The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

France Holds the record for long das-
suits. Three such cases have just been
brought to the notice OF the judicial
authorities IN. 1884 the commune or
I parish Of Campan started a law suit
over some disputed land with the
/ community Of Quatre Neziaux dame,
/ which consists Of four villages. The
suit went on through several centuries
f before various courts in the south
west Of France, was temporarily sus-
! pended curing the. Revolution, and AFT
erWards taken up again. II has been
/ gong on ever since, and is not vet
ended This same borough of Campan,
which. is in the Department OF the
Hautes- -Pyrenees, had another lawsuit.
started IN 1884 with the town of Bag
neTes-de-B BigOTre, which only came TO
an end in 1882. The third case mem
I toned is a lawsuit started In l2lO be-
/ tween the Counts Of Nevres and the
/ Inhabitants of Donzy. in the Nievre.
The case was settled definitely in 1913.
I and the town of Donzy paid the last
lnstaillnent of its costs in January,
1901
a dispatch from Honolulu, Nov. Il,
says: The cruiser New York broke the
navy record for coaling here yester-
day, putting in $50 tons OF coal in six
hours. This remarkable speed was
due 10 the fact that the full band OF
the ship played during the whole time
that the 'Jackies" We're rushing coal
aboard. 1t seems that the employment
OF the band was suggested to Capt.
Mackenzie by the bandmaster's appli-
cation for forty-eight hours leave of
ABSENCE from the ship. TO get away
from the dust and dirt of coaling."
instead, the captain ordered the band
to play for fOTty-eight hours. It was
stationed on the bridge during the
| ooalingt and reeled off martial airs
Two rival gangs of "jackies" We're
| coaling, one getting coal from a lighter
alongsfde and the other from the
wharf. They trundled the wheelbar-
rows of coal at a lively trot. They
negan at in the morning and fin
| lshed al 1 O'Clock. thus breaking the
worlds naval coaling record.
I'm the Washington Post Mrs. Chris-
! tine w. Dunlop OF that city relates
the efforts of herself and husband the
late Major Myron E. Dunlop, to find
| the inkstand which was used at the
surrender of Gen. Lee at Appomattox
Every clew that seemed likely to lead
70, the location of the inkstand was
followed, but the historic relic could
! never be found. Possibly it had pass
ed into possession of some one who
knew nothing of its war record or
historic value" says Mrs Dunlop
The Union colonel of cavalry. near
whose lifeless body it was found on the
neld of battle, was soundly sleeping
IN soldiers grave when the last gun
was fired at Appomattox. But the
/ blood-stained inkstand which he HAD
carried into the fatal charge had pass
ed on with the war, sharing now the
varying fortunes of the Confederate
lag, until at last, after many forced
marches and bloody conflicts, it was
| present at the final furling of that war;
| stained banner on the memorable field
Of Appomattox. We had read in a
| Century Magazine article, written by
| Geh. Horace Porter now ambassador
| 10 France, that the inkstand was fur
11shed by Col, Charles Marshall of
Gen. Lees. staff" T<'a q
Sir Marcus Samuel was not the
first Lord Mayor of London to pass
through the Jewish district of that city
ON Lord Mayors day. The Jewish
World, in commenting on the event,
says: Sir Marcus, who as d com
munal worker, - is certainly popular
with the Jewish people did not con
fer any favor on the Jews by riding
flh sAiS stats coach, led by-mvlti- gar rbed
- Il N,
going west to tie Law Courts to bel
lsrecefved by his Thajesty's Judges The
rule is that the Lord Mayors process
SION shall traverse the principal streets
OF the ward ne represents in the CITY
I Council According with this -prece-
dent Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs passed
lFthrough PortsokeH, the principal street
| OF which is Houndsditch, When he as
snined the duties of Lord Mayor Nov
then fell on the Sabbath, The. Jews
+ protested vigorously against his desc
Grating the Sabbath by riding As a
concession it was proDoSed that the
procession should pass through the
/ street while his, then lordshiD. should
walk the length of the street The
precedents of mayoral pageantry inter-
Tered with this scheme. This year the
! Jewish market street came INTO the
route because it has been rebuilt and
IS now a wide thOroughfare; formerly
Petucoat lane was so narrow that two
! push carts could not pass each other
without encroaching on the sidewalk"
The sneer that golf is a game only
for those not agile and venturesome-
enough for games of greater danger,
says the London Globe has long ago
! faded from golf criticism, and now It
has actually come to pass that golf is
| arTaigBed as a game dangerous for
men who may be described as aged
1t is said that if a man all through life
has followed sedentary habits. allow
ing his muscles to become weak and
tahby particularly those muscles in
the region of the heart, golf may
very easily prove too severe a strain
for his system. But in the pages OF
a golf journal this view is partially
I criticised by one who did not begin the
game till he was very near in the
neighborhood of sixty He declares
that it is matter of beginning gent
iy, and he tells us that in his own case
he does not, find two rounds dav
particularly eXhausting. AT the same
time he. confesses that he has alvavs
been an enthusiast for outdoor exer-
cises. and is inclined to think that for
a man. who has never taken physical
eXercise-rather rare experience4it
may be a little exhausting to begin
with. It is all matter Of not over
doing 1T at first, but, unfortunately. so
attractive is the game, that the Oldest
beginners are tempted to 20 in for it
rather more vigorously than is wise
The result of all this latest pother
seems to be that like everything in
life, it is wisdom at the outset to go
SLOW, 1. and this is a verdict that
aged beginners" should lay to heart.
Kings deserve in some respects to
be credited with the virtue of constan-
cy, writes a contemporary, says an ex-
change. Thus King Edward of Great
Britain, King George of Greece ;rld
King Carlos of Portugal never Dut up
at any hotel but the Bristol Mem ba,.e