The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


London Temperance hospital has existed
there have been only forty-five cases out
of a total of 1870 in-pauents in which
the use of alcohol has been found neces-
sary.
The chatting dish is among the most
ancient adjuncts to the culinary depart
ment of all nations II was in great de-
mand at the grand feasts given by the
wealthy citizens in ancient Rome. Some
OF these dishes have recently been found
among the ruins of Pompeii. They are
of exquisite workmanship.
Most of Morocco is more Oriental
than the Orient itself" but Tangier has
become modernized so much and so many
Christians live there that it is already
regarded as 'unclean" by the Moors. 1t
has telephones and electric lights and
most of the trade of the sultanate with
the outside world is done through the
port.
The name of the postoffice Half Rock
in Missouri, is not TO be accounted for
by any popularity of the physical fea-
lures of the place, as might be supposed.
1t seems that one of the first buildings
erected there was a general store, the
proprietor of which sold such bad sugar
that his customers declared it to be half
rock
Fifteen bushels of fax from Argen-
tina, South America. were sown as an ex-
pertinent in North Dakota last year, and
the result was so satisfactory that 5000
bushels will be sown this year on about
1900 acres of land. This flax is larger.
plumper and is said to contain several
per cent. more of oil than the native flax
The seed used in Argentina came orig
inally from Russia.
While John Regain of Abilene, Kan,
was out giving his hounds exercise the
other day the dogs started rabbit and
gave chase. Bunny ran straight for a
tennis court, lodged beneath a wire
screen with which the ground is sur
rounded and got away. The dogs did not
see the screen and crashed into it, one
animal worth $3.50 being killed and sew
eral put out of business. Meanwhile
"Br'er Rabbit, he lay low
IA humorous result of Emperor Will
liam's recent visit to England is evident
in the mustaches of the inhabitan of
the west end of London. That upward
and outward twist so associated with the
Kaiser's mustachc has been extensively
adopted, especially by those having pre-
tensions to military appearance. Inter-
views with west end BARRIERS reveal the
trouble they are encountering in trans
forming lifelong droops into upward
cuTls.
Ministers succeed each other in Italy
with remarkable rapidity. During the last
ten years-1S91 to 1901-there have been
thirteen nstrations-Crispi, then Ru
DIM, then Giolitti, Crispi again, and Ru-
DIM, who reconstructed his cabinet and
changed its programme four times; Pei
loux the head of two distinct successive
administrations; Saracco and now Fan
ardeli, whose tenure of Office is expected
to be very short.
-Flavel Danforth, a citizen of Spring
field, o., is a sworn foe of tobacco in all
its forms. When he went to vote at the
| recent election he found the polling place
| filled with tobacco smoke of many flaw
ors. He refused to vote until the judges
and clerks stopped smoking and the place
was aired. The precinct election officers
did not care to lay down their campaign
cigars, there was TO way to compel them
| and so Dr. Danforth disfranchised him
| self and refused to vote
The senior law class at Ann Arbor
| University gave an April fool dance
! which had some original features. Three
| chaperons who sat demurely in a corner
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Vacci Nation, and it was some time De-
| fore the guests learned that the stern
| looking females were only dummies. For
! the sixth dance the orchestra played
| Home, Sweet Home" turned out the
lights and left the hall. The mild punch
! served to thirsty dancers was changed
! during the evening to colored salt and
| water
In Sweden the state owns and cares
for over 100000 acres of forest lands.
Schools of forestry are maintained and
the timber lands are efficiently cared for
| by graduates of the schools, who under
stand how to farm the lands by prevent
| ing waste and proftably manufacturing
| the product of the forests, carefully re-
planting where trees are cut down. AS
a result of forestry managed all the
cost of schools and caretakers is defray-
| ed out of the product sold by the state
and the net profits are four times great
| er than the expenditure.
A dispatch from Buffalo says: A Japan
ese carpenter at the Exposition grounds
the other day astonished the workmen of
other nationalties by his skill with a
saw. At few minutes after the noon
bell had rung a group of big brawny
American, Scotch and Irish carpenters
! gathered near the japanese Pavilion for
lunch. One of the little Jap workmen was
| so busily engaged in finishing up a job
! of saving through a heavy beam that
| he paid no attention to the bell. The
| group at luncheon watched him with much
interest, and suddenly set up howl of
| laughter as they heard the unmistakable
screech of steel on steel, showing that the
little mans saw had run against a spike.
! The jap paid no attention to the laugh
ter and also no attention to the spike.
| He simply kept on saving, and a few
minutes later the beam fell to the
! ground in two pieces. The men immedi-
ately rushed to The spot to examine the
| cut, and found that the spike had been
! cut through as cleanly as with a cold
! chisel. They examined the foreigners
| saw, found that not a tooth was broken,
nor bit of edge dulled, and then took
| Off their hats and gave three rousing
| cheers for the nation that could bring
! forth a bit of metal like that saw, and
the man with the skill TO use it.
The German Antarctic expedition.
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