The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Jerry SnOrer ana MIS-. Au&uStd hOSSA'
both Of Maplewood, Pa, have been mar
ried. He was a widower with six chill
dren ard she widow with seven
According to a decision Of the Ken
t1cky Court of Appeals, if one annoys a
dog while the animal is eating. and gets
bitten as a consequence. the victim is
guilty of contributory negligence and can
not recover damages.
Diamonds have been found in the Up
per Mazaruni district. British Guiana
Such as were taken to Demerara passed
through the department of mines. They
were nearly all small. They were picked
up by miner prospecting for gold.
Some journeyman bakers in Deptford
England, threatened to strike because
their employers made it custom TO hold
prayers on Sunday night before prepar-
ing the dough for Mondays bread, and
refuse TO pay for the time thus spent
Prof. Slogan Krstoff vatralsky, a native
of Bulgaria, a graduate of Harvard and
writer and lecturer has finished his stud
les in this country, but before going home
be is furtheTing a movement for the cree
ton of a monument over the grave IN
New Lexington. o., of ]. A MacGahan'
the war correspondent.
-Four hundred elk teeth were sold IN
Spokane, Wash, the other day for $1,000.
The demands of the members of the Order
of Elks and the growing scarcity have IN
creased the value OF the teeth. Fourteen
years ago a Montana man paid only $50
for an Indian headdress that contained 80
elk teeth Last year a similar headdress
containing only $50 teeth sold for 500.
From Debreczin in Hungary. comes
love tale that opens new anatomical pos
sibilities. A young man there was re-
jected by a young woman because he was
bowlegged. He went to hospital and
asked the doctors to straighten his legs
for him, but they told him it could only
be dono by breaking the legs and reset
ting them, and that the chances were
against the success of the operation. The
young man insisted on having 1t per-
formed. The opera ton turned out all
right, and he went back 90 his girl and
won her.
Every year the refners and exporters
of sugar in France, Germany and Austria
lose vast sums by selling TO the British
importers at less than cost price. The out
lay necessary to produce the sugar is
greater than the price received for it, and
thus the losing trade goes on from year
to year. The men engaged in the trade
do not lose for the business on its pres
ent basis would soon eat away their great
fortune. They are reimbursed for the
amount of their loss and receive a large
sum in addition to induce them to con-
tinue the losing business, the donation be-
ing contributed by the taxpayers. The
people think that exporting is beneficial
in itself, even when il results in an actual
loss.
The stems OF trees have provision for
a symmetrical arrangement of branches,
produced, being placed at regular inter-
walls, says the New York World. This
tendency toward symmetry is, however,
interfered with by several disturbing
causes, internal and external The most
important OF the former is the varying
degree OF vigor in the buds, which be-
have like distinct plants some of them
growing into strong branches while 9TH
ers produce comparatively small shoots.
Even If all buds were of equal vitality
regularity would not result. Many of the
buds and tender shoots are devoured by
birds, insects or squirrels. When OF
AtA SCI S41rt often torn away
by high winds, blasted by lightning, or
broken off by accident A tree will some
times grow into an irregular form through
the pressure of prevailing winds. This
1rregulRrly has also it's use. In a gale Of
wind IL will be observed that the branches
sway in all directions and the various
movements counterbalance each other l.
the branches were arranged with perfect
regularity they would all sway together,
and the leverage would be so great thar
the tree might often be uprooted or broken
on short.
Locked securely away in the big safe
which is such conspicuous feature of
the Office Of the librarian of Congress. is
package which ranks In mystery with
The Man of the Iron Mask" says the
ST. Louis Republic. 1t required the eff
forts of four able bodied men TO place the
package in its present location, and the
quartet remarked at the time that il was
the heaviest job they had ever handled
This package, whatever 1t contains, is a
Donation TO the government by a noted
collector Of curios, the only stipulation ac-
companying the gift being that it should
not be opened until the Close of the twen-
tieth century, or 100 years hence. A con-
gressionai committee, composed of mem
pers OF both houses, whose duties are to
look after the affairs of the library. ac-
cepted the gift and It's proviso and turn
ed the bulky package over TO Librarian
Putnam for safe-keeping. Securely sealed
and otherwise protected against prying
eyes of those who might seek to unravel
this mystery the wishes of the donor will
be saoredly respected, at least so far as
this generation of custodians may be con-
eerned. Inscribed upon the covering is
the date upon which the package was re-
ceived. together with the names of Libra
rian Putnam and Chief Clerk Alvori. both
OF whom attest that its contents are nm
known even to themselves. Naturally
enough, however, the mysterious marcel
mas given rise to all manner of coniecturea
as to It's contents, the most generally ac-
eepted theories being that il is some price
less manuscript or else an ancient stcne
contemporaneous with the obelisk brought
from Egypt several years ago by Com
mander Gorringe for exhibition at tho
Metropolitan Museum in Central Park
New York.
"A bicycle. in the opinion OF the Mass,-
chusetts Supreme Court, is more proner-
ly machine than a carriage" and nm
this ground IL has decided that a certain