The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-31

ment contractors at Cardiff 1t was
pierced by a hole about three inches III
diameter. The damage to the poles IN
that neig'hborhood was considerable
says the Electrician. London, and was
done by woodpeckers. Mention was
made that some yeasr ago there were
complaints of the damage done by
woodpeckers to the telegraph poles IN
Germany. Articles on the subject APP
peared in the pathological journals
and eventually the plan of impregnat-
ing the wood with chemicals was
adopted and was efficacious.
A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo,
Dec. %, says: Nero, a dog owned by
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry c. Froehlich OF
this city, was given Christmas tree
celebration tonight. The dog had
small Christmas tree last year when
he was a puppy. but this year Mr.. and
Mrs. Froehlich determined he should
be even better treated. A spruce tree
was obtained and set up in the par
lor of their home. 1t was decorated
with the usual array of tinsel and can
dies with the addition of several cakes
and dog biscuits and a big section
of sausage. provided by Mr.. Froehlich,
Then a friend of the family heard OF
the tree and sent new collar for
Nero. Another friend sent other gifts
and more sausage and all the children
of the neighborhood came in to con-
graduate and admire.
"A dispatch from Richmond, Va
Dec. 27, says: Manchester, the town
just across the river from here. en-
joys the fame of being the only place
in the country in which boy has eX-
holidays. The accident resulted from
a Jogging administered by Police Ser
geant A. w Wright upon his boy,
Lawrence. The conservator of the
peace. having zen on duty all night,
was endeavoring to get some rest, but
his son, with other lads, kept up such
a noise that he could not sleep. Ser
geant Wright, having time and again
directed the lad to keep quiet. finally
began to fog him with a small whip.
Suddenly there was an explosion, the
force of which knocked both the po-
liceman and the boy down and bruised
the latter. The cause of the trouble
was that the whip came in contact
with about thirty or forty torpedoes
the boy had in his pocket.
The biggest authenticated bag Sc
cured at one shot, of which l have ever
heard, says a writer in the Fortnightly
Review, consisted of one rabbit (the
cause of the shot. one beaten, one on
locker Ga French cook, a boy, and a
dog. l once shot nine snipe at a shot
but this was in South America
they were on the ground. and they were
shot for the pot. | have read of a
sportsman mot Baron Munchausen)
who shot a humble bee and a butter
fly right and left: and, indeed. some
times a large hubble bee does, for an
instantaneous second. look uncom-
monty like distant advancing grouse;
Just as, when on the alert for part
ridges, the fieldfares, breasting the
hedge. often cause a nervous twitch
of the gun. Curious circumstances
sometimes occur out shooting. A
friend walking in line down a turnip
field saw a startled hare running fast
and straight toward him up a furrow.
He stood still. waiting for her to turn
but the hare, with it's peculiar vision
did not see him, and ran her head
plump against his shin, killing herself,
and very seriously bruising his leg.
A dispatch from Philadelphia, Dec
q. says: The forms" are closing and
the last take of copy is ending for
Walter w. Bell old-tim newspaper
man. shrewd real estate dealer and
surviving member of the thirty three
men who composed the Last Mans
brotherhood, organized almost half
a century ago. 1t was during the years
Immediately preceding the war of the
rebellion that the play Godfrey Dale
was staged at the Arch and Walnut
street playhouses. and in one of the
scenes a bottle of wine was placed in
wicker hamper and stored away to
be drunk by a last survivor. The
idea was quickly taken up by thirty
three newspaper men. one of each
state in the Union at that time. The
first meeting was on Feb. 16. 1856. One
of the thirty-three was Walter W.
Bell. then head of the Inquirer's COM
posing room. Mr.. Bell will be the sole
guest. if spirits be not present. at a
dinner of thirty-three covers on Sat
urday night. Feb. 16 next, and will
drink the wine put away so long ago
Memories will be present, but they will
be tender and not sad.
AT Ostende, says the Forum, the
admission fee is 2Of, which operates
TO exclude nearly all persons except
ing those who wish to play. whereas
are generally overrun with curious
spectators. Nevertheless, at the hight
of the season the gorgeous and spacious
salons of the Ostende Club are gen
orally crowded with men and women
in about equal proportions, and the
regulation evening dress of the men
and the toilettes and jewels of the
women make the scene about the ia
bles as dazzling as 1t is demoralizing
Roulette and trente ct quarante are
the favorite games, the former gen
orally for low and the latter for high
stakes. The minimum stake is ST. and
the maximum is 12,000f The maxi
mum limit is frequently played by the
more experienced and reckless gam
blers, and the total winnings and los
ings of a day or night are undoubt-
eddy of enormous proportions. just
what these proportions are is known
only to the inside management. Tha,
they are uniformly large can be read
lily inferred from the fact that it is
no uncommon thing to see a single
player win or lose $50. 000f at a single
sitting. With hundreds of players al
the tables, playing day and night. with
chips representing all the way from
81. to 1.000f.. it is not difficult to reach
the conclusion that upward of 1000.
000f. are daily lost and won at these
tables-and they are generally lost by
the players. No doubt the game is
fair and square enough. as such games
go. 1t is not necessary for the pro-
prietors of gambling establishments al
Ostende or elsewhere to take any I'M
fair advantage of their patrons in or
der to win their money. Their main