The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-25

know 1t from the fake. At present they
give an air of luxurious GOODNESS to
many restaurants in Budapest, but the
undeceiving will come when a sufficient
number of patrons will have detected
a waiter bodily detaching a leaf, mop
ping 1t with a wet rag and then stick
ing 1t back into what seems to him to
be a graceful attitude.
In spite of the intervention of man.
nature generally works out her own
scheme. Here, for instance, is a peculiar
state OF things in Australia, where the
farmers nave for many years suffered
from regular plague of rabbits. Find
ing IL Impossible to kill them off in
any of the ordinary ways, they import
ed cats and scattered them around the
country, in the hope that they would
aid materially in abating the nuisance.
But the cats soon turned their atten-
ton away from the rabbits and sought
daintier and more natural prey--the
blrds--so that the cat importation has
become a sort of boomerang, for not
only has it failed to help the farmers
by reducing the number of rabbits, but
has done them an injury by destroying
insectivorous birds. And the foxes that
were imported to help the cats kill the
rabbits are waging regular warfare
Oil poultry ydfQS.
The chairman of the Berlin Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mais is trying to persuade the Berlin
IoWn Council to levy a tax on cats.
The municipality already imposes the
sum of 20 shillings per annum on a
dog, but hitherto cats have been ex-
empt! Now the feline race is very
scarce in Berlin, and people are in no
wise disturbed by them. In some parts
of the city. indeed, their presence is
most necessary in order that the rats
and mice may not get the upper hand.
This is especially the case in the num-
erous underground cellar dwellings,,
and in the garnet apartments, inhabit-
| ed by the poorest of the population.
| whereas, 1t might be submitted that
dogs in Berlin are chiefly in the pos
session of people who can, with self
denial, afford to pay 20 shillings a year
| for Keeping canine companion, this
is by no means the case in regard 10
cats. which are almost all kept by the
poor. petition has been handel in to
the Town Council begging that the tax
may not be levied.
England can now boast of having
within its borders a nun of royal rank
in the person of the widow of that
! Dom Miguel, who reigned as King of
! Portugal from 1928 to 1884 when he
was driven into exile, and supplanted
| by his niece, Queen Maria Della Gloria.
grandmother of the present King of
Portugal, writes the Marquise de Fon-
tenoy. After his overthrow ex-King
| Miguel withdrew to Austria, where he
assumed the title of Duke of Braganza,
which was likewise borne by his con-
sort until after his death. She became
benedlctine nun, under the style of
Sister Adelaide. Until the other day
she resided at the Benedictine Con-
vent of St. Cecilia, at Solesmes, in
France. But the order to which the
royal nun belonged refused to submit
to the new laws dealing with the reli-
| gious orders recently enacted by the
! French legislature, and accordingly
was forced to leave France Sister
Adelaide is now a very old woman, and
was born a Princess of Lowenstein
| Rosenberg. Her present address is
Northend House, Cowes, on the Isle of
| Wight, where the convent of St Ce-
| ella has established its headquarters
The foreign Office has just issued
digest of a series of reports from
! British Consular officers in the United
States on the laws relating to the pur-
chase and holdings of lands by aliens
| there, says the London Times The di-
! gest has been prepared by Mr.. Carlisle
| the legal adviser to the embassy in
! Washington. 1t appears from Mr.
! Carlisle's letter accompanying the d.
| gest that in fifteen of the forty five
| states no distinction is made between
citizens and aliens in regard to the
| acquisition, holding, and disposition of
real property; eight others make excep-
| lions as to the amount of the holding
! or mode of acquisition; ten make ex-
| ceptlons in regard to the person or
! condition of the aIien-thus some ex>
cept nonresident aliens, some Chinese
some have special provisions as regard
foreign corporations; New York re-
quires reciprocity, Pennsylvania limits
acreage and value; Texas forbids all
holding of land by aliens except resi-
dents; three states forbid acquisition
| except by devise, descent, or in pay
| ment OF debts, and six except by aliens
| who have declared their intention of
becoming naturalized, and the other
states have limitations of a similar
kind. Mr.. Carlisle thinks, however,
! that recent decisions of the Supreme
Court establish the principle that To-
cal laws of individual states would
have to give way to treaties granting
! rights to foreigners inconsistent with
| these laws. But ANY treaty on the
subject of the rights of aliens to hold
real estate in the United States must
be ratified by a two thirds majority
| of the Senate, and in view of the d.
vergent policy of the states on the sub
| ject, and the natural jealousy of the
| senators from each state to preserve
| the domestic policy of their state, the
| difficulty of securing a sweeping pro-
vision removing the disability of alien
! age remains a practical one"
The Bank Of England, says the New
York Press, is pretty healthy insti-
tuition, with n capital of a little over
S72,OOO,0O0 and surplus of about $l6-
100000, yet the governor receives a sal
| airy of only $4,000 a year. Our smallest
city banks pay as much as that to their
| presidents. The pay of it's twenty-four
| directors is $500 each per annum. The
bank is vast building, one story high
and perfectly isolated There is NOT a
window to be seen in it's walls. The Of
! fees are lighted from the roof. or from
the nine inner courts and garden. At
| night detachment of the Foot Guards
| commanded by captain, watches over
the safety of the "Old Lady of Thread
needle Street During the day the pri-
| Vate watchmen of the COMPANY itself
sufflce to maintain order. The bank. is
intrusted by the treasury with the ar
rargements for the interest on the ma
tional debt consols. annuities. etc. and
receives from the government as paw
ment for it's services about 81 400 900
One of the curiosities of the bank is
the automatic scale which weighs the
! gold and rejects at once any piece
/ which HnaG Npf tot ~