The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-27
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you ever HOUced fellows VINO are other
| wise dressed Immediately wearing old
belts. soiled and discolored? One of
| my regular customers came in this
| morning and informed me with long
| face that his wife had positively de-
| manded that he discard the belt he had
| been wearing for five or six years and
! buy new one. / showed him several,
| but he seemed dissatisfiedsThey look so
| horribly new he said. Haven't you
got one that is little shabby and
| shop-Worn% l finally unearthed one
that had been knocking around for
long time. He took this and put it on,
| after having crumpled IL up as much
| as possible. I don't suppose you want
| this / said, picking up the old belt
! that he had discarded. Yes, / do he
replied. quickly. He made me wrap
1t up and carried it away with him"
-One of the claims made by England
| before the Venezuelan Boundary Arbi-
/ tration Court at Paris is that Guiana
| was virtually discovered by Sir Walter
Raleigh, says the Chicago Tribune.
| The trip on which this claim is based
| is that made in 1895, twelve years after
| his visit to North America. On his re-
| turn from Virginia Sir Walter brought
| with him some tobacco he had obtained
| from his governor, Lane who taught
| MIN to smoke. When Raleigh's SER
| want first saw his master smoking he
| threw some water on him, thinking
that he was on fire. Raleigh taught
| Queen Elizabeth to smoke, and under
| their lead it became the fashion. James
| l. who hated Raleigh and who also
| hated tobacco. having written an essay
| against the weed imprisoned the nav
igator and then had him executed.
While in the prison Raleigh distilled
| an elixir of life, which he gave to his
| friends. This was supposed to prolong
| life, and he claimed that he had dis.
covered its use while in Guiana. The
elixir is mentioned in the documents
before the arbitration court as proof
of Raleigh's visit
1t is just possible that the long
talked of scheme of connecting the bay
of Biscay with the Gulf of Lyons by
means of a ship canal may come to a
head. A commission has been ap-
pointed to visit England and Germany
for the purpose of examining the con-
struction and working Of the Manches-
ter ship canal and the Baltic ship ca
nal. At present there is access by the
Gironde and Garonne from Bordeaux
to Toulouse, and Toulouse is connect
ed with the sea at Narbonne by the
old Languedoc canal, 14S miles in
length, but which is only suitable for
small vessels. The project as it stands
involves the transformation of this
waterway into one capable of permit
ting the passage of the largest ships
of war. 1t has several times been con-
demned as impracticable by the COM
missions that have considered it dur
ing the past twenty years. The inn
menSe cost of construction, the high
level of 600 feet that has to be sur
mounted at Naurouse, the compare
lively small saving of time as COM
pared with the route via the Straits
of Gibraltar. and the prohibitive ma
ture of the dues which it would be nee
essary to impose have tended 10 don-
vince many experts that the scheme,
while practicable, would hardly be
profitable either on commercial or
strategic grounds. Still the country
seems to be hankering after a great
waterway.
The doctors of Leipsic and other
German cities are on strike because
of the low fees they are compelled to
accept. 1t will be no wonder If the
lawyers of Austria should follow their
example, if they are compelled to obey
the new law just passed to regulate
their fees. At the rates imposed by
this latest act the American bar would
go out of business, or get 1T declared
lawyers may charge a maximum of
81 rs on all cases involving less than
what is approximately in our money
$21. This includes all the legal SER
vices except the actual trial, for which
lawyers are paid so much per diem. On
lawsuits involving more than $40 and
less than $406 the lawyers are allowed
IS. Al. Then up the charges increase
at the rate of forty-one cents for ev-
adj in hA Of
amount involved up to a total Of $780,
1913. Above that total the rate of in
crease is twenty cents for each addi-
tional $20S. Provision is made by
which additional fees may be paid, but
they must be agreed upon in writing
before the case is taken up to court
and submitted to the judge, who has
the power to rescind them. Already
an organization has been formed in
Vienna to break the law or break the
government.
The increasing number of foreign
ers attending the German universities
is troubling the native students of the
fatherland. They claim and perhaps
not without reason, that as the major
ity of these students are more or less
ignorant of the language they, in con-
sequence, absorb a large part of the
time and attention of the professors
and their assistants. The professors
on their part claim that a large pro-
portion lack preliminary training, and
thus retard the progress of the classes
in which they take part. No mention
is made of the fact that both of these
objections would be needless IL the ma
circulation were made harder Yet this
is what would suggest itself to any one
that the remedy lies with the au-
thorities, and not in a succession of
growls about being elbowed out of
house and home. AT present the names
of not less than $500 foreigners are
on the books OF the different institu-
lions. OF these, 1913 are at Berlin, $40
at Leipsic. 232 at Munich. 149 at Held
elberg, 141 at Halle 140 at Freiburg
and 102 at Gottingen. The Russians
are most strongly represented with III
students, the result, of course, of the
troubles in their own country. In adj
dition to the Russians. there are 507
Austrians 256 Swiss. 157 Englishmen,
323 Americans. 154 Asiatics (mostly
from Japan. IS Bulgarians, so Dutch
men. AZ Frenchman and IS Turks.
The use of hypnotism as a means
of legal investigation was recently
sanctioned by the Client Court of APP
peal in regard to a case known to the
Belgians as the "Borreman trial, which
IL was found impossible to elucidate
by means of ordinary evidence. In the
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