The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


colored Baptist church, and has made
many converts.
The stalwart footmen of sixeeet or
more who so long were in favor among
the ultra-swell set of New York have
been displaced by good-looking boys
between u and Is years of age,
| especially on carriages. Handsome lit
tie fellows of the Fauntleroy type are
now quite the correct thing.
1t has been discovered that Hugo
Hohenlohe. a quiet, dignified German
who is employed as a bank clerk. is
really a prince, being brother of
grand duke who is now chamberlain OF
| the Prussian court. They are cousins
of King Edward of England. Prince
| Hugo is reticent about his private af-
fairs and refuses to say why he sought
employment in such humble capacity
BY the will of the late James Os-
borne the city of Seattle, Wash, was
| made the legatee of the testator. whose
property was to be sold and the funds
held in trust until the citv should
.ee to appropriate like amount Tor
the erection or a m uhID4Pa4 DuIIuIIiS
| The estate has just been settled. and
the amount which the city will realize
is estimated at $4,000.
When the gun club of Carlisle, Pa,
turned out one day recently for a
match at clay pigeons some of the
younger members looked on with good
natured amusement as William Cauf-
man, rs years old, lined up to take
part The old gentleman calmly pro-
| ceeded to shoot all around the others,
killing" twenty-five out of a posi-
BILE twenty live and winning the medal.
"A Canadian firm recently placed
with the Montreal and Toronto news
papers an advertisement of a new
nursing bottle it had patented and was
about to place on the market. After
giving directions for use the adver-
tisement ended in this manner: when
| the baby is done drinking it must be
unscrewed and laid in a cool place
under a tap. If the baby does not
thrive on fresh milk it should be boil
| ed"
Mrs. Asa Hirooka of Osaka, Japan,
the founder and guiding spirit of the
famous banking firms of Kajuna, is an
eminently successful financier and bus
mess organizer. This woman not only
tded her vast establishment over the
| difficult restoration days. but was one
of the pioneer coal miners in Japan.
| She also takes a keen interest in edu-
| cational matters, is at present promot-
| ing university for girls and, by way
of giving practical encouragement, en-
ploys many educated girls at her
banks.
"A young lady of small stature re-
Gently tainted at dinner given in her
Ia
not been able to touch either of her
feet to the floor or her back to the
chair, and the restricted circulation and
prolonged discomfort had finally over
come her. An antiquarian traces the
present mania for high seats to the fact
that at the old French courts sets of
handsome furniture were ranged along
the walls for effect, but were never oc-
cupied. The chairs and sofas actually
used were much lower. Furniture maxi
ers of to-day copy the more SNOWY
pieces and further enhance their util-
fty by spring cushions. The dictum of
famous cabinetmaker is that in
| choosing chairs the knee of person
standing should come clear above the
seat he intends to occupy.
Cures by suture of wounds of the
heart are becoming more and more
common, SAYS the Lancet. Hitherto.
however, all the cases reported have
been of wounds caused by knife or
sword, but NJ. Launay a young sur
geon attached to the Paris hospitals.
has just related to the Academy of
Medicine the details of a case in which
the heart was pierced through by a re-
volver bullet. During the operation the
bullet was found lying in the pericar-
dial cavity. There were two wounds
of the ventricle, one on the anterior
surface and the other on the posterior
surface; these were sutured with cat
gut. The pericardium was then sutured
in its turn, and the flap of the thoracic
wall was fastened in place. No drain
age was employed, and the patient re-
covered without a single bad symp-
tom.
Japan is the land of topsy- turvy,
and so, perhaps, it is only to be expect
ed that individual birthdays-with the
exception of that of the Emperor-are
not taken any notice of, but a sort of
general birthday of everybody alto
gether is celebrated with great rejoic-
ing. There are two of these general
birthdays, one for each sex The male
birthday which is known as the "cele-
bration of the boys" occurs on the
third day of the third month, and the
celebration of the girls" takes place
on the fifth day of the fifth month.
These days are general holidays for the
young. All studies and work generally
are put aside, and boys and girls re-
spectively receive presents according
to their station. The birthday of the
Mikado, or Ten-o, as he is more prop
erly styled, is also a general holiday
for the Japanese everywhere. The
houses are all decorated with figs, and
in the evening the streets are gay with
the lights of innumerable colored lam
terms. In the morning the highest
authorities go to the palace to offer
their congratulations in person and the
lower degrees offer them vicariously to
their superiors. All the japanese
would somehow or other congratulate
their monarch on having added an
other year to his age.
Scientific observation justifies the
estimate that daily average of $780,
GOO tons of water are received into the
Dead sea from the Jordan and other
sources during the year, says the Chi
cago Record Herald. In the rainy sea-
son the amount is very much greater;
during the dry season it is, of course
very much less, but this average will |
he maintained year after year. There |
is no outlet and the level is kept down |
by evaporation only, which is very
rapid because of the intense winds |
which are constantly blowing down |
from the gorges between the noun
tains. This evaporation causes a haze |