The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-22
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parent of six princes. The other remark
able feature of the happy event is that it
raises the number of the Empress Fred
erick's grandchildren to twenty, who are
divided between the sexes in the aston
shing proportion of seventeen boys to 3
girls. The newly born princes are great
grandchildren of the late Queen Victoria.
| and they make the number of her living
descendants seventy-seven.
On May 30. at Hartford, Conn, O.
year-old boy, Arthur Budds, got hold of
the transmission line cables which bring
in power for the electric light company
in that city at a pressure of 10000 volts
alternating, and received a shock suf-
ficient to burn his hands very severely
and apparently kill him. After he was
worked over for some tint with artificial
respiration he regained consciousness and
began to breathe naturally. He is now
progressing steadily toward complete re-
covery. 1T will be noted says the Elec-
trical Review, that he got a shock over
five times as powerful as that which is
used in New York for the execution of
grown-up criminals.
Every Cuban must have his helper"
says an army officer who has been serv-
ing in the island. You cannot hire a
vide him with helper to hand his ham,
mer and nails and talk to him. In saw
ing, the carpenter reverses the motion
used by the American carpenters. Collars
on mules are worn big end up. In row.
ing a boat the oarsman pushes instead
OF pulling. There are many other habits
which strike Americans as equally
strange 1t is popular misconception
that people in the tropics cannot eat
| xuhn hit1y
But only the favored few can afford it.
The chief subsistence of the natives is
the sweet potato, which is rank in its
growth. Meat costs % cents a pound.
and, strange as it may SEEM Cuban
butchers charge the same for neck or
hook that they do for tenderloin. Meat
is meat to them
The manketmen and butchers of
Washington, to the number of $50, have
decided to fight the Western packing
houses. and have organized a movement
to build an abbatoir across the Poto-
mac in Virginia at a cost of $4,000. The
alleged grievance of the dealers is that
they are so tied up by the packers that
they cannot buy beef and mutton pro-
duced in Virginia and Maryland, which is
of the finest quality, and to be had at an
advantage over Western prices. The
packers, 1t is also claimed, are selling to
grocers in quantities as low as five
pounds which is declared to be unfair
competition. The fight is not new one.
Five years ago an effort was made to
organize a revolt, but concession to influ-
entail dealers who had capital to put into
the rebellion" drew them off, and the
packers remained masters of the situa-
ton. This time there seems to be hard
time in store for the packers. The abba
tOi,- hoe
lied, and the officers are drawn from
among the most successful and solid men
in the business.
Joseph A. O'Donaghue of San Fran
cisco is said, in New York Telegram to
the Chicago Tribune, to be responsible
for project to COLOMBO the Irish race in
some islands in the South Pacifc Ocean.
Mr.. O'Donaghue has four islands in view
-one island for each of the four prov
inces of the old country, Leinster, Mum
ster, Ulster and Connaught. In this way
the descendants of the Irish kings might
come into their inherited rights. The ISL
ands are in the south temperate zone
and must be bought from the country that
owns them or claims them. The scheme
appears to be a wild one, as the Irish
people who live in the United States and
other countries are too well fixed to want
down towards the South Arctic circle. AS
for the people in ireland. those OF them
who desire to emigrate will go to the
countries where so many of their COM
patriots have gone before them, while
some will prefer to live and die in the
Green isle. In order to make the proposed
scheme a success capital must be found
to buy the islands. to put them in a con-
dition wherein settlers can make them
4aI.I1 ~x,1 Gya6 a re
turns for their labor. In a word. induce
menss must be offered to immigration.
giving greater attractions than are found
in the United States and other settled
countries frequented by the Irish. The
scheme therefore, does not seem at all
practical.
Two men were brought into a Paris
police court recently for fighting In the
street After the manner of excited
Frenchmen they had not only hit each
other. but had scratched, kicked and bit
ten. so that they were shockingly bruised
and battered. But one of them, the one
who paid the fine, was smiling with deep
content Ten years ago, as he was
standing on the railway platform at Bor-
deaux, some one in a train just start
ing leaned out of a window and frollc-
sonleIy slapped his face The victim had
lust time to see the race OF ms lnSulter
before the train had passed, and he swore
to be avenged If 1t took fifty years. The
other day he saw his man in Paris To
make sure he asked him If he had ever
lived in Bordeaux. The other said that
ne had not, but had PASSED through there
several times on train. Then the aveng-
er asked him If he had ever in face
tious mood slapped a mans face as his
train was moving out. The other thought
for a minute and then said that possibly
he had. as a joke. The words were hard
~ out of his mouth when a fist took their
place. and there was a rough-and-tum-
BILE fight that required the united strength
of three policemen to stop. Let it be said
to the glory OF justice that the avenger
had the best of it. And he was chival-
rous as well, for when they were fined
he paid for both of them, saying that his
honor was worth the price, and the two
departed from the court arm in arm,
sworn friends. Where could such
thing happen save in France?
The parliamentary commission Of ex-
perts appointed to investigate the cause
Of the recent cases of srsenical poisoning
among beer drinkers in England have just
made their first report. They find that
the responsibility for the poisoning is ex-
tremely limited, the cause being confined
to two manufacturing houses, one of
whom furnished the invert sugar used in
making the beer. the other the sulphuric
acid used in altering the sugar. This linn
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