The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Bombay is an immense city, with land
| and sea shipping equal TO the best II has
large commerce and trade and manufac-
turing interests. Its buildings are said to
| be the finest in India.
"A physician declares that a person in
robust health walks with his toes pointed
to the front. while one with his health on
/ the wane gradually turns his toes to the
! side and bend is perceptible in his knees.
| A shark in a Florida river met 400
pound turtle and tried TO swallow him, tail
| first. The turtle extended his forward
| hippers and the shark, after repeated eff
forts to get him down, was reluctantly
compelled to turn the rascal out
Chicago physicians say that more than
one-half the women of that city. or any
other civilized place, have euteroptosis. a
dragged down condition of the viscera and
stomach. 1t is this condition which brings
on chronic biliousness, constipation, back
ache, debility and loss of complexion.
1t is the law in Maine that the bounty
for bears shall be paid when the animal $
nose is shown In New Hampshire the ears
must be exhibited. Some enterprisiug
sportsmen living near the borders of the
two states get a double bounty by collect
ing on the noses in one state and on the
ears in the other.
When Benjamin Constant, the celebrat-
ed French painter, painted a portrait of
His Holiness Leo XIII and presented it
to the distinguished subject, the latter
generously asked the painter TO name his
own present in exchange M. Constant
modestly requested that the Pope give
him the soutane worn by him during the
| religious ceremonies of holy week.
Altman, Col, is said to be the highest
Incorporated town in the country. being
1900 feet above the sea level A justice
of the peace who had fined a disorderly
character $40 and costs said in reply to
this prisoners announcement of appeal
What? Appeal. would your" asked the
astonished court. you don't come any
O. that, now. This is the highest court in
the United States. and you can't appeal"
Twelve hundred Italians of the Sec
ond Assembly district, New York, and
members of the Daniel Valeuti Associa-
| tion raised an exceedingly handsome
| Bryan and Stevenson banner last week
in front of their headquarters. The ban
ner is 20X40 feet and the PORTRAITS of the
| candidates are particularly good having
| been painted by Louis Diorio. who came
over from Italy especially to paint this
banner.
Stockholm, Sweden, is continually
quoted as an example of up-to-dateness
| in matters telephone, as the ratio of
| phones 10 inhabitants at that place is the
| largest in the world. 1t is no4 so well
| known however, that San Fransico claims
that honor in America, having the sec
ond largest telephone system, numbering
$4,000 subscribers. with New York, Of
| course, in the lead as regards numbers,
5000 being to her credit Cleveland has
| 5000 subscribers and ranks third, while
| Detroit with her main office and six
| branches to be in operation by the end
| of this month, claims fourth place.
-Giaeono Puccini. whose opera ia
| Tosca," was produced recently at Covent
Garden, London, is the fifth representa-
| tive in a direct line Of family that in
| its contributions to musical art dates back
nearly two hundred years. His grz at
| great-grandfather, also called Giacomo
| (eorn 1712). was maetro di cappella at
Lucca, and was the tutor of the once IA
NOUS Guglie'mi. Giac0mo's son Antonio
| tborn IT'D, wrote for the church. and left
son Domenico Cborn IT'D. who composed
| both operas ard sacred pieces. His des-
| cendant was Michele (born 1879 whose
| tributes. and one OF his sons is the pres
ent Giacomo (born 1859.
The Philadelphia Record says: THE
l9Tgest time ball in the United States is
| being erected on the roof of the Fourth
! street end of the Bourse, the task being
| under the supervision of Lieut.. Hughes.
who is in charge of the Branch Hydro
| graphic Office in this city The bail.
c fOyIr faa In Il
| sixty pounds. will be hoisted to the TOP
OF an iron column, 100 feet above tide
water, FIVE minutes before noon each day
| and dropped electrically forty feet to an
| air cushion exactly at noon by the naval
| observatory clock in Washington. The
| object of the time BAH is to enable all
| The mariners in the Delaware and Schuyl-
KIN rivers 90 regulate their chronometers
before sailing"
The Crow Indians OF Montana who
raise great deal of wheat, have entered
into a contract with the United States
| government to supply the Cheyenne In
dams with flour. They have constructed
a system of irrigation for their farms
and have a good flour mill at the agency
while they are building another at dis
tant part of the reservation. They have
sold much farm produce annually for sew
eral years to buyers in the country round
and many cattle and horses. They are
rich in farms and f1ocks and herds. bur
this is the first time a government con-
tract or a railway contract was ever let
TO an 1ndian-at least, to a blanket In
dian" of the mountains.
The remarkable number of deaths by
drowning proves that too many persons
venture into waters without knowing how
TO swim. About so per cent. of those
drowned so far this summer did not have
that knowledge. This is all the more
wonderful when a knowledge of swimming
may so easily be had. A person of aver
age physique should be able TO swim sew
eral hundred feet after a dozen lessons
Even weaklngs may be taught 20 swim
twenty-five feet or more without exhaust
ing themselves. There are dangerous
places on the ocean beach, where the sea
Duss or undertow will sometimes over
power the strongest swimmer Even on
Chicagos beach there is at times a strong
and dangerous undertows but a knowledge
of swimming is within the reach of all.
"A Maori chief who lost $40 through a
white storekeeper going through the bank
ruptcy court has given the following lucid
exposition of this particular branch of
British Jurisprudence: THE pakeha
Cwhite NAM who wants TO become paIza-
rapu Gnsolven) goes into business and
gets lots of goods and does MOI pay for
them. He then gets oil the money he