The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


credit of $40 in a savings bank in 1880 and
the matter was forgotten until 1851, when
the accumulated amount was $432.6l. Il
was allowed to remain and on Jan. 1o,
1901, was $1s20.10. The interest allowed
has gradually been reduced from to 4
per cent.
John Vliet, the oldest hotel-keeper in
Spotswood, N. j., died there a few days
ago. aged 70. He had kept a hotel for
half a century, being stone blind for half
of that time. Notwithstanding this af-
Fiction Viiet was an expert bartender.
When he was not on duty thirsty patrons
were attended by son who was born
deaf ana dumb.
The strong bond that unites members
Of the Masonic fraternity showed Itself in
several places in South Africa, where the
Beers ransacked and destroyed property
belonging 10 the hated Britisher. Inva-
riably Masonic lodges were left undis-
turbed. Indeed, the marauding visitors
generally signed their names in the VS.
ftors books.
-Italy's present national debt is s., SIP, =
500, 49l and the yearly interests s115,971,-
015. The annual revenue of the kingdom
is exhausted in the payment of current
expenses and the interest on the debt,
SO that no provision for reduction of the
principal is possible. In other words,
the country is virtually insolvent at the
present time.
The following plaintive note was pick
ed up in the street at GAINESVILLE. Ind.
Dear May-The reason 1 didn't laff when
you laft at me yesterday in the post
office was because l have a bile on my
fro .11 lyoR, La I Y-ee iii
but l love you old sweet thing bile or no
bile, laff or no laff, you know that p. S.
Burn this up"
--Cattlemen in Greenwood county, Kan
sas, are making hard times for lawyers
They have established a system of ar
bitrating differences. Three men are chos-
en- as an arbitration committee. They in
Vestigate the trouble and make decis-
| ion. which is final. A fuss involving $50, 900
| was settled at Eureka last week by an
| arbitration committee,
The experience of the German army
in China tends to prove that both Ameri-
can and Australian horses are unsatis-
factory in that country They are of good
| blood and breed, but suffer sadly from
| the long sea voyage and the unaccustom-
ed food, as, unfortunately, only green
lOIdSS Is usually ODtdlndDle. MOnROl pO-
MES are proving the most useful.
The Australian coasting steamer Kam-
eruka, while going from Eden to Sydney
travelling at full speed, struck on a reef
at Moruya Head. There being no rockets
| on the ship, the captain tied life line
to some pigs, which formed part of the
cargo, and had the animals put overheard.
The pigs swan to the shore, taking the
line with them, and by establishing COM
muncation every soul on board was res
cued
Preliminary steps have been taken in
Philadelphia for the organization of an
| association 20 embrace the six different
families of the Celtic race-the Irish,
| Scotch, Highland, Welsh, Manx, Cornish,
and Breton. The constitution sets forth
that the association is for the purpose
of instituting a library. museum and art
gallery, all illustrative of Celtic litera-
ture and history, that is TO be non-politi-
cal and non-partisan.
Mrs Sarah Ruble. a widow, of St.
Mary's, o., is defendant in a suit for
breach of promise, H. c. Bourguin being
| the wounded one. He claims to have ex-
| pended large sums of money preparatory
| to his expected marriage, and now seeks
1
| Gently obtained a verdict of $500 against
! a railroad on account of the death of her
! husband, and she intimates that Mr..
Bourguin has an eye on the money thus
| secured
About $4,000 will be expended upon
the capitol at Washington during the con-
gressional recess. Many desirable i'm
| provements will be made, and the archi-
| 0f he ba
| to prepare and submit plans for the re-
construction and freproofing of the CEN
| trail portion of the building and the rem
| ovation and redecoration of the rotunda.
| Plans are also to be prepared for a new
freproof building adjacent to the capitol
grounds to be used for additional commit
tee rooms. storage and power plant.
| Business men are always talking about
so many pounds sterling, yet probably
not / per cent. Of them are aware OF
the origin of the term. says the London
| Express. 1t dates back to the time OF
| Richard Occur de Lion, when money coin
| ed in the eastern part of Germany came
| into special request in this country on
| account of its purity, and was called Eas-
| terling money, because in those days all
4 the inhabitants of those parts were call.
| ed Easterlings. In the course of time
| some OF THESE G6IlHdtlS were bIOh6uL "
London, and the pieces they minted soon
became known as sterling, from the word
| Easterling.
1t is strange, says Harper's Weekly,
that in a country where the ties of fam
| lily are so strong and where so much
attention is given to the preservation OF
the family name, women should be so
! looked down upon as they are in China.
The reason for this, however is to be
found in the system of ancestral worship
and the patriarchial gathering together OF
| families From the time of her betrothal
Chinese girl belongs to the family OF
her prospective husband, and often when
| her own family is poor or feels unable
to afford keeping her until she reaches a
| marriagable age she is sent even while
| a mere child to her husbands family to
be raised by them. Even when she stays
at home she worships not the tablets of
her own ancestors, but those of her hus-
bands; so she is useless to the family
into which she is born, so far as the
! observance of the ancestral rites Is con-
cerned. This is the reason why a China
man, on being asked the number of his
| children, answers only with the number
of his sons and never counts in his girls
| This, too, is the reason why, as a rule
Chinese girls are not educated. Since she
is to be long to another family, the par
ents do not bother about her.
Living chess lost its novelty years
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