The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-08


John d. Rockefeller. John Sloan and a
few other mi.iionaires a building was re-
Gently erected at cost of SOS 900 in West
Fifty-ffth street, New York, for private
school purposes in order that their
daughters should have more exclusive sur
roundings. The pupils include Miss Ethel
Rockefeller. Miss Sloan, Miss Ruth ".
Twombley, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and
Miss Gertrude Hill, daughter of James j.
Hill.
"A 5-year-old child was playing on the
sidewalk at Locust and Hutchinson
streets, Philadelphia. when a blind man
came along, guiding himself with a heavy
walking stick A swing of the cane
struck the child on the forehead and he
fell down cellarway. sustaining concus-
sion of the brain and dying in a few
hours. A neighbor saw the accident, but
ran to pick up the child, and when she
returned the unknown blind man had
passed out Of sight. doubtless unaware
of the tragedy in which he bore blame
less part.
An old man who has been a farmer
for ffty-seven years in Missouri says:
when I began farming / ploughed with
wooden plough, cut wheat and oats with
a sickle and threshed them out by the
a scythe and used a W. oden to3th har-
row. Much of the whe at and corn rails
ed was eaten by deer, turkeys and prai-
rie chickens. 1t was no uncommon s ght
to see as many as twenty deer in herd.
Just think of the jump from an OK team
to railroad! rem mber by first trip on
the cars. 1t was in 1876, think My wife
and l drove from Harmony to Ashley TO
see some friends. When at Curryville we
IN fFiF inf An
country to Vandala. Well, when the
train started and we ws-e moving over
the prairie, the experience was so pleas
ing and novel that l couldn't help think
ing of the wonderful age. 1t felt so
good to be wheeling through space that
we remained aboard until we reached
Mexico. 1t was wonderful to go that
far and back in day"
-Siamese cats, with their curious mark
ings and loud, discordant voices, are now
favorites with fashionable women in
England, says the Chicago Inler-Ocean
In many respects the an mails of Shame Sc
breed are unique among cats. They follow
their owners as a dog would; they are
exceedingly affectionate and insist upon
being nursed, and they meow loudly and
constantly, as If trying to talk, and to a
deaf person at that They have more vi
vacity than usually falls to the lot OF
cats and less dignity. In color they vary
from pale fawn through shades of brown
to chocolate. There are two vaIiet .es, the
temple eats and the palace cats, about
the only difference between the two Vari-
cites being that the palace breed is dark
er in color. The only sacred temple cats
that ever left the land of their birth were
given to DR.. Nightingale as a mark of
special favor by the King of Sam. They
yyar hy h0ir
and Juliet, and are now the property of
Lord Marcus Beresford. They are very
expensive, moderate specimens selling for
$50 and finely marked ones bringing from
SIS to $500. Now that many ladies of rank
in England have cate ries, the price of
hgh-bred cats IS constantly increasing.
Champion Lord Southampton. white
Persian, owned by Mrs. Greenwood, was
sold for $3.50, and $3.50 was refused for
Zaida, a former cat show champion.
The growing scarcity of ivory will in
evitably bring bcnzoline balls more and
more into use in billiard rooms, says the
Pail Mall Gazette. The ivory balls used
in the recent championship match We're
afterward sold for Is guineas, and a set
that has been in use for twelve months
and can be relied upon to keep true is
almost priceless. There is an impression
opposed to the use of bonzoline balls, but
the World of Billiards declares that this
is not so. 1t is rarely. indeed, that a
bonzoline ball gets out of shape. and
their absolute accuracy is an immense
point in their favor. On this account
they are quite uneQualled for pool ana
pyramids, and in very few years time
it is quite certain that nothing else will
be used fer those games. Then, ivory
balls are utterly useless in a temperature
like that of Africa or India Bonzollne
balls. on the contrary, seem to be unaf-
fected by heat or cold, while it is anoth-
er small point in their favor that they
are colored all through and never need
anything in the way of redyeing. OF
course, they do not play" exactly like
ivory balls, and a week or two of steady
practice is necessary in order to accus-
tom ones self to the change.
The stories which crop up every now
and again about some one splitting open
a rock and finding encased in it a live
toad to all appearances happy and we'll
have induced the Rev. W. auckland Of
England, to try some experiments as a
test of the possibility of such an occur
renee. 1t appears that he took a. large
block of coarse oolitic limestone and
made In it twelve circular cells, each
ABOUT one loot deep and flve inches in
diameter, with a shoulder in the upper
margin, into which he inserted a piece
of glass, protecting this in turn with a
piece of slate. He then made twelve SIM |
liar but smaller holes, six inches deep
and hve in diameter each, in a large |
block of silicious sandstone, covering
them in the same way. Into each of the |
cells in both blocks he put one live toad !
after weighing it and making record of |
same He then sealed up the cells and |
buried the blocks under three feet of |
earth for thirteen months. Upon exami- |
nation at the expiration of this time he |
fcund that all the toads in the sandstone |
block We're dead and more or less decom- |
posed, showing that they had been dead |
Tor long time, while most of the large |
toads in the limestone block were alive |
but in every instance the glass cover |
was cracked. When weighed they showed |
a considerable decrease in weight. The
conclusion reached was that toads cannot |
i've year IL totally excluded from AIR |
and that they cannot live two years il |
totally deprived of food.
As fact, says the author. according
to the New York Medical Record, our |
lower limbs are not usually both of ex- |
actly the same length, though they are so |
Tor all practical purposes. The left ia |