The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


the mining parts of the North, where,
says the London Daily Mail, 1t is COM
monty believed that wives are often
knocked down to the highest bidder
The custom, however, has wider vogue.
if credence is to be attached to an ex-
traordinary story told in the Worces-
ter Bankruptcy Court yesterday by
George Henry Pitt, farmer, of Wool
hope, Herefordshire. He attributed his
indebtedness almost wholly to a recent
verdict in the Divorce Court against
him for $500 and costs, and he now
explained that he bought the respond
ent from her husband for an ounce of
tobacco. During talk in public
house, he said, the husband offered to
sell his "old woman" The bankrupt
asked his price, and the husband said:
"An ounce of bacca. - Bankrupt
promptly ordered the tobacco, and
handed it to the husband giving him
a pipe into the bargain. The landlady
of the house and others were, he added,
witnesses; but when the action was
tried he had not the means to take
them to London. The official receiver
held that if the husband bargained
about his wife in that way he had no
claim to such damages, and recon-
mended the bankrupt to obtain funds
from friends and instruct a solicitor
dueed. In the meantime it was under
stood that the Kings Proctor has TAX
en- up the case.
Here is a snake story from the La
con Qll.) Journal: Every we'll regulat-
ed printing office has a watering can
in which water is kept to wet the
type. For want of a better place, the
one in the Home Journal office is usual
ly kept on a window sill on the north
side of the room. One day during the
recent drought two of our printers were
sitting on their stools at this window
sticking type, when they were nearly
petrified by the sight of a snake pro-
truding its head above the sill from
the outside. The boys almost broke
their necks in getting away. Reaching
over into the pan, the snake took
good drink, and, before the startled
printers could secure a club with which
to dispatch the reptile, it had disap-
peared. The next day at the same hour
the snake came for another drink, and
this was repeated the third and fourth
days, but the last time it was attacked
frcm the rear by a big black Thomas
cat that makes it's home at Testers
nvery barn. next door. 1t was a lively
light for few seconds, but the cat
was too much for the snake, although
1T was fully four feet long, and the
reptile made a shoot for the rear of the
office. The cat was after it like a streak
OF lightning, but the snake found
hole in the brick wall and disappeared
under the building. That was two
weeks ago. Before that time the print
ing office was overrun with mice, but
since then there hasn't been a mouse
about the place. Any of our readers
who are troubled with mice are cor
daily invited to come and borrow our
81 axe for a few days"
AT yesterdays sitting of the Glas-
gov conference of the International
Law Association, says the London Tel
egraph of Aug. %, Mr.. Justice Philli-
more submitted paper on marriage
laws urging that the object of inter-
national jurists must be to establish
series of principles which would de-
termine which law should, when there
was a conflict of laws, prevail, He
pointed out that it would be useless for
france to forbid marriage of minors
without the express consent of parents
If the minor couple could make a mar
riage by transit to Dover and then
claim validity for it in their own coun-
try. 1t would be useless for England
to have prohibited degrees of affinity
prohibited degrees of consanguinity.
such as that of uncle and niece, when
the couple could go to, South America
and get dispensation from the Arch
bishop of Lima. 1t was useless for a
southern state to forbid marriage be-
tween white and black If the train
could be taken to a Northern state of
the Union. Under such a rule anyone
who was rich enough and could go far
o. AZ La
The poor only were bound For these
reasons he urged that Great Britain
should settle herself into adherence
TO the Continental doctrine, and that
America should change her jurispr1-
dence into like adhesion. He argued
IN favor of some formal ceremony. as
simple as poSSible-a civil one. ner-
formed by civil officer and registered
in a civil register. Let the parties
hereafter, he said, by all means seek
the blessing of their church. but as
a matter of religion, not of law. Mr..
j. Farrelly, of South Africa, remarked
that If Scotland was the country in
which marriage could be most hastily
proJected,sSouth Africa was the conn
try in which it could be most eastIv
dissolved. Twenty-four hours deser.
ton was sufficient ground for absolute
decree of divorce. daughter. But
because of the easy facility for pro-
curing divorce the people made I'D
their minds to do without it.
AT a meeting of the Royal Geo
graphical Society, with Sir Clements
Markham in the chair, DR.. Vaughan
Cornish read a paper on Travels in
search of Waves in 1900," saws the
London Times. He first showed a num-
per OF photographs, taken at various
places around the British coast. i. o
yarmouth, the mouth of the Findhorn
Montrose, Mundesley and the Good
wins, Illustrating sand waves, usually
about twenty feet from crest TO crest
ana from one foot to twenty inches
nigh. These were found upon estuar
Inc and banks exposed to strong tidal
currents. BY photographing the ridges
at low water map might be obtained
showing the strength and direction of
the tide in any estuary in which cir
cumstances favored their preservation:
Where,s however the first of the flood
tide or the last of the ebp tide ran
strongly these ridges were washed fiat.
ana the sand banks dried smooth and
featureless. Such sand ridges, which
were not to be COMPOUNDED with the
ordinary ripple of current streams. re-
quired for their production a swift cur
rent with great depth of water. and
they originated in the condition of I'M
stable equilibrium which existed when
the lower layers of water were fullv'
charged with sand in eddying suspen-