The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dy electric treatment, ana IN return
found his banking account richer by
$4,000.
Two of the 400 inscribed clay slabs
found by the German expedition in the
center of Babylon are said to be
pearls of Babylonian literature" One
OF them contains a great part of the
celebrated compendium which explains
the Babylonian cuneiform characters.
DIR. Antonio Lagorio, who has had
such remarkable success in his treat
ment of hydrophobia at his Pasteur
Hospital in Chicago, says that he has
personally examined 10000 patients,
the vast majority of whom however,
he has turned away as having been
bitten by innocuous animals.
America leads in the matter of wo-
men practicing medicine. The first was
Elizabeth Blackwell, who graduated as
physician in 1849. Three years later
there were six in Philadelphia. In 1889
there were 5000 women doctors in the
United States; in 1896 there were 4,555,
and now there are probably 5000, some
of whom have a very lucrative prac-
tice.
The word guerrilla is Spanish, and
first came into common use in this
country during the time of the PENN
sular war. But Spain throughout her
long history has always been recog-
nized as the country most ideally suit
ed for guerrilla tactics. There is no
region in Europe in which it is more
difficult to wage successful war. IF
the army of invasion is small it is
defeated; if it is large, 1t starves."
There are eleven of the present
Herreshoffs and five of them are blind,
but they know how to build boats,
says the New York Press. Blindness
is an inheritance of the Herreshoffs,
though all the afflicted are not born
so. One of them walked to a window
one day to read a letter, and turning
around, said: my, 1 am blind" An
other bumped his head against a door,
and his sight was gone. Some of them
are born blind and all of them with
the tendency, so that shocks and slight
accidents induce loss of sight. They
are rich and all have beautiful homes
in Bristol. All of them are artistic.
One brother teaches music for the love
of it. Not one of the children of the
present generation is blind yet.
The rose is the emblem of Eng
land among flowers, and June is the
month of roses; it seemed, therefore,
natural to suppose that at the corona
ton we would have had "roses, roses
all the way" On the other hand,
Scotland. Ireland and Wales might
have felt neglected at the omission of
their emblems. Though the thistle
and the leek are not by any means
pretty or understanding, the shamrock
can claim at least one of these quail
tiles. All things considered, therefore,
it is as well that the lily of the valley
is to be honored. 1t has, indeed been
put forward as an objection that the
roots of this flower come from the con-
tinent; but, nevertheless, next to the
rose, the lily is the favorite flower of
the English, especially, the ''Naiad-
like lily of the vale,'' with it's tremu-
lous bells and the haunting sweetness
of its scent. 1t is to be found in nearly
every garden in England, whether it
surrounds cottage or manor. 1t is
quite plentiful in June, it is within
reach of the poor, and besides-it is
very beautiful.
in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
for February, Carl Hovey has much
that is entertaining to tell of the Water
Front of Greater New York. The true
river pirate, he says, is really mod
est-seeming gentleman, in charge of his
own saloon hop joint" or waterside
lodging house. He stands well with
the police, although he has done mis-
Bit in prison for felonies. One we'll
known character, whose name it would
hardly be fair to print, is so fond of
telling a certain little story, however,
that almost any one who drops into
his place and makes the proper salaam
to the distinguished old rascal may
hear it. I'm tell you how my hair
turned white" he begins, with an in
finite slyness of manner. II was learn
ing my trade as a shoemaker out in
Trenton, in Jersey, when a copper
comes into the prison shop and looks
me over. Thinks I, He's after me for
that job 1 did in Hoboken. My God!
he's going to put me away again, after
l get out of here 1t was only a
minute he looked me over, and then
went on as if he didn't know me. But
in that time my hair turned white as
snow"
The famous cid Barbara palace, in
Venice, which is considered one of the
best examples of the pointed style
formerly belonged to Pizanni, one of
the doges of Venice, is now owned by
a Mr.. Curtis of Boston, says the Chi
cago Record Herald. Photographs of
this house are distributed all over the
world, and one of the romances asso-
ciated with it concerns Lord Byron's
physician, DIR. Van Nellengen, an Eng
lish adventurer who lived in all parts
of the Fast and had all kinds of wives,
Greeks, Egyptians, Turks and Italians
-likR sailor, wife in every port.
BY his italian wife he had a daugh-
ter who turned out to be an unusually
capable woman. She married the heir
of the Pizanni family, which had be-
come impoverished and had nothing
left of their former wealth but this
house and farm in the country. She
took hold of affairs soon after the we'd
ding and by her Shrewdness, foresight
and enterprise made the whole fam
lily rich. An interesting story is told
to explain why Mr.. Curtis lives in
Venice. 1t is said that while in a
Boston street ear one day a tough"
insulted a lady. Mr.. Curtis interfered
and gave the fellow a thrashing, but
instead of receiving the thanks of the
community for his gallantry, he was
arrested and sent to Jail for assault
and battery, He refused to live any
longer in such a community and came
over to Venice.
The richest community of negroes
in the United States lives in Indian
Territory. says an exchange. There are
1000 of them, and they are worth on
an average of $4,000 each The wealth
of the more industrious foots UP even
higher, certain individuals being the
owners of from $40 900 to $4,000 of land
These negroes are descendants of slaves
of the Greek tribe Of Indians, and are
known as Creek negroes They are en-
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