The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-01
PEOPLEO BY MANY MURDERERs
Towns That Were Originally Settled
by Desperate MaIefactors,

From LONDON Answers.
| The most una sputed record among
! towns is h Id by Huddersfeld, Yorkshire.
It owns itself. Beginning life in a model
dwelling owned by the town, the young
workman goes to his work in a municipal
tram. He ge his gas or electric light
from the city; his wife hires her gas stove
from the city. purchases her provisions
from the city market and sends the
weeks washing to the municipal washer
woman. Their children play in the. CITY.
parks, their DUSTIN is cleared out by the
town authorities and their letters are ell
lected by a ram, the propes ty Of the
town. If they are i'll they are removed to
the town hospital; if they are unlucky In
financial matters they find a home in the
municipal clearinghouse and when they
die rich or poor they are buried by the
town in cemetery owned by he town
Bristol stands alone in the number of
It's chart able inst tutions taking into con-
| slderatcn the number of its Inhabitants
| The dcnations 10 the Muller orphanaee
exceed 1,500 00o. 1t is the boast CT
Bristols inhab tants that they have be n
| the donors of he greater amount of the
| above sum-
On the other hand, the city of ARENA,
IN Italy, claims the undisputed record OF
having no man among its inhab tants who
has not either committed murder or tried
to do so. For two centuries The Italian
authorities have, ignored its existence and
when any criminal succeeds in escaping
70 Artena he is kft alone. AS such way
farers reach the town they ara asked
what crime they have committed and
should they not be abb to awe Gear
proof that they have really committed
some offense in the eyes of the law they
are not allowed to enter. Some criminal.
seeing the humorous side of this surrep-
titiously posted the following: 1T is
easier for camel to pass through the
eye of a needle than for an innocent man
TO enter Artena.'
A rscent traveller in Bavaria writes:
we entered the town of Nure mberg Ii
is the brit place of the doll The archives
say that the first dolls which were made
/ after the likeness Of men were made in
Nuremberg 1900 years ago. From that
date to the pressn' day every working
man, woman and child, save those who
cater to the wants OF the inha bitants.
spends life making dolls The whole town
| lives upon dolls. rates and every kind of
tax being paid by the price of dolly free
dom. over 3000)0O0 coils are expor ell
yearly"
There are two towns in Switzerland
no Org urdisputed records. The munich
pal authorities of Braunlingen are so rich
that not only DO they require the inhab-
ftants to pay no rates of taxes, but sup
ply free grazing ground to every family
for one cow Even here their generosity
minds not enough scope and Jan. every
year they present every resident with 2
pence. carload of wood and six printed
invitation cards. which the recipient is
requested to send to any friends of I'M
blemished character living elsewhere ask
ing them to pack up their goods and come
and live in Braunlingen. If they accept
the invitation, and their note to that eff
feet is received among the first 200, the
town pays for their journey and any ex-
tras up to the sum of e. The money is
raised frcm the rents of the houses which
were formerly owned by a Swiss noble.
man, whose pet object in life was to buid
a tow
Every inhabitant of the town of Flum-
gen has been a waiter CT is the Chi OF a
wait r. being ira ned by his paren for
that profession The populaticn numbers
5000 odd and the local paper after Civ
Ing important news of the world in three
lie paragraphs, Is given up emit rely to
the doings of TIE waiter world. Thus in
one of the later issues, TIE re- Gus Of the
KIM erley CARR son by Gen. French was
recorded thus: "Bri ish Gen FIR nch has
lleved Kimberley. The war en- iuues'
on another page tn re was four-co umn
article en- tie territle effect tie war Is
having on Lon6on walters
The afff irs Of Fumgen err rr SIDED over
by a council CT Inhabitants But when
any very important subject is mooted "A
general council of ali the male inha blants
is summoned While such council was
recently sittirg a traveller who happened
to be passing through the town nut hts
head in at the door. The whole assembly
was wat ng in S lence the yearly finan-
cal announcements Suddenly The traveller
called out wal err In a moment the
whole arlament rose as enc man. shout
ed coming, sir" and then, after waiting
80 me ten minutes, fauntered toward the
door Bot the stranger had fed. ttrrt