The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The death of Theodore Butkievitch
was recently reported from Budapest
He was once one of Russia's most bril-
liant artists. For twenty-four years he
was a prisoner in the Siberian lead
mines on a charge of insulting Alexan-
der II. He finally escaped and after
numberless sufferings reached Buda-
pest. He met sad end. being found
frozen to death on the pavement.
Reginald d'Iberville, eighth Baron
de Longueuil, of Longueuil, in the
province of Quebec, is the holder of the
only Canadian title in existence 1t
was granted by Louis XIV, in 100,
when Canada was under French rule,
and 1t was confirmed by Queen Victo-
ria in 1880. The present baron is 43
years OF age; he succeeded to the title
on the death of his brother in 1898.
Germany proposes to forbid the en-
ployment of saccharine and other
sweetening matter except when IL is
recommended for therapeutic purposes.
The sale of the substance will be per-
mitted only by chemists and other
specially authorized persons. Even in
these instances it will be subjected to
a consumption tax of $40 per kilogram.
This new law will go into effect in
April. 1902
An annual nightingale competitive
concert is held in various cities of ia
pan. This curious exhibition takes
place every year in April. The main
feature of the quaint recreation is to
bring together some tame nightingales
OIL melodlous voice, according to the
accepted standard of the connoisseurs,
and to let each of them sing in turn.
by this singing the grade of the song
ster is determined.
"A test of a cannon that throws a
shell designated to scatter oil on bois-
ferrous waves was made by F. F. Kauf-
mann, of Camden, in the Delaware
river near RiVerton. The shell is of
wood and conical in shape. 1t contains
two gallons of fish oil. At one end of
the projectile is a vent. This is COW
cred with paper, which is blown off as
the shell leaves the piece, allowing the
Oil to escape. In this way it is the
purpose of the inventor to calm a rough
sea for the distance of a mile, MAX
ing a smooth path for a lifeboat to
make her way to disabled vessels.
North Carolina has a prison on
wheels. 1t is used for conin.ng the
convicts who are employed doing work
throughout the state, road making, etc.
In this way they can be conveyed any
where safely, and may stay in a spot
far from civilization as long as may
be required without danger of their es-
Gaping. The prison is two stories high.
1t is divided into a number of cells,
the floor of each being a bed and ac-
commodating two of the prisoners. In
to this cage they all go at night and
1T is securely locked up, thus rendering
1t impossible that any of them should
get away. When work is to be done
they are let out, of course, but when
travelling are safely shut in.
Both in the French and German
armies serious protests have been made
against the treatment of privates by
non commissioned officers. The brutal
ity of the petty officers in these con-
script armies very often beggars de-
scription, and as any protest is apt to
be taken as an attack upon the army
itself, public opinion is fettered in a
way that Englishmen or Americans
can hardly understand. In the forest
of Thorn, near the Russian frontier, a
German sergent has been convicted of
causing the death of a private during
swimming instructions by forcing him
to stay too long under water. Fifteen
months was all the penalty, but that
penalty was inflicted at all is consid-
cred a sign of progress.
The wooden church. with tower and
spire, built for the members of the
Baptist Communion of Santa Rosa,
Cal, was built from the wood of a
single tree. All the timber required for
its erection was taken from a single
redwood tree that grew in the
raiuhhnrhnAI he int af he
church was paneled and finished with
wood. and not a particle of plaster or
other similar material was used. More
over the floors, seating, pulpit, roof
and ceiling were all formed from ma
terial taken from the same tree, and,
after the church building was finished
in every particular, stuff enough was
taken from the tree to manufacture co.
600 shingles, besides a large quantity
of scantlings, joists and other fittings.
AT Wawona. the gateway of the
Yosemite. aged Tom Hill, the landscape
painter, is very ill. He has had third
stroke of paralysis, and, considering
that he is in his seventy-fifth year, the
worst is feared. When the season
opened, Mr.. HILL as had been his wont
for thirty-siX years, left Coronado,
where he dwells in the winter, and
went 10 mis- studio in the Yosemite. He
is we'll known for his pictures of the
Yosemite. He was trained in the art
schools of the East and gained honors
in Philadelphia, Boston and San Fran
cisco as figure painter before he went
to Paris in 1866 to study. He became
landscape painter. His Bonner
Lake" took the first medal at the Cen
tennial Exposition, and one of his Yose-
mites was awarded the first medal at
the exhibit of the Palette Club of New
York.
The doctor was talking about dys-
pepsia. says an exchange. THE very
things which a man who sufferes from
indigestion shouldn't eat are invaria-
bly, the things he Graves most" said
the man of medicine. Il have in mind
one of my patients with whom spa
ghetti is a passion. He would rather
eat spaghetti than anything else in the
world. and nothing in the world is so
bad for him, for his digestive appar-
atus is in very bad order. Yet that
man will occasionally go on what he
calls spaghetti debauch. He will fix
certain day, and for a week previous
he will touch no liquor of any kind,
will eat sparingly Of the most simple
foods and will take plenty of exercise