The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


port Of expenses declared that he had
spent only fourpence in his campaign.
in the coldest parts of Siberia a
rainbow may sometimes be seen all
day long in a cloudless sky. 1t is sup
posed to be due to the reflection of the
sun on fine particles of snow in the
air.
The fertility of Egyptian soil is il
Illustrated by the fact that every one
of 16,500 square miles can support 92S
persons, whereas even in densely pop
ulated Belgium there are only $50 to
the square mile.
British railway travellers cannot
recover damages if they have their
fingers in the carriage door when the
porters suddenly close it. "A railway
company" says the judge, cannot act
as dry-nurse to every passenger"
Keepers of Washington boarding
houses are taking prompt action un-
der the new provision of the District
code which fixes a heavy penalty
against persons who fraudulently
evade payment of bills for lodging
and keep.
in the neighborhood of the recent
subway explosion in New York there
are more physicians than in any 9TH
er part of the city, and hundreds of
them were available for emergency
duty within three minutes after the
dynamite went off.
One of the English burglary insur-
ance companies advertises that there
are 10000 thieves known to the Brit
iCh An ac
Scotland Yard, says that seventy
would be nearer to the number of dan
gerous professionals.
The following named states and
territories in 1900 did not contain any
city with a population of $4,000 or
more: Arizona, Idaho, Indian Terri
tory, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexi-
co, Month Carolina, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.
Physicians say that if vaccination
does not take il does not prove that
the person vaccinated is immune from
smallpox. One may be immune from
vaccination or smallpox this week and
not the next; to-day and not To-rnor-
row; this morning and not this after
noon.
Next summer London will be, in
all probability, endowed with a float
ing restaurant. In the early days of
last century an old hull was brought
UP the Thames and noored off SOM
erset House. 1t was fitted up as
coffee house, and patronized by all the
wits of the town.
Next to gambling the Eskimo men
like to wrestle. The usual way of doing
ie fas ~ -
skill. The wrestlers sit down on the
floor, or in any convenient place, side
by side, and face in opposite directions,
say with right elbows touching. Then
they lock arms, and each strives to
straighten out the others arms.
in the gigantic electric plant in
stalled on the Second avenue lines of
the Manhattan Railway, New York
city, are eight sub-stations, <Nch of
which represents the combined energy
of 100000 men. The firing of the boil
ers, if done by hand, would require 270
men, but a mechanical stoker reduces
the number to 80, a saving of $400
day.
There is a large American colony
in Rome, not only students, artists and
persons who come to spend the winter,
but many permanent. residents. Sew
eral Roman Princes and other mem
bers of the nobility have married
American women. Many of the most
prominent ladies' in the court circle are
Americans, including the wife of the
Minister of the Royal Household.
: The households and establishments
of the late Empress Frederick of Ger
many, at Cronberg and at Berlin, have
been broken UP. The members of her
households and her old servants have
been penslOned from Jan. l. Her palace
near the Opera House in Berlin reverts
to her grandson, the Crown Prince, and
will be thoroughly repaired and redec-
Grated during the next year.
Out in Chicago last Saturday an
early-morning fire developed what
was thought ait the time to be a re-
markable piece of heroism. The
doughty firemen were called out in
response to an alarm from the Bennett
Hospital at Ada and Fulton streets.
They found the hospital in flames, and
rushing inside they CROPPED their way
through fire and smoke and finally
dragged six bodies into the street.
This heroic labor was performed in the
belief that they were rescuing persons
<.
When they reached a place of safety
they learned that they had been in
tn dissection room of Bennett Medi-
cal College and that the rescued bodies
were from the dissecting tables of the
school. Several of the cadavers were
clothed, having been taken to the
school in that condition. The firemen
had supposed that the building was
used exclusively for hospital purposes.
The late d. De Forrest Douglass
of Springfield, Mass, who originated
the manufacture of wooden legs Just
before the civil war, was particular
about his dress" says the Republi-
can, land it is said that he wrought
his artificial legs wearing as neat and
careful raiment as he wore in public
His was a most cordial and genius
nature, and he was an interesting
talker. Naturally he had pride in his
own special invention, which has been
of so great Importance. One of his
favorite stories was of the tramp tree
This was a red willow which sprung
from the staff of a tramp to whom
the Shakers of Somers gave a meal.
He stuck his willow stick at the edge
OF brook, and there it took root and
grew to lusty tree, which Mr.. Doug
lass bought and used in his making
of legs. He had been curious to fol-
low the fortunes of this tree. and used
to say that it had the genius of the
tramp himself, for It was now walking
over a great part of the earth-in
Australia, In India and as well over
much Of the United States.
Everybody who comes to Rome."