The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


a man is insane it has been recently dis
covered by specialists in nervous disor-
ders that irregular eyebrows are entitled
to consideration.
Farmers in Kansas and Colorado gen.
orally agree that the Russian thistle, IL
cut when young, may be turned to good
account as fodder. Buttermakers find IL
good feed for cows and sheep take to IL
readily. A crop of thistles coming after
grain make excellent winter fodder for
cattle.
Giraffe skins have become extremely
valuable because of their scarcity. Ten
or fifteen years ago it was common enough
for a hunter in South Africa TO kill forty
or nifty of the animals in a day. AZ this
rate they were rapidly being exterminat-
ed, and now giraffe skin is worth any,
where from $40 to $50.
Mrs. Thomas Swain, aged IS. has died
at st. Clair, Pa, of starvation caused by
contraction of the stomach. Several
months ago the curious malady developed
ana grew worse until II was impossible
to force food into her stomach Previous
to her death the sufferer had not tasted
a morsel for twenty-three days.
Food and supplies for the new ocean
liner Deutschland are estimated to cost
$4,000 year and the salary list for each
round trip is about $4,000. Although
nrst-class passage at this season costs
$3.50 with slight reduction for slack
times, the owners do not expect more
than per cent. interest on their invest
ment.
In the past year. according 20 author
ity Harvard. Yale, Columbia, Princeton.
Pennsylvania and Cornell universities ex-
pended $304,243 on athletics. In view of
the superiority. of American athletes as
demonstrated in the international con-
tests in Paris, perhaps the authorities of
theee universities may be inclined to re-
gard the money as well spent,
The following cruel remark has been
mace, summing up exactly the impression
made by the maiden speech of Count Boni
de Castellane in the Chamber of DEPUTIES
at Paris the other day: Small is his per
son, small is his voice, small is his speech
and when he is finished one concludes thai
the amount of good sense that he posses
sess is smaller STILL"
A curious discovery was made last
month at Damendorf. in Schleswig. Soma
Workmen, while digging peat. found a
"eH-preserVed corpse in the peat cloth
ed in coarse wool n material. with red
hair and with sandals on The feet DR.
SpAeth, OF Kiel, who was at once in
Formed of the discovery, estimated the
age of the body at about 1900 years. A
Few years ago several coins were also
round near the same place, which were
believed by experts to belong to the FIRST
centuries after Christ
"A recent number of Literature contains
some interesting figures concerning the
remarkable popularity of the writings of
Maurus Jokai, the Hungarian poet and
novelist In his own country no less than
round two MILL ms of his books have been
soI1' Or translations of his works there
nave appe AIRED $40 in Germany. AZ in Pc
land 30 in Russia, % in England Is In
inland. Is in Sweden, 16 in S srvia. 7 In
Italy, in France, 6 in Denmark and
In Holland. Another translation is lust
announced from England under the title
OF Debts of Honor"
1t has frequently besn asked what he
comes OF many of the carrier pigeons
that do not reach their intended destina-
Ton nor are even heard of An answer
" 'nls question has recently been found
oy a farmer of Rhoendorf opposite Ronn
% x.
and allowing himself to be lowered bv
rope from projecting rock at the riy
ersloe discovered a pigeon hawks nest
WIN three cal ow birds it and between
sew MY and eighty carrier-pigeon feet
with foot rings, besides a number of
p geon wings, bearing the stamp of some
homing society.
"A bordeaux tradesman who had zone
to Paris with his little daughter of 8 went
into a sideshow at the exhibition. whore
Que OF the items was an Eastern dance
why exclaimed the little girl, there's
mamma = pointing to one of the Oriental
oanclng girls on the stage. The voice
reached the ears of the Oriental dancine
girl who burst into tears and rushed
from the stage. The Bordeaux visitor
promptly mace his way to the Commits
sdry or Police and laid the matter before
him; the commissary sent for the r.
oeauxs bridesmaids wife who hal elooad
some time since, been deserted hv the
man she went away with and had 10 re-
sort TO dyeing and dancing to get a living
A reconciliation took place and husband
and wife left together.
The extreme near-sightedness Of ca
mile Saint-Saens, the well-knoun French
composer, is illustrated by the following
story given by the Liverpool Daily Post
Beng asked 10 play something at a party
IN Parls he extemporized for an hour in
the most brilliant fashion. Then some of
the guests began to leave and after two
hours the rest took their departure The
hostess retired to bed, and the master of
the hcuse alone remained in the room but
sun Salnt-Saens, lost in his musical rev.
erie and not perceiving that the guests
had departed, played on. AT last. about ,
a. M, seeing Saint-Saens PLAYING with
more ardor than ever, the host complete
~ overcome with fatigue, became des-
perate and said: Il beg pardon. my dear
sir, but pray are you not a little fatigued p"
Salnt-Saens replied, without leaving the
plano, Not in the leastv' and. to show
now fresh he was, struck into a new i'm
provision with wilder enthusiasm than
ever the host gave 1t up stole out of
the room and went to bed. AT dayhreak
Saint-Saens rose, gravely bowed to the
tapies and chairs and went home. COM
pietely ignorant that the chairs and tables
mad been for hours his only audience.
A great change has taken place within
the last few years in the methods of
French business houses as regards the
practice of working on Sundays. Most
houses OF any importance now close en-
tlrely on Sundays, says the Paris Daily
Messenger, and among The smaller trades
people even the grocers close at II O'clock
ana at the latest at 2 on Sunday after
noon. But the postal services on Sundays,
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