The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

foreman of big Six fire company took a
fancy to picture of royal Bengal tiger
in the elder Mantanyes store in the sos.
Tweed adopted the emblem for the Ameri-
Gus Club, and it was soon accepted by all
Tammany.
Six hundred young salmon were placed
in the Thames recently. under the super
vision of the Thames Salmon Association
with view to making the Thames again
a salmon river. The fish, which varied in
length from five to seven inches, were
conveyed 10 their destination in tin cans
From these they were transferred to glass
globes, so that the condition of each
might be noted, and then to the water.
Every year at Tunis a solemn reli-
gious service is held in memory of the
early Christian martyrs, Viva Perpetua
and Felicia. The ceremony was conduct
ed this year few weeks ago by Mgr.
Combes, archbishop of Carthage. One of
the most picturesque incidents i'm the eel
ebration was the procession to the sub
terranean chambers attached to the an
Gent arena of Carthage, the very place
where in the third century the two mar
tyrs were delivered to the wild beasts.
Cutlery for lunatics was recently ad-
vertised for by the British Admiralty
Office, and it brought to light some un-
usual cutlery that while made regularly
in Sheffield for the past twenty years or
more is but little known The knives
have perfectly dull, round blades, with a
small cutting area about an inch long,
situated in such a way that it cannot
be used except for the purpose intended
The fork terminates in a small round
ball, on which there are three prongs
about half an inch long. The ida in this
unique cutley, of course, was to devise
knives and forks that could not be used
as instruments of attack upon attendants
nor for standardization. Large quantities
of these knives and forks are annually
sent to Australia for use in the asylum
there.
Speaking of the recent killing ami
eating of two missionaries by cannibals
| of Fly River Guinea, the Portland Ore
| CONAN says: These savages do not east
| missionaries because they have any re-
| liSious hostility for them as preachers of
new faith; they only eat them because
| as non-consumers of rum and tobacco
| their flesh is far more palatable than
that of any other type of white man. In
| the judgment of cannibal the meat of
missionary is better eating than any
| thing else except the flesh of a young
| child, another non consumer of tobacco
| and ardent spirits. These cannibals not
| seldom spare the lives of American and
| European sailors, for the simple reason
that their flesh is so impregnated with
| the flavor of alcohol and tobacco as to be
as unpalatable as we find that of crows,
gulls, buzzards and other carrion con-
Stunning birds"
| Clocks are certainly queer things, -
said the man who was tinkering at the
| hall clock in suburban house the other
| day, according to the Boston Record
They get cranky spells, just like people.
! Sometimes they really act as though they
| were bewtched. A friend of mine had a
| little clock that had behaved itself and
kept good time for years. One day it
| took a notion to lay off for WHILE and
they couldn't get it started again My
friends wife was cleaning the room sew
| eral days afterwards, and she took the
| clock and laid 1t down fiat on it's back
on chair. 1t started to go at once, and
| licked away at a great rate, but as soon
| as she placed it on end it stopped again.
| Well, they set it, and for time it acted
| all right as long as ID remained on its
back. But it soon got cranky again and
| refused to go. The other day, just for
fun, they turned it upside down, and
would you believe it, that crazy clock
started off again. Now it only runs when
it is standing on it's head, and they are
wondering what new foolishness it will
develop next"
DIR. A. p. Grinnell of Burlington, has
been making Investigations as to the use
of narcotics in Vermont, and is astound-
ed at the facts disclosed. His statement
seems almost incredible that in the reg
ular drug stores and in 100 of the II:
n he a TO of
there is sold every month 100000 dose:
of opium medicines and besides what tht
doctors dispense, which gives one anC
one-half doses of opium to every man ant
woman in the state above the age of 2
years every day of the year. By dose
mean one-grain opium, one-eighth graiI
morphine, one-half ounce paregoric, anC
twenty drops laudanum. The amour
consumed each month means a half dos'
for every man, woman and child in tn,
state every day of the year" The facts
on which this statement is based wer1
conservatively considered DR.. Grinnel
says Where information was refused h,
made no estimates, and the showing O
consumption would be even larger if al
the sales could be tabulated. No expla
nation of this undue use of narcotics il
offered by the doctor, but it is ascribet
by others in large part to the difficult,
the prohibition law is enforced.
II think" remarked a woman of tn,
world the other day, according to tn
Tribune, that the time has finally ar
rived when a woman's club would succee,
In New York. That a number have beef
started and have been failures during tn
last decade does not argue that they will
never succeed. In the first place tn
idea was at first opposed to old tradition
and, secondly, the unitarian ideas wa
100 mixed up with the purely social one
one club that was started was really
sort of a genteel boarding house. wher
meals and lodging could be had. Anothe
was intended as a sort of shoppers rest
where the suburban women could spen,
a comfortable hour or two, and thir
was a tea room and restaurant No on
has been organized and run as a man
club Is conducted, with strictly define
social lines and intended to serve simpl
as a common meeting ground Now
however, that women frankly enjoy tn
society of their own sex, that thev hav
their own card parties and dinners, the,
are more ripe. so to speak, for the clu
Idea and / feel sure that IL one wer
started by the right people and wit
limited membership there would be
waiting list to join it as long as those a
any of the popular mems clubs in town.
Russia has elaborated system 70
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