The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

four story American Tract Society build
Ing in New York was struck by lightning
the other afternoon. Several ten-foot
lengths were sent crashing down into
Park Row, but no one was injured.
Surgeons operating on Dennis Gala
CHER of Yorktown, in the State Hospital
at Hazelhurst, Pa, for appendicitis.
found that the trouble was caused by two
little Jumps of coal about the size of peas.
1t is not known whether they were swat
lowed whole or were formed in the appen-
dix from coal dust which Gallagher.
miner, had inhaled.
Some time ago the Princeton New
Jersey University presented to the Brit
ish Museum 80 specimens of North Amer
lean birds eggs-many of them of rare
species. Now the British Museum recip-
rocates by by presenting to the Prince
ton University 1900 mounted birds, in
GLIDING brilliant specimens from India,
Australia and the Malay islands.
Since the inter-city trolley line has be-
come a fact promoters of country fairs
are beginning to look for better attend
ance. The Hancock County Fair in In
diana will be held directly on the line
between Indianapolis and Greenfield, and
1t is believed that residents of the state
and capital can be induced to visit the
exhibition and see what a country, fair is
like.
London has recently been much agita-
ted by the number and extent of financial
failures in the legal profession and by
scandals revealing clients losses from the
disposal of securities deposited will
their lawyers. In London alone during the
last three years thirty solicitors have
oeen before the bankruptcy court, includ-
ing ten absconders, six of whom were
imprisoned.
The iaventive genius of New England
ers is as alert as ever" remarked William
Quinby, a well-known patent attorney of
Boston to a Washington ne wspaper man
the other day. New England inventors
are still at the head, but in years to come
fully expect they will lose their prestige.
We have many factories, where all kinds
of machinery is made for the entire world
The tendency nowadays is to guard the
monopoly of patent more securely than
ever, for the profit in making any new de-
vice lies largely In the fact that it is a
monopoly. With sixty days notice in a
state like Massachusetts it is possible to
equip factory with men and tools for
duplicating almost any kind of patent,
and with competition the incentive to man
ufacture is largely taken away"
The Italian civil list is one of the
highest in Europe, but a large portion of
the 100000 lire of which il consists
is absorbed by the cost of keeping I'D the
plethora of royal palaces in all parts OF
the Kingdom. For some time plans have
been considered for reducing the number
of these costly residences, for which the
royal family has but slight use 1t now
appears that all these crown lands and
residences are to be. sold either to prl-
Vate purchasers or to the state admins
tration of domaips, except the royal park
at Monza, the royal palaces at Turin
Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples and
the hunting grounds at Valsavaranche
and Castle Porziano. The palaces to be
sold will be those of Genoa, Milan, Ca
podimonte, Palermo, the hunting grounds
of Valtournanche and Vinadio and all
the numerous properties of the ex-King
or Naples. With the proceeds OF these
sales the Palace of the Quirinal IN Rome,
Will be reconstructed.
The latest authentic snake story is
from North Glenwood Farm, near Eas-
ton, one of the country palces in Talbot
county, Md. The other day a big black
snake was seen emerging from an ice
pound. 1t was killed. A protuberance
was noticed about the middle. The snake
was chopped In two, and porcelain tur-
key nest egg rolled out. Capt. Noble
Robinson was tenant on the farm last
year. Mrs. Robinson raised turkeys, us
ing china nest eggs in their nests. She
says that fourteen months ago she missed
the nest egg from nest near the ice
pond. She supposed boy who had the
range of the meadows had taken il. When
the egg from the snake was shown to
Mrs. Robinson she identified it as one
she had lost by a certain incised mark
upon 1t. The snake had carried the china
egg fourteen months in his vermform
appendix apparently without having APP
pendicius. But he must have thought
very hard of 1t, and that it was very
singular that it could not be digested
In what is called style" the Parisians
surpass the world, says h Sc tt sh Ame.i-
can. Nine out of ten dress in black, which
shows to the best advantage the fine fig
ure and brilliant complexion. There is
usually French touch of color in the hat
me hair Is massed in most bewildering
fashion; a veil with black dots is always
worn, and the ensemble is simply indie
scribable. The shop girls look like fash
ion plates, and even the housemaids have
an air about their dress which can be
described only by the word Partisan
Crown Princess saba. who recently was
welded to the heir of the Mikado's throne.
was educated in the Peeresses' Institute
In Toxic, and while there was the favorjte
pupil of one of the American lady teach
ers. The young girl had a passion for the
study of the heraldry of her own land.
and extended it to that Of her teachers
native country. 1t was her delight TO read
ana talk of colonial times and to look at
old prints plcturing the men, women and
fashions of the American colonies at that
period. She had many tastes i'm common
with her teacher, but upon one point they
disagreed. 1t was the wearing OF the ma
tive japanese costume. The Princess would
persist IN DOMINIC stays, skirts. shirt
waists and all the adjuncts of the West
ern toilet. One day the American teacher
SAID to her: Your Highness, why do Won
not wear your beautiful kimono to-day?
IL is SO much more picturesque than that
tallor-made gown" Sada laughed and,
passing book of old colonial prints 10
her replied; why don't you wear clothes
ike those your ancestresses wore?''
When the atmosphere of Rome is be-
coming oppressive and the nobility. with
Others who can afford il, are making
their exodus for the villeggiatura. or
summer outing, large portion of the
prelates OF the Catholic Church also Leave
the Eternal City to flee to the mountains
Two only never leave their posts .be
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