The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


the clerk of the Orphans Court in Bucks
county. Pennsylvania, by census enum-
orators were those of hart parlias,"
'parallya." hart truble,'' "newmonia,"
"quinzie." hopping cough" and "tumor"
Another person was reported as having
died OF live cupIat," which was translat-
ed into meaning liver complaint"
The superintendent Of the SauK Ste
Marie canals says that Lake Superior
commerce for July will greatly exceed
chat of June, although June broke all rec
ords by the passage of more than 1900
600 IONS of freight The superintendent
says an unusual volume of coal Is GO
ing INTO Lake Superior. more than for
any. previous sea son. and that the ore
tonnage for July shows no decrease.
One of the oldest women's clubs in
London. the Somervi1Ie. has Just been t'om-
PEELED to close it's doors owing TO the de
cline in the support given the club. The
Somerville was started in Regent street
about twenty years ago, when the object 5
Of a woman's club were somewhat differ
eut from what they are now. The club was
founded in order TO provide resting place
for those tired by the exertion of shopping
and also to offer facilities for reading the
papers.
In little graveyard in Philadelphia.
which is about giving way to the march
of Improvement, the bodies are being dis
inferred for reburial elsewhere. The GEM
etery, which was the buryfng ground of
the Third Baptist Church, does not meas
ure more than 50xsO feet but fully 1900
bodies have been inferred there. Whole
families were buried in there, and the
men in charge of the work have encoun-
tered from five to seven skeletons In these
tier boxes.
Jeremiah O'Leary, a private in an Eng
lish regiment, was shot at the battle of
Colenso in South Africa, a Mauser bull
let penetrating his brain. He lay for five
hours in the trenches and then was con-
veyed to a hospital, where Sir William
MacCormac, by a wonderful surgical OPP
Grafton succeeded in saving his life after
removing pant of his brain. O'Leary' s
memory IS slightly impaired and he has
lost his taste for beer, of which he used
to be rather fond.
One of the unexpected uses of the re-
At great depths or at comparatively shall
low depths in some mines work on valu-
able veins of metal or coal has been
abandoned because of the heat. But en-
gineers declare that with the use of mod
ern refrigerating apparatus 10 cool the
air ID will be possible to go several thou
sand feet lower in case rich vein OF
precious metal or even coal warranted
the additional expense.
John Steif. an oiler in the Locust CAP
colliery, near Shamokin, Pa, was leaning
over pair of rolls when the bottom of his
la Nv ba haf He
was being rapidly drawn around a swiftly
revolving shaft when he unbuttoned his
trousers, which were jerked from his legs
in a jiffy. Holding to a crossbeam, he
called for help. A man rushed to the en-
CINE room and gave the alarm, whereupor
the engine was stopped just as Steif had
given up hope of being saved.
"A queer action at law has been begun
in Jasper county, Missouri A woman has
sued her divorced husband for 49,
which she alleged she has expended in
providing food, lodging, clothing and
schooling for his four children since he
abandoned her and left the children to
her care. The petition sets forth that they
were married Feb. "a, 1880. and had four
children; that he abandoned her in 1889
and that she secured a divorce in 1895;
that he has done nothing in support OF
In a communication TO the New York
city fire commissioners, Chief Croker Of
the fire department says an unusual num-
Der of fires have taken place in May and
June and he attributes this to the easy
way in which the insurance companies is
sue policies. He has looked the matter uI
and finds that tenants of premises have
had no difficulty in procuring $3.50 insur-
ance on household effects not worth more
than $500. Mr. Croker also says that this
premium on incindiarism is "the same ir
the big business districts as 1t is among
the tenement-houses."
One of Ii Hung Chang's collins was
recently put up at auction at Marseil.es
but there was no bidder. 1t will be re-
membered that during his tour of the
globe in 1896 Ii carried with him wherevei
he went coffin in which, in case of his
DEATH his remains were TO be sent back
TO China. Upon embarking for home al
Marseilles the Celestial statesman con-
cluded that 1t was unnecessary to take the
coffin with him, and left 1t at the hotel
The hotel proprietor turned it over to the
customs officials, and 1t has just figured In
the periodical sale of unclaimed property.
The honey-producing industry of Ev.
ansville, Ind, has reached such magnitude
that the city council Is considering an or
dinance declaring the bees a nuisance end
requiring the owners of hives to move them
outside the city limits. 1t is said that sew
enty-ive persons have colonies of bees In
the city. and the bees produce $1,000 worth
of honey a year. Persons who want the
bees taken out ask that IL be done by
Sept. /. The bee owners have engaged a
lawyer, who has represented to the city
council that there is not city in the
state that forbids people to have beehives
There is trouble in Bath, Me, over the
proposed celebration of Old Home Week
The Civic League threatens to close up all
the saloons. The opponents of the league
declare. first, that this will make the eel
ebration a CHASTITY financial ruin, and Sec
ondly, as there are officially no saloons In
Maine the league has no right to trouble
Itself about the matter. Besides they ask
why hasn't the league closed the saloons
long ago instead of waiting for Old Home
Week. when numerous country folk I'M
used to city life, and tired with sight-see-
ing, might need something for their stom-
achs sake, as st. Timothy did?
AT Halstead, Kan, an interesting Sc.
ries of experiments in wheat growing is be.
ing conducted. Last fall about $50 varie-
ties of wheat selected from all over the
world, were seeded and about eighty OF