The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


seen in San Francisco. The big parade
of various orders of Native Sons, which
will take place on Sept. 10. will be the
main event of the four days celebration.
More and more each year, says the
coming covered with creeping ivy. These
coats of green are attractive, affording
a relief from the sombre colors of the
buildings and adding TO the beauty and
attractiveness of the city. We cannot
have too many of them.
Andrew sundheima, a butcher of Wa
bash, Ind, is an inveterate tobacco chew
er, using plug exclusively and carrying
1t in a hip pocket. A few days ago he
abs ent- min dedly thrust a so bill down
alongside the tobacco. The weather was
hot, the bill and the 'bacco stuck to-
sether and not until the pug had nearly
disappeared did Sundheima learn that for
a couple of days he had been chewing
a $40 bill along with his weed.
Falcon island, in the Pacific ocean,
which originally emerged from the sea
after the eruption of a submarine vo'-
cano near Truga, and remained above the
surface for precisely thirteen years be-
fore vanishing two years ago, is reported
by the British cruiser Porpoise to be re-
appearing and TO be a serious menace to
navigation. 1t was nine feet cut OF water
at the end of May and may be a noun.
tain now. for all anybody knows.
Under the Pennsylvania election law
votes are not counted for the candidate,
but for the ticket or tickets on which
his name appears. In the Chester coun-
ty election all parties agreed upon
Joseph Hemphill for common pleas judge,
and this is the way the official vote was
declared: Joseph Hemphill republican,
S,l62 votes; Joseph Hemphlll, democrat,
4,SH votes; Joseph Hemphill, fusion, 1913
votes; Joseph Hemphill, scattering, S74
votes.
A hotel man at Portland, Me-, made a
bet of a hat with a friend and lost The
loser telephoned 10 the winner: Get Just
as good a hat as you want; in fact, buy
any kind of a hat that suits you and
have them send the bill to me-" In a day
or two a bill of $23 from a wel-known
Congress street rnilliner for a woman s
hat was received by the loser. The win
ner calmly informed him that he was
pretty well fixed for hats himself, and so
he thought he'd turn the thing over to his
wife. 1t was a hat, and the hotel man
paid.
The engineering feat of Transporting a
steamboat of $50 tons from Scotland to
Lake Titicaca-the most elevated lake in
| South America-has just been completed
1t was constructed in Scotland and then
| taken in sections to Molendo Peru from
| which place it was carried in twenty-five
cars to the railroad skirting the steep
| sides of the Andes to the lakeside, nearly
| $4,000 feet above the sea level There the
| sections of the vessel were put together
again and the boilers and engines in
stalled.
! AT a recent meeting of the Paris
| Academy of Medicine DR.. Tuffier gave an
account of three surgical operations
which he had conducted. One was an am
putation of the leg, another the removal
of kidney and the third was laparotomy
| In all three cases he had operated after
securing anaesthesa by injecting one
| centigram of Carbohydrate of cocaine into
the canal of the spinal column. Acting
on the marrow and not on the brain, the
! cocaine produced absolute anaesthesia
and the patient submitted, without the
usual exhaustion incident to the use OF
| chloroform, to an operation of which he
| had no consciousness whatever, although
his mental activity does not appear tc
have been interrupted. The transmission
of sensation to the brain was interrupted
] tldl was an. IN OfQeF TO spare the pa
| tent the sight of blood and the wound
the doctor takes the precaution to vel
the face. He says that he has tried the
method of securing anaesthesia eighty
4 times. 1t possesses many advantages and
no inconvenience that he has been able
to discover
II am apprehensive," saws a man,
quoted by the New Orleans Times-Demo-
GRAFT chat the next big event on the
calendar will be a long-drawn-out war
between China and Russia. don't care
a rap what becomes Of either nation, but
DO dread unspeakably the task of learn
| ing those jaw-breaking Russian names
You see, l have had a pretty rough time
of it during the last year or two. Nc
sooner had l mastered that terrible Fill
| pino nomenclature than along came tho
| oBer war, and had to start in on g<on-
jes' and 'rooineks and spruits.' About
| the time | had got the hang of Trans
| vaal 'TaaP and was able to talk about
| the campaign without running the risk
| of being called down by one of those ne.
| dantic jackasses who are always lying liz
wait for a fellow, trouble began in China
and had to tackle an entirely new vo-
| cabulary. At present I'm hard at work
| on Tsung-li-Yamen and Hsiang-Ki
and Kiao Tai Chifu and few hundred
rally, the bare idea of starting in on Rus.
sian, with its skis and 'koffs,' fills me
with horror. 1 hope to goodness nothing
| happens in Wales"
Perhaps the idea of allowing to poo,
people the free use of patches of land te
raise potatoes on was derived from tbas
old-time nursery tale, "The History OF
/ Little Goody Two-Shoes," otherwise call
ed Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes." The he.
roine of that famous tale, it win be re-
| called, married Sir Charles Jones, who six
years subsequently died and left her &
large fortune With this fortune "Littl,
| Cody dispensed liberal charity in re.
lieving the wants of the poor. This kind
| ness of hers to the poor not only contin
ued as long as she lived, but found ex
| preston in her WILL by which she lief
80 many acres of land, to be planted
| yearly with potat toes, for all abe poor O.
any parish who would come and fetcl
them for the use of their families; but, Il
any took them to sell, they were deprived
of that privilege ever after" This "Goody
Two-Shoes" tale was first published il
1865, but who wrote it is uncertain, thu
authorship of 1t, either entire or partial
being variously assigned to Oliver Gold
| smith, Giles Jones, the latter's brother
Griffith Jones, and John Newberry, tn,
publisher, by whom several of the frs
editions of the tale were published.
The jealousies and animosities existing
in the higher ranks of the French arm,