The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-06


hibits the holding of property in that state
| By game clubs which are not locally in
| corporated. 1t also provides that the state
| shall hold in trust for public use all nat
Ural bodies of water having an area of
/ fifteen acres or more.
A tax on cats is the latest scheme of
/ the French sportsmen, who are about to
/ present to the Chamber of Deputies Pc
| tition calling for such an impost. The
/ tax. they say, would diminish the num-
| Der of undesirable cats which play havoc
/ with small birds and game.
Children in the big cities do not get
! a very intimate knowledge of animated
nature fhe Chicago Journal says: Sew
enty-eight school children were polled at
the fat stock show recently. Only Gig mt
| had seen a COW before; four had seen a
| hog, and six had seen a sheep"
Authorities on forestry say that sew
enty five years are required for the oak to
reach maturity; for the ash. larch and
elm, about the same length of time; for
/ the spurce and fir, about eighty years.
! After this time their growth remains sta
| tiouary for some years, and then decay
/ begins. There are, however, some excep-
/ lions TO this, for oaks are still living
which are known to be 1000 years old.
The death of the Bishop of London has
revived a suggestion for the division of
the overpopulated diocese and the re-
| construction of the diocese of Westmin-
/ lister. which, after having been created
| by Henry VIII was allowed to lapse. The
! Queen recently revived the dignity of the
| city of Westminster, SO it would seem
/ a fit occasion for re-establishing the Bish-
| I'll a,,A
/ and chapter ready, The difficulty is to
give to the new diocese a district con-
tanning population of a mixed character,
and to avoid draining all the wealthy pop
ulation from the diocese of London.
The Rochester Post Express says thai
when the Prince OF Wales was about TO
| visit Niagara Falls Blondin had rival
! one Signor Farini, who was character
He issued an advertisement urging that
the Prince make his initial entrance to
! the great and glorious United States in
a striking manner. Accordingly he pro-
posed that he should wheel the Prince
| in Wheelbarrow over tight rope across
| the gorge to the United States, an en-
| trance that would be unparalleled! Then
! the notice adds: Should any accident
happen to His Highness whereby he
should happen to be precipitated to the
gulf below (of which l assure you there
/ is little danger), the money taken from
the spectators shall be refunded"
1t was suggested to me that the al
| mond shape of the Chinese eyes might be
/ a result from babyhood for long genera
! tons of going bareheaded in the sun, says
| a writer in Leslies Weekly. Foreigners
! find the sun so dangerous to the eyes that
/ they are not only shaded by wide-brim-
tIxy Nv dol lr
! glasses. The Chinese women do not, as
/ a rule, as do the Japanese, put their ba-
/ bies upon the backs of their young girlS.
/ The women, and not infrequently the
men, carry their children, after baby
/ hood in their arms, even when quite
/ large. In fact, the care exhibited by the
fathers for their children, proudly bear
ing them in their arms on the street
! from place to place, shows that Mr..
| Chinaman has good sense as well as
! good heart. He is not afraid he will be
| laughed at for doing woman's work, as
/ some of our workingmen seem to be in
| the home land, leaving to the wife and
mother not only the baby in arms, but
! several toddlers at her skirts, while the
/ lordly master stalks by her side, and
when in his unfettered haste he gets a
/ few feet in advance he looks back impa-
uently, saying, Hurry up"
The United States is about to begin
! the coinage of Scent piece for use in
| the West and Southwest. 1t will be of
nickel, about the size of a scent piece,
! but in the center of it will be hole
about a quarter of an inch in diameter.
! This will enable one to distinguish it by
! the feel even in the dark. AS is we'll
known, only the gold coins are made on
! basis of value equal to their denomtna-
| tions. The cent, for instance, is not worth
as metal, friction of that amount. The
nickel is not, either. All are stamped
| from blanks which the government buys
! by contract. Silver coins were originally
! of the same value as the metals, but sill
yer has dropped SO that cart wheel
dollar is only worth about so cents. Gold
/ is worth cent for cent. With the begin
ming of the new year, new series of
| coinage began. All the, old dies with 1900
on them were destroyed; that is, the face
was. On New Years day more than 100
/ of the dies were made useless; the faces
| were ground off of them with an emery
| wheel Ever since then, brand new dies
! have been used. These old dies We're from
| all the various minis and the work of
destroying their faces and reworking
new ones was done at the Philadelphia
| mint.
- ne ulSH-CtdSS OHiHduldI, says Tue
! Chicago Tribune, speaking through his
interpreter, was giving the eminent
American visitor his impressions of the
English language IL cannot understand"
| he said, how anybody ever finds time
to learn It, Take that singularly formed
| letter In your alphabet for instance the
| letter g What an awkward and ill-shap-
| ed character it is! What is che signifi-
| canoe of that little curling projection at
| the upper end of it? l have never seen
anybody who could tell me. Then again.
when the learner has familiarized himself
| with that letter and can recognize 1t at
! sight, he learns that it is only part of
| a word and that it enters into the COM
different RECOMMENDATIONS and sometimes
is not pronounced at all, being entirely
| silent. Now, when you see one of our
Chinese characters you know at once
what it is. 1t is a wonder to me that your
people do not discard the cumbersome
forms of your written language and learn
our simpler and more easily understood
system" The eminent American could
only bow his head In humiliation and
promise to bring the matter before the
educational authorities of his native land
"A new material will soon be placed
among the rare things mined from the
Black Hills says the Boston Transcript.
Fullers earth is a valuable material