The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-20

Institute, DIT tHe beginning OF the tate
summer vacation season, entered the
employ of a contractor who is building
a railroad in Alabama, and upon their
return to the school a week or so ago
the contractor wrote to Principal
Booker T. Washington as follows: II
desire to state to you that the work
conduct and general bearing of these
men during their service with me has
been all that could be desired, and re-
fleets great credit on them and the
training they have received"
There has been a notable increase
in the number of marriages recorded
in Chicago for this year over a similar
period of last year. This has set spec
ulative persons at work figuring out
why this should be, and some of the
conclusions are interesting. 1t is not
ed that the increase has been accom-
panied by a corresponding decrease in
the number of young women seeking
employment as stenographers and
clerks, and certain club women infer
from this that there is growing tend
ency on the part of young women to
give up business life for that of the
home Others hold that prosperity in
the business world has enabled more
young men to marry, and that this Will
account for the increase.
The following complaint was re-
Gently filed before a Judge in Oklaho-
ma 'The above named defendant
Beta Brown, hereby accused of the
crime of throwing hot blackberry juice
on one H. G. Clark, for that in Okla
homa county, and in the Territory of
Oklahoma, on the 1st day of July, 1901,
she did then and there in the town of
Luther and in the kitchen of the Cow
EFT Hotel. unlawfully, feloniously, and
with malice intent take from the kitch-
| en- stove OF the said hotal a dishpan
of boiling blackberry jam and threw
the same upon the said H. G. Clark,
burning his left arm and also his back,
| contrary to the form of the statutes in
such case made and provided, and
against the peace and dignity OF the
| Territory of Oklahoma"
An engineering feat absolutely
unique in New York city is in progress
in the rapid transit subway, between
One Hundred and Thirty-fifth and One
Hundred and Thirty streets.
In the first of the two blocks an enor-
nous wall, weighing about 200 tons,
has been shifted, and another, weigh
ing the same, is being shifted. They
are made of concrete. heavy rock
blocks, and pressed brick. Each of
them, when it rests in its final posi-
/ ton will have been moved intact
| through a distance of five feet and six
| inches. One, the westerly, already has
been moved successfully The second
block has in it nearly 200 feet of the
regulation steel structure, weighing
! Z, 100 tons, or 1920, 900 pounds. The east
side wall and roof of this will be NOV
ed five and one-half feet toward he
/ acf the wall iS Tha
same distance in the other direction.
"A much Travelled American, accord
| ing to the New York Press, remarks:
Mr.. William c. Whitney has been
nearly as successful in marrying his
children into great families as our OIL
der fellow citizen, Mr.. Richard T. Will
son was. In the Wilson family how
ever. it is generally understood that
| the mother was the matchmaker.
| What is to be done with Richard T.,
Jr., is still a matter of surmise. He
| is fine young man, and will undoubt-
| eddy marry quite as well as his broth
| er Orme and his three sisters. Orme,
as you know, married Miss Carrie As
| tor, sister of Col. Jack Aston and sec
ond daughter of the Mrs. Aston, the
acknowledged head of our highest So
ciety. Mary Wilson was married to
| OSuSI GOclSl, anu Is lIOW d IlllllOu-
aire widow. Leila is the wife of the
Hon. Michael Henry Herbert, secre-
tary of the British Embassy in Paris,
| a brother of the Earl of Pembroke.
Grace is Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt ".
There are some pretty distinguished
family alliances for you, Ell?
"A curious and pretty custom is OBJ
served every year in the city of Ham,
1 htrro To lohY Gov rtOk1
which was won by little children more
| than 400 years ago. In one of the num-
! erous sieges Hamburg was reduced to
the last extremity, when it was sug-
| gested that all the children should be
sent out unprotected into the camp of
| the beSiegers as the mute appeal for
| mercy of the helpless and the innocent.
| This was done. The rough soldiery of
the investing army saw with amaze
ment and then with pity, a long pro-
cession of little ones, clad in white,
come out of the city and march bodily
| into their camp. The sight melted
their hearts. They threw down their
arms, and pluckipg branches of fruit
from the neighboring cherry orchards
| they gave them to the children to take
| back to the city as a token of peace.
| This was a great victory which has
ever since been commemorated at
Hamburg by a procession of boys and
! girls, dressed in white and carrying
branches of the cherry tree in their
hands.
An Australian paper speaks highly of
a new vegetable that is becoming pop
ular in the new colony, but gives no
name or clew by which one may get at
it's identity. 1t says of it: "A new
vegetable, and one that promises to be
a great acquisition, is the asparagus
pea, introduced into Victoria by Lord
Hopetoun. 1t is extremely prolific, and
most people would pronounce it a de-
licious vegetable when properly pre-
pared, combining, as it does, the pro-
nounced flavor of asparagus with the
delicate suggestion of the table pea.
The method of culture is that of the
ordinary pea. The plant is of a pros
trate nature, branching much like a
rock melon, and spreading nearly two
feet Stem PROSTATE, leaves trifoliate,
leaflets spatulate-ovate, an inch in
length, two stipules ovate, flower AK
Hilary and of a scarlet red and pur-
pie, giving the appearance of a field of
red clover Pod square, with fringe on
each side, two inches to four inches
long, containing six to ten small peas.
The pod is cooked and eaten from the
fingers, after the manner of aspara-
gus"
-Galileo in 1888 speaks Of a water
thermometer that was used by him in
public lectures as early as 1892 Sane
torious, colleague of Calico, fixed