The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I'm Santa Clara, Cal, there is a
church constructed from the wood of
a single oak tree. The building is 80
feet wide and 20 feet deep. yet when
its construction was completed 1900
feet of lumber remained unused.
The following explanatory note ac-
companied a Liberty (Mo) young
mans wedding gift to a friend: MY
dear girl: You will find in the box
thingamajig, which has something to
do with eating. It's a cross between
harpoon and a hayfork. 1t may be
for spearing pickles or stacking chop
ped cabbage. Anyway, you will be so
happy that you won't care"
A new process for the manufacture
of artificial marble has been patented
in Berlin. Asbestos, dyeing materials,
shellac and ashes are pounded into
stiff mass and then subjected to high
pressure. The product is surprising
ly firm and tough, not brittle, is easily
worked by means of tools, can be
given a fine polish, and in appearance
cannot be distinguished from genuine
marble.
The $1,000 in bills which figured in
the bribery cases attending the cleo
ton of Senator Clark by the Montana
Legislature still remains a part of the
archives of that state. The man to
whom it was given as a bride never
claimed it; the briber or bribers have
not asked that it be returned and
there is no channel by which the state
can appropriate it as part of the pub
lie funds.
james Tyson, the wealthiest of
Australian squatters, died recently
leaving several millions, but no will,
and, so far as is known, no heir at
law. OF course, there is a host of
claimants, but of these a man of Ayr,
Scotland, is the most eccentric. He
has sent a formidable document to the
highest legal authorities in Melbourne,
proving on Biblical testimony that the
Tyson millions were predestined to be
applied to the rebuilding of Solomons
temple at Jerusalem.
A manufacturing jeweler in Eng
land recently remarked that some of
his employees had begun to wear their
hair unusually long. He watched
them more closely and discovered that
they frequently creased their hands,
rubbed them over with gold filings and
diamond chips, and then carefully
passed their hands through their hair.
1t was their custom al night to cleanse
their hair with fine combs and collect
and sell the gold particles and diamond
dust stolen in the manner above de-
scr1bed.
The old custom of giving a purse
to the bride at wedding is still OBJ
served in an odd fashion in parts of
Cumberland England. The bridegroom
provides himself with number of gold
and silver pieces, and at the words
With all my worldly goods l thee en-
dow, hands the clergyman his fee and
pours the other coins into a handker-
chief held by the bride. In other places
the bride asks her husband for a gift
OF money or property on the day after
the wedding, and this request he is
bound in honor to grant.
"A peculiar feature in real estate at
New York is the privilege of erecting
signs for advertising purposes. The
fence in front of an unfinished build
ing in one important street has been
leased for $4,000 a year. and the ten
ant makes handsome thing by sub
letting space to advertising. Still
higher rates, however, are paid in spe-
cially favored localities, the Broadway
tabernacle corner being chief The
privilege here has been. leased at &c.
900 year, and as the lot is 100 feet
on Sixth avenue by 100 on Thirty
fourth street. it gives a vast range of
space. The rate paid is about 81 a
year for each square foot.
Dancing is a pastime proper to the
seasons unfavorable to outdoor sport,
and apart from it's social advantages
it is entitled to regard it only by
reason of the muscular exercise which
if entails since thjs lie HI
to health, says the London Medical
Press correspondent, who is also an
amateur statistician, has taken the
trouble to calculate the distance COW
cred by dancers in the course of an
evening. He finds that a valse of av-
erage duration represents approx
mately run of a thousand yards. This
is the longest dance, with the excep-
ton of the quadrille, which, with it's
four figures, covers nearly 1900 yards
The mazurka is only equivalent to
about 900 yards, and the polka to s00
While the lazy pas de quatre is barely
100 yards. Carrying his statistical in
genuity still further ne estimates that
the usual series of dances at an or
binary ball, beginning at 10 p. m. and
finishing at a. m, represents no less
than $4,000 steps, equivalent to nearly
thirty miles on level ground. Admit
llll5 lIldl QdHCeTS are rev III THESE de-
generate days who go conscientiously
through the entire list of dances pro-
vided for their entertainment, the fact
remains that each man (and woman)
who does his Cor herr duty accom-
plishes a very respectable amount of
exhilarating exercise. The value of ex-
ercise from physiological point of
view is greatly enhanced by it's ex-
hilarating effects, and this is one rea-
son why the daily constitutional"
fails to yield the health giving effects
of cycling. golf, OF dancing, the only
drakback to the last named being the
lack of fresh air and sunlight, which
add so materially to the enjoyment
and salutary effects of all forms of
outdoor exercise.
SO far as is known the only Amer
lean built vessel which now flies the
Spanish flag is a little three-master
of the schooner type which reached
this port yesterday, in ballast. from
Havana, says a New York newspaper
She is now known as the San Antonio
Possible, a tern, of Port jefferson
build, which crowded most all of her
adventures into the first year of her
existence. That was in 1873. Cutting
out from her Long Island birthplace
in the summer of that year, she man.
aged to ride atop of a Canary ISL
and. brought there by the coniunc-
ton of a Westerly hurricane and a.
and dry on a slope of hill, at Las
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