The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Grant, and in the other the Inflated
Sarah Knox Taylor was made the bride
of Jefferson Davis.
The editor of the Record. published
in Muscotah, Kan, embraces an inter-
esting opportunity to make this
double-barreled announcement: Born,
TO the wife of the editor, a nine-pound
boy on Sunday. Subscribers and adj
vertisers will please remember that we
shall continue to edit one of the ablest
WeeklieS in the First Congressional
District at the same rates"
Samuel Gompers. the labor leader,
is master of five languages. At con-
vention of the American Federation of
Labor some years ago some delegates
made speeches in Italian, in French, in
German and in Spanish. Mr.. Gompers
was at home with them all. He made
notes on their addresses and when nee
essary interrupted them on obscure
points in their own tongue.
Levi P. Morton, is rs, ]. Pierpont
Morgan 65, James r. Keene GA, Rus
sell Says Sc, Andrew Carnegie So, yet
all are as vigorous as youngsters OF
40. A strong friendship has long ex-
listed between Mr.. Morton and Mr..
Morgan. When the latter was sky
larking at Gottingen Mr.. Morton was
a partner IF his father, Junius Spencer
Morgan, in the dry goods business.
George B. Richardson of Bath, N.
Y, the other day celebrated the sixty
fifth anniversary of his entry into ''the
craft by going to the three newspaper
offices in town and setting in each
a stick of BREWER, Just to keep his
hand in. Petroleum V. Nasby' and
Brick" Pomeroy were both appren-
tees in the Corning Journal when Mr..
Richardson was on that paper.
New Year time in China is always
fruitful of fires, says Leslies Weekly.
1t is the Chinese custom that all debts
must be liquidated by the end of the
year. Failure to do so means utter
ruins of ones credit. 1t frequently
happens that a Chinaman, seeing dis
grace staring him in the face, will set
fire to his house and thus plead to his
creditors How could 1 pay? The gods
have destroyed my home. Ask the gods
for the money" In this way, II not de-
tected, honor is saved and credit unim-
paired
Minister WI Ting-fang recently at
tended a reception following dinner
at the Washington home of Senator
Hanna He had hardly arrived when a
senator congratulated him on emerging
from a rumor that he was about to be
recalled, and added: Let's take glass
of wine on it." The Chinese diplomat
was much gratified, but began to smell
a mouse when half dozen more pub
lie men approached him in the same
way. They were evidently trying to
put me under the table,, says WI, put
by keeping cool and spilling a few
glasses l managed to maintain my
| equilibrium"
-Percival w. Clement, one of the re-
publican candidates for the nomination
to the governorship of Vermont, is
giving the people of that state a kind
of variety show campaign. He has
four colored comedians who sing and
act. each faultlessly attired. His meet
ings are always crowded. Mr.. Clement
! discusses the power of the law to con-
troll the sale of liquor and declares that
the prohibitory law, by the manner of
| it's enforcement, is educating the youth
| of Vermont to hold law in contempt.
| Mr.. Clement is a vigorous opponent of
| prohibition and in favor of high Ii
cense and local option law.
The succession of the new Earl of
! Stamford recalls an interesting ro-
nance of the British peerage. His pre-
decessor lived in South Africa for forty
years, married a Zulu belle and prac-
| tically became a Zulu himself. At his
death opponents of the hereditary house
were pleased at the prospect OF
| Woolly- headed peer in the House OF
! Lords, but the Committee on Privileges
! of that body found the rightful heir
and the ninth Earl of Stamford in
William Grey, a professor of classics
and philosophy in a college in the Bar
/ BADGES. The present earl is the son
of a clergyman and is best known for
his religious and philanthropic activl-
ties.
inverness, the capital of the High
lands, is threatened with a terrible
calamity, according to DR.. Davidson of
Birmingham, an authority in seismol-
| Ogy, says Pearson's. 1t is know to
biologists that Inverness occupies a
most interesting position at the outlet
| of the Saeat crack, or crevasse, in the
geological formation of the northern
part of the island, which, as the Gale
DOMAIN canal, cuts the country in two.
| He warns the inhabitants of Inverness
to be prepared for earthquakes peri
odically. The earth's crust in the In
verness district is gradually slipping
Stewards and Loeb Ness Zone of the
chain of lakes which form the cana)
in few hundreds of thousands OF
years" will be part of the sea.
Some CONSERVATION has been arous-
ed in the navy department by an APP
parent determination on the part OF
Secretary Moody to run the place with
some regard to economy. Some days
ago an appeal was made to him foI
more clerks, it being declared that only
by he most diligent industry could the
work be kept up with the present force
Mr.. Moody astouhded the applicant fol
more help by haying that the condi.
tion described was exactly as it should
it. The clerks, he said, had easy hours
and should employ every moment Of
their time in the department in doins
government work. AS they were able
to keep the business up to date, ever
with difficulty, this was what was re-
quired of them.
An amusing law suit is recorded il
Paris. 1t has been brought by a pres!
clipping agency against the Shah o.
Persia for $256O, due for clippings sup.
piled to that potentate during his re
cent visit to France. The number o.
clippings is said to have been As 900
When the case came to trial it wa
thrown out of court on the ground tha
French courts had no jurisdiction ovel
it. 1t was then sent to the Frencl
foreign minister, NJ. Delcasse, with the
request that he send it on to thu
French minister at Teheran for col