The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

English papers report serio- comic
incident which occurred at Shakes
peares Church, Stratford-o Avon on
a recent Sunday. Upon the conclu-
sion of morning service nearly 100 Wis
itors, principally Americans, proceeded
to the chancel to inspect the tomb of
the poet. Shortly after ahey were
Joined by the vicar, the Rev. g. Ar
buthnot, who, displaying a small
American coin, expressed the pain and
annoyance he felt at finding several
similar coins included in the mornings
offertory. They represented, he said,
the smallest possible value in Ameri-
ca, and were utterly worthless in Eng
land. He concluded by offering to re-
store the coins to their contributors,
but, strange to relate, none of the Wis
itors seemed anxious to claim them.
Prairie dogs are becoming an I'M
mitigated pest in the West, and their
determination is ardently desired, but
difficult of accomplishment. says the
Springfield Republican. Prof. Lantz of
the Kansas State Agricultural College,
in communication to Gov. Stanley,
says that the prairie dogs are destroy
ing the ranges in Western Kansas and
Nebraska and Eastern Colorado, cattle
preferring to go without grass to eat
ing that which has been run over by
the dogs. In Kansas alone the prairie
dogs occupy million and a quarter
acres. Prof Lantz, who had charge
of the expenditure of $4,000 appropriate
ed by the last Kansas Legislature to
be used in finding some means to kill
off the pests, has experimental with
poiSonS for six months, but as yet has
failed to find any that is successful.
Minister Powell writes from Port au
Prince to call the attention of United
States manufacturers of chemical fire
engines to the market in Hayti. He
says: In this capital, as well as in all
of the principal cities of the Republic,
the houses are chiefly constructed of
wood, which in this climate soon be-
comes like finder. needing but a match
to start large and destructive con-
f1agration, that sometimes sweeps half
the city before the flames are mas
tered The cities have some good en-
gines, but on account of the limited
supply of water they are practically
useless. The loss from fire is so great
Ranging from $4,000 to 500, O0O-that
insurance companies have refused to
accept risks anywhere in the republic.
will be glad to aid our manufacture
ers in any way by calling the atten-
ton of the government TO the benefits
to be derived from chemical fire en-
gines.
The interesting and important fact
is impaired to us by the Philadelphia
newspapers, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch, that the Bethlehem hornets are
building their nests in that gauzy, It's
sue-paper style which predicts an open
winter. We call the fact important
Nv he Of CT H1f.fi
perienced last winter this sign if COR
roborated by the other prophetic nat
ural phenomena permits a safe conclu-
sion by the rule of contraries. Last
winter the hornets nests, goose bones,
muskrats' holes and so on all agreed
that the winter was to be severe and
shut in by snow drifts. Yet it had
less snow and less zero weather than
any winter for years. Now If the
Bethlehem hornets are corroborated by
the Berks county goose bone and the
Connecticut river muskrats to the eff
feet that it is going to be an open win
ter the people will be on the safe side
by getting their listers ready and lay
ing in an extra stock of coal.
An interesting jubilee has been re-
Gently held in Vienna by the Armenian
Mechitar congregation to celebrate the
two hundredth anniversary of their
foundation by the Abbot Mechitar
Their wanderings before they settled
in Vienna were manifold. The abbot
first established himself with his fol-
lowers in Constantinople, where he
printed religious works. After two
years he removed to the Morea, but
as, eleven years later, war broke out
between the Turks and the Venetian
Republic, he took refuse at Venice.
Hearing that a fiourishing Armenian
colony had established itself at Am
sterdam, he removed with his scholars
to that place where he published the
entire Bible in the Armenian language.
He died in 1749 at the age of IA. After
his death a part of the congregation
removed to Trieste, whence they were
driven by Napoleon, who regarded
them as Austrians. They fled to Vi
enna where Francis l bestowed upon
them an ancient monastery. In 1887
they rebuilt it, and are now engaged
in decorating and restoring their
church.
"A Berlin cable says: To teach the
masses how to fight tuberculosis,
which annually kills 100000 Germans,
the Imperial Department of Health is
circulating millions of leaflets explain
ing the best methods of prevention.
The Imperial authorities lay the usual
stress on the advisability of boiling
meat and sterilizing milk. They as
sert that the surest safeguard against
tuberculosis consists in Strengthening
the body and making it germ proof by
the use of substantial food and absti-
nence from intoxicating liquors. Ath-
letic exercises are named as invalua-
BILE, football and bicycling being espe-
cially recommended. Women are
warned TO cast, aside tight corsets and
belts and dresses with trains All per-
sons are advised to go to bed early
and to use the best apartments in the
house for bedrooms, which should be
cold. Beer, strong tea, coffee and in
veterate smoking are tabooed. Kissing
is declared a pernicious habit. A
smoke-laden atmosphere is named
named among the conditions which
foster bacteria.
According to the report of the COM
missioners of fisheries, game, and for
ests OF the state of New York, lob
sters grow very slowly, and wheu eat
ing lobster we are consuming the pro-
duction of several years of develop
ment, says the Spectator. From two
inches to three inches is the maximum
growth of the first year. In two years
this has increased to five inches or sew
en- inches II food is plentiful. At the
end OF five years the lobster may be
ten inches long. 1t is also fairly GER
tain that the female lobster only lays
eggs once In two years, because IL
mouths in the alternate Veaf.g and has