The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

logna recently. A bell-ringer at a church
was struck by a great bell and thrown
violently through the window of the tow
err on to the roof some fifty feet below.
He escaped with nothing more than
shock
"A machine that will do the work of 30
expert mathematicians is being construc-
ted by the government in its scientific
instrument shop on Capitol Hill, in Wash
ington. 1t is to be an improvement on
an instrument in use in the Bureau of the
Coast Survey, which has charge of cal
culatng the tides.
The Eastern Canadian seacoast, from
the Bay of Fundy to the Straits of Belle
Isle, covers distance of 5000 miles, and
British Columbia, with it's multitude of
bays and mountainous islands, has sea
coast of 1880 miles and salt water in
shore area. not including minor indenta-
tons, of 1900 square miles.
Prof Du Bots reports that one-half of
the 1872 college-bred negroes heard from
at this years Atlanta University Confer
ence are engaged in teaching; one-siXth
are preaching and one-sixth are "profes-
sional men," or are still studying. Six per
cent are merchants, artisans or farmers.
-Four per cent. are employed by the gov
eminent.
"A new competitor has entered the field
to try the Aero Club prize of 100000
francs, which is to go to the lucky aero
naut who succeeds in sailing from Su-
resnes round Eiffel Tower and back in
half an hour. The new airship, accord
ing to a Paris correspondent of the Lon
who declares that the problem of aerial
who declares that tie problem of aerial
locomotion can only be solved by an caro-
plane, and he has constructed an enor-
nous machine. Two long cigar-shaped
balloons, made of silk, are stretched on
an aluminium frame with a car between.
A twenty-horse petroleum motor is at
tached, and the machine is fitted with
two big screws on vertical axes. The
lifting power of the balloons is a trihe
inferior to the total weight of the ship
with its crew of eight on board. Thus
M. Roze hopes that the screws will Just
be sufficient to turn the scale and raise
the ship at once in the air. The inven-
tor also hopes that the propelling screws
will drive the aeroplane thirty miles an
hour.
In the matter of a national language
Switzerland may be said to be behind
some of the uncivilized peoples of the
earth. The country is polyglot in ev-
cry sense of the term; polyglot as re-
CARDS herself, for the official language
of the cantons, with the single exception
of Freiburg, is that of the majority of
the inhabitants; polyglot as being the
stamping ground of every political re-
former on the continent who may have
got into trouble with his own government,
and polyglot by reason of the hundreds
of thousands of tourist strangers who
enter annually within her gates" In
a measures, the national language may
be spoken by the majority of the inhab-
itants of the original cantons, and the
mother tongue of the majority of the
country. According to recent returns
there are, roughly speaking, about 1000
900 who speak German, 100000 speaking
French and 100000 Italian. In addition
40 per cent. Tor about 81, COO of the inhab-
itants of the Grisons canton speak Rou-
mansch, kind of debased form of the
"lingua rustica" of the old Roman en-
pire. German predominates immeasurably
in the four cantons of Berne, Zurich,
Argua and st. Gallen; French is equally
paramount in Vaud, Valais Fribourg
Neufchatel and Geneva; while only in
Tessin is Italian in excess of both the
others, though it claims more mouths
than French In Zurich, Lucerne, Ur
Schwytz, Grisons, Thurgovie and severa
other cantons.
The Duchess of Albany, who, 1t is said
is to marry Lord Roseberry, is the widow
of Queen Victoria's fourth son, Prince
%, 1884. He was born in 1853, and or
April q, 1882, married her serene High.
ness, the Princess Helene, daughter oil
the late GenrUa Victor prinon IF al
deck and Pyrmont. The Duchess wa:
born in 1861. If Lord Rosebery marries
the Duchess he will be stepfather to 9
reigning monarch. The Duke of SAKE
| Coburg and Gotha Is the only son of the
| late Duke of Albany, and succeeded hi.
uncle, Queen Victoria's second son, a:
ruler of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg IL
July of last year. The present DUKE
was a posthumous child having beer
| born on July 10, 1884. The Duchess has one
other child, the Princess Alice, who wa.
born in 1883. Lord Rosebery is a widow
er. In 1873 he married Miss HANNAH
| Rothschild, only daughter and heiress o
| the late Baron Meyer Amschel de Roths
child. She died in 1890, leaving four chill
| dren, two boys and two girls. Lord Rose
berry was born in 1877. He succeeded hi
| grandfather as fifth Earl in 1868. He wa
prime minister in part 1894 and 1896. H
| Is SalQ, as a young man, TO have hat
| three ambitions-to marry the riches
heiress in England to be prime minister
and to win the Derby. Each OF thes
desires has been gratified, and now. /
the Manchester report is correct he 4
| to achieve still further distinction b,
marrying a royal Princess. The only mem
bers of the British royal family married
to subjects are the Duchess of Argyll
! princess Louise) and the Duchess o
| Fife King Edwards eldest daughter. Tn,
report of Lord Rosebery's approachin,
bethrothal may explain why he refuse,
to again take up the leadership of tn
Liberal Party.
The St Louis Furniture News SAYS
Poor Richards" most popular saving 1
Honesty is the best policy" 1t is pu
into the school children's copy books anc
their text books. 1t is often repeated IL
the Sunday school. 1t is drilled into tn
minds of large portion of our children
both in and out of school. Now, in al
honesty, l want to enter my solemn pro
test against this Saying and the use t.
which 1t is put. protest against my son
your son, and every mans son bein,
taught that he should be honest-becaus
1t Is the best policy. l want him laugh
that he should be honest-not because IL /
the best policy l want him taught to b
honest because 1t is right. Put in his cop
book, BE honest because to be homes
Is to be right. Be honest because Jesu
taught honesty. Be honest because al
| 0OOd men are honest I uyopt bfra