The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mexico, no necessity exists for laying In
winter stores of honey and the bee is,
Therefore, as lazy as G%asshopper.
One man makes all the burghers' jim
mics in London. The police know the man
well and are fully aware of his peculiar
trade, but there is no law by which he
can be arrested.
The town of East Haddam Conn, has
Just celebrated Ghe two hundredth ami
versary of it's industrial existence and the
one hundred and forty-ffth anniversary
of Nathan Hale's birth.
"A Scranton, Pa, court is asked to
grant the claim of one Isaac Sidebottom
against the estate of John Shafer, de
ceased, for entertaining the Old man
playing checkers during great part of
three years.
The efforts made by male students at
| Syracuse University to have women stu
dents excluded from oratorical contests
have failed as the faculty decided that
women have as much need of oratorical
accomplishments as men.
Columbia University, New York, has
created a new office-that Of adviser 10
yong women who go to that city for post
graduate work. Miss Edith r. Darrach
is the first appointee. She will be re-
quired to look after such girls in case of
| illness.
The Mennonites at Groffsdale, near
Ephrata, Pa, selected a pastor in novel
fashion last week. There were ten can
didates and ten Bibles We're placed on a
table before them. One contained a slip
of paper and the preacher who selected
this one was duly chosen.
But for the severity of Siberia's eli
mate great deal more gold would be
mined there. AS it is about one-tenth of
the worlds supply comes from there. The
immense coal deposits have hardly been
touch d. One mine with six beds conta rs
as much coal as all the deposits in Eng
land
In fulillment of plan laid out by the
late Lieut.. Col. James d. Miley United
States Volunteers, an American library
has ben established in Manila Seven thou
| sand books have been collected aud placed
in the Rosano building and a great many
more have been sent to hospitals and out
| lying posts.
The Philadelphia firm which refused to
furnish the government with certain war
snip apparatus because its proprietors are
opposed to war was the Haines Gauge
| COMPANY. IHtN are IuSNlDeIS OF the 80
ciety of Friends. 1t is said to be the first
case of the kind on record in the United
States.
The word compound" which is fire.
quently used in dispatches from China,
means an inclosure. In that country and
IN Japan it is customary to build high
brick walls around factories, business
houses, banks and residences for Drotec-
ton Gnd these are known as com
pounds"
A Rhode Island Yankee proposes to
settle the war against the ice trust by
manufacturing portable machines that
will enable every housekeeper to evolve
ice cakes like biscuits, at cost of 2 70 3
cents pound BY the evaporation of
concentrated ammonia the temperature of
the Iale water tank can be lowered to
Is degrees Fahrenheit.
In Richmond, Va, an ordinance has
been passed requiring that 31a per cent on
all gross earnings of the electric railways
shall be charged until they reach the sum
OF 100000; per cent. on gross earnings
exceeding 100000; per cent. on gross
earnings to the amount of 100000. and 10
per cent. on all earnings exceeding that
amount. The payments are to be made
| semi-annually
William Terror, mascot goat of the
| battleship Massachusetts, was with his
| shipmates at the battle of Santiago and
came out unscathed. Later he fell and
| broke his leg, but the ship surgeon mend
| ed ii so skllfully that William is now
as frisky ever. A few days ago the
| crew decorated him with a wide leather
! collar studded with brass nail heads. On
| a silver plate is this inscription: Pre-
scented 10 William Terror for bravery in
| action"
An impudent fraud was perpetrated
upon Manchester bank by one of its
| customers, who opened an account with
! some few hundreds of pounds. The man
/ after few weeks, drew two checks eacn
| within pound or so of his balance and
| selecting a busy day, presented himself
| at one end of she counter, while an ac-
| complete, when he saw that his friend
| check had been cashed, Immediately pre-
| scented his own to a cashier at the other
| end. Both cashiers referred the checks to
the ledger clerk, who, thinking the same
cashier had asked him twice, said right"
to both checks. The thieves were never
| caught.
There is a home in Toxic Japan, where
| five generations live under the same roo.
The family is that of Mr. Kinyemon Ar5i
| of Matsunoh, Unememura Gumna nre-
lecture, who has just entered on his nine
| - Stdi, dtQ Is sun male ana hearty
SO is his wife Naka, who is of the same
venerable age Equally healthy and pros
porous are their eldest son. Kakunosul1e
ana mis- spouse, who are respectively C2
ana " years old. Then comes their grand !
son, Fkennosuke, As years old, and his
VINE, Asa, younger by two years Tween
| ty-sM and twenty-four are the ages OF
tnelr great-grandson, Isematsu and his |
life partner; Tokl, respectively. from
whose union have sprung healthy. grow
ing boy of four and baby girl
An amusing scene was enacted the
other day during a tariff debate in the
spanish Cortes. Tobacco farming was
under discussion. Representative and
eX-Mlnlster Romero Robledo. a promoter
OF free tobacco planting, had distributed |
IN the hall of Parliament among the
members of the royal cabinet and the den
utles cigars and cigarettes in order "a
exhibit palpable proof of the excellence
OF the weed grown in Spain All the
prahds, ne truthfully asserted were grown
on MS estates. While he was enthus
iastcally sounding the praise of spanish
tobacco, the Minister of Finance sudden
~ interrupted him with the statement
mat tobacco planting was prohibited NV
law in the kingdom of Alfonso XIII and
mat he regretted to be obliged TO Law
the matter before the courts Instead ~