The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

most tempt the German Emperor to
visit the Northern capital. 1t is the
city's great two-handed sword of state,
which will figure in the Inauguration
of the new Lord Mayor of York for the
ensuing civic year. This sword former
ly belonged to that Emperor Sigis-
mund from whom Frederick Hohen-
zollern exacted the Mark of Brandon
burg in exchange for a timely loan.
Sigismund was made a knight of the
Garter by Henry ", and as custom de-
mandS, sent a sword to be hung with
his banner over his stall in St Georges
Chapel, Windsor The Emperor died in
1887; his sword was taken down and
offered at the altar in payment for
masses for the repose of his soul. One
of the canons of Windsor, named Hens
lap, thus became possessed of the i'm
perial weapon. Being a man of peace
and also a native of York, he present.
ed the sword to that city, where it was
and still is borne before the Lord
Mayor on state occasions.
1t is now said that the man after
whom America was named was a
German, and his name was Haimerich.
Italianized into Amerigo. The st. Louis
Globe-D Democrat is delighted at the dis
covery. 1t says: I'VE never fancied
being discovered or named by Latin.
We always imagined him sailing up
and down our shore in a banana cart
But Haimerich is a different PROPOSE
ton. We are kindly disposed toward
him. We know that the hold of his
ship was stocked not with spaghetti
but with pretzels and our favorite
brew. Unconsciously we have all along
rendered homage to Haimerich. I'm
knowingly we have built monuments
to him in our breweries. This discoy-
cry explains our seeming prejudice
| against the Latins. Now we bear them
no i'll will, but they must cease to
| taunt us with the fact that our CONT
meme is named for them. This is
Haimerichs. NIGHT wahr? Then let
the maps be changed. Hoch der crosse
| Haimerich"
Grand Rapids, Wis, has probably
the cheapest telephone service on our
side of the water, from what the Out
| AJAX has heard. 1t is a cooperative
| affair, and rs cents a month for resi-
| dences and $3.50 for business places is
the average charge after the dividends
are set off against the expenses. AS an
instructive contrast to the grasp of
monopolies upon the large cities the
Grand Rapids Telephone Company re-
pays study. The private monopoly
which existed in Grand Rapids when
| the new system was started offered to
| put in new instruments, rent free for
| three years, in order to crush it's in
| FAINT rival. Local patriotism, however,
looked beyond the present, and the free
| telephones were declined almost unan-
imously. The private company retired
| forthwith from the town, and the CO.
| operative company now controls the
Situation. No one is allowed to buy
more than one share of stock for each
| instrument actually used, and thus the
control of affairs can never be taken
| from the individual members.
| "A plague of monkeys recently sore
| ly troubled the officials at small sta
ton on the Saran Railway in North
| west India, says the Golden Penny.
| Trucks full of grain for export were
often stored up in the station, and the
monkeys came down in large numbers
| from a neighboring grove to help
| themselves to the grain, picking holes
| in the tarpaulin roof of the wagons.
| The officials were wearied out with
keeping watch and soaring away the
| thieves, who daily grew holder, till an
ingenious guard hit upon a stratagem.
| For several days sweets and fruits
were put on the roofs of the wagons,
| with the result that the whole of the
| monkey colony were attracted to the
| spot, and soon became perfectly indif-
/ ferent to man. One morning while they
| were all busily feeding an engine was
| stealthily attached to the wagon, and
suddenly the train moved off. The
| monkeys were quite scared, and made
no attempt to escape, sitting crouched
together till the train had gone several
miles and stopped at the jungle. Then
| they wanted no hint to leave, and fled
| into the jungle, whence they have new
er returned to trouble the railway.
BY a decree. of nature, says the
Royal Magazine, one-half the world
f1ourishes at the expense of the other
half The sparrow chases the butter
| fly, but the hawk chases the sparrow.
The roach feeds sumptuously on the
swarming May feas, but the pike is
ever ready to make a meal of the
roach. For the problem of life is two
| fold. 1t is not enough merely to eat;
it is necessary to avoid being eaten.
Yet nature detests killing for killing S
sake Massacre forms no part of her
| great plan. So we see that every crea-
ture is provided with some more or
less effective quality of defense, by
means of which the attacks of his nat
| ural enemies are rendered less fire.
| quent or less deadly. Titus, the ante
lope, by means of its superior speed, at
times escapes from the lion. The
| armadillo, rolled in it's wondrous coat
of MAIL lies secure amongst a score
| of hungry, gnawing foes, while the
white hare, scarcely distinguishable
from the snow on which it crouches, is
often overlooked by his foe, the fox.
But of all creatures none have re-
| ceived more ample protection than the
| insects. Some of them possess stings,
others bite, and few puff out clouds
of poisonous vapor to Supply or blind
their pursuers. Again, there are in
sects clothed in impenetrable armor,
insects covered with sharp spines and
prickles, and others whose means of
defence consist in nothing but a like
ness to the objects which surround
them.
1T would be interesting to know
just how much the hotels of New Or
leans spend every year for matches fol-
free distribution said an observant
man who hangs around the more prem
inent places a great deal, according tt
the New Orleans Times Democrat "Nc
doubt the outlay will amount to a con-
siderable sum in a years time. 1t Is
rather interesting to watch different
men as they approach the free match.
holder, which is to be found on every
hotel counter of the city. Nearly
every man wears a different express
sion, and every man has his own pc.
cuiiar way of reaching for free match
es. 1t is a rare thing for a mar tc
simply take one match. He may need
only one to light his cigar. But he
1 will fr1r 10. l..