The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-05
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undertook to ride bicycle at the bottom
OF the sea few years ago. In his heavy
diving dress, weighing over 200 pounds
he was lowered into twenty feet of water,
and rode the machine for a considerab Bile
distance.
One of the largest publishers of books
! in New York says that many Of his spe-
cisl editions of books are now bound
for him by young women who are per-
mitted to develop their own ideas. Ii
is remunerativo work for them and the
results are novel.
Transatlantic travellers who favor
ease and informality at sea are alarmed
at the rapidity with which former ideas
on this subject are being remodeled. Men
nearly all appear at dinner nowadays in
evening dress. and Of course. the women
are equally formal
When the New York health authori-
ties set about cleaning Chinatown in that
city with disinfectants the inhabitants be-
lieved the sprinkiing pots contained poison
with which IL was expected to extermi-
rate the Chinese. There was, of course.
great excitement and ccmmotion.
AT Grant City. Mo-, the other day n
man licked his wife and was arrested
on a warrant sworn out by her. He WIS
sentenced to the rock pile, and the next
morning the people were astonished 10
see the wife patiently holding an umbrella
over her spouse as he hammered away ar
the rock ~
-One of the most confirmed expansion
lists in the country is Conrad ITricb 81
Myerstown, Pa, a 13-year-old boy. who.
though little more than feet tall, already
weight 40 pounds and is daily adding
20 his avoirdupois in spite of all efforts
10 restrain his growth. Ten pounds a
month is about his average increase.
According to the year book of the Con-
gresational Church the salaries of the
clergy are far from being princeIv. In
massachusetts, where the salaries are said
10 average highest, they range from $500
10 So'UOO year. The most common amount
is $500 and more than half of all the clergy
men receive less than $1,000 a year.
Eight different nationaIities were rem
resented in the graduating class of the
American College for Girls in Constant.
nopie TINS summer. They were Greek,
American. Hungarian. German, Austrian.
Armenian, Bulgarian and Italian. A
french play given by the graduating class
was one OF the features of class day
DiNoice records Tor the court year lust
closed at Cleveland Indicate that one Of
every five marriages there is so comnlete
failure as to lead to the extreme re-
sort The number of marriage licenses
issued IN that city during the year ended
June 30 last was 1926, and the number Of
divorce petitions filed in the same time was
| 646 " "'
the superintendent of the PENINSULA
| MIA Railroad has a telephone in his nri
vate car, and whenever he wants to COM
municate with any place on the line the
| car Is stopped, lineman makes a connec-
uon with the wires alongside the track.
| and question and aswer are had much
| quicker than by means of a. rush" meg
sage.
Tine Smithsonian Institution in Wash
ington has commissioned Ed Hofer. long
known as hunter and guide in Yellow
stone Park, to go to Kadiak Island in the
Gun OF Alaska and capture one of the
monster bears which live there The bears
are of the. polar variety, weighing from
$500 to 5000 pounds, and none of them has
| ever been caught alive
Philadelphia papers are responsible for
the statement that Lewis e. Better. dep
| uty secretary of the commonwealth. re-
NS"Hy swan elSht miles IN 1:59:O. AL
| though this feat, considering that II was
undertaken on the spur of the moment
looks a good deal like a record perform
| ance, Mr. Better is declared to have
| nnlshed strong" as sportsmen saw
Judge Hickman of Saline county. Kan
sas' thinks he has discovered new cure
for rheumatism, which has long been a
tenant of his right knee. While he was
in II Ill
the leg of his trousers and stung hin. IN
the spot named. Since then he has been
free from his old enemy, and he thanks
the bees for the relief
| The English cynic's remark that "the
nrst sign OF civilization in a savage coun-
| try is often to be seen over a whisky sbop
uoor is recalled by the announcement
that New York architect is preparlng
plans for $500 600 brewery which is IN he
| built by British capital somewhere in the
IransVaal. American beer is to be manu-
iactured and the capacity of the brewery
is to be 10000 barrels per year.
With a view of relieving some of tho
congested districts in India. British au-
thorlties are considering the question of
| opening up British Guiana as a field for
immigration. 1t is hoped that some en-
| tire Hindoo communities may be induced
| TO settle in the South American possession.
Wnere the climate and soil would combine
TO give the strangers much better living
IMAM they have hitherto known.
1t came out in the reports of the re-
cent Methodist Conference that only two
of the fifteen official journals of the
| church, published in different sections of
the country under the common name of
| the Christian Advocate, had been con-
Quoted at a profit. The net loss on the
others-SiOS,O00 in four years-had been
borne out of the profits of the publishing
business known as the Book Concern.
"A settlement having been made with
the heirs which will put a stop TO further
litigation, the $4,0OOO00 estate of DR.
Thomas w. Evans, the Paris American
millionaire dentist, will be divided. Three
million dollars win be devoted TO the
rounding of a great dental institution in
Philadelphia, work on which probably
will begin at once. The heirs will get
100000 instead of $3.50, 600 left them un-
DER the Terms of the will. The contes-
tants were DR.. Rudolph Henry Evans
brother Of the deceased, and eight nieces
DR.. Evans lived in Paris forty years.
and accumulated his great wealth there
He had wife, who died in 1897, and the
doctor did not long survive her. They
had no children.
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