The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cther letter IL is always lie, as III SIleA,
r.ece, friend. etc.
-Twenty-ope poker players have been
arrested In Indianapolis for taking part
n game which was kept UP without a
break for one hundred and fifty hours. OF
course, no one of the gamblers sat in his
chair al that time. Even a six day
walker or bicycle rider could hardly stand
such a strain so long. But it IS soberly
recorded that one of the players was at
the table for three days except for a nap
Of two hours. Indianapolis seems to hold
che poker championship for a continuous
performance. Does any other city North
or South, East or West challenge her
claim to first place?
"A dispatch from Tamaqua, Pa, says:
Richard Miller, of Hauto, has a curiosity
in the shape of an animal that is hat eat
and hat rabbit. The front portion of the
creature, with the exception of its red
yes, is that of cat, while the rear half
IS that of d rabbit. One half of the ami
mails body is covered with the white hair
of a cat, while the remainder of its body
is covered with the reddish brown fur of
a rabbit ending In a short, bushy tail. 1t
moves about with a half run and half
hop, and is very tame. 1t lives on vege-
tables and milk, and has no use for meat.
1t is about one-haif the size of a full
grown cat
Murder will out--sometimes. In Moscow
the superstitious are telling of what
seems to them to be pretty nearly mir
acle. Not long ago a carriage, which was
conveying the image of the Holy Virgin
of Iberia collided with a cart that was
full of snow. The wheels were interlock-
ed, and after several minutes OF vain
work. is was proposed to tip the cart over
as the only method by which the carriage
could be freed, The driver of the cart
protested and feeling ran so high that
The police had to be called in to quell a
miniature riot. They dumped the cart and
body of a murdered man that had been
concealed in the snow. The carter was
arrested, the murderer found, convicted
and hanged.
"A street beggar is thus quoted by THE
Philadelphia Record: Strange as it may
seem, the trailing skirts that women are
now wearing have almost ruined our
business. That sounds queer, doesn't 1t?
One not acquainted with our business
might fail to see the connection between
professional begging and women's skirts
And yet what / say is true. The greater
part of our revenue ordinarily comes from
women, but since they've taken to these
long skirts for street wear they are
forced to hold them US, and that keeps
one hand constantly occupied. 1t takes
two hands to open a purse, and l have
often see women stop as though about to
give something; but this would necessi-
tate letting go of the skirt, and they have
passed on again. Yes; we have to study
all these things. The trailing skirt has
already driven a lot of US out of the
business"
The Stockholm correspondent of the
Echo. of Berlin, says that the recent story
about the opening of Andree's will is pure
invention. The will was never lodged at
Stockholm in the care of a notary. but
is still at Gothenburg, in the charge of
Andree's brother, the engineer, to whose
keeping the explorer intrusted it. To
speak of the opening of the will, says
the writer, is absurd since il was never
sealed" He is also assured, on the most
trustworthy authority, that the will con-
tains no intimation whatever of Andree's
misgivings as to the unfortunate ending
of his bold adventure. "Sueh doubts
were Inherently foreign TO the nature Of
the man, who from first TO last was the
most sanguine, self-confident and opti-
mistic of mankind. jovial and even child
ike in his expectations" The real will
IS as short and simple as possible, and
contains nothing but a few instructions
about the disposition of his property.
His brother, who has the will in his
hands," adds the writer, does not as
yet trouble himself about the fulfllment
Of its instructions, because he is scarce
iy less sanguine than the brave explorer
himself, and still refuses to give up ali
hope of Andree's return"
England is almost the only country in
Europe which does not possess a recog-
nized resting place for the remains of its
royal family, says the Washington Ga
zette. The Kings and Queens of England
are buried at Westminster, Windsor, Han
over, Winchester and Canterbury. Spain.
which perhaps pays most attention TO
matters of ceremony, has the finest vault
for its royalty. It's kings rest in the Pan
theon, which is part of the Escural, built
by Phillip, the Monk King. Hard by is
the Pantheon de los Infantes, in which re-
pose the remains of infant princes of the
royal house. Phil Up V and Ferdinand VI
are the only monarchs who are buried
elsewhere. The Cars of Russia since Pc
ter the Great, with one exception, are bur-
led in the Cathedral Fortress of Peter and
ST. Pau at st. Petersburg. The kings of
Holland lie not in the splendid and mod
ern capital of The Hague, but amid the
rural simplicity of the little town of Delft.
They are buried in the Nieuwe Kerk
there. Austria, on the other hand, revels
in sp.endor. The Capuchin Church of vi
emma contains 105 metal collins of the Aus
TRAN royal family, some of them of sold
silver This has been their place of burial
since 1919. Most of the German royal fam
i.y are buried in tine Domkirche at Ber-
lin, though some rest at Poisdam. The
Domkrche contains the tombs of eighty
Of the ancestors of the German Emperor.
including that Of the Great E,ector. TIE
tombs of the Swedish royal family rival
those of the Dutch in simplicity. The
Kings of Sweden, since the days of Gus
tavus Adolphus, have been buried in the
Riddarholms Church at Stockholm.
"A peculiar fea ture of the Brazilian
newspapers is found in the birthday
cards printed In their columns" says a
correspondent of the Chicago Record.
They are ofttimes extravagant in Lam
guage, especially when the poetical ma
ture of swain gets the upper hand.
Birthday festivities are always celebrat-
ed in Brazil, the public officials receiving
deluge OF good wishes on this auspicious
day each. The birthday cards in the
newspapers are sometimes like these as
a rule: 'Felcitations. Hail the sth of
December, 1901 At the break of day was
gathered one more beautiful bouquet of
oil al OF hn rTp1Tr 80 u.