The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

them loose in localities where mosquitoes
abound.
A young man in Auburn, Me-, to play
joke on his barber, paid him So old-fash-
ioned cents. Later, when he found that
the barber had sold one of the coins for
SIS. he did not feel so well satisfied with
his joke or at least thought it had become
misplaced.
The Livery Stable, a weekly paper
printed in New York, charges the tight
check rein and the locked horse to heart
less woman" and adds that if ladies will
refuse to drive behind locked horses and
tight check reins'' both abemina tons will
soon disappear.
Australia has had a controversy over
the right of members of Parliament to
take service in the army, which recalls
the case of Gen. Wheeler. In the Austria
Han case the seat of member who went
to South Africa as a corporal was prompt
ly declared vacant.
Robert Johnson, a street news vendor
died in Washington as the result of pros
tration during the recent hot spell. Two
years ago he was terribly frostbitten in
the same city, and it became necessary to
amputate both his feet. The operation
was performed in the same hospital
where he died.
A Kansas editor wrote that "Mr.
Brewer is about to start for a fishing re-
sort and says: I am going to a place
where l shall feel a liberty to wear one
Salius, go without a collar and roll up
my pants The item made it Mrs.
Brewer, and some little talk was aroused
by the paragraph.
Lord Strathcona's cavalrymen took
with them from Canada four Indians.
nominally as servants in reality to test
their qualities as scouts in South Africa.
The kaffir reads the Veldt like an open
book and the Canadians hold that the
sight and hearing of their Indians are
even keener
Many regiments in the British army
have nicknames of which they are ex-
| cesdingly proud. This is not the case with
the Eighteenth Hussars, now on service
in South Africa, which has been hickman
ed "Krugers own" because such a large
number of its men were captured by the
Beers
"A despondent New Yorker spent his
last cent in paying his fare to Coney Is
land, intending to jump off the pier and
drown himself He was so cheered by the
sights of gay Coney that he walked all
the way back, spent the night in one of
| tie parks, got job next day and is now
happy.
The japanese government through an
| agent has just made very large purchases
of shoes cloth and iron for the japanese
army in St. Louis. Mo. Said the agent;
| Our men will wear American shoes and
boots into China and when they reach
Pekin will hang American shirts on the
walls to dry"
In the new regulations for the navi-
cation of the Suez canal, which have just
been promulgated, is a provision that no
vessel shall pass through the canal unless
| it has an electric searchlight capable of
| lighting the channel 1,400 yards ahead and
| also electric lights capable of Illuminating
an area of 24O yards around the vessel.
"A company is preparing TO build a road
across the great Salt lake. The route will
be over the water. Two trestles will be
| built, one eighteen miles long and the
| other seven miles long, the promontory
| dividing the stretch. The company has
| completed all its surveys and workmen
are distributing material and fitting out
pile drivers and boats.
An Atchison Kan, man points with
pride to the honesty of inhabitants of that
city as exemplifed in the fact that a wo-
man left a well-flled pocketbook on
| chair in front of hotel there and found
it safe and unrifed on returning several
| hours later A Jealous contem prorary in
a rival town comments on this crcum-
stance as follows: LAS a rule people pass
along the streets of the place oftener than
this 1t really isn't so bad as the story
| would Indicate"
The notorious 'Barebones parliament"
of Cromwelrs time took its name from
one Praise God Barebonss. According 10
| Hume, the following names We're found
| in single jury drawn in the county of
Sussex: Weep Not Billings, God Reward
| Smart, Kill Sin Pimple, Fly Debate Join
er, More Fruit Fowler, Steadfast on High
| Stringer and Fight the Good Fight of
| Faith White. Barebones had a brother
named If Christ Had Not Died for You
Ye Had Been Damned Barebones.
"A farmer in Clay county, Iowa, has
bin containing about 800 bushels of wheat
About a month ago he propo ed to market
The grain, but on going TO the b n he dis
covered that a hen had established her
nest on the wheat, was setting there and
that to remove the grain would break
her up" He decided not to disturb her,
but wait until she came off with the
chicks. In the meantime the price of
wheat advanced until the farmer discov-
cred he had gained over 800 by allowing
the hen to sit it out
The beautiful forest known as the
Wild Park, the property of the Kaiser,
at Potsdam, will probably be closed to the
public in a short time forever. For this
the rowdy Berllners have only themselves
to thank. Against the regulations the
woods are made hideous with paper in
which provisions have been wrapped ana
the deer are continually being frightened
by the catcalls of the holiday crowds.
The respectable few who love the forest
for its rare beauty will have to suffer for
the rough doings of the mass
Some unknown residents of Denver
have undertaken to abate the billboard
nuisance. The Mayor has steadfastly re-
fused to enforce the ordinance regulating
them, so the other night one of the Of
Tending boards was torn down and burned.
The demolition was complete with the ex-
ception of five scantlings that been the
main support OF the structure. They rest
ed deep in the ground and it appeared that
efforts to take them out had failed and
only fear of the noise attracting attention
had prevented those who did the job from
chopping them off at the surface of the
ground.
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