The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

chairs, II dozen work boxes, II desks,
"a dozen knife handles, "a dozen cigar
cases. 100 dozen umbrella handles and
over 10000 penholders have so far been
made out of the only original surren-
der tree of Santiago. and the tree is
nearly all their still. The apple tree
at Appomattox did less than this for
the faddists of a great country.
Paris, as everyone knows. raises
large portion of its revenues by means
of tolls collected on breadstuffs, spirits
and sundry produce passing through the
city gates, and, of course, more or less
smuggling goes on. A man was arrest
ed recently at the Octroi. the officials
having got information that he SNUG
gled spirits in the tires of his bicycle.
Their information proved correct. The
duty on spirits is so large that 1t is
probable large amount of liquor is
struggled in this fashion.
"A project is now under considera.
ton by the municipality of Vienna for
the more profitable disposal of the
sewage of the city, which at present is
discharged into the Danube. The
scheme consists in the application of
a method developed by Herr Nobel,
of Posen, for the utilization of the
liquid part of the sewage for the dou-
BILE purpose of irrigation and enrich
ment. 1t is intended to convey the sew
age in pipes to an extensive plain of
poor land which suffers from lack of
water, due to inadequate rainfall, over
which it is not to be carried in trench
es, as is done in England, but the sur
face of the land is to be irrigated by
sprinkling the sewage water over it.
1t is said that by this plan the land
will not be over-saturated, as it fire.
quently is on the sewage farms at Ber-
lin and Paris. The system is stated to
have been already in use at Posen, with
satisfactory results.
The proposed law for old-age pen
sions meets with much opposition in
France. on the ground that the age at
which the pension falls due, sixty-five,
Is far beyond the average life of the
French workman, says the New York
Post. Many labor organizations have
protested, and all on the same ground,
that there members have no mind to
lay by from their wages money by
which they personally are little likely
70 profit. 1t is the argument that an
irish nurse recently used to her In
valid master, retired banker, well
known in town. AS various infirrnities
had more and more restricted his free
dom, he had given up his clubs, one
by one, retaining at length his mem
oershlp in only one, the most expen-
s1Ve. This, too, one day, he talked of
disseminating. His nurse approved.
lis right We are, sor! Ye're payin'
to have the - flag at half-mast,
Whln ye're dead and gone, sor; and,
sure yen not be there to see it."
The claque has been regarded as
French institution, and it's sporadic ap-
pearance in England and America has
met with little favor. 1t has of late.
according to the London Daily News,
mace some Roadway in England, ap-
pearlng as regular institution in the
great vaudeville theaters. Since vau-
devllle is the most cosmopolitan form
OF theatrical entertainment, it seems
pretty certain that foreign performers
nave brought with them the custom
Oh trained and discreet applause. AS
much was acknowledged by the leader
or the London claque, who spoke en-
Enthusiastically in defense of his call
ing: 1T is only the great artists who
want the fclaque;' the others it is of
no use to, II go with my boys into a.
theater, and we begin to applaud an
incompetent, we could not stav fer
minutes, Everybody would be looking
round at us all the time and saying,
what on earth are you applauding
for" No; it is only the great artists
who can use the 'claque,' and IL is onlv
to them that it is any good. Ali
nave worked it for all the greatest
artists. There have been nights at the
opera when the house has been so
PACKED that you could not get a
knlte In but they have found room
Tor me and my friends, and our ill.,
dlcious clapping at the right moment
has often turned what would merely
nave been a crowded house into a
tremendous ovation"
An English newspaper has been
making some Investigations in a tom
serial way, and has come to the CON-
clusion that in London, at least. the
man with beard is becoming more
ana more OF a rarity. The typical city
man. IL nnds, seldom cultivates a chin
growth, and it is the same with the
bank clerk and the young and middle
aged men in the insurance business
secretaries OF companies seem to be
content to raise a slight crop on the
upper lip, or are altogether clean
shaven. On the other hand. account
ants and others, whose business il Ia
with figures, are either case-hardened
against the dictates of fashion, or are
CohteHl 10 let nature work her own
sweet will. Middle-aged BUYERS and
drummers in soft goods are not partic-
ularly good patrons of the razor. while
those in the retail trade are given ~
cultivating a mustache In the gov.
eminent service the clean-shaven clerk
seems to rule the roost Mustaches
are cultivated by army men; the beard
being but seldom seen even on the face
OF general. On the other hand. the
naval oiflcer Is, as a rule clean-shav-
en-, but among the men the beard ia
quite common. A man of the law ia
almost invariably scraped as clean az
1t is in the power of the barber 10
make him, while medical men seam
fond of cultivating a few hairs on the
upper lip, upon which they can tug AT
consultations or when in a meditatiye
mood. Nothing is said of IJeanas,,
and his ornaments. Perhaps his side
boards" or "Dundrearies'' are as i'm
mutable as the laws of the Modes and
Persians.
-Compiegne, where the car is to be
housed during his brief sojourn in
France, boasts population of about
$1,000 and was a place of some his
toric Importance long before it's palace
was built by Louis XIV. It was here
that Joan of the Arc was taken prison
er by the Burgundians in 1870 and a
monument to her memory, erected in
1901, stands near the ancient Hotel do
vile, with its belfry 1872 feet high. In
the AVenue Theirs thara iS a. - -,