The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

is shown by the recent granting of 81, 500
to the widow of the late chief instructor
of the army cooking school at Aldershot
in recognition of the valuable services
rendered by her husband.
THE gold cure for badness is the lat
est thing" says the Philadelphia Record.
This treatment is being given by little
German doctor who lives in Cherry street,
and he is building up quite large prac-
tice in his speciality, particularly among
women, who are always less sceptical
than men. The loss of hair he says. is
due to germ that gets under the scalp.
OF course, there is nothing new in this
theory but his method of Graduating the
evil is decidedly novel. He claims that
the only thing that will effectually eXter-
inmate the germs of badness is an injec-
ton of bichloride of gold under the scalp,
and that is the basic principle of his
treatment"
The men who have enlisted in the
navy from the fresh water states APP
pear generally to be contepted. One of
them, who lives in Kansas, writes home:
II have done very well in the navy. /
have had three promotions, until now
am petty officer with the rate of Q.
Nj. c., which means quartermaster, third
class. l stand four hours and walk up
and down the decks or on the bridge, at
sea, with a spyglass in nay hand, on
| the lookout for signals from the flagship
or any other ship of the navy. l get
$50 month and my board and lodging.
DON'T you think that is as good l can
don on the outside"
"A woman with a pet dog can make
| more kinds of a fool of herself than any
| other human being under the sun" saw
| agely remarked one of the statesmen in
| Chestnut street jewelry store yesterday,
| says the Philadelphia Record. "A girl
with an ugly brute of bulldog came in
| this morning and said she wanted to look
| at garters. l showed her several very
| handsome pairs, but she said she wanted
| three, all alike. 1 thought she meant
| three pairs, but it turned out she wanted
| three garters, two for herself and one to
match them for her dog. A friend of
hers who had just returned from abroad
had told her that it was quite the thing
| in Paris and London for dogs to wear
carriers on the left forelegs to match those
worn by their owners. Did you ever hear
of such idiocy? OF course the carriers
were much too large for this girls pet,
and she decided that she would have one
made to oder. She felt herself to be
| very much aggreved because we wouldn't
| undertake the commission for her, and
| she f1ounced out of the store in a pretty
| rage"
"A white Indian is indeed rara avis,
| and great therefore was the surprise of
M. van Montanaeken, the well-known Bel
gian traveller, when he suddenly found
himself face to face with colony of such
! Indians as he was making his way
through the heart of Peru during his re-
cent exploration of that country and Bra
zil He conversed with them for some
time, and took photographs of two of
| their chiefs. This tribe, according to
| Montanaeken, is known as that of the
| Lorenzo Indians, and its home is in the
| Amazon country, part of which lies In
| Peru and part of Brazil. Unlike almost all
others of their race, these Indians have
| a clear white skin, and, furthermore, the
strange but common custom of tatooing
and painting their bodies does not prevail
among them. Strikingly handsome, too,
many of them are, with frank and pleas
ing countenances that are by no means
of the ordinary Indian type. nomad life
they live wandering in small bands over
the vast solitary plains and apparently
making no effort to better their condition.
! A great number of liquor is used in
Vermont for medicinal, mechanical or
chemical purposes; at least, says the New
York Evening Post, that is the inference
to be drawn from the sales reported for
last year by the liquor agencies, which
| have been instituted to make possible the
purchase of liquors in prohibition state,
but only for the three purposes stated
These liquor agencies were in operation
in seventy-one towns during the year, and
their aggregate sales were valued at SOL
62S The record would have been higher
had not the Burlington agency been closed
throughout the year, and the st. Adams
| agency the greater part of the year
These seventy-one towns have a COM
bined population of 1872 1856, and simple
calculation shows that enough liquor was
sold to give each resident, babies included,
$1.38 worth. Bradford, with a population
of 1883, officially sold liquor valued at
So 20S. $3.50 worth per capita. These
would not be high figures in a license
state, but in prohibition Vermont they
indicate conside rable liberality on the
part of the liquor agents, and a painful
disregard of the truth the part of
those who applied for the liquor for
medicinal, mechanical or chemical pur-
poses.
| Some interesting particulars of Aus
trian settlements in South America are
contained in report by the commander
of the Austrian warship Donau, which
was dispatched last year on a semi-com-
mercial mission to the South American
| ports. 1t appears that there is an Aus
trian colony of about 1900 persons at
Punta Arenas, the most sOutherly town
in the world. 1t is composed chiefly of
| Dalmatians, and is the largest foreign
| element in the place. The greater part
of its members engaged in gold min
ing. but it comprises a number of we'll
TODD merchants. sheep farmers and inn
keepers. The colony is prosperous, al
though most of its members began with
out any capital There is a favorable
prospect for future immigrants, who
would benefit by the experience and as
sistance of their predecessors. The re-
port goes on to declare that Magellanes
and Western Patagonia have a great flu
ture. The many islands of the Patagonia
archipelago are covered with evergreen
forests capable of supplying immense
| quantities of valuable timber, while the
mountain ranges, being of the same geo.
logical formation as those of Chill and
Peru, are thought to be rich in mineral
resources.
The author of Sands of Sahara, -
when visiting the Gorge Of Chiffa, came
upon a strange ceremonial which, a ma
tive assured him, was an unusual one.
The gorge itself is like a grand sanctua-
ry, canopied by trees and lighted deli