The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

made by William H. Seward in favor of
the admission of Kansas into the Union
has been presented TO the Kansas State
Historical Society.
Aberdeen has become the great center
of the Scotch fishing industry. 1t harbors
40 steam trawlers, twenty-five large
steamers and eighty other boats, all of
which are engaged in fishing. These land
about $40 tons of fish every week.
Every stranger who enters the White
House is counted by an automatic regis
ter. The instrument is held in the hand
of one of the watchmen stationed at the
door, and for every visitor he pushes the
button. congressman, senator's, members
of the cabinet and newspaper men are not
counted
DIR. A. M. Stein, registrar of the Pun
jab University, has applied for and OBJ
tanned the permission of the government
of India, and also that of the Chinese
government, to explore Khotan, in Chi
nese Turkestan, this summer This is to
be done for the purpose of scientific in
vestgations.
in a small lot of literary curiosities re-
Gently offered for sale in London was the
following printed notice, which used to
be exhibited on the walls of the Drury
Lane coffee house about 1922: 1T IS par
ticularly request ed by the company that
those who are learning to spell will ask
for yesterdays paper"
Work has been begun near Sioux City,
Ia, on the monument to the memory of
Sergeant Floyd the only member of the
Lewis and Clark exploring expedition who
died during the famous trip up The Mis-
souri,, in 1904. The monument will cost
$4,000. Half of the expense viii be borne
by Congress and half by the state CT
Iowa,
Henry Cooprider, an 1S-year-old Kan
san, recently applied to the probate judge
of Harper county for a marriage license
The judge informed the young man that
the consent of his father would have to
be obtained before the license could be is
sued, whereupon the boy presented The fol-
| lowing note: Judge, Sir-I turn the boy
loose. If he makes>a burn he can sit on
the blister. Let him have his papers
Yours truly, Albert Cooprider.'
The Massachusetts Daughters of the
Revolution are hopeful that the Bay State
will make arrangements for the preserva-
! ton of the birthplace of John Adams, in
| Quincy, Mass, for it's historical interest
| and because 1t is a fine specimen of CO.
! lonial architecture. Recently the Do
|
| listened to paper, by the Rev. d. NJ
| Wilson of Brooklyn, on THE Mansion Of
the Quincys: It's Famous Inmates and
Guests" In the parlor of this house DO
rothy O." was married. The original wall
paper, bearing quaint figures, and sup
posed to be of Chinese make, is still on
the walls of the room.
A dispatch from Cleveland, O., says:
| A new system of weights and measures
has been devised for Engish-speaking
| people by A. l.. Hyde civil engineer of
this city. 1t is decimal system, with
4 an inch as the basis. He calls it the
Inidikil system. The inch becomes the
| in, 10 inches are an i'd 100 inches an TX
and 1000 inches an il. In surface meas
| urement the square inch is a spin, 100
square inches squid and the squik and
sduil are used to represent larger areas.
| To represent terms of capacity he uses
the terms cubin, cubd and cubil The
terms for weight are an, ad, ak and al.
| An an is the weight of one cubic inch Of
| water, the ed is the weight of ten cubic
inches, and SO on.
The Boston Board of Health has de-
clded TO adopt stringent measures to pre-
vent the SPREAD of contagious diseases
| through barber shops. II has promulgat-
ed the following regulations: The place
of business of all barber shops, together
with all the furniture, shall be kept at
all times in a cleanly condition. Mugs,
| shaving brushes and razors shall be ster-
Aized by immersion in boiling water after
| each separate use thereof. A separate
clean towel shall be used for each person.
| Alum or other material to stop the flow
| Of blood shall be used only in powdered
form and applied on towel. The use of
| powder puffs is prohibited. Every barber
shop shall be provided with running hot
and cold water. NO person shall be al
| lowed to use any barber shop as a dor
| mitory. Every barber shall thoroughly
cleanse his hands after serving each Gus
| toner"
Emperor William has at length sue
ceeded in getting the bills of his Protest
ant pilgrimage to the Holy Land paid by
the treasury Of the empire. in spite of
| the opposition on the Iart of Catholic Pa
| Varla and other non-Prussian states which
| claim that the money should have been
found either by the Emperor himself, or
by the Prussian exchequer, says a cor
| respondent The arguments used bv the
kaiser to get his bill paid were very plaus-
ible, though not convincing. Through
Count Posadowsky. he declared that when
| travelling he was called upon to transa ct
! his business as Emperor, and that il was
| therefore, necessary he should be accom-
| panied on his journeys by his general
! SNNiA' boNh itllitdIy ana CIVIL, tnat the out
| lay incurred on that account was not of
| a private nature, but of an imperial char
| acter, and as such must be borne bv the
empire The gifts of homer which the KAT
ser made to deserving men abroad were
| also made in the interests of the en
| pire, as such must be paid by the latter.
The action Of the imperial parliamen in
| thus consenting to foot the Kaiser's NIL
| grimage bills establishes a precenden on
the strength of which the imperial treasury
| Will be called uron to defray all the Kai-
| sers expenses when travelling, and. mas
| much as 1t is estimated that he sDends
| at least nine months out of every twelve
| IN travelling about ION imperial business -
| II looks very much as if he is at length
| seeing his way to getting the imDerial
| treasury in roundabout and ingenious
| way, 1t is true, to contribute largely TO
| his maintenance. For the empire has al
ways declined to grant him a civil l'st
on the ground that his dignity as Ger
man Emperor was merely titular and did
not call for any special stipend
The Partisan journals are relating the
story of another decoration scandal
which had its beginning in 1896, saws The
New York Times. -Four years ago an on
gineer. being anxious to have his button
mole decorated with the red ribbon Of IN (.
! Legion of Honor, put himself in the hands
OF an advertising agent. who had been an
attache to several ministers and stiU re-
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