The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Gusts. Swarms have been seen from
Beluchistan on the west to Assam on
the east. In some districts they have
merely passed over without doing any
damage; in others slight injuries to
the crops have resulted, and in a few
places considerable destruction has
been experienced. The danger is not
so much from the mature insect as
from the young.
"A meeting of the History Commit
tee of the Worlds Fair was held in
st. Louis, Oct. %, to consider the de-
mand of the historical societies for the
erection of a permanent re-proof
building costing about $500,000 for the
preservation of rare documents and
other relics of the Worlds Fair site.
Chairman Chouteau presided, and
President Francis and Mr.. Frederick
J. v. Skiff, director of exhibits, We're
present. Chairman Chouteau said the
correspondence of the committee had
shown that the owners of such things
would not lend them for Exposition
use, unless assured of fire-proof stor-
age. To obtain the use of an old wood
en- shovel unearthed at a Flat River
mine, where it had been used more
than a century ago, he had to agree
to keep it stored in a fire-proof vault,
agreed to definitely recommend such
a building the various historical socie-
ties and the Missouri commissioners
seeming disposed to assist. The shovel
will be used in the ceremony of for
mally commencing work on the Expo
sition buildings.
They are a wise man and woman
who start out in their married life in
a 80 in, TNlaPd
where they will have green grass about
their house even if it is only a few
feet, says E. W. Box in the Ladies
Home Journal. 1t makes no difference
how humble or how modest the house
may be. The smallest box of a house
with a plot of green is temple of
commons sense compared to the finest
fiat" or boarding house" in the city.
If there is anything appropriate in this
life it is that young people should live
somewhere where each day they can
see their own unfolding lives reflected
in the unfolding workings of nature.
There is no beginning, in the home
sense, to young married life so true,
so wise, so lasting, and so satisfactory
as that. No life in a city is compar-
able with that which is lived in small
house with green things growing over
and around it. where Gods pure sun
shine battles and sweetens every side
of the house during the day, and where
the surest life giving odors that God
gives to His children: the odors of soil
and growing things, are blown into the
house while we sleep.
The most widely known and often
est quoted verse in the English Ian
guage is
Thirty days hath November,
April, June and September,
February hath XVIII alone,
And all the rest have XXI"
1t is the one thing learned at school
that nobody forgets, the one aid to
memory that really helps remembrance.
Yet probably not one person in a hun
bred thousand who habitually use it
in everyday life recollects or has ever
known the name of it's author. Rich
ard Grafton, who wrote this immortal
poem, was one of the earliest and most
distinguished of English publishers. He
embarked in the business only about
sixty years later than CaXton, the
father of English printing" and, be-
tween 1889 and 1858, brought out THE
Great Bible (Matthew's), Coverdale's
Translation of the New Testament,
"Actes of Parliament" and other books.
The name of Grafton has lately been
rescued from an undeserved obscurity,
and made familiar to the reading pub
lie at least, by a Well-known firm of
New York publishers, who have estab-
lished 1.-THE Grafton Press" thereby
reviving a title honored $50 years ago.
The desire for souvenirs upon the
part of the large crowds lined along
the railroad tracks at every point was
a distinctive feature of the Mckinley
funeral train, says the Pittsburg Post.
The most popular of all the methods
adopted was the placing of coins upon
the tracks SO that the train might pass
over them, Smashing fiat the pieces of
money as a mark of Identification in
years to come. This practice was not
confined to any particular point or
crowd, but was INDUCED in generally
all along the route. The mutilated
coins were afterward gathered up by
their owners and displayed with much
pride. Coins of different denomina-
tons aggregating at least several hum
dred dollars were strewn along the
track at Union Station. Even these
relic hunters seemed to appreciate the
occasion and surroundings, and, in
stead of making a rush for their prop
erty as soon as the train had passed,
picking up the crushed coins. At Roup
Station a wealthy resident of the
Shadyside district placed a $40 gold
piece upon the rail. The approach of
the train started to shake it off, but
it managed to remain long enough to
have just a small portion of it nipped
off as if done by a knife. The owner
is quite a collector of souvenirs and
oddities, and when he picked up his
coin he stated it would occupy the most
prominent and conspicuous place in his
large collection.
The increase in the size of the army
and the new responsibilities which the
United States has assumed in the ORR
ent are commensurate with the ma
tons advance, writes Gen. Nelson A.
Miles in Success. The soldiers career
has always been recognized as one of
the most honorable; yet, in America,
many years of peace, with a military
establishment insignificant in size,
kept the uniform from occupying a
prominent position in the minds of the
people. The greater probabilities of
active service due to the unsettled con-
ditions in our new possessions indicate
that there will be more frequent
changes in the service than formerly
and greater opportunities for distinct
ion. More than this, the reorganiza-
ton law which has been passed by
Congress adds considerably to the
number OF the higher places. 1t pro-
vides more officers in proportion to
the number of regiments than were
called for under the old organization.