The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-30
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tinguished physician and surgeon. He
has been an exhibitor of paintings in
the Royal Academy and French salon.
He is an authority on lithotomy; he is
an astronomer and has a private obser-
vatory; he has written many works on
| surgical subjects and on other topics
so diverse as Food and Feeding" and
Motor Cars" He has been professor
of pathology and surgery in the Royal
College of Surgeons, is president of the
Cremation Society and holds the APP
pointment of surgeon extraordinary to
the King of the Belgians.
Carrots is the name of a vegetarian
cat belonging to a Germantown fam
lily, says the Philadelphia Record. She
| is just about the color of carrot, and
when, in her kittenhood, she showed a
decided preference for the homely veg
etable, she was nicknamed Carrots,
and the name has ever since chung to
her. She eschewed milk at very
early age, and since then has not
| tasted flesh in any form, whether as
meat or fish, living entirely upon veg
etable products. Strawberries she is
| especially fond of, and will even eat
grapes, daintily abstracting the inside
from the outer skin. She will crack
peanut shell to get the kernel out and
eats green peas in the same manner.
In fact, she will go to any trouble in
order to satisfy her vegetarian appe-
tite.
Not many women have owned more
unique pets than the baby rhinoceros
which amuses Mrs. Cook, wife of the
Governor of North Borneo, a British
possession. The Governors house is
near a jungle, which is filled with wild
animals. Out of this jungle of under
growth a baby rhinoceros strayed one
morning and was captured without
much difficulty. Sixteen quarts of milk
a day is the amount the hungry baby
usually demands, and on it 1t has
thriven and grown fat. This child of
the jungle looks very little like the
full-grown rhinoceros. If it were not
for its single horn one might take him
for a peculiar species of hog, says
Home Chat. He is about the same
size and covered with shaggy coat of
black hair. The baby. rhinoceros fol-
lows Mrs. Cook about like a faithful
dog, but it will not be long, if he keeps
on growing, before he becomes too
cumbersome even for a North Borneo
pet.
Three fatal accidents have now oc-
Cured in single day to tourists seek
ing edelweiss in different parts of the
Alps, says the London Graphic. The
occasion is appropriate, not so much
for dwelling upon the dangers of the
quest, as for pointing out how very
superfluous it is to brave them. For
the popular belief that edelweiss grows
only in rocky places, where 1t cannot
be culled without risk to life and limb,
is quite erroneous. Not only is it to
be found above a certain altitude, on
pastures on which a child might safe
ly play, but 1t also can be, and fire.
quently is, cultivated in a garden. To
pursue IT on the race of a precipice or
on a steep grass slope is really not
much less foolish than it would be to
take the same trouble to pick but
tercup or a daisy. If the knowledge
of that simple fact could be widely
diffused the braVado of the pursuit
might perhaps fall into contempt, with
the result that many lives, more or
less valuable, might be saved.
The latest achievements in statis-
tics, says the London Graphic, is the
computation that the average number
of words spoken by a man in year
is 1880, 900. Eloquent by themselves,
these figures become still more elo-
quent if we take the trouble to ex-
press them in terms of literary COM
position. Doing the necessary sums
we find that this output of talk
amounts approximately to 1000 maya
zine articles, or to 800 novelties, or to
118 novels by Mr. Guy Boothby, or to
SO of Mr.. Hall Gaines most colossal
works. One really hardly knows
whether to be more dazzled or dismay
ed at this estimate of the output of
words. Perhaps, in an age in which
literary workers are taking to the use
of photographs, alarm should be the
rof1 iva he
ductivity of Dumas and his collabor-
ators pales into insignificance when we
consider what this labor saving ma
chine has made possible to a really
popular, fertile and ayaricious author;
and critics may well tremble at the
prospect in store for them when such
an author really appreciates and ex-
PLOTS his opportunities.
An interesting story of valuable
topaz now in the possession of Signor
Nicola Carelli, comes from Naples,
says the Rome correspondent of the
Leader. The topaz which Signor Ca
relli brought back from Brazil some
years ago, is so large that it is said
to weigh over two pounds. A Neapo-
Titan artist, seeing the stone, begged
to be allowed to engrave the figure of
Christ on it in cameo. The work is
now finished, and Signor Carelli has
been looking for a purchaser. The
value of the jewel is, however so
l-great that even the Pope himself, to
whom it was offered, could not afford
to buy it. Finally, says the Italie
committee has been formed at Naples
with the purpose of buying the jewel
from it's present owner by public sub
scription, and offering it to Leo XIII.
| as q Jubilee present. 1t is to be hoped
| therefore, that this wonderful treasure
will be seen by visitors to the Vatican
| Museum. Signor Carelli declares that
there is nc other such stone in the
world.
1t is being urged that the municipal
council of St. Louis, or even the Legis-
| lature of Missouri, take up and pass
finally upon the proper pronunciation
| of the name st. Louis before the open
ing of the Louisiana Purchase Fair in
| that city, says the New York Post 1t
| is pointed out that an immemorial dis
| pute over the proper pronunciation of
| Arkansas was settled by the IIegisla-
| ture Of that state in 1881, when it was
| enacted that the pronunciation should
| be "Arkansaw, and the state lived
happily ever after. The name St.
Louis was bestowed by the French
when the place was settled and the
| French pronunciation is Loo-ee, to
| rhyme with the name of Admiral
| Dewey. The English pronunciation Is
'Lew-iss," practically rhyming with
| the word Jewess. The suggestion,
once made. does not, of course, halt
| lamely at st. Louis When the dispute