The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

teur musical organizations in the city
The State Bank of Buda-Pesth, by con-
sent Of the Hungarian government. is dec
Grating its 1,CO9-Aorin notes with portraits
of actresses and singers. which will make
the pictures of those ladies dearer than
ever TO Themselves and their admirers.
The base of the great Victor Hugo
statue. which is to be unveiled during the
Paris exposition. is an imitation of his
place of exile, and is really a raised map
of the Island of Guernsey with streams,
nights, coast line and other landmarks.
More people over 100 years old are
found in mild climates than in the higher
attitudes, says the Detroit Free Press. Ac>
cording TO the last census of the German
empire, of a population of 55000,00 only
seVenty-eight have passed the Tooth year.
France, with population of 100000, has
2l3 centenarians. In England there are
146 Ireland 578 and in Scotland forty-six.
Sweden has ten, and Norway twenty
three; Belgium, five; Denmark, two; Swift
zerand. none Spain, with a population
of 100000, has 401 people over 100 years
OF age. OF the 2,jO0000 inhabitants of
Servia SO people have passed the century
mark 1t IS said that the Oldest per-
son living whose age has been proven is
Bruno Cotrim, born in Africa ana now
old. A coachman in Moscow has lived 40
years.
Castor Seguy of Paris has invented
what he calls the human lorgnette,"
says the Chicago Inter Ocean. He was the
first man in France to successfully repeat
the experiments of Roentgen. He is 81
years old, is director of the photographic
Institute of France, and has invented a
dozen scientific appliances. The great adj
vantage of his new apparatus is that it is
no longer and is as convenient to handle
as a parlOr stereopticon. In its small
compass he has put all the electric Stor-
age cells, transformers and tubes neces-
sary for obtaining the X-ray. He claims
that it will show the interior of the hui
man body with as much facility and eX-
actitude as it reveals the contents of a
trunk or travelling bag. That by its use
one may see the action of the heart and
all the organs and locate and diagnose
without error all diseases and fractures
Of the bones and many forms of organic
diseases.
-Supt Zeitler of the Champion mine
will give remarkable reception to Native
Sons of the Golden West when the grand
parlor assemblies here in April next. II
will be remarkable because it will be the
first of its kind that anybody ever enjoy
ed says the Nevada City Transcript. In
a spacious chamber 1900 feet under
ground, where the mammoth ledge has
been sloped out, leaving smooth walls
and ceiling as firm as the Rock of Ages,
Mr. Zeiter proposes to build a platform
big enough for 200 people to dance on at
time without crowding or jostling The
Native Sons and Daughters and their
friends who are lucky enough to get inVi-
tations will be given a smooth swift ride
down the steep incline to the ballroom
u-I,f ah hoy will hril
with several hundred electric lamps No
matter how hot the day on the outside the
air in this subterranean palace of the gold
king will be as cool and fresh and sweet
as the Veriest crank could have made to
| order if he fixed the thing to suit himself
! There will be a large orchestra present,
and when the music starts up everybody
| will begin to dance. The party will last
! for three or four hours, and Mr.. Zetler,
who was long ago adopted by the Native
! Sons as one of their most benehcent pa
iron saints, will have refreshments serv-
cd TO the merry throng at proper inter-
! walls.
A government report from Colombia
! contains description of a tree, known as
the chaparro. which is said to possess the
/ qualities of being tireproof, says the Bos-
ton Transcript. 1t grows on the vast
! plains of Colombia and the north of South
! tricts of which are parched with heat ex-
cept during the rainy season. 1t has long
| been the custom to clear the ground for
! the new vegetation which springs up SO
! uXuriantly on these plains after the rainy
| season by means of fire-and such fires,
| miles in extent, kindled by the herdsmen
| destroy everything IN the shape of Vegeta-
| ton except the chaparro tree, which sur
wives to afford welcome shade in an al
most treeless region. 1t is small tree,
| seldom growing to more than 20 feet in
| hight with a girth of about 3 feet, and il
owes it's protection from fire to the nature
of its hard, thick bark. The bark lies on
the trunk in loose layers, which do not
| readily conduct heat TO the more dehcat e
parts of the structure. 1t is a general
idea among the natives that this tree
grows only where gold is abundant in the
soil below. That il is common in aurifer-
/ Gus districts is indisputable, but there is
no ground for supposing that it does not
grow elsewhere.
Visitors to the Isle of Wight have, nc
doubt. heard of the Tichborne dole, but
probably few know anything of its origin
says the London Chronicle The old ma.
nor house where the charity originated is
at Ly1herstone. not far from Brooke
house, the residence of Sir Charles See
ley. Not much of the old mansion remains
at the present time. 1t appears that short
~ after the conquest the king bestowed
it on a family who adopted the name Of
Immersion. in the time of Henry l. Sill
Roger Tichborne married Isabella, the heir
ess of the dimensions and the foundres'
of the famous dole. When the lady lsa
bella, after life OF great charity, lay dy
ing, she prayed her husband to set. aside
for the poor as much land as would en-
able her to institute a dole of bread to al
Corners to the gates of Tichborne on every
successive Lady day. Sir Roger, so say!
the tale, took brand from the hearth
and promised her as much land as she
could encircle while the wood was burn
ing. She caused herself to be carried
from her bed to a place still pointed out
and began creeping on her hands anC
knees. Before the brand was consumed
she had encircled several acres, still
known as the Crawles. Since then the
Tichborne dole has never ceased to be dis
tributed.
Wooden soled shoes are getting to b.
quite the proper thing in New Kensington
says the Kensington (Pa) Keystone So
ciety circles don't recognize them, as they
are not just the proper thing with which