The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-08

have been bestowed, of which three
have come to Americans-Prof. Sar-
gent of the Arnold Arboretum, Brook
Ign; Prof. L. H. Bailey of Cornell Uni
versity; and Thomas Meehan.
There are now in London and its
immediate neighborhood $50 public re-
creation grounds, varying in size from
Epping Forest, which, with Wanstead
Flats, is over 5000 acres in extent, to
little city gardens and Fairgrounds
measuring an eighth or a tenth of an
acre. These include 100 plots of ground
which have been used for interment,
parish churchyards, and other disused
burial grounds. of which the largest is
eleven acres and the smallest a few
yards square.
There are some things which seem
household necessities in the United
States for which, there is no market
whatever in France or Southern Eu-
rope. One of these is the range with
hot water back, another is the refrig
orator and a third is the rocking chair
Americans living abroad often want
these articles so badly that they even
send home for them, but among the
French there is no demand for them
whatever and American manufacture
ers only waste energy in trying to Gre
ate market for them. France will
cling to the old-fashioned chairs for
another hundred years.
If anything Russia excels even
Germany in the matter of uniforms
writes correspondent in the Chicago
Tribune. On the sidewalks of any of
the large cities, and more especially at
railway stations. it is safe to assert
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adults are in uniform. It is a puzzle
to the tourist to identify the bearers of
such distinctive CARDS, consequently
the different branches of the govern
ment service are often wrongly inter-
preted. The gaudy uniform does not
always indicate a high official, as an
officer of high rank may appear In
plain uniform and one of low rank
not infrequently parades the streets
with more fuss and feathers than his
commander.
The question when were elephants
first exhibited here. says the Boston
Transcript, has been much discussed,
but the following advertisement ap-
parently settles the matter. 1t is from
the Columbian Centinel of Jan. 10, 1918:
The elephant Columbus, To be seen
in the avenue opposite the Old South
Meeting House. The elephant is not
only the largest and most sagacious
animal in the world, but from the pc
cul1ar manner in which 1t takes its
food and drink of every kind, with its
trunk, is acknowledged to be the great
est natural curiosity ever offered to
the public. The one now offered to the
curious is male, and the only one
ever exhibited in America. He is s
years old, upward of feet high, 10
feet inches round the body 16 feet
inches from the end of his trunk to
his tail; his ears feet and inch in
length. Attendance, % cents; children
one-half price. Hours of exhibition,
from in the morning until in the
evening, Sundays excepted"
We live in a much moved world,
says the London Telegraph. M. Flam-
marion enumerates in the French AS
Economical Bulletin twelve separate
movements to which this planet of
ours is subjected. 1t revolves every
twenty-four hours; it journeys round
the sun every year; every 25, 765 years
it accomplishes procession of the equi-
noxes; it is affected by the moons rev.
olution round it every twenty-eight
days; its axis oscillates slightly in a
period of eighteen and half years;
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some fortySeven seconds every hum
dred years; every $1,000 years the
points of extreme and least distance
from the sun have gone completely
round the orbit; then the planets are
all pulling our globe in different di-
rections at each minute, the center of
gravity of the solar system in the same
way is always shifting, and the earth,
like the rest of the planets, is being
whirled through space with the sun, we
know not why or whittier. All these
movements are going on simultaneous
ly, and we feel not one Of them.
Jean Jacques Rousseau was not
troubled greatly by conscientious
scruples, yet he possessed the rare
virtue of a broad, human sympathy
in an eminent degree, says an ex-
change. Perhaps 1t was the conscious
ness of his own weaknesses that made
him so sympathetic toward others.
An anecdote is related of him which
places this virtue of his in a strong
light. On one occasion he had COM
posed an opera, which was performed
before the King, Louis XIV, and met
with the royal approval. The King
sent for him and if he had put in an
appearance he would probably have
however.
of a retiring disposition and could not
bring himself to face the court To his
friends he gave as a reason his re-
publican opinions, but his real reason
was his shyness. Accordingly he fed
from the court and sought the privacy
OF country Inn. While he was there
man came in, who began telling the
company that he was the celebrated
Rousseau, and proceeded to give an ac-
count of his opera, which, he said, had
been performed before the King with
great success. Most men in Rousseau's
position would have felt nothing but
contempt for the impostor, but this
extraordinary man felt only pity and
shame. II trembled and blushed so.''N
he tells us in his Confessions" "for
fear the man should be found out. that
1t might have been thought that / was
the impostor." He was afraid that
somebody might come in who knew
him and expose the pretender At last
he could bear 1t no longer and slipped
out unobserved. Very few people would
treat an impostor like that.
The chemist and the prevention OF
sale of adulterated and impure food
have put their rejected brands on an
other favorite beverage, says the Chi
cago Inter Ocean. Patrons of the
soda fountain who have been taught
to ask for lemon on vanilla flavoring.
for the alleged reason that those
syrups were less liable than others to
adulteration, will be surprised at the
assertion that there Is no extract for
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