The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-13


orial Medical Library of Indianapolis
with 1000 volumes of medical works,
some of them of rare value. The Ii
brary was established as a memorial
to his father, who was one of the pio-
neer doctors of the city.
The statue of Queen Victoria which
is to be placed in front of the Ontario
Parliament building, in Toronto, is a
replica of the one erected in Hong
Kong, the work of Signor Reggi The
pedestal which has been designed by
the contractors, will be of Canadian
granite feet high, 10 feet long and
10 feet wide. There will be bronze pam
els on both sides representing scenes
in the late Queens life. One will rep
resent her first council meeting. The
other has not been definitely settled.
but will probably be the golden Jubilee
ceremony in Westminster Abbey
Gen. Wade Hampton knew how to
meet hot summer, and he taught sew
eral senators how to make the cam
palgn when the dog star is in the as
cendant. Gen. Hampton went a-fishing
in the mountain streams of North Caro-
lima, Tennessee or Virginia. He angIed
Tor the rainbow trout, and very sue
cessfully. The instant the fish was
landed, it was dressed, and a chunk of
sweet fresh butter, a pinch of salt,
a shower of pepper and a diminutive
rasher of breakfast bacon were placed
inside. A fish shuck, out of which the
roasting ear had just been taken. was
procured, and the trout, thus prepared,
put IN place of the ear. the shuck
smoothed down and tied at the silk
end. Then this shuck, with its pre-
cious cargo, was put in the embers and
covered with live Goals until the fish
was done to an exact turn, the roast
ing ear was toasted before the fire, and
a corn hoe-cake, such as only our coll
ored fellow citizens know how to man.
ufacture, was brought into requisition.
The fish must swim three times-once
in water before he is captured, once
in butter after he is roasted, and again
IN whisky after 1t is eaten. No won
der Gen. Hampton enjoys a green old
age
Hindu dancing bears no similarity
to that of the European. Stage acting
in the shape of comedies and tragedies
IS hardly to be found among the Hin
dus. The chief characteristic of their
dancing is their dress, which very Of
ten is horrible and grotesque to look
at. Their dances consist in wrestling
jumping, and moving the shoulders.
heads, hands, legs, as if agitated by
violent commissions, to the sound of
musical instruments. The Hindue taste
for music is so marked that there is
not single gathering. however small
whlch has not some musicians at it's
head. The instruments on which they
play are, for the most part, clarinets
and trumpets; they have also cym-
balls and several kinds of small drums
The sounds produced by these instru-
ments are far from pleasing, and may
even appear hideous to European ears
The mattuva, or conductor, is the most
remarkable of all the musicians In
beating time he taps with his fingers
on narrow drum. AS he beats, his
shoulders, head. arms, thighs, and in
fact all the parts of his body perform
successive movement, and simultane-
ously he utters inartculate cries, thus
animating the musicians both by voice
and gesture.
The exact sum of money paid for
the Columbia in 1899 is not known,
says Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly,
but the sum has been estimated at not
less than $150,000. Without a doubt ii
cost over $4,000 to carry her through
the season; probably the sum was
much greater than this. In the first
part of the season her owners paid
$4,000 for three suits of sails. And
then there was the Defender, which
acted as trial horse to the Columbia.
1t cost just $4,000 for her to be a, trial
horse, but it was paid without a groan.
And now for the present season: 1t
Will have been noticed that the con-
struction of each cup defender has cost
infinitely more than it's predecessor.
The fact is. the Herreshoffs have
charged several thousands of dollars
for each minute of extra speed. Fol-
lowing those deductions the Constitu-
ton has unquestionably cost not a cent
less than 900 to build. She has a
large tender, the steamboat Mount
Hope, and a crew of sixty-eight men.
She has three or four suits of sails, ex-
ira spars. and the like, and she will
go into dry dock before the cup races.
Outside of the 100000 Epent on her
construction she will probably cost the
Belmot syndicate about $4,000. Then
there is the cost of her trial horse, the
Columbia. She will carry a crew of
forty men, each of whom will receive
$35 a month in wages. That makes 81
200 a month; $1,000 for the five months
she will be in commission. The wages
of Capt. Barr and the first and second
mates will aggregate for those five
months $4,000; the tender will cost
$500. Uniforms for the men have al
ready resulted in expediture of $1,000
ad there is the cost of feedig them to
be considered. This makes $4,000, and
her sails and spars and overhauling and
other particulars will easily cost an
other s25, 900. 1t will thus be seen that
all in all, $3.50, 900 is a conservative es-
innate of the cost of defending the cup
this year.
The millionaire Gavril Ssolondovni-
koff. who recently died at Moscow. left
all his possessions, valued at $4,000 900
rubles. for the founding of high schools
for girls. training schools for workmen,
and cheap lodging houses for the poor.
During his life he had already spent
large sums for a music school and
hospital, yet he was not esteemed be-
cause in private life he was known as
a miser and an memorable creditor.
I'm Lower California there is one of
the most curious colonies in the
world" said a Bohemian who recently
came from the Pacific Slope land it
is a wonder to me that we have not
heard more about the men who have
housed themselves in under such curl
Gus circumstances. 1t is a colony of
outlaws. and some of the most noted
escaped criminals who operated during
the latter half of the nineteenth CEN
fury are probably to be found in this
strange nest. They live in a strange,
rugged stretch of country, with the
Gulf of California on one side and a
range of foothills which spread down
toward the Mexican border on the
other There are no ports at this point