The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

inferred for ninety years. The work of
removing the bones will be begun i'm
mediatey.
A woman in one of the Western states
recently bore three different names in
one day. In the morning she was Mary
Fuller. In the afternoon she obtained
decree of divorce and resumed her maid
en- name, Mary Town In the evening
she was married again and became Mary
Fox.
Japan now has about $50 daily papers.
besides nearly 600 other periodicals, where
little more than twenty years ago
there was not a single regular daily pub
Hcat.on TO which the name Of newspaper
could be properly applied. 1t was on Y
about 1874 that printing from regular me
talhc types became common in Japan.
On the threshold of the twentieth cen
fury the British war Office has resorted 10
armor for the protection of its soldiers
Orders have been given for the purchase
of a number of small steel shields to cover
the vital parts about the heart The
shields weigh about seven pounds and IN
tests have turned bullets at 7C1 yards.
The government is 20 build rail-
road system of it's own in the Charles
town navy yard, Congress having appro-
pi ldtGO 9tVoDO the rails anu tl6S dslI
the labor of laying them. and $4,000 for
a locomotive and cars. Four hundred tons
of steel rails are now being delivered ut
the yard to be used In laying the tracks.
During the nine months ending with
March Mexico purchased about $4,000
worth of boots and shoes in the United
States In the City of Mexico ard in many
other large cities of the republic American
boots and shoes are preferred to any Other
makes. but, in spite of this fact imports
from France and Germany continue 10
be considerable.
st. Joseph county, Indiana, which FIR
many years was far behind the demand
of borrowers upon It's school fund, as
now on hand $50, 900 with no dsnand. This
means a less to the school fund, and it IS
suggested that a law ought 10 b. fran d.
permitting school funds TO be loaned at
less than 6 per cent. rather than have
the money bearing no interest.
The Chinese consul al New York, Chow
| Tx Chi, does not agree with the ma jori Y
of his countrymen in the United Stlt7s
in their condemnation of the dress o
American women, but, he says. prefers
that dress to the costumes of his native
country. He thinks that Chinese womCn
wear too short skirts, for he likes the
long skrts-those that the women have to
hold up.
Some curious exped.ents are necessary
at times in the medical applications of
electricity. 1t is not uncommon now for
the electric cabs in New York to be
pressed into service as perambulating
sources Of electric power by physicians
who ore called upon suddenly to make
x-ray examinations of patients who are
in localities where electricity from street
circuits is not on tap.
A CHASTITY relic of the late Spanish
American war is on exhibition behind he
bar of a saloon on Front street, Phila-
delphia 1t is mass CT silver 81 auish
dollars numbering some $50. which ma e
been melted in fantastic shape. The i'll
yer was found on the body of a h0lf-
roasted sailor of the Spanish w7r hip Ma
ria Theresa just after the battle of n
tiago when Cereveras fleet was ami
hilated.
The erection by the State of Maryland
OF a monument on the battlefield of An
sietam to commemorate the valor of the
Union and Confederate soldiers alike has
a precedent in the monument which the
people of Canada some years ago erected
in the public garden a Quebec to the
memory of Wolfe and Nontcalm, enemies
in the strife on the Plains of Abraham,
which destroyed the power of France in
the New Word.
Many interesting papers make regI-
lar appearance on board great liners,
some being triumphs of artistic produo-
ton. Many of these journals are printed
and cleverly illustrated; others, less am
| bilious, are reproduced by copying ma
| chimes, but all are interesting epitomes
of the life spent on board and record the
| daily cricket scores, sweepstakes and per-
sonal gossip while ignoring such trivial
| ties as European compiled lions.
Very few people are aware thot in the
last twenty years the number of fish in
the great lakes has been decreasing rapid
| ly. II is fact that as compared with ten
years ago it requires practically double
/ the number OF men, boats ana nets 10
catch the same number of fish The gov
| errment has for twenty years maintained
| large number of stations along the lakes
where fish have been propa gated in enor-
| nous numbers. in spite of all this the
supply is steadily decreasing.
British statisticians are reckoning 10
what Great Britain owes to the scourge Of
influenza There have been two serious
epidemics of influenza there in the past
| ten years one in the winter of 1912
| when the amount of property paying death
duties advanced eco above the aver
| "SN' oilh bSdlIl the past winter, when
| the increase was about $40 600 over the
! previous year. The fact that influenza
was almost the sole cause of the increase
Is shown in elaborate statistical tables
1t came out in the New York courts
The other Gay, where the will of the ,late
Robert Bonner is being contested, on the
allegation that he was mentally incomDe-
tent to make a will on the day the docu-
ment appears to have been drawn w. that
on the same day as that on whi.n the will
is dated Mr. Bonner drove one of his fav-
! orite trotters at less than three-minute
gait The point was made that no man
could do hat whose mental faculties were
unbalanced and it was not seriously dis
puted.
The little town of Macy Ind is in a
state of excitement because man named
Andrew Oliver has secured license to
open saloon there. For thirty years the
place has been without a saloon. though
hundreds of attempts have. been made 10
start such places. Recently Oliver adj
vertised in The usual way but put his no
tice In paper published sixty miles away
in the mosi remote part of the county
1t escaped the observation of Macy PEOPLE
and the County Commissioners. finding no
opposition, granted his application.