The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

dancing Is not an amusement mOnop-
clized alone by the young and frivolous
Mrs. Phoebe Crabbe of Norwalk, Conn.,
is 1903 v ars Cd and she is suffering from
rheumatism brought on by that amuse
ment. Uncle Billy Kipperly of Fort Scott
Kan, who is SO, broke his leg recently
while doing hornpipe
"A jury composed of Messrs. Jean Paul
Laurens, Dagnan- Bouveret, Augustus st.
Gaudens and John w Alexander has re-
Gently awarded to Mr. Sander l.. Ian
d au one eff the priz in painting offered
by John Wanamaker to the American Art
Association of Faris. The subject of the
picture, THE Annunciaticn to the Shep
herds" was suggested by a prolonged
stay and studies in Palestine and is full
OF local atmosphere.
The clothes worn by Oliver Cromwell
when a baby. consisting of three shirts,
enc top shirt, one knitted vest, four caps.
enc skull cap and a lace hood, were sold
in London recently. One of the caps is
work in fine need ework with the words,
Sweet bah; don't cry" and the dale
1899, the year of Cromwelrs birth. These
relics came into he pcs 3ession of the late
Mrs. Jarman direct from the Cromwell
family, with which she was connect d.
Some time ago the proprietor of one
of the magazines wrote TO a number of
news dealers, asking them to find out why
people bought the magazine and why
they didn't; what they liked and what
they didn't like; and here are some of the
answers he got: % Confederate veteran,
found inaccuracy in war story. CD An
! swered an advertisement on the back
pages and get swindled. go II has too
t. t,rvL, yoi0
lures 90 1t contained story that made
fun of the Irish. 90 II never prints any
| thing about New Orleans. ca 1t refused
one of my jokes. (9 1t comes on Friday,
and am afraid it gives me bad luck. 49,
| Our preacher says he didn't think much
of 1t. (10) 1t has too many love tales;
| can't get it away from the women folks.
! ID Don't like the color of the cover.
A recent issue of the Hamburger
Fremdenbatt said THE army authori-
ties own two large meat preserving
plants-one at Spandau and one at Mainz.
We do not know whether the navy ever
received provisions from these factories;
! however, ct the time of the occupation
of Kiao-Chau considerable comment was
made upon the fact that American can
! ned meats were largely used in supply
| ing the German navy. 1t is known that
canned and preserved meats are indis-
| pensable in supplying the army and
navy, and it is no less plain that our
plants in Spandau and Manz are far
| from able to furnish the requirements
| There is an urgent necessity for creat-
| ing new plants and extending the old
ores to such degree that the provision
| ing of the army and navy can be accom-
plished by the home industry alone"
In Belgium new railroad is 10 be
constructed which will unite Brussels
with Client; it forms the prolongaton Of
the existing Ghent-Ostend line and is to
be laid out with the most recent improve
ments. Its length will be about thirty
miles The new road will permit the dis
| lance from Brussels to the coast to be
| covered in seventy-f1ve minutes; it will
be operated a first by steam but is con
! structed so that electric traction may be
substituted later if desired. II will run
| in nearly straight line from Client to
| the suburbs of Brussels, without grade
| crossings or intermediate sta lions. The
| construction of the road viii not cost more
than 100000 per mile, and the thirty miles
! will thus cost below So, 100000. A project
| has been recently under consideration for
a direct line on the electric system from
| Brussels to Antwerp in which the trains
were to have normal speed of sixty
! miles per hour without stops between
the cities, but after considerable discus
| sion 1t was decided to abandon the pro-
| 1ect for the present
| -Noiseless car wheels are one of the
Injuries promised for the future. The
| Chicago Times-Herald says: passengers
over the Wallace avenue and Center street
| lire of the City Railway Company's sys,
| tenn who Travelled on car No. 2239 had a
novel experience yesterday-they could
| near themselves talk without shouting
| This was the effect of new sets of wheels
tried observation-disclosures wheels
furnished by the Wels-French Car Wheel
| Company, the invention of l. Hogeland a
| resident of this city. The secret of the ab-
sence of noise was in the layer of paper
| placed between the tire and the wheel
| proper, very simple but exceedingly effec-
tive. Moreover, when the tires get worn
| OUT IL is not necessary to press them off
| out they are unbolted from the paoer
| connection or ring on the outer rim of the
wheel. The wheels are made of chilled
steel, and the feature of the device is
mat new wheel is made by the replacing
OF the tire and five pounds of new paper
| Inc weight is the same as the usual
wheel; the tires are secured by twelve u
inch machine bolts and a 30-inch wrench
A summary of the official report mada
by the British admiralty, showing the
name, tonnage and spe ed of every vessel
employed to convey troops horses and
| mules to the Transvaal between Julv
| 1879, and March 81, 1900, shows that the
| various transports made 215 voyages from
! England and the Mediterranean. in which
they carried 6,663 officers, 17O.1S5 men and
| N,l0l horses, says the New York Tr bune
| OF the horses 1913 were lost in transit In
1orty-nlne voyages from India the trans
| ports carried All officers TO- 592 men. 2.S82
| Followers, 1874 horses and 1856 mules: of
the latter IS horses and mules were lost
on the voyage. The colonial contingent
were taken to the Gaze in transports
making tWenty-nire voyages and carrvin ,
$50 oif1cers $50 men and 1872 horses In
addition to the above, thirty-threa vow
ages We're made by vessels employed so'e-
| ~ IN taking mules to s. nth Africa These
shiTs conveyed 81 sos mules of which only
6H were lost en- voyage, and other vessels
mace twenty four VOYAGES in conveying
horses and cobs from Australia and Ar
gentina. These carried 1886 animals, of
which only 14S were lost.
There was once a fussy old fellow
whose daily task it was to write a col
umn, more or less, of S, mi-edi orial para
graphs for newspaper, says the New
York Times. This old fellow-doubtless as