The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


for this spring.
The man in Mississippi who does not
pay a poll tax cannot vote or serve on
juries. and official returns show that 90
7Sl white citizens have neglected to pay
up this year. This neglect DISTINGUISHES
them for two years.
limitations of American products are
being sold in Sweden in large quantities.
One wholesale hardware dealer has dis
posed Of a big lot of forks, which are
represented as American manufacture,
and which are sold at very low price.
Imitation thunderstorms. with the
electricity generated by Niagara Falls.
viii be one of the features of the Buff
alo Exhibition. The thunder is produced
by means of large glass condensers and,
while realistic, is warranted to be harm
less.
The state authorities of Nebraska
contemplate rebuilding the state prison
in Lincoln, and meantime wish to board
out a lot of their convicts. Gov. Shaw
of Iowa, has been asked it the hawkeye
state can accommodate a lot of the
guests
James Gordon BENEFIT has sold his
yacht, the Namouna, to the Venezuelan
government for 10000. and his new
yacht the Lysistrata, which realizes
many ideas gathered by Mr.. Bennett dur
ing his lifelong career as a yachtman,
has just made her trial trip.
Every conductor on the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit railroads must now give
bond. Each man is backed for $500 by
surety company to guarantee his hon
esty. 1t costs the men 81 year. The
railroad company has been forced to such
action by wholesale knocking down of
fares.
Snow in the Maine lumber camps
north of Bangor is five feet deep, and
the fodder for the horses has been ex-
hausted. AS a consequence, the animals
ere slowly starving to death, and 1t is
feared large numbers will die. 1t is pro-
posed to shoot them and thus put an end
to their sufferings.
Last week the Thirty-seventh Volun-
teer Infantry landed in San Francisco af-
ter two years service in the Philippines.
There was nothing in the nature Of d
public reception-no crowds, no cheering,
no flag waving. When the first volunteers
returned eighteen months ago there was
a tremendous public turnout.
-Elroy, Wis, had scare the other
evening, when five stalwart females Car
RE Nationed the saloons of the place. The
unwelcome visitors were thoroughly dis
guised and threatened all sorts of things
unless the saloon-keepers promised To
close their places of business. There was
great excitement until It was discovered
that the supposed women were we'll
known men of the place, including an ex-
mayor.
AT meeting Of the Paris Academy of
Medicine DR.. Jarre announced the discov-
cry of a remedy for the foot and mouth
disease, which is so fatal to sheep. He
says he has successfully used the remedy
in 800 cases in two years. 1t consists of
a concentrates solution of chronic acid,
chemically pure at 80 per cent. This is
applied as a caustic to the sore. The cure
is rapid and certain.
"A monument estimated to cost 100000
will be erected in Montreal in joint COM
memoration of the fact that in 1899 Can
ada for the first time took a hand in the
wars of the British empire and of Lord
Salisbury's patriotism in equipping at his
own expense a force of rough riders for
service in South Africa. Separate men,
orials had been planned, but il was DEEM
ed expedient to unite them.
"A queer instance of improper influence
said to have been exerted upon juryman
comes from New Haven. The jury in
certain civil case went to sF'airhaven TO
visit the house of the defendants. There,
according to the counsel for the plaintiff
one of the parties to the suit gave one of
the jurors a piece of pie. This piece of
pie is the ground upon which a motion to
set aside the verdict is founded.
One of the biggest mortgages on re-
cord has been filed in Marshalltown, Ia
1t is for $6.OOO,00O, and is given by the
American Linseed Oil Company to the
Morton Trust Company. The document
is printed in book form, and covers sew
enty-nine pages Of small print. 1t will
require 100 pages of record and three
days work TO record the mortgage, and
the fee will be $50.
A queer English law, called the Tip
ping act of 1751," provides that an inn
keeper cannot recover for debts for ltouo-
amounting to more than IS. The son of
an eminent English throat specialist
lately ran UP bill of $3.50 at an English
public house. and based a refusal to pay
upon the validity of this act AS the stat
ute was still on the books the Judge was
obliged to acknowledge its force.
"A Washington traction company re-
ports that its system of allowing the con-
ductors to retain from their daily receipts
the amount of their daily salaries, as we'll
as that of their motormen is working
quite satisfactorily to the men and .he
company alike. Each conductor In max
ing UP his daily report. deducts a sum
sufficient to cover his own and the moter-
mans salary, so that the company is
thus relieved of the expense and trouble
OF making up large pay roll
Jake Bradshaw, woodsman employed
in lumber camp near Williamsport Pa.
is strapping big fellow and also re-
sourceful. The other evening-this is
Jake's own story-he was returning home
through the forest when he got into a
difficulty with a big black bear. They
clinched and rolled down a hill until
Jake, watching his opportunity squirted
mouthful of tobacco Juice into bruins
eye, just which eye Jake does not know.
Anyhow, the immediate effect was that
the bear let 60 and the woodsman was
able to make his escape
The Philadelphia Record tells a story
of a hen with one leg that was in the
habit of following it's mistress, a kind
hearted lrishwoman, wherever she went
The Irishwoman died the other day. and
the faithful fowl hoped on one leg along
side the funeral procession two miles