The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

partment of Mindanao and Jolo. p l..
was formerly an instructor in French at
Yale.
-Viscount Wolseley has just celebrated
his 69th birthday. being eight months
younger than Lord Roberts, who. how
ever. has not been in the service so long
as Wolseley.
Hugh Douglass Wise, who has been
made captain IN the Ninth Regiment
United States Infsptrv. is the young ON
Ger who carried his camera UP the hill
at San Juan and rendered important SER
vice by photographing the position of the
enemy. Capt. Wise was graduated from
West Point in 1894.
The ceremony of the investiture of a
knight by the British sovereign Is an
exceedingly quaint one. In most cases
the order followed was identical, there
fore that of a knight commander of the
Order of the Bath may be taken as typi-
CAL On being admitted into the royal
presence the knight commander to be
invested made reverence to the king by
bowling three times-once on entering the
throne-room, another in the middle, and
again on approaching his majesty. He
then knelt on his right knee. In con-
ferring the honor of knighthood the King
placed a sword on both the candidates
shoulders. The knight, for by that time
he had become such. raised his right arm
horizontally and His Majesty placed his
hand on the knights wrist, who then
raised it to his lips. While the knight
still remained kneeling the King proceed
ed to his investiture by placing the riband
and badge of the order round his neck
and afterWard presented his hand to the
knight, who kissed it. The ceremony be-
ing concluded, the knight would rise and,
retiring. make similar reverence as that
with which he was admitted.
The use of crude petroleum as a fuel
for the generation of steam on large ocean
CRATE has had a practical proof of its
value and adspta bility in the voyage of
| the steamship CoWrie from Borneo to Lon
don, a distance of about 10 600 miles. The
method adopted on the Cowrfe was to
atomize the crude oil at the mouths of the
furnaces by blowing it into the fires in
| the form of spray by means of steam
| jibs, and in this way a complete combus
| ton of the fuel was obtained. A com
| parison was made with the old system of
| coal fuel on this ship, with the result
| that there was found to be saving of
| over 40 per cent. in the weight of fuel
| a day, and by the reduction of work in
| firing with oil fuel the complement of
| firemen was reduced from sixteen to six.
| The space occupied by a ton of oil as
compared with the same weight Of coal
was much less, being thirty-four cubic
| feet for the former to forty-two cubic
| feet for the latter-the coal being bitumi-
| nous. There are considerable quantities
| of oil fuel to be found in Borneo. and it
is said to be superior to any yet found
| in Russia or the United States.
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that corporal punishment is not yet a
dead letter in England; that the mediae-
val fashion of emphasizing the majesty
of the law by means of the cat-o'-nine-
| tails is still efficacious. The report for
| the year deals with fifteen cases, two of
| which were in London aud the remainder
| in the northern counties. In every case
| the offenders had been convicted of rob
! berry with violence. The highest number
of strokes administered was forty, the
| lowest twelve. Birching is still a com
| mon method of dealing with juvenile Of
| tenders, but the birch leaves no scars
| like the cat, although it may be admin
| istered by some lusty policeman or Jail
warder Some years ago there was a
| recrudescence of the crime of garroting
| in and about Liverpool Robberies with
| violence were of almost daily occurrence,
but after a few sentences to the whip
| ping post there was a marked diminu-
| ton of the crime. The average criminal
thinks little of few months in the stone
jug, or few years penal servitude, but
he is as chary of his skin as cat is of
wetting her feet.
"A dispatch from Red Bud, ILL.,, says:
Darwin may have been the first 10 dis
cover the ancestor of man in the mon
key, but it remained for an Illinois man
to discover a monkeys face on the owl.
| Three birds were found in a nest. The
| body and part of the head is like the big
| eyed fellow, but the face is almost like
the simian. Two of the birds are now
| in possession of Phil Offending. a no
telkeeper of this city, and are viewed with
| great curiosity by all travellers. The
| owls are about two months old, and 50
| far have shown no signs of feathering,
and this adds to the monkey likeness.
| They have large, staring eyes like the
owl. even the beak being depressed, and
what might be called the forehead rum
ming fat like the tailed brother. The boot
which has made the owl well-known is
| absent. The vocal powers of these mon
key-faced beings are somewhat impaired.
| They remain silent unless disturbed, when
! they let out a hiss like snake. They
| we're taken from a nest in the woods
| near Reed Bud about a month ago by
| George Carpenter. He was out hunting
and, seeing an owl fly of a nest high
up in a tree, climbed up to see what was
in 1t and discovered three owls.
| A new use for the lances carried by
the soldiers of many European armies
has been devised in Germany. In the
early stages of the war in the Transvaal
much was heard of Beers being "spitted
on English lances. In the German army,
however. scheme has been devised by
which the lances of the cavalry form a
framework for boats This is such an
advanced step that the English are watch
ing closely to see what success attends
IL. Twelve to sixteen lances and few
cross-sticks for the framework for these
lance boats. and besides the oars, which
are made of lance and a canvas blade,
the only other essential part of the boat
is the waterproof covering. 1t takes only
five minutes for the troopers to tie the
framework together, and two minutes
more to fasten on the cover. Then the
boat is ready for launching Sometimes
TO insure greater stability the two boats
are fastened together like a catamaran.
When these boats are packed up one
horse can easily carry two of them. 1t
is said that with the old system 1t re-
quired 1900 men and $500 horses merely
to look after the transport of the boats
II every squadron in the English army
were supplied with two boats. With the
new boats, however, only 500 horses are