The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4 month ana NuAfu 10 Ai-es per htat WIN
charges for board ard lncidenoals. which
viii leave only $40 per month II IS
believed that other employers will follow
suit
The white helmet worn by street
cleaners in New York. have been made
By non-un.on hatters. and IN compliance
with the ursings OF organized labor
Commissioner Maggie has decided 10 do
away with the offensive headgear. Al
the first Of the year brown hats VIII Pc
substituted.
-winton-silcm. y. c.. Is 10 have ne
gro hospital Tho building IS 20 cost
$1,000. OF which sum r. ,. Reynolds,
white citizen. contributed 5000 while
the negroes OF the community raised tne
remainder. The hospital Will be operatcd
in connection with the Slater Industrial
School.
A movement Is on foot In New York
20 have the city buy Faunce's tavern
the soie revolutionary relic IN the DOWN
town district IL was there that Wash
iugton babe farewell to his officers. Dec
4 1873. the one hundred and seventeenth
anniversary Of which has just been cele-
DRAFTED in the historic cdihcc.
A few days since at Flint. Mich. a
United States patent. ia led April II, 1857,
was hled Tor record. II is written on
shecpskin and bears The signature of Pies
ident Van Buren,, The value OF the land
patented al present Is only $50. As
souvenir Of the past the document Itself
would probably bring more money.
Harry j. Kemp OF Reading. Pa, has
organized a company which VIII establish
at Meningitis Gap. near the city named
a farm for the rearing OF fur-hearlng AMI
mails The promoters believe that there
Is good money IN rearing raccoous. opQs-
sums foxes, minks, musk ats and skunks.
the skins % which find a ready market.
The Russian government grants SUD
sidics for the purpose Of helping new set
tiers This money is spent in encouras-
ing farming and fruit raising Suhvcn-
lions are given for the nrst six years.
1 During the following ten years these sub
I ventons must be repaid In yearly pay
/ ments. Since 1884, s. sos. go has been
/ spent in that way.
In Southwestern Connecticut the troll
/ ley corporations are planning TO construct
/ lines reaching from ten 20 fifteen miles
/ into the interior. away from the railway.
/ They are 10 be so built as to make it
I possible for the farmers to ship their milk
/ and farm produce over these trolley lines.
/ bringing them to the freight yards OF the
/ railroad.
After working as a locomotive engi-
neer on the Baltimore and ohio Railroad
l FOR just halG century. Joseph Wet Of
/ Cumberland. Md. has been retired on "a
/ pension at the age OF Is. In all the years
I OF his employment he never received the
slightest injury. never had wreck OF
any consequence and at no time WAS a
man Of his crew killed.
Six Indians Of che Ponca tribe from
| Oklahoma. went 10 Wichita, Kan. to at
tend the State Convention OF the Young
/ Mems Christian Association. They were
only spectators until solicited by che Sec
| retarv TO join. when an six OF them sign
| ed their names 10 the pledge and put on
I white ribbons. They are all young fun
/ bloOds with long names.
The COWS IA Belgium wear earrings.
/ This Is in accordance with the law. which
DEGREES that every animal OF the bovine
/ species. when u has attained the age
OF three months. must nave in its ear
/ ring. TO which b. attached metal
tag bearing number. The object Is 10
/ preserve an exact record Of the number
Of animals raised each year.
That Senate customs rarely change Is
shown by the two ol1-fashioned snuff-
boxes in that chamber They are care
/ fully flled to-day as In the days when
! il was the fashion 10 snuff" Few OF
the present members use tho xes.
| though occasionally one Of tine older
| Southern members viii go up. take a
pinch" and calmly await the sneeze.
New statistics regarding the greatness
Of Greater New York have Just been
made public. A student OF municipal ma
! chiuery says II Is costing every man. wo-
man aud child 81 % q year to keep things
moving The police department alone
/ costs S3.6l per citizen while the average
debt per head is 1921. on the other
hand. the per capita valuation OF every
rosldent IS N.6ll97
The DE Haven claim has at last been
adjusted at Washington. This claim is
based on "a loan OF $4,000 made by Jacob
/ De Haven Of Susquehanna. Pa to GEORGE
/ Washington az Vailcy Forge IN I'M. Just
| prior TO the Civil War Il was an but set
tied up. but the outbreak OF hostllties IN
1861 prevented payment. one OF the claim
ants is Mrs. G. W Mooney OF Hunting
| ton. Ind, whose share Is expected 10 be
abount $1,000
While loading logs in Menallen town
ship. near Gettysburg Pa. Charles
Woodward broke his LEI, arm ana started
for the house. two miles away. He had
taken his gun with him in the morning
| 30 hope Of getting a shot az some game
on his way nome h. caught sight OF a
young doe which he shot Then load
ing the dead deer on bis shoulders he car
ried Il 10 his home and had his broken
arm attended TO.
While workmen were drilling an oil
well Ia Washington county. Pennsylvania
chain broke and fell into the hole. An
sorts Of plans were vainly tried TO get the
chain out. and finally W. G.. Phillips. a
slender youth. had "a rope tied to his
/ ankles and was lowered head foremost
/ He managed 10 attach nnothcr rope 10
the chain and &c was hauled up, but the
/ rope around his own ankles almost elipped
or while he was being hauled mp.
The prairie dog viii soon follow the
buffalo out OF existence The Agrcultu-
raj Department has found that the dogs
kin the grass and ruin good grazing land
| The department s chemists have put up
a compound which the little beasts will
like. but which win KIN them no less sure
! ~ for al the pleasure chat IS claimed
20 go with the process. Henceforth the
deserted rattlcsnake viii have 10 i've