The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

nauts to throw out ballast.
But little notice was taken in Hol-
land of the anniversary of Queen
Wilhelmina's wedding, and no refer
ence to it whatever appeared in the
leading Dutch papers.
The new bell which has just been
hoisted in the south tower of Beverly
Minister is the third largest in Great
Britain. 1t has a diameter of feet
? inches. and weighs over seven tons.
At recent meeting of the Anthro-
biological Society. of Washington, evil
dence was adduced that the tattoo
marks on Eskimo women were made
for the purpose of indicating relation
ship.
The average duration OF marriages
in England is twenty-eight years. Rus
STA, with thirty years. is the only coun-
try to beat her. In France and Ger
many twenty-six years is the average
duration.
"A Detroit paper contains this ad-
vertisement: "Notice-If -, who is
supposed to be in Chicago, will commu-
nicate with his friends at home he will
hear of something to his advantage.
His wife is dead"
Lord Salisbury, says the st. James
Gazette, Will retire from the public
service at the end of the war, and that
should this come about before June he
will not wait for the coronation be-
fore resigning office.
The drapery on President McKin-
ley's pew in the First Methodist Epis-
copal Church of Canton, o., was re-
moved the other day. Although all
pews in the church are free, the Nc
Kinley pew has not been occupied by
any one since the funeral. 1t is to be
permanently marked by a plate.
Camping in the Rocky Mountains is
to be one of the inducements offered
Colorado and Utah tourists this year.
The idea was suggested by the inab1l-
ity of the Colorado resort hotels to care
for the business, and the popularity of
some experiments made in that direc-
ton by tourists last year.
"A young woman of Magyar Czern-
va, in Hungary, was called upon the
long distance telephone by her sweet
heart in the town of Taba. He said
would you like to hear how I shoot
MYSELF" Then she heard the sound of
a shot. 1t was found afterward that
the man had really killed himself.
There is cruelty in the keeping of
goldfish. Half of such captives die from
sheer want of rest. AS fish have eyes
so formed that they cannot endure the
light, in a glass vessel they are in an
entirely wrong place, as is evident from
fhn which fhpXy. Hoch q O11t a116
go round and round until fairly worn
out.
Toxic has been destroying rats
wholesale as a preventive measure
against the plague. This disturbed the
religious scruples of Umataro Nagal of
Akasakaken and he began to see rats
at night. To get rid of the dreams he
has spent $1,000 in building a stone pill
lar II feet high and feet thick, in
honor of the spirits of the killed rats.
The Petit Partisan gives an &C
count of remarkable operation per-
formed on an Arab. The unfortunate
son of the desert, frightened at the ap-
preach of eVil-eyed strangers, swal-
lowed his fortune of 107 francs, consist
ing of 5-franc and 2-franc pieces. AS II
would have endangered his life to leave
this money in it's novel security vault,
he was operated upon, and after much
search 105 francs so centimes was re-
covered. The patient was 63 years of
age.
An interesting experiment in clean
ing skeletons adopted at the Wistar
Institute of Anatomy of the University
of Pennsylvania has proved itself most
f.rI fsfo ,fr &c do
ing the work in a more satisfactory
and less expensive manner than was
accomplished by any of the former
methods employed. Some time ago
more than 500 roughly cleaned and
dried carcasses of animals of every de-
scription, varying in size from bear
to a mouse, were spread out on long
tables in the basement rooms of the
building used by the institute. In a
few months almost the entire collec-
ton had been thoroughly cleaned by
the larvae of several species of beetles.
-Apropos of the great chess tourna-
ment which is now being held at Monte
Carlo, there is no game in the world
at which it is so difficult to make
money as chess, says the Taller. Chess
is unquestionably the most scientific
pastime in existence and requires a
very high degree of intelligence to ex-
eel at it, but professional chess play
ers are a sigularly i'll paid body of
men. Putting aside jockeys-who are
more or less NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
players of many games earn far more
than the most distinguished chess
players. Lasker has lately been ap-
pointed to a professorship of mathe-
MATES at Owens College, Manchester,
and DR.. Tarrasch makes a comfortable
income as medical man in Germany,
but their income has nothing to do
with their chess. Many of the COM
petitors in the Monte Carlo tourna-
ment are men of worldwide fame, but
most of them are glad to compete for
prizes of which the highest is only
worth few hundred pounds, and such
tournaments only occur in two or
three years. A professional chess
players earnings for the most part
consist of such fees as he receives for
teaching chess or from playing exhibit
ton games at a local club and any
prize he may win at a chess tourna-
ment, and in the former of these fees
often amount to less in a year than
a descent billiard player would receive
in a month.
In a recently published book on
culinary art DR.. Lemaunier, physi-
clan of Paris, gives several interesting
items regarding well-known chefs. He
mentions the melancholy death of
Trompette, the celebrated cook to the
Duke of Noa;lles. who, in a fit of am
bition, deserted his aristocratic master
for the luxurious but plebeian kitchen
- II I.