The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

After having been discontinued for
about century, the ancient annual cere-
mony of marrying the Adriatic will
probably be revived in full splendor next
year Designs have been drawn for re-
producing an exact model of the hand
some old world state galley, which was
the last used for the ceremony by the
Venetian republic in 1877. The municipal
ity is enthusiastic in supporting the pro-
ject.
japanese business methods are in the
less important places of very go-asyou-
please description. At Nagasaki the other
day foreigner, calling at the branch
of one of the chief shipping companies,
found the whole place deserted. 1t APP
peared that, the day being fine man
ager and staff had gone out on mush
room hunting expedition. Mushroom hunt
ing is a pursuit that appeals to every true
japanese.
A Japanese paper, the Japanese-Amer-
lean Weekly News, has been started IN
New York. At the head of the first page,
which would be the last in an American
paper, the name is given in English as
well as in Japanese characters. In the
latter the sign for the sun represents Jap
dti6eSt anu luc SSH VI ilCC iNPiS9tAeS
American" The paper has four small
pages and is Autographed from hand
written copy.
David Kolmitz of Omaha had a son
who was suffering from appendicitis. The
father engaged DR.. A. T. Jonas to per-
form the usual operation, but when tbs
appointed time came the doctor was out
of the city. Another surgeon was called
in bp
boy died. Now the father sues DR.. Jonas
for 5000. making the curious claim that
had the knife been welded by the physi-
clan named the boys life would have
been saved.
The collector of customs at San Fran
cisco was recently called up to decide
whether or not a valuable urn should
pay duty. The urn contained the ashes of
an American citizen who had died abroad
and his remains were being brought home
in this shape. After considering the mat
ter for some time the collector decided
that the urn and it's contents should
be admitted. This is the first time that
an urn worth several hundred dollars
was passed without assessment.
AT the first Presidential election the
electors, in accordance with a law which
had been passed by the Continental Con-
gress, were chosen on the first Wednes-
day in January, 1888; the electors east
their votes on the first Wednesday in
February, and the government under the
constitution went into operation on the
first Wednesday in March. The first We'd
nesday in March in that year was March
4, and that explains the fact that Pres
idential term and the terms of members
of Congress begin on March 4.
General Huidekoper, who commanded
the Bucktails at Gettysburg and lost an
arm there, has been for a long time N
gagged in the construction of a relief map
of the battlefield, which he has at length
completed. II is made with absolute top
og. aphical accuracy, on a horizontal scale
OF 600 feet to an inch and a vertical scale
of 100 feet to the inch, showing every
elevation and depression in an area Ct
sixteen square miles, every hill and vale,
and water course. the roads, the woods.
the houses that figured in the battle. ev-
cry point essential to the understanding
of the military movements. No sucn
map exists of any other great battle
field.
The news of the Queens death was
known in New York before it was an
nounced in London, says the Philadel-
phia Ledger. There seems to be no ques-
ton of this remarkable achievement of
the Atlantic cable. AS a matter Of fact
the Trinity Church bell was toliing tie
mournful news before the bell In ST.
Pauls Cathedral in London was rung
Dow, Jones & Co, the financial news
agents, issued a bulletin of the Queen
death to Wall street before the news was
made known to the members Of the Lon.
in New York streets and newsboys were
shouting The Queens deadr before the
London papers were able to go to press
The Evening Sun tonight says that
Through an arrangement with tho gov
eminent of Great Britain the central ca
BILE office of the Western Union Company
was TO announce the death of Queen Vic
toria by sending out the single word
Dead This word was flashed to New
York at 1:1i p, m. New York time) to-
day Confirmation of the Queens death
was not received in New York until 2:O2
The government, 1t was believed had taxi
en- possession Of all wires, and prevented
messages taking precedence of the SIM
pie official announcement. The Queen
died at $50 p. M was the confirmation
that was received in New York at 2:O2
p. m The difference in elapsed time be-
tween the first announcement here, ia
NNeW Aork), ana the time, $3.50 UJondon),
Is about twenty minutes, and Is explained
by London to mean that the Queen act
ually expired at GI0, and that the us
ual formalities at the death Of a sover-
eign took twenty minutes before the
Queen was officially declared dead" This
Is undoubtedly an explanation of the way
New York was able to get the greatest
English news OF the year ahead Of Lon
don. When Victoria became Queen, sixty
three years ago, New York had to wait
weeks for the news OF the event. The
coole-even the telegraph-was unknown
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