The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-24

Tie method of living is precisely the same
rs that of their relatives in South Africa.
In the course of suit brought by
Carl Leden, formerly a waiter at Sher-
rvs, New York, against the proprietor of
that establishment the plaintiffN averred
| that he never made less than SO night
| in tips, and that his weekly earnings
sometimes amounted to 800. While pur-
suing his vocation one night Leden stuck
his head in the dumbwaiter shaft to give
an order and the duinbWaiter fell on his
head. Deafness ensued, and being unable
to understand the orders given ito him
the waiter is no longer able to get en-
p'oyment. lie wants 5000 damages.
-DT. wilmington Ingram. the new
Bishop of London, was not joking at a
big church meeting in Birmingham some
time back when he told his audience he
mad developed new muscle in his arm
by shaking hands with the East Enders
Of London at parochial conversaziones.
Going up to the chairman, the Bishop of
Worcester, DIR. Ingram doubled up his
arm and said. Just look at that, nay
lord" The audience was, Of course, con-
vulsed with laughter, and cheered the
Bishops touch of high comedy again and
again.
The following obituary, which was re-
Gently published in the Dublin Daily Ex-
press, affords striking illustration of
the dispersion of the Irish people all over
the world: "Geraghty-Accid kill
ed at Johannesburg. South Africa John
Gerashty, aged 81 years son of Patrick
Geraghty of Roscommon, Roscommon;
and brother of James Geraghty of Pre-
toria, and of William Geraghty of Gal
way, and of Peter, Patrick and Martin
Geraghty of New South Wales, and of
Annie Corley Of Suva. Fiji Islands. Deep
ly regretted. r. L. p"
Nothing remains of the old Stewart
mansion, across from the Waldorf Asto-
ria, but four walls of marble, story and
half high, and every day the pile is
shortened little more, says New York
letter. The marble is TO be used for tomb
| stones and monuments. Choice pieces Of
the finest product of the Carrara quarries
which formerly adorned the ballroom and
| dining room, are being shipped with great
! care to yard up the Hudson, where
| they are transformed into shafts, head
| stones, urns and angels for the adorn-
! ment of graves.
! Word comes from Hawaii of curious
mistake that arose there through "Ameri-
ca" and God Save the King being set
! to the same music A British warship
| called there, and the commander made an
official call on Gov. Dole. The govern
| ment band played God Save the King
| as the visitors came up. The Hawaiian
! House of Representatives was in session,
| but the members did not know what was
! going on outside. When the music be-
| gan one member suggested that all stand
up while the national anthem, America"
was being played. The idea was promptly
adopted.
Some of the oldest houses in London
have had their last Easter. In a few
days the demolition of part of Wych
street rendered necessary by the Strand
| Improvement scheme, will begin, says
| London newspaper. A house with pro-
| jecting stories, where Jack Sheppard
| lived, is one of the condemned places.
| For some time past it has been shut
up as unsafe. The Old Bell Tavern, in
! Fleet street, is already being pulled down
| to make the street wider. 1t has his
| tory of over 200 years and in it's old
| fashioned bar parlor such lights of Fleet
| street as DIR. Johnson and Dickens are
said to have foresathered with their
| friends.
The weH-known aversion Of the feline
| race for water has an odd exception in
the pet of a family on Friends avenue,
| above Cooper street, Camden, says the
| Philadelphia Record. This puss is so fond
| of playing in water that it is sometimes
| difficult to keep it out of the way. One
| of the favorite pastimes of this funny little
| cat is 20 jump on the kitchen sink when
| the water is running from the spiggots
| and bat at the stream with its paws.
| Sometimes it gets in the way and must
| be pushed down, but at the first oppor-
| tunity it is back again, seeming to find
| great sport in watching the spray it
| makes with its paws. A day or two ago
J this amphibious pussy came upon a tub
| partly filled with water, in the back yard
and in it jumped, frollicking about with
! the utmost glee. The owners of the eat
can only account for it's strange conduct
| by the fact that when it was very young
it fell into a tub of water, and, finding it
rather pleasant, grew to like it,
A correspondent of Notes and Queries
renews an ancient grief in complaining of
the conventional names for the sizes of
books 1t is not only the fact that folio
| no longer means a sheet folded in two
leaves, quarto in four, etc, that arouses
his protest, but that the octave, quarto,
etc, give no idea whatever of the size
of the book. The attempts to remedy the
| natter only increase the confusion. Octa-
vo, for example. may be found in publish
| erS' cata logueS with the following quah-
| fications; octave, small, medium, square
| crown octave, large, small extra wide
| DENY octave, post octave, small post fools
cap octave, large. extra post octave. extra
octave; and, finally the greatest of these,
| imperial octave. The writer modestly re-
fuses to vouch for the completeness of the
| list but feels that enough has been pro-
| duced to show that the, plain man must,
| so far as size is concerned, buy his book
| III the dark. The reform which he sug-
| gests is one that has been introduced in
| many libraries, namely, the designation
| of the size of books in inches. Thus the
| purchaser of a by would know to an
| inch either way the size of his book.
The matter might well engage the atten-
ton of that association of American pub
fishers which has so successfully dealt
with the special-discount problem.
The moon does not describe circu-
lar path in revolving round the earth,
but an irregular zig-zag track; and. in
consequence. this irregular movement is
| at variance with the law affecting the
| inertia of matter, says Science Gossip.
| The earth, in its annual circuit round
! the sun, has in round numbers daily
course OF about 1900 900 miles, and the
moon has a daily course OF about 5000
miles round the earth. Now at full moon
/ the moon Is carried forward in space the
| sum of these two Velocities while during