The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

fellow named Andreas Jungokwicz, who
had been beggar for nearly forty years.
died recently, aged "a. When his wretch
ed garrett was searched government bonds
worth 100000 were found The old man
left will bequeathi this money to the
city of Pressburg for the founding of a
Hungarian university. Now his relatives
are contesting the validity of the docu-
ment.
The trustees OF Harvard University
have purchased about 400 acres OF land
in New Hampshire, to be used as a camp
where surveying and railroading will be
taught during the summer months. The
land is near Center Harbor, and borders
upon Squam lake. The land is especially
adapted for topographic and hydrographic
work. During the first summer the stud
ents will probably live in tents, but
house will be built to serve as dining
room and kitchen.
-ClevelaTid has a home gardening as
ISOLATION, which encourages children to
cultivate flowers at home. Last spring
the association distributed to children 90,
600 penny packages of flower seeds, &C
companied with printed instructions how
to prepare the soil, plant and water. The
teachers supplemented these instructions
by talks. In the fall exhibitions were
held in many schools, which revealed the
fact that about rs per cent. of the efforts
of the children were successful.
Consul Warner reports from Leipsic
that a new method of street car adver-
Using was started in that city on Jan.
l last In every street car are hung
copies of bi-weekly newspaper, a jour
nal which contains advertisements, rail-
road time tables, few jokes, and notices
of the performances to be given at the
different theaters. The newspapers are
fastened on racks which are hung upon
hooks in the corners of the cars. The
passengers have the privilege of taking
the papers down and reading them.
The benefit to accused persons of hav-
ing first-class lawyers was strikingly IL
Illustrated in the United States Court at
Wheeling, w. Va, one day last week.
Three friendless and moneyless tramps
were on trial charged with having rohhed
guilty, but had no lawyers, so the court
selected three leading legal lights to de-
fend them. One of the lawyers had been
Attorney General of the state. Witnesses
for the prosecution were skillfully ques-
TONED and most eloquent appeals were
made to the jury on behalf of the accus-
ed, all of whom were acquitted.
The most delicate pair of scales in the
United States are in the Treasury De-
partment's bureau of weights and meas
ures. So delicate are these scales that
they will weigh accurately a ten-millionth
part of gram. They are so sensitive
that the warmth given off by the body
of a person approaching them near
enough to open the glass case or to shift
the weights would expand the balance
arms and produce an appreciate error
in the results. Therefore they have been
so constructed that they may be operated
at a distance of twenty feet. The read
ings are made through small telescope
For quick responses to constituents
with final and satisfactory results Con-
gresham Shafroth of Colorado believes
he holds the record. A Denver man tel
egraphed to him at o'clock in the after
noon to attend to some business requiring
his influence in a certain department of
the government. At 8 D. m. the same aft
ernoon Mr. Sanfroth was on his way to
the department. At 4 p. m. the business
was successfully transacted and a tele-
gram was sent at once announcing the
facts to the Denver man. At p. M,
just as the Congressman was going to
dinner, he received a telegram from the
happy constituent expressing his JOY,
gratitude-a and wonder.
Modern weapons, throwing their pro-
jectiles so much faster and further than
did even their immediate predecessors,
are changing the appearance of warfare
in a most remarkable way, and promise
soon to deprive it of almost all it's value
as theme for poets and a spectacle for
painters, says the New York Times. The
brilliant uniforms of the past have be-
come too dangerous for real soldiers to
wear, and the impressive evolutions of
men and horses in great masses will prob
ably never be seen again on or near a
field of battle. And now it is announced
that the white tents. from time immemo-
rial an inevitable part in its gentler mani
ifestations, are also to vanish, and in
their place will come tents of the ugly
hue known as khaki, At any rate, the
Washington Post says that all the white
tents at the different army posts through
out the United States, and all such tents
issued to the National Guard in the va
rious states, have been called in by the
quartermaster general and for them will
be substituted tents of the color that
makes as little contrast as possible with
the ordinary landscape. These innova-
tons viii cause little artistic regret,
but it can hardly be regarded as a bad
thing that war is losing the incidental
beauties II once possessed, for with the
beauties will go the romance and the
decisions that went with it, and the I'm
lovely remainder will be seen as ii is, the
sternest and cruelest of necessities.
We learn with qualification, says the
London Saturday Review. that complete
provision has at last been made in Lon
don for teaching practical Chineses. We
are on the eve Of great changes in China.
and one feature of the change will be the
Improvement of communication, the re-
moval of obstacles to commerce and travel
in the interior. The need of being able
to communicate freely with the natives
will be greater in proportion as points of
contact are multiplied The kernel of
those facilities is the native teacher.
There are already at oxford, Cambridge.
Liverpool and Kings College, London,
Chinese chairs and professors-some of
the latter of high repute; but the nature
of their teaching is necessarily literary
and academic. Every one at all acquaint-
ed with the subject is aware that a proper
knowledge Of Chinese can only be acquir-
ed from native of the country The
Russians recognized this years ago, when
they established their Chinese chair at
st. Petersburg and attached to it Chinese
teachers Russian students, from the
course there, have arrived in China fit
ted to speak with the people and to hold
their own. Paris followed suit. Berlin
adopted similar course and had accord