The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

present Archbishop of Canterbury
about the dispensations of Providence.
and was rather boring him. To illus
trate her argument she related to him
how an aunt of hers had been going
to America; she had decided the date
of departure and taken her passage
when at the last moment she was pre-
vented from going. The ship even
tualy sunk and all the passengers and
crew were drowned and the lady looked
upon this as a special dispensation of
Providence, and inquired of the arch
bishop if he did not think so, too. 81
don't know your aunt" was the reply.
Edwin B. Drew, commissioner of
customs at Tien-Tsin, China, now on
leave of absence in this country, thinks
it a mistake for the missionaries to go
back to North China, where the peo
pie are hostile to them. II believe" he
says, that they have too much lib
lowed to live anywhere except at the
treaty ports. The missionaries go
everywhere to establish schools,
churches and hospitals, and since the
Chinese do not like this, the situation
is full of danger. The missionaries
should not be allowed to purchase land
when opposed by the Chinese. They
do good, but some of them are more
jealous than discreet. 1 believe that
the governments, in a friendly way,
should cCrtail their liberties
"A Boston man proposes, it is said,
to erect a fifty-four- story building on
Broadway, New York, says the Column
bia State. That will be an edifice 700
feet high, which is equal to the COM
bined hight of the Manhattan Life In
surance and Park Row buildings, now
the highest in the world. The plan
is to erect thirty-five stories as one
building and on top of it another of
nineteen stories. The scheme has been
pronounced feasible by the engineers
and there appears to be no reason why
1t should not be carried out since the
promoter is said to have the necessary
financial backing. That such a plan
should even be seriously considered
demonstrates the growth of New York
and the great value of ground space in
cident to the crowding of the city.
Seven of England's queens were
never crowned. The first was Margaret
Four of Henry Wits wives never wore
the royal insignia. Henrietta, the wife
of Charles l., refused the honor be-
cause she was French Princess and
a Roman Catholic, and she declined to
take part in a state function which
would compel her to partake of the
sacrament according to Church of
England rites. Caroline of Brunswick
is the last and most remarkable in
stance of the uncrowned English
queens. George " would not allow
her to share his coronation. She was
not permitted to be present in West
minister abbey at ALL Repulsed from
all the entrances, she returned to her
house to die within three weeks of a
violent fever brought on by months OF
fearful excitement.
"A dispatch from Reading, Dec. 25,
says an extraordinary lunar phenome-
non was witnessed here this morning,
by many people, between $50 and S
o'clock. Across the face of the moon
and extending beyond it's edges, in
four directors, was a cross. The for
nation of the cross was very distinct
and, apparently, was made by streaks
Of light resembling the northern lights,
or aurora borealis. The appearance of
this cross in the sky on Christmas
made a great impression on many of
those who saw it. Some people here
looked upon it as an omen foretelling
the coming, shortly, of some extraor-
binary event, possibly the second COM
ing of Christ, or. perhaps, the end of
the world. The cross in the sky was
widely discussed to-day.
1t is curious that in Edinburgh,
where the Sabbatarian element is so
strong. the ministers and elders should
be charged with being the chief Of
tenders in the matter of using cabs
on Sunday. Yet the cabmen's mis-
sionary himself is the authority for
the statement Ministers of churches.
he says have standing orders for Sum
day; on Sacrament Sunday nearly ev-
cry cab in town was in motion. The
influence of this traffic on the Edin-
burgh cabmen, according to the mis-
sionary, is bad Sabbath work steels
their hearts against religion; their
physical, moral intellectual and spir.
itual beings are intellectually injured.
and they mostly break down into hab-
its of slovenliness, recklessness and
intemperance. Something of this. at
least. is hardly surprising if the Sun
day fare commonly offers cabby a
tract in lieu of a tip.
The latest fad among the fashion
able women of the country is camphor
eating. The idea seems to prevail that
TINS gum, taken in small and regular
does, gives a peculiar creaminess of
complexion and scores of young Wo-
men buy it for this purpose The habit
is. moreover, very difficult to cast off
for camphor produces a mild form of
eXhilaration and stupefaction ana in
many instances where very large doses
have been swallowed the habit has be-
come sort of slavery. These camphor
eaters all have a dreamy, dazed and
very listless air, and in most of them
there is an ever present longing to
sleep, or, at least, to rest. Extreme
weakness generally follows the TAX.
ing of regular doses, and cases have
been seen where it has been almost
difficult to tell the effect from those of
alcohol. As to the complexion, II a
CHASTITY pallor be an improvement.
camphor certainly produces it.
Profit sharing as a solution of the
labor problem has made no headway
in recent years, and has rather gone
backward. but the Bourne cotton mills
at Tiverton, r. l., continue to practice
It, says the Springfield Republican. and
the directors have just voted to keen
the plan in force another year. Alto
gether rs semi-annual dividends have
been distributed among the wage-earn-
ers. the average being about s16 ner
cent year of the amount of cash div
ldends paid to stockholders. That is IN
say. in the division of profits. after
paying regular market wages. the en-
ployes have received about ss.5o "a
every 800 received by the stockhold-
ers. OF course, the division spreads ont
pretty thin among a large number oS
employees, but it is additional to what