The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ the mule pant mas Deen discovered his
plant is a species OF sagebrush, with small
leaves. which grows to a hight of about
three feet and is found not only in Mex
| leo but also in Texas, Wyoming and Ne
braska 1t grows in mountainous regions
and is said TO contain 40 per cent. or rub
| ber
Mrs. Henrietta Dunn of Kent Island,
Mo, recently gave a party in honor of
her two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Brown and
| Mrs. Margaret Weeks. Mrs. Dunn is the
| mother of twenty-five children, Mrs.
Weeks has twenty-one and Mrs. Brown
has eleven. making total of fifty-seven,
all of whom are alive. Fifty-one of them
were at the party.
| Robbers broke into a saloon at Wal
dron, Ind, and found Bartender Melvin
! asleep on a cot i'm the back room. He
was terrorized into silence while the
thieves rihed the cash register RECALLED
! themselves with the most expensive
drinks in the place and filed their peck
cts with fire cigars. Then they made him
walk out of town with them half a mile.
where they took his overcoat and watch
and let him return.
-Four thousand tons of a substance as
yet nameless were landed at Philadelphia
| the other day by a British steamer For
/ want of better name ii was entered as
| flint which it somewhat resembles. 1t is
! torn from the bottom of the ocean ana
| cast by the rising tides upon the shores
OF Normandy. BY accident it has been
discovered that a chief component of this
substance is slicates, which give it great
value for glazing purposes.
DR.. Temple began his career as a
bishop on the biggest Episcopal throne in
| Europe. 1t is at the Exeter Cathedral,
says the St James Gazette. Composed
OF the very best oak, with magnificent
carving, executed by the most expert de-
| sgners of the day, the throne scars up
ward in beautiful tapering pinnacles
which rise up to the lofty roof of the sa-
cred edifice. The throne is not only the
| biggest but one of the Oldest. 1t was
| saved from destruction by the Puritans
by the ingenuity of the Cavaliers, who,
when the Roundheads marched on Exc
| ter, pulled down the throne and divided
| it into 365 pieces-one for every day of the
| year. The pieces were safely secured in
many hiding places and when peace was
| restored the pieces were put together
again without the aid of d single nail.
AT the annual dinner of the Connecti-
cut Typothetae, which took place recent
! ly in New Haven, w. H. Marigold of
Bridgeport, in responding to a toast on
! THE Typothetae," told a new story of
| an attempt to explain the meaning of the
term. Mr.. Marigold is a member of the
| school board of Bridgeport, and when one
day teacher said to him that it was her
custom to put unfamiliar words on the
| blackboard each day for her scholars to
define, and asked shim for a contribution,
he gave her the word "Typothetae." She
! wrote the word where all could see it,
| and asked for explanations of its mean
| ing. There was no reply for consider
able time, but finally a little girl in the
rear of the room put up her hand, and
said: please, ma'am, it's the name of
| the Greek nobleman that married Mrs.
| p. T. Barnum."
| Col. Foster the quartermaster gener-
al OF the British army in Canada, says
that the British officers in South Africa
| We're superdilious in manner and harsh
| toward the colonial contingents. But Col.
| Otter, who commanded the Canadian
contingent in South Africa, does not agree
| with Foster. He says he found the Brit
! ish officer gentleman and "a soldier, and
that he had been treated even with defer
| ence Col. Lessard, another Canadian who
| was in South Africa, seems inclined to
| agree with Foster. He says, while he
was well treated by. the British officers,
| it is not his intention to say anything
| about the manner in which his regiment
| Jared in South Africa at the hands OF the
British army officers. No one had COM
| planned to him, but, for that matter, no
one dare say anything about it, one Off
Ger of a regiment must not run down an
other officer
"A dispatch from Babylon, L. l., says:
Miss Ellen Leek. 65 years old, died to-
| day Her death ends the life of a per-
son who attracted much attention in med
| ical circles. She never heard "A sound
| never spoke a word. never walked a step,
| and the doctors believe she hardly knew
| the sensation of pain, pleasure or any
! thing else. The heart and other organs
of the trunk always seemed to be nor
| NAL but there appeared to be a total
| absence of brain activity, beyond what
| was absolutely essential to life. She new
er was able to feed herself and through
out her long life had to be fed as an
infant. The nearest approach to anything
| normal she is said ever to have attained
was when child she learned to creep
and for years moved about as does an
| ordinary infant OF eight or twelve
months. For years she had not been out
of bed, except when she was lifted out
| her case was considered most remarka-
| BILE because, while cases of such an at
! Fiction are not rare in children, the suf-
ferers seldom live more than few
! years.
Capt William j. Reed, of the steam
! ship Star of New Zealand relates the fol-
lowing incident in letter published in
the last number of Nature. The letter
Is the result of a doubt expressed as to
the truth of the statement by Mr. John
Perry, to whom Sir William Cory, the
owner of the vessel, had related the story,
which had been told him by the captain
| The albatross referred to, says the Cap
tain, was supposed to be killed by being
stranged with Irvine tied as tightly as
possible around the neck. The beak was
closed and tied and the legs crossed be-
hind the tail and tied. 1t was then wrap
ped in an old meat cloth and put with
three other birds IN the return box at
the end of the port snow trunk. 1t re-
manned there for certainly not less than
ten days at a temperature from zero TO
Is degrees Fair. The snowboy complained
| that the bird grunted wnen he went near
1t with his lamp, and MIR. Coombs. the
first ref. engineer brought it out.
When put down on the engine room floor
IL could move its neck about and open
| its beak and the eyes were open and
lifelike. The lower half of the body and
legs were frozen hard. The fastening on
the beak had come Off. 1t was alive for
two hours after being taken ont nj wac