The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-03
ITEMS of INTEREST,".

line GudTuld NdClOldi, a BOFGIA-
n1ent transport, has just arrived at
Buenos Ayres with a man and a boy
named Newman. who were picked up
after having been 62 days in an open
boat, writes a Buenos Ayres corre-
spondent of the London Express. The
story Newman tells is as follows: On
May last he was moving his family
from Evelyn to Stanley, in the Falk-
land Islands, by boat, was suddenly
caught in a hurricane and blown out
TO sea. He drifted for 81 days, until
picked up by the transport. During
the last six days he and his little son
had been drinking salt water. Great
interest was evinced in these two per-
sons, public subscription being got
up. headed by President Roca, and
quite respectable sum was collected.
Lord and Lady A. Gordon-Lennox
have recently brought to light some
very curious architectural features in
connection with the great hall OF
Broughton Castle, near Banbury, the
former residence of the Sage and Sele
family, says the London Graphic. The
plaster having been removed from the
walls of the hall five or six early four
teenth century doorways, which have
been blocked up since 1854, have been
discovered, and also some very fine
windows of the same period, one OF
them still showing a portion of the
tracery. So interesting are the finds
INTELLECTUALLY that Mr.. Purdon
Clarke, of the Victoria, and Albert
Museum. has been to the Castle to
give his opinion in determining sew
eral questions in reference to the dis
covefieS.
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the Mississippi river bluffs. southwest
of Red Bud, ILL.,, has three pet rattle
snakes, says the St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat. Mr.. Froind is a chicken fancier
as we'll as a farmer. He usually lost
from forty to fifty young chickens each
night, which were carried away by the
rats, and. despite the large number of
traps and snares, the rodents seemed
to increase instead of decrease. One
day, while passing along the bluffs, he
saw three young rattlers, and, remem-
bering the saying that 1.-The rats worst
enemy is the snake" took them home
and put them in a box, where they
were kept until about half grown,
when he turned them loose in the chick
en- yard. They Immediately sought
shelter in the homes of the rats, and ii
was very short time until all the
dts Ilnd unsupported. IlC AtAtdAlliAtG
chickens had been removed TO another
shed, but were never bothered. The
snakes, which are now full grown, are
seen frequently in the stable yard, but
as soon as any one approaches they
make a hasty retreat to their den.
There is great opportunity in Por-
to Rico for the railroad promoter" said
D. C. Jennings, civil engineer recent
ly returned from that island. There
are at present only 1873 miles of rail-
road there's miles along the north
ern coast, "a miles along the western
coast, and % miles on the southwest
ern border. That mileage is exclusive
of an eleven-mile narrow gauge road
and six miles of tramroad. All of the
vast interior and the entire eastern
portion of the island are without rail-
road communication with any place,
and If the wagon roads within that
area are like the stage route connect
ing Hormigueros, the southern termi-
nus of the Aguadilla and Hormigueros
Railroad, with Yauco, the western
terminus of the Yauco and Ponce Rail-
road, travel ON them must be some
thing that the stranger is likely to re-
member until he gets to be very, very
old. The gap between those two rail-
coach rushes the traveller across it in
from eight to ten hours. The average
rate of speed on the Porto Rico rail-
roads is twelve miles an hour"
Somebody once described China as
the last wonderland of the world says
the Westminster Gazette. 1t is certain
ly a country full of surprises, and some
of these are amusing enough Who
would have thought that the contem-
plated return of the court to the cap
ital would have blown a blast" of
business into the agencies of the large
life insurance companies? But so ii
seems to be. For according to the Pc
kin correspondent of the North China
Herald, quite a number of high officials,
including Ii Hung Chang, Chou Flu,
Lii Yu-shen, Prince Su, a son of Prince
Ting, a Hanlin secretary of Ii Hung
Chang, and several others, have re-
Gently been rushing to take out poll
cies. Life is uncertain everywhere: ii
is essentially so among Chinese court
officials, and what are the consoia-
tions of philosophy to the consolation
kneels with his neck barred for the ex-
ecutioneer's knife, from the thought of
the policy that his family will encash
on proof of death?" The Chinese are
indeed a practical people. They can
give us all points in this respect and
beat us hollow.
blood, and yet more blood, the
believing of beasts in pain, imminent
peril to human life, and torture to the
beasts, are what is demanded by bull
fight habitues." Thus the London
Leader Ronbaix correspondent intro
duces his description of a bull-fight
in which matadoras took part The
heroine yesterday was the matadora
Lolita, whose repute for GOODNESS, agil-
ity, suppleness and grace extends
throughout France and South America.
Five small 2-year-old Andalusian
bulls, with wide sharp horns were
killed, three by Lolita, two by Here
rita, the former killing quickly and
adroitly, the latter from nervousness
literally butchering her animals. Both
Lolita and Herrerita were once in mo-
mentary peril of being pinned between
the barrier and the bulls horns, caus-
Ing women and children to shrek with
horror. The spectacle at best, says
the correspondent, was extremely dis
gushing and revolving, a mere public
butchery winked at by the authori-
ties. A large percentage of the spec
tators were women and young girls,
a few of whom fiinched at the revolt
ing spectacle.
One of the most brilliant entertain