The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Velopfng new method of wireless tele-
graphy.
From the army recruiting stations in
Chicago there has been gathered a for
nidsbie addition 10 the slang OF the day.
Strictly speaking, ''shavetail'' is a GRIT
I'm or coyote" or rooster" but fire.
Quently is called "pie5iter' and perhaps
is known even more widely as a ring
tailed sncrter." All these are terms of re-
proach addressed to the rookie" or mill
tary recruit. in the United States
They have bright policemen in Kan
sas. AT Seneca Robert Bell went TO the
town marshal and told him that Steve
Riestersr was hunting for him (BelD with
the view of giving him a licking. While
the men were still talking Riesterer came
up and knocked Bill down and admins
tered the licking before the officer could
interfere. Which shows that often we wot
without knowing of what we are wet ing
You cannot always believe in the gen.
uineness of relics shown to you in Eu-
rope. Literary Paris, for instance is
greatly agitated over the difficulty of de-
Gliding which is the genuine copy of
'LAmi du Peuple," which was stained
with the blood of Marat when the revo.u-
zionist met his death at the hands OF
Charlotte Cordsy. So far seven copies
have turned up all solemnly accredited
and all bearing the blood stain.
Cape Nome may be a swindle as
charged. but there is no doubt of the
truth of the report that rich placers have
heen found near Juneau. This will tend
to attract more attention to the rich min
eraL resources of Southeastern Alaska
Numerous islands constitute the archi-
pelago of that region and a thorough pros
Dect Of them will doubtless yield other
profitable placers, to say nothing of the
quartz discoveries that may yet be found.
-Paderewski does not have to depend
upon piano-pounding for his support A
letter received in Chicago says that the
artist derives good income from the
wine. fruit and vegetables produced on
his estate at Morges, Switzerland The
orchard contains 5000 cherry trees. from
the product of which some excel e7t
kirsch is distilled and the vegetable gar
cen is large enough to stock market
place. His suppleness of fingers, how
ever, does not come from doing his own
wedding.
The steamship Olbia arrived at New
Orleans with a number of Italian immi-
grants, and the owners are out good deal
of money on the cruise. Twenty-Five pas
sengers came under contract and these
must be taken back to Europe, after lying
a week at New Orleans awaiting exami-
nation. Three jumped overheard and es-
capped to shore and for each of these the
company must pay $500 or $500. On top
of all this the owners were fined 1900 for
carrying more passengers than the law
allows. Still more, the Olbia carried a
large quantity of fruit, and most of IL was
spoiled while the steamer lay in midstream
under boiling sun.
According to Marshall Halstead, Con-
sui of the United States at Birmingham
a few of the main thoroughfares of Lon
don will soon be lighted by electricity,
some poles having already been put into
position the success of the Piccadily
lighting having warranted an extension
Birmingham is still lighted by gas, but
the small eIectric-iighting company IN
| that city was taken under the municipal
wing on Jan. 1, and it is thought some
| thing may be done there. Cork is one
| of the smallest towns with electric SER
vice, and 1t is claimed that it is as cheap
| there as in any city. The cost is nine
| cents per unit for the first two hours
| of use each day, and two cents per hour
| thereafter. A unit means the burning of
| seventeen ordinary incandescent lights one
| hour.
1T is singular fact remarked upon by
| the Inhabitants of newspaper offices that
| the cockroaches, once so numerous in
| such places, have almost disappeared.
| Time was when the little brown pests
| fairly overran the homes of the press,
| Not only did they exist by thousands in
| the composing room, but they also got
| down into the editorial quarters. Observ-
| ing printers say that the disappearance
I of he Oh, hao mil p he {,k-
ton of typesetting machines. This is be-
| lieved to be true, for in the big city offices
| they have become scarcer and scarcer
| ever since about 1888. Now one is seldom
seen there Whether the insect disap-
| proved Of the new invention or whether
there was something on the movable type
which gave him sustenance is not known.
but he is done, and there are few to re-
| greet his departure.
The Roentgen Society of the United
States will meet in New York Dec. 70 and
IL, 1900, at the Academy of Medicine. Pa
pers have bt en- promised by eminent men
| abroad and in the United States. and a
7 very ssful scientific meeting is ap-
| parsntly assured There will be offered ad-
vantages to the visiting members for in
ruction in X-ray work that cannot be
| had under any other conditions. 1t is es-
| pecially desired that all hospitals using
| X-ray apparatus, X-ray studios, physi-
| Glars, surgeons, and dentists doing X ray
work, scientific investigators, nsanufactu-
rers, and dealers in X-ray apparatus of
all kinds throughout the United States
! should at once send their names and ad-
dresses to the chairman of the commit
tee OF arrangements, Dr. S. H. Mcneil,
| No. 43 East Forty-second street. New
| York. so that they may be sent important
| notices regarding the meeting.
Seldom is 1t that a member of one of
the monastic OF conventual orders ever
becomes a party to a lawsuit, especially in
| the role Of the plaintiff. A tribunal In
| Paris has just decided the suit of Nine.
| Letestu, a former nun. against the Sisters
| of Notre Dame. where she was a teacher.
| She asked to be allowed to leave the con-
vent. While going to the Archbishop at
his request to tell why she was leaving
| she fell from a street car and dislocated
her shoulder. She was taken back to the
convent and treated. As, however, she
had not been definitely admitted to the
| order, the community decided she had no
| right to continue her functions. She,
| therefore, had to leave the convent. AS,
however in spite of the request she had
| made to the Archbishop to leave, she now
| desires TO remain in the convent, she sued
| the Mother Superior as responsible for the
accident which happened to her and for
| breach Of contract.
| in one of the Western cities a large