The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-15
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nothing but piebeian blood in his veins.
iu very modest circumstances at Cannes:
before that they were Sandman fishermen
His great-grandfather, he says. may have
been wrecked on the south of France aud
settled there; hence the family name
Sardou. signifying an inhabitant of Sar-
DINA.
Mrs. Fred Wallace of England has
found her brother after a separation of
forty years. She heard piece of music
sung at Atlantic City, was charmed with
i and bought a copy. She found on the
cover portrait and the name of her
iong-Iost brother William Thomas, an au-
thor and composer of Philadelphia.
meeting was effected Each had thought
the other dead
Lord Kinnaird is a Scotch peer of an
Gent lineage, great wealth, broad acres
and happy disposition. He is the
eleventh Baron Kinnaird of Rosie.
whose seat is at Inchture, Perthshire. He
Is a partner in Barclays bank and when
az work in the city shows that a seat in
the House of Lords has not robbed him
OF any business capacity. He has MANY
interests in life besides banking and is
especially well versed in current religious
thought
Scarcity of farm laborers in England
has brought a strange assemblage to the
country districts. The other day there
were working on a Surrey farm a couple
OF clerks, compostor, a solicitor, who
had been unable tol scrape up the money
10 take out his certificate; a medical man
down on his luck" a pawnbroker's assis-
tant, and, of course, a journalist. The
journalist explained that he was there
only for the purpose of copy" He in
tends TO write an article ana call it Hay
making by Eminent Hands,"
One British colony is monometallic.
The Falkland islands have not imported
gold for many years. What little now
remains is boarded as treasure Silver
IS the only currency, and as silver nav
ments in large amounts have grown
cumbersome a government paper issue OF
70 and fl notes has been established dur
ing the year and has proved a great
success. THIS British colony is depen-
dent Tor its mails and regular communi-
cation with the outside world upon a Ger
man steamship company. Only one British
steamer called last year
In lecture at Detroit Rev, DR.. De
Costa made the assertion that "the Cath
ole church was founded in America sew
eral hundred years before the time Of
Columbus. and although said to have been
established in Greenland in the tenth
century by Eric, this was only prop
erly re-establishment. for the church had
been in North America long before. Rome
look care of the spiritual needs of the
people of Greenland and what are now
known as the New England states long
before the new world was known to the
old, save to those who were in the Sc
erets of the church."
The omission or insertion of a single
letter has often upset a jury's verdict
and even a whole statute Possession of
valuable real estate in Ohio depends upon
a single letter IS" The Cincinnati Court
or Common Pleas ruHd against Joseph
irwin, the claimant, and sustained Peter
Christmas who has been a tenant for
seven years past. The Circuit Court up-
set that Judgment several weeks ago be-
cause the jury's report read, ION the is
sues, whereas there was but one issue
involved. To-day the Circuit Court re-
opened the case on proof that the form of
verdict was printed and hence the OBJ
Jectionable IS" which has caused all this
trouble was not made by the jury.
Sir Thomas Lptons announcement Of
his assumption of coat of arms seems
a little late, if intended to dissipate that
coldness which the sporting aristocracy
OF Great Britain is said to NANTES. To-
ward him. 1t is probable, however. that
he had no such intention. Indeed from
the device he has adopted, il looks as
though he We're bidding defiance 10 the
ariStocrats. For a crest he has chosen
two horny hands of labor, one grasping
a sea plant flower, and the other cof-
fee blossom. The shield bears a sham
rock. in memory of his native land. and
a thistle, in commemoration Of the fact
that he started in trade in Scotland. His
motto proclaims the fact that labor con-
quers all things
The attempt by women to revive the
hideous chignon does not seem to be pros
pering. Thirty years ago the chignon
imported from France, was seized upon
by American women. and because IL was
fashionable they were willing to lose their
chlef glory. The hair was puffed ut in
an enormous knot created by lump of
closely woven horse hair, over which the
natural hair was stretched and inclosed
in net. 1t was a hideous hairy wen
Inc unnatural heat caused diseases of the
scalp, headaches. vertigo, and. in many
cases, a sort of nervous prostration Der
matology had a sudden boom and scores
OF hair reviewers sprang into existence
1t was pie for the practitioner who made
a special study of the fertilization of the
hair follicle, and specialists were few in
those days.
This month Iceland Is celebrating the
ninth century of the intro iuction of Chris
tianity in the far north island. II was
oar, King of Norway, who sent over the
ilrst priests. Lngfeliow gives a somewhat
humorous account of the reception of
OARS emissary. Drunken Thangbrand."
who came away quite as disguised with
the Icelanders as they were with him.
Chicago mas little colony of emigrants
from Iceland, but in North Dakota and
Manitoba there are many thousand. They
are thrifty farmers, well cultured and
great disputers on theological subjects
There is hardly an Icelander anywhere
no matter how humble, who Is not only
wei versed in the literature of his own
lana, but who also knows considerable of
other countries books. Ii Is no uncom-
mon thing TO find in farmhouses on the
bleak Dakota prairies small libraries i'm
several languages
In May last. says the New Yorl,
Times, Senator William E. Mason of IlB-
nois found or made an excuse for deliv-
ering before his more or less attentive
colleagues an Grafton filed with impas-
stoned eulogies of American champagne
The bill under consideration at the tirnc
was that 10 prevent the manufacture of
adulserated foods. and the Senator not