The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

families, numbering twenty-four per-
sons, have embarked on a journey to
Mobile. Ala. where they will settle on
tract of land near the Fish river. The
steamboat will go through the canal to
La Sale and then into the Illinois
river. At Peoria it will take on a pilot
who will guide it down the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers. 1t will go out the
South Pass of the Mississippi through
the Eads jetties, and viii go through
Lake Ponchatrain, the connecting in
land waterway to Mobile. 1t will be
used as freight and passenger steam
boat on the Fish river.
Consul General Hughes writes from
Coburg that, according to the German
Press, fibroleum, new artificial leath-
err, has Just been invented by a French
man. 1t consists of pieces of refuse
skins and hides, cut exceedingly small,
which are put into vat filled with an
intensely alkaline solution. After the
mass has become PUPPY, 1t is taken out
of the vat, placed in specially con-
structed machine. and after undergoing
treatment therein is again taken out
and put through a paper making ma
chine. The resulting paper-like sub
stance is cut into large sheets, which
are laid one upon another, in lots OF
from 100 to 1000, and put in hydraulic
press to remove all moisture. The
article is strong and pliable, and can
be pressed or nodded into all kinds
of shapes and patterns.
The fear that China might not be
able to bear the burden which the
powers have put upon her shoulders
would seem to be disproved by the an
nouncement that the government is
about to erect handsome and expen-
sive legation building in Washington.
Whether this is but one of many steps
in a policy of national expansion or
whether it is meant as a particular
mark of respect for the United States,
we do not know 1t should be recog-
nized by China that this government
was her best and most consistent
friend in a most unhappy affair, and 1t
is entirely fitting that the minister who
interceded so effectively to mold Amer
lean opinion should enjoy some of the
fruits of a regenerated China in the
shape of a handsome and comfortable
residence at the nations capital.
Even the great-hearted Thackeray,
says the Literary Era, showed occa-
sional pettinesses in the manner where
with he used the lash of satire. / do
not allude to the Bulwigs and the
Lardners of his Yellowplush period,
which he subsequently repented, but
to his public bowls over stingless in
suits. 1T was a pleasant popularity
of Mr.. Thackeray's,' says Edmund
Yates, ito make some yelled but un-
nistakable, allusion in his books to
persons at the time obnoxious to him."
Yates spoke feelingly, for during the
awkward episode at the Garrick Club,
which brought down upon him the en-
nifty of Thackeray, the seventh num-
Der of The Virginians," came out with
what Yates properly calls "a wholly
irrelevant and ridiculously lugged-in-
by-the-shoulders allusion to me as
Young Grub Street" in its pages. The
Yellowplush caricatures are master
pieces of wit. AS such no lover of wit
could afford to lose them. The Young
Grub Street business, on the other
hand, is a petty ebullition of pettish-
ness. One wishes that Thackeray had
been large enough to refrain from
small revenges.
Thomas Arbuckle, a Woodworking
farm laborer in Scott county, Indiana,
has not swallowed any food for four
years. He puts it in his stomach, how
ever, through a hole in his side. The
hole is an artificial one, produced by
surgery, in consequence of the closing
of the cardiac orifice by typhoid fever.
The case is almost exactly similar to
that of Alexis st. Martin, through
whose side the whole process of diges-
ton was visible, and who, in this way,
furnished almost all the knowledge
physicians now possess of the stom-
ach and it's workings. One of the
things observed in his case was that,
when the stomach was fairly livid with
irritation from improper diet, the only
sensation be experienced was a slight
headache, showing that when a severe
headache results the wrong done the
stomach must be extreme. These cases
lead one to speculate what would be
the result on the general health of
mankind If everyone had a window in
his stomach and could witness the eff
fects of dietic imprudence. The prob
ability is it would greatly prolong the
life of some people and have absolutely
no effect on others.
1T is probable that the world may
be treated to another great fair in the
year 1903. The three hundredth ami
versary of the discovery of the Hudson
river by Hendrix Hudson will happen
during September of that year, and al
ready the Gothamites are girding up
their loins to lick all creation" An
exposition seems to be the only thing
by which to commemorate such an
event as a tricentenary, and If such
materialize, and there are premonitory
signs that it will, it may be put down
on the cards that New York will go it
one better than Chicago did when she
celebrated the discovery of this great
continent. The tricentury of another
event happens also in 1909, and one
which has, perhaps. as much interest
from an historical side as the drifting
up the river by Hudson. On July so,
1909, or six weeks before Hudson sailed
through the Narrows, Samuel de
Champaign, in company with his red
allies, the Algonquins. defeated the
Mohawks on the banks of. the lake
which is called by his name, and thus
started the vendetta between the Six
Nations and the French, which made
these most formidable of America s
aborigines the allies first of the Dutch
and then of their English successors,
saved the weak settlements of New
Netherland and New York from con-
quest by the French, and started the
train of influences by which the French
were eventually driven out of North
America.
"A great dry goods jobblng house in
Philadelphia that has had an honorable
existence of rs years, weathering in
that time three severe panics which
wrecked many strong houses, has Just
gone out of business The houSa now