The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-09
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writer whose prophecies, told in the
form of thrilling novels, have caused
the world to wonder. 1t was his am
bition to complete his Tooth book by the
year 1910. The people Of Amiens in
tended to celebrate the event by dec
Grating the city.
referring to the difficulty of civiliz-
ing Sioux Indians, Miss Annie B. SEQ
Vile writes: THE government tried to
civilize these Indians by issuing wa
CONS. and they used them to feed the
ponies from; stoves, and they knocked
off the tops and used them over the
campfire; cows, and the Indian saw in
them what he had in the buffalo-meat
and ate them up"
The shrew was originally the shreW
mouse, which, when her young were
helpless, would fight desperately in
their defense, and so well known was
the courage of this little animal, which
would even go out of its way to seek
an enemy at times when the nest need
ed protection, that the word became
applied to a woman who was ever
ready to seek quarrel.
"A Kansas young man who is teach
ing in the Philippines writes home:
The children have learned to read and
write from the first reader, and are
better students than the American
children. They memorize everything.
The English spelling is much niolo.'
They don't sabe final e or ough,'
ton 'sion,' etc The natives are
friendly and hospitable The visitor
must always accept a cigor or ciga-
rette and a glass of wine. The senori-
tas smoke cigarettes and chew betel
Of ha ic ciT0uIp
and brief. They have solved the pro-
blem of comfort. The hombres wear
their only upper garment Tapping in
the breeze. Senior tt S, clothes re decnl=
lete at both ends, but wthal they are
becoming and sensible. The shoes are
always left at the door and the stock
ings are left at home
Mr.. Burke, the editor of The Gal
ena (Kan) Times, having gone to
Washington as Congressman Jackson's
private secretary, has appointed H. l..
Howe to run the paper in his absence.
Mr.. Howe publishes the following
unique "salutatory'' Our agreement
with Mr.. Burke is to the effect that we
shall continue to publish the Times
as a daily only so long as it is self-sup-
porting. We are to economic as much
as possibe-do our own type-setting,
read proofs, solicit advertising, run err
rands, clean our own spittoonS and
take in washing at night, but we are
not to forge the boss name to any
checks nor pawn any of the office fur
niture to meet expenses. In case we
are unable to make the daily pay we
are to discontinue it's publication and
print a weekly; If the weekly refuses
to earn it's living we are to pack the
stuff, store it in the. back room, no
tify our creditors and-hit. With this
brief prelude we assume the awful re-
sponsibility of printing a daily news
paper in Galena. The Wonderful City
That Jack Built hundred miles from
home and with just six bits in the
treasury"
In his recent lecture before the
Royal Geographical Society of London,
Sir Henry H. Johnston said that the
region of Victoria Nyanza in Africa, is
simply swarming with game. I'VE. saw
large herds of elephants first, then
many rhinoceroses, then literally count
less hartebeests, water buck, reedbuck,
Cobus antelopes. bastard hartebeests
and oribi. Herds of zebras would fol-
low the caravan, snorting and kick
ing up their heels. There were lions,
leopards, wart hogs, jackals and many
ostriches. Last of all, in the middle of
the Gwas Ngishu Plateau, where for
ests of acacia still fingered, and before
the elevation of the ground had led US
to the region of the confer, we came
upon giraffe; upon this five horned
giraffe, which appears to be a new spe-
cies of that remarkable animal and
apparently the common form of GIRAFFE
between Elgon on the west and Lake
Baringo, on the east. Seen from a dis
lance these giraffe appeared, when
adult, to be black and white, black with
white bellies and limbs. Here and there
monsters stood on the tops of large
anthills or small hillocks, sentries
posted to warn the feeding herds of the
approach of the CRATES only enemies
man and the lion. Yet so little had
man harassed these creatures during
recent years, since the plateau was d.
vested of its human inhabitants, the
Gwas 'Ngishu Nasal, by civil wars,
that these sentinels seem to have taken
little or no notice of our caravan. Feel
ing sure that there was something un-
like the ordinary giraffe about these
beasts l sanctioned the breaking of one
of our game regulations, and myself,
with the aid of Mr.. Doggett, secured
four specimens-two males and two fe-
males-for the British museum"
1t has been supposed that cats and
dogs, as well as other domestic ami
mails have some instructive insight for
the selection of certain plants. etc,
which are swallowed only in cases of
apparent illness, and which for them
may possess medicinal value. Some say
that the cause of dogs eating grass
is that the walls of the stomach be-
come surcharged with the digestive
acids, due to being fed with improper
foods SO that he seeks an artificial ir-
ritant which acts on the walls of the
stomach and causes flow of the acid.
Grass is the natural counter irritant
and the one the dog prefers. So he
chooses not smooth grass, but that
with prickly edges, which will tickle
the little vessels containing the acids.
If the dog cannot get grass he will
take hair, and, lacking hair, may swal-
low bits of stone or wood
The following interesting item from
New Haven, Conn, is published by the
New York World: Adams watchdog
has been found. He is in the depart
ment of geology at the Peabody Mu-
scum, and dog fanciers are invited to
call and look him over. All there Is to
nm, however, is the skeleton, but there
is good deal of that Not so much.
though, as there is to his name, His
name is "Dromocyon vorax."
Prof. Beecher, curator of the depart
ment Is putting the skeleton together
ana hitting the missing parts with arti-
hcial bones made of plaster.
why did Adam name il Droroocvon