The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

raacnmen want them kllled OH 10 save
their property
Half a dozen leading artists in New
York have planned twelve-story studio
building, which is intended to be the CEN
ter of bohemian art circles There are to
be a dozen studios with living apartments
and two dozen with bachelor quarters at
tached. The project grows out of the diff
fculty in securing kitchen accommoda-
tions in connection with studios.
The latest thing in ring-ridden Phfla-
delphia is the formation of anti-law and
order society Republican clubs. 1t is
pointed out by a local paper that there
would be small legitimate business for a
law and order society in this city il It's
Republican voters and it's Republican adj
ministration had not utterly failed in
their duties"
"A mission of savants from France IS
about to proceed to Mukden in Manchu-
ria 10 examine some manuscripts recently
discovered there, which are believed 10
have been taken from Southeastern Eu-
rope by the Mongol and Tartar invaders
Of six centuries ago. The members of the
mission hope to find many lost works,
those of the historian Polybius, for exam
pie.
"A Mount Holly, Pa. dispatch says:
A freak of nature, probably unique in its
way, has come to light at Pemberton.
Some time ago cat belonging to Rich
ard Shemeley had one of its feet cut off
in steel trap. The wound healed all
right, but since then there has been a
gradual growth on the stump, and now a
new foot has come out as perfect as
ever
Since last May the tallest skyscraper
ton at Broad street and Exchange place.
1t is a twenty-three-story office build
ing. covers 1900 square feet and will
cost 100000. Ten thousand tons OF
steel have gone into the framework,
which rests upon 100 lines of columns
each based on a separate steel caisson
sunk to bedrock. Tenants are to move
in by May l.
Is New York to be eclipsed as the me-
tropolis of the Western Hemisphere
That is question now raised by an army
officer, Lieut.. John M'Auley Palmer,
who with much FEASIBILITY has shown
that the building of trans-isthmian ca
nal will create new trade routes that
will inevitably demand the creation of
great city, he says, will arise upon the
Isthmus, and he has worked out it's To-
cality and plans with no little ingenuity.
-Bendigo, perhaps the most famous of
Australian gold fields, is preparing to
celebrate its jubilee by holding mining
exhibition. 1t was in October, 1851, that
the first nuggets were found by an old
shepherd on the spot where Golden
Square now stands. Since then Bendlgo
has contributed 17,1696S0 ounces to the
gold output of the world. The old shep-
herd was a pugnacious and guarrelsome
person, hence he was christened by his
comrades "Bendigo" the name of the
NOSE renowned English prize fighter of
the period. Thus, while the puglist of the
past is forgotten, save in the annals of
the prize ring, his name is perpetuated by
the great gold field of the antipodes.
--Signor Matteucci, who have been
studying Vesuvius for many years, says
that from July 1895, it kept constantly ac-
tive for more than four years, the flow
of lava ceasing in September 1899. The
depth of the Greater was then over 600
feet Last April the lava rose to within
240 feet of the top, when a series of ex-
plosions within the crater began. Some
blocks of lava were projected 1900 feet
perpendicularly into the air. One block
weighed thirty tons, and Signor Matteuc-
CT estimates that ii took &c. 900 horse pow
er to eject it. Five hundred thousand
cubic yards of lava and ashes were belch-
ed forth in April and May. The crater
is thirty feet higher than before, so that
Vesuvius rises now 400 feet above sea
level.
In a letter 10 his parents, a Missouri
boy who is with the army in the Philip
pines writes of having seen some wild
monkeys playing among the orange bios
some" near Laguna de Bay. 81 have seen
many monkeys in the country" says the
Missourian, "but my fancy never asso-
ciated them with orange blossoms. 1t re-
minded me of a negro l once saw in Cuba
selling bottles of fiery rum from a basket
made of golden rod. A certain quarter
master sergeant of Rough Riders bought
a quantity of the liquor, for which he
gave the 'hombre' an order on the COM
missary written on the reverse side of a
pledge which he had signed before his
captain to abstain from drink for six
months"
Surgery performed by directions given
over the telephone is a late innovation.
A physician who is connected with the
surgical staff of a Philadelphia hospital
was called up by phone the other day
by nurse at another hospital, with
which institution the physician is also
connected and was told that his services
were Immediately required for a child who
had dislocated its shoulder. Bring the
child right up to the phone" said the
surgeon. IAN right, l have the child in
my arms" the nurse replied. Now,
then" said the physician, place the
child's elbow against it's side and. move
its hand and forearm outward" His di-
rections were here interrupted by a sharp
click that sounded through the phone as
the dislocated member snapped back into
place. There you are-nicely DONE
wasn't it?" said the surgeon TO the nurse
She replied that the operation had been
most successful and the physician re-
turned 40 his clinic.
Lord Salisbury and Lord Roseberry
are now the only two men living who
were Premiers under Queen Victoria.
Miss Louisa Drew, who, as Betty Ia
loe in her fathers production of Rich
ard Carvel," made her professional debut
at the Broad Street Theater Wednesday
evening, rpresents the fourth generation
Of Drews to adopt the stage. Miss Drew
is IS years old, quite pretty and has a
rich speaking voice which she uses with
excellent control She was educated
abroad, and since her return to America.
a year ago, has been reading with Mrs.
Wheatcroft of New York, in preparation
for the stage. In addition to being an
accomplished musician, a fluent speaker
of both German and French and a nrouo