 9.5S per
cent.
The total value of all merchandise
imported into Canada for consumption
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1903, was 1898, 100, SIG, of which $780,
1866 was dutiable and 500, 1854, 451 was
non-dutiable, the dutiable goods pay
ing S57, 1l0,354, based on 27.1 per cent.
duty.
Five hundred Greeley potatoes,
which will weigh one ton, will be one
of the Colorado exhibits at the World S
Fair. Another fine collection of tubers,
four of which, placed lengthwise, COW
y
will be sent from the Centennial State
to st. Louis.
From 1876 to 1880 there was a, gain
of 100000 in the popular vote for Pres
ident; from 1880 to 1884, a gain of l.
100000; from 1884 to 1888, a gain of l.
800, 900: from 1888 to 1892, a gain of
100000; from 1892 to 1885, a gain of l.
100000, and from 1896 to 1900, a gain
of 1851.
I'm the last twenty years, according
to the figures of the Labor Bureau at
Washington, there have been more
than $4,000 strikes. involving a loss to
employees and employers of over $500, :
O00 000 The loss to the workmen
themselves has been more than twice
that of their employers.
One voting machine was used in
the late municipal election in Chicago,
and registered twenty votes in one
minute and forty seconds after the
polls were opened. It was the first
time such a machine had been used in
that city. and its results were pro-
nounced good at the close of the cleo
ton.
"A Berlin inventor has patented a
speed indicator for automobiles. By
means OF an application of centrifugal
force, discs, each of a separate color,
appear before the driver of the motor
car, the color differing according to
the pace at which the vehicle is going
Each disc represents different group
of speeds.
DR.. Wamsley, an Englishman, who
recently investigated our technical
schools, reports that he found in six
teen of our prominent institutions l.
81 students in engineering courses who
had been more than three years in at
tendance, while the latest available re-
port in Great Britain showed but fifty
six students in the corresponding class.
1t can be understood to what a
nicely the mechanism of a gasoline en-
CINE is adjusted when it is stated that
to make 1000 revolutions a minute
means that in a four-cycle engine there
are 500 sprays of gasoline forced into
the cylinder, 500 times the electric BAT
terry makes a spark. and 500 times
the escape valve is opened to let the
gas out.
DIR. Cecilio Baez, the newly ap-
pointed minister to the United States
from Paraguay, is familiar with this
country from touring through it after
having served as his countrys repre-
sentative at the Pan-American con-
ference in Mexico three years ago.
DIR. BaeZ is one of the most infiuen-
tial politicians and statesmen in his
own country and is, besides, a jour-
nalist litterateur and lawyer of prom
inence.
-Wasps have a great fondness for
overripe fruit, especially pears, plums
and sweet apples. The sugar of these
fruits has a tendency to pass into a
kind of alcohol in the ordinary process
of rotting, and after imbibing large
quantities of this liquid in the wasps
become outrageously intoxicated. They
crawl away in the grass in a semi
Somnolent condition and remain till
the effects have passed off, when they
will go at 1t again. 1t is while in this
condition that they do their worst
stinging. A person receiving a sting
from one of these intoxicated wasps
will suffer severely from nerve poison
ing for days.
1t has been said that few men die
of old age and that almost all per-
sons die of disappointment, personal
mental or bodily toll, or accident, says
Health Culture. The passions kill men
sometimes even suddenly. The COM
mon expression. "choked with rage, -
has little exaggeration in it, for even
though not suddenly fatal, strong pas
sions shorten life. Strong bodied men
often die young, weak men live longer
than the strong, for the strong use their