The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-07
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| Much uneasiness is felt in Berlin
at the increasing number of suicides.
| Not a day passes without its CHASTITY
record. Among those reported in one
| day, recently, were four cases of sui
eide by poisoning. The first was that
of a girl of % years, who was disap-
pointed in love, and the others were
those of a young married woman of q,
after quarrelling with her husband,
bookseller, aged So. for pecuniary, rea-
sons, and chemist. aged 26. the reason
being unknown.
In Moscow a. young married lady
of one OF the leading families received
recently a letter through the post ad-
dressed to her husband in a woman's
handwriting. AS she opened it piece
of paper fell out with the words
Think of me-" with no signature. The
next moment she. sank insensibIe to
the ground. Her little 2-year-old boy
picked up the envelope and was like
wise overpowered with the poison
with which the letter was impregnated.
Mother and child were found some
time afterward in a death-like trance.
During the run between Toronto
and Montreal an interesting feat was
performed in wireless telegraphy by
Prof. Mclean. of McGill University.
They succeeded in establishing wire
less communication between the train,
which was running at the rate of sixty
miles an hour, and st. Dominick Sta
| ton. This is the first time, 1t is said,
that wireless biography has ever been
| attempted from a fast moving train,
| and the experiment was a complete
| success. Communication was opened
| eight miles before reaching the Station
and was continued for the same dis
lance beyond.
-Apropos the recent trouble with
| Irish members in the House of Com
MONS the London Daily News says:
Paddy oddly enough, was the name
of the first member of the House of
| Commons who, in 1904, was silenced
under standing order made in the
same year to precent the idle waste
| of time If any man,' the order laid
down, speak impertinently or beside
| the question in hand, 1t standeth with
the order of the House for Mr.. Speak
| er to interrupt him, and to know the
pleasure of the House whether they
will further hear him. Sir William
Paddy was entering on a long speech
when the Speaker moderated him.
With the object of promoting moral
ity and saving fallen women, an as
ISOLATION, composed of two queens and
sixty-nine princesses, thirty-five be-
longing to reigning houses, has been
formed in Germany. They will seek
to influence leading men with whom
they come in contact in favor of their
cause. The association has held its
first meeting at Frankfurt, but only
sixteen princesses or their representa-
tives were present. They have issued
an appeal to public men begging them
to do their utmost to change the lax
views so prevalent among men of the
world on this subject, and to consider If
any further legislation will be of as
sistance.
There are numerous reliable state
ments of grizzly bears having attack
ed men, but nowadays the grizzly
does not seek out his human victims.
as there are credible statements that
his forefathers used to do. Neither
does he lie in wait, and, bouncing upon
a hunter. tear him into bloody shreds
in delighted fiendishness, as the old
time stories used to tell. says Outing.
The change in the grizzly's disposition
is likened by veteran hunters to the
change in the character of the white
cousin of the grizzly, the polar bear of
the Arctics. When the stations for the
Hudson's Bay Company were estalb-
liShed, the diaries of the men there Of
ten referred to the fright of attacks
by polar bears. Many a navigator in
the Arctic seas has been clawed and
chewed to death by polar bears. But
for nearly century the polar bear
has not been regarded as so very fierce
and nowadays it is looked upon as a
cowardly beast. Association with arm
ed men has modified the polar bears
disposition.
The Romans took their meals while
lying upon very low couches, and not
| until the time of Charlemagne was a
stand used around which guests We're
seated on cushions, while the table only
made its appearance in the middle
ages, bringing with it benches and
backs. The Greeks and Romans ate
from kind of porringer During a
portion of the middle ages, however,
slices of bread cut round took the place
of plates. The spoon is of great an
tlquity, and many specimens are in ex-
istence that were used by the Egypt
| ians so early as the seventeenth GEN.
fury b. G. The knife, though very
old, did not come into common use as
table utensil until after the tenth
century. The fork was absolutely I'M
known to both Greeks and Romans,
| middle ages and was first used upon
| the table by Henry III. Drinking cups
in the middle ages made from metal,
more or less copious, according to the
owners means-naturaliys date from
| the remotest age.
There is no better place to study
French frugality than in the parks and
| open squares of Paris, says Donohue's.
| Go to one of the second hand fairs held
| on the outer boulevards. What in
other countries would be cast aside as
| useless is here exposed for SALE hav-
| ing been carefully sorted over by rag.
| pickers, whose sole support is the rup-
| bish which you see-broken china, bits
| OF glass, pieces of stone, old nails, old
| pots and pans, old shoes, old combs
| and brushes. Does a woman need a
cup? Has she broken a saucer? For
cents she can replace them. Is her
| lock broken, her key lost? Behold q
thousand from which to choose The
| poor students may find their books,
mothers their children's shoes. Each
house in Paris is provided by the city
with large box. Into this the SER
| wants throw all that is not needed by
| the family, whether of food or raj
ment. Every morning the chifroniers
| or ragpickers are privileged to search
| through these boxes before the con-
| tents are carted by the city to distant
| fields, where the refuse is employed in
| fertilizing the soil From the homes
of the wealthy the poor receive many
| articles of real value. Fifty thousand
| ragpickers, say the statistics, realize