The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-18
ITEMS OF INrERE EST.

gyman, who for some reason is particu-
larly in demand at christenings, is the
authority for the statement.
A dispatch from Kokomo, Ind, says:
After being officially dead for 81 years,
James Foust formerly of this place, nov
| living on a farm adjoining that of Gen.
| Frederick Funston, near lola, Kan, IS
| here collecting evidence to prove himself
alive. In the Civil War Foust had all the
back part Of his skull torn off by a shell
| and was thrown on the dead heap" He
was supposed to have been with dead
comrades, but he recovered consciousness
and. pulling himself out of the pile of
dead crept beyond the lines in the dark
ness and became lost. He was listed with
the dead and the record dead" still
stands opposite his name on the military
rolls. Foust has been trying for several
years to get a pension. GeA. Funston's
father has taken up the case.
When a member of the royal family
comes to dinner it is a point of etiquette,
as all our readers know, says the London
News to provide none but the ilustrious
guest with finger bowl at the end of
banquet. The other diners must get on
somehow without that convenience. The
reason is a curious one. In early Geor-
| gian days one never knew who was loyal;
| every other man might be a Jacobite
| in his secret heart. Now it was piece
of Jacobite ritual whenever the toast of
The King was drunk secretly the COB
! let over any water that happened to be
by the drinker. This was supposed to
convert the toast into that of 1.-THE King
Over the Waters" the exiled Stuart at
| Rome or st. Germaine. By this becom-
ing known the court insisted that there
| should be no water within reach of any
guest and the prohibition still holds.
People of a superstitious turn of mind,
who believes that ill-luck is associated
with the number 10, may perhaps derive
| confirmation of their opinions from a
| study of the history of the Irish Hunt
| Corps, which formed part of the Imperial
| Yeomanry says the Baltimore Sun. The
| Hunt Corps was modified in Dublin on
Jan. Is, 1900 On March 10 it sailed for
South Africa, and on arrival at the Cape
was attached to the Thirteenth Battalion
of the Imperial Yeomanry On the oc-
| casion of their first encounter with the
| Beers IL men of the corps were killed,
and the rest were forced to surrender.
| The Thirteen Club might claim the Pope
| for one of theirs. When he was elected
| some of the superssitious faithful begged
| of him not to be the thirteenth Leo. Dur
| ing the last century of the seven Popes
! four were Plus by title, two Leo and one
| Gregory, and il was semi-officially an
bounced that when Cardinal Pecci was
chosen Pope he wa 20 become Gregory
XVII. But he defed augury and styled
| himself Leo XIII.
The discussion over new divorce bill
now agitating Italy has proved to be a
fruitful source of evil passions and I'M
| charitabl eness. The church, of course, is
| opposing it with all it's powers, and al
though many of the Liberals and all Rad
icals passionately desire a change of the
| aw they have hitherto been unsuccess-
| full in their efforts. In these circum-
| stances, perhaps, a womans opinion and
point of view may be interesting. A
| young Italian, lady about to be married,
| says a Rome correspondent, considera-
bly, startled friend by saying what
| pity it was that there was no divorce
law. In answer to her friends Mortified
expressions she exclaimed: mo, no, ii
| is not for the reason you think, but be-
cause the possibility of breaking a bond
makes it more dear and more durable.
Marriage is always a chain, but under
these circumstances a chain of roses.
! l wish for divorce to render matrimony
| attractive; l want my husband not to
choose me once, but every moment, and
so augment the poetry of marriage and
the bonds of Home, Sweet Home
The Irish Great Seal had on the OBJ
crowned, bearing the ball and scepter,
| with justice on one side and religion on
the other. On the lower portion were the
| royal arms. and rich border surround
| ed the seal. On the reverse was the
| Queen on horseback the horse fully ca
| parisoned, with a plume of ostrich feath>
ers floating over the headstall, and led
| by bare-headed page. On the rest was
a harp surrounded by shamrocks Around
he mo rgir Of . he cal
each divided from the other by rose and
rose leaves, Victoria Del Gratia Britain
| niarum Regina, Fidel Defensor." The old
| Great Seal now passes to Lord Ashbourne,
the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, as a per-
| quisite upon the accession of King Ed
ward VII to the throne. The new SOW
ereign on commencing to reign makes an
order for the using of a new Great Seal
and the breaking up of the old one. The
breaking up" consists in the sovereign
| giving the seal a gentle tap with ham
mer, after which it is supposed to be
broken up and has lost all it's value.
There has been considerable diversity
of opinion concerning the ethnic afinities
of the Slavs. and Zaborowski returns to
the subject in a recent number Of the
Bulletins ct Memories de Ia Societe d. An
thropologie," says Nature. His view IS
that the Slavs belong to the same race
as the Celts of French anthropologists
that is, being brunei brachycephals, they
are members Of the Alpine race Their
original home was that which is still oc-
cupied by the Southern Slavs between the
Danube and the Adriatic, and they were
allied to the inhabitants of the Terramara
of Emilia. The Northern Slavs migrated
along the valley of the Vistula and reach
ed the shores of the Baltic where they
developed a civilization and introduced in
this region the practice of burning their
dead, which was previously unknown
there; they also brought with them met
ais and glass. Wherever the Savs migrat-
ed they introduced the custom of incin-
Grafton, and carried with them the char
acteristic metal head rings the ends of
which terminated in sigmoid curves The
settlement of Venede, on the Baltic, dates
back TO the fourth century b. c. The
Baltic Slavs were profoundly affected by
the expansion of the Germans, about the
beginning of our era, but apparently not
until the eighth century A. d. did Slavs
colonize Northern Russia.
"A London magazine has awarded the
prize for an original epigrammetic defini-
ton of the early Victorian girl and the
up-to-date girl to Lady Nora Fitz Her
bert who characterizes the contrast in
these four terms: Affectation, isolation
vs.. oStentation, emancipation. Other def
laANt