The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

their fair dues, the board of trustees has
decided that in future the bell shall not
be tolled for a funeral in any family which
has not paid up its Indebtedness, and a
year in advance, besides.
According to recent legislation in New
York state a man is required to support
his mother-inAaw. Another legal ar
rangement provides that a woman need
not support her husband unless he is in
capable of labor or unless an agreement
for mutual support has been made pre-
vious to marriage.
Every ship loading at New Orleans
with mules or horses under British con-
tracts for use in South Africa is being
carefully watched to prevent the placing
on board of internal machines or other
destructive instruments in behalf of the
Beers cause. The coal especially is sub
jected to careful scrutiny.
Various scientific departments in Eng
land recently held a conference in which
they sought to obtain government pow
ers for protecting the delicate instruments
in the Kew and Greenwich observatorles
from any magnetic disturbances that arise
from the working of electric tramways
and railways in their vicinity.
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that is giving trouble wherever 1t takes
root-the rapidly spreading thistle. In the
Northwest this experience is reported:
Trainmen and passengers on South Da-
kota trains on the way 10 Pierre, the state
capital report the rare experience OF
bueking great piles of drifts of Russian
thistle The thistes collect in the cuts
and form an interviewer mass, which
stop the trains and interfere sadly with
passenger service.
The restaurant in the House at Wash
ington is in the basement, and compares
in its service and appointments with some
of the best cafes of the big cities of the
country. The prices do not suffer either
in the first-class comparisons. It's the
best place in the capitol to get talk with
a member He don't come to the restau-
rant until he has learned something about
how matters are going on the floor of the
House. and he usually is in good humor
while he eats.
A newspaper at Kastamuni states, ac-
cording TO a Ceylon paper, that while
peasant was shooting in a forest near that
place he heard the growing of a bear.
which he found under a tree suffering
great pain from large thorn in his
paw. The animal permitted the sports
man to extract the thorn, and showed its
gratitude by taking the man, by means
OF waving its paw, to a tree in which
was a honey-comb twenty pounds in
weight.
Chinese law and custom forbid the
drinking of cows milk, says the Loo Chow
Herald Man should not rob animals of
their own proper food, and all animals,
the COW is the most valuable to man
The sellers of milk blacken their souls for
gain, but those who drink milk do so in
the foolish belief that it is good for
them. Milk is the natural food of babes
and of young animals, but when adults
drink it, do they not thereby endanger
the life of the sucking calf, and arouse
bitter resentment in the souls of the calf
and its mother?
The Medical Society of Paris, says
Science Siftings, has expressed the opin-
/ ion that it is necessary to adopt some
measures against the alarming spread of
| petroleum drinking. At first it was
| thought that this habit had sprung up
| from the increased taxation on alcohol
| imposed by the French government, but
an investigation showed that this was
not the case; the habit had been preva-
lent some time previously in certain dis
/
ity. The victim of the petroleum habit
does not become brutal only morose.
ALI over the kingdom are churches and
chapels which have fallen from grace,
says the st. James Gazette. The church
in Hatton Garden, where Edward Irving
began his ministry, has long since been
a chemists warehouse, and the little
| chapel at Nottingham, in which William
| ia hi oh
inaugurated modern missions, is also a
storehouse. A large Wesleyan chapel in
| North London is now occupied by a firm
| of brewers, and the famous Luther House
in Germany is an inn. st. Giles Cathe-
dral at Glasgow, consecrated to the mem
DRY of Jenny Geddes, has been used at
various times as a prison, a postoffice
! and business exchange,
| The Kansas City Star the other day
| said: The highest price ever paid in this
or any other country for a Hereford COW
was paid this afternoon at the Hereford
| sale at the stock yards pavilion for
| Glenn Graves cow, Carnation After
half an hour of exciting bidding, during
which the price advanced at 500 Jumps.
she was bought by Jesse c. Adams, of
Moweaqua, ILL.,, for $500. The highest
price ever paid before in the world for a
| IlSIeioru COW was $5,l0U, Dolly sold
in Chicago a year ago for this sum. Car
nation belonged to Glenn Graves, of
| Bunker Hill, ILL.,, owner of the celebrated
| Kale show herd of cattle. His offerings
1 of nineteen head at the sale this after
noon included all of the Dale heard ex-
cept Dale, Dolly and Lady Help.
According to a steward at the Wal
| dorf-Astoria, salt was popular elixir
with the convivial public long before its
official discovery by a French scientist
| says the New York correspondent of the
| Pittsburg Dispatch. at may be new to
1 the doctors" said he, but it's older than
l am to the high livers and hard drinkers
| in this town. Salt? Why, it's been the
| saver of old FOUNDERS for. more Years
than there are any record of. Seven out
| OF ten men who wander into a cafe in
the morning with brown velvet taste and
! no appetite know this thoroughly. The
| f1rst thing one of these individuals does
after a bracer of brandy and soda is to
order something very salt, the saltier the
better. He calls his favorite waiter and
| pours into his ear the fact that he wants
lot of salt stimulant. That waiter, who
| knows his business, goes to the chef and
sees that all the salt the house can snare
is served in that one dish for the man
who needs rejuvina ting. / have watched
scores of the gentlemen the morning af-
ter and from the relish with which they
! devoured their salty meal it touched the
oil