The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

showed the village of Reutenbourg con-
tanned 444 inhabitants. 222 being of the
masculine and 222 of the feminine gender.
Attempts are being made in Califor-
mia to acclimate the Gillian palm (Jubaea
spectabilis), which has sends that re-
semble almonds and are edible. Each tree
also yields fifty to sixty quarts of palm
honey"
The owners of automobiles in Ohio
constitute new force in the good roads
movement. There is plan under way for
the building of boulevard from one end
OF the state to the other, touching the
cities and largest towns.
"A strong effort is being made by pos
tai officials in New York city to do away
with rented boxes At first the rental
was 81 per year; now it is SIG, and as a
consequence the number of such boxes
has decreased from 1000 to 2,100.
New York Ctty's Tree-planting Asso-
citation, composed of philosophical citi-
zens, not only set out 3126 shade trees
last year, but secured the passage of laws
empowering the park commissioners 10
take entire charge of street tree planting,
so that the work can be done on an ex-
tensive scale and in the most effective
manner.
"A Springfield (Mass.) publishing COM
pany whose business is so large that its
furnishes more mail matter than all the
rest of the city put together, was re-
Gently awarded the four years contract
for carrying the mail to and from the
postofice and the railroad depot. Sew
eral automobiles are now being built 20
do the work.
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property of dead man, when not claimed
by relatives. shall be sold at auction.
Another law prohibits the sale of liquor.
Recently a gallon of rye whisky was
found among the effects of dead man
who had left no known relatives. The
probate court has taken the whisky 'un-
der advisement."
"A Fredericktown COhio) enthusiast,
who possesses large gasoline propelled
vehicle which resembles a street car,
contemplates a transcontinental trip in
the machine. The interior is fitted up as
a combination dwelling and repair shop,
and the owner, who is an expert machin-
lst expects to secure enough work en-
route to pay his expenses.
quite as remarkable as the wrecking
of the Pacific Mail Line steamship Rio
Francisco harbor on Feb. % is the total
disappearance of the wreck. Divers have
explored large areas of the bottom of the
sea at the point where the wreck is sup
posed to have occurred, but not the
slightest trace of the Inflated ship has
been found.
Among the ruins of Pompeii have
been found chatting dishes of exquisite
workmanship, which gives undisputed
PROOF of their use in the city which con-
tanned villas of many wealthy Romans.
1t is the opinion of experts that the
opening of China and Siberia will disclose
large deposits of gold and that Asia after
while will furnish a large part of the
worlds supply.
A mammoth black walnut tree on the
farm of E. P. Gaus in williams county,
Ohio, has just been sold for 81 900. Several
lumber dealers have examined chips from
this tree, and all have declared it to be
the finest specimen of that kind of wood
they ever saw. The tree was eight feet
in diameter forty feet above the stump
and extended seventy-three feet from the
butt to the first limb.
Northern Indiana farmers are expert
menting in the domestication of quail and
the results are reported as highly gratify-
ing. Nearly every farmer in that section
has from one to three coveys on his farm
and is giving them kind and careful at
tention. During the snow season the
birds are fed regularly and on some of
the farms they have become so tame
that they roost with the barnyard fowls.
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman holds
one of the proudest records of the COM
mons, says the st. James Gazette He
hoe hold 1,SC xx,s4L
most a generation. Patrick OBrien holds
a distinction of another sort. He is the
Tom Thumb of the House, standing four
feet three inches in his shoes. 1t is one
of his namesakes-J. f. x. O'Brien-who
has distinguished himself by being SEN
fenced to be hanged, drawn and quar-
tered
The private letter books of Robert
Morris, the financier of the revolution,
which were lost for several generations,
were brought to light in Washington re-
Gently, and have been deposited in the
Congressional Library. Another acqui-
sition by the library is the original manu-
script setting forth the various DEGREES
by which the titles were conferred on
Columbus by the Pope for the discovery
of America.
Among the various warning signs Civ
en- by DR.. Still as leading one to look out
for rheumatism is red hair, says the Hos
pital. He suggests that this color of the
hair may be only the index of some fine
popularity, perhaps in the chemistry of
metabolism, which produces a soil favor
able to rheumatic infection, at any rate,
it is one of the many little indications
which are sometimes of value in leading
to the early detection of rheumatism in
child.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
relates that Gen. Funston was at the Oc-
cidental Hotel in San Francisco, when
the War Departments message request
ing him to return to the Philippines was
placed in his hands. "What'n you do?"
asked newspaper man who was present.
I'm telephone my wife, said the Gen.
eral. He did so, and ten minutes later
said to the reporter: You can say that
1 accept. l am turning down a good
many fine offers, but If am needed I'll
go back And then, you know, 1 may
get a chance to catch Aguinaido. It's
been my ambition to lay my hands on
that yellow boy"
Probably no one who has seen the
flnv white mantle that hangs about tho