The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-07
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| Philadelphia Record. AS each MT
would have meant utter destruction in
time of actual war the Importance OF
| these wasps of the navy is being her
aided abroad as a valuable discovery.
1t is we'll to shoot straight, of course,
whether with popgun or with auto
matte torpedoes, but the main thing In
these high explosive days is to get
close enough to an enemy to lodge
shot. Long before any torpedo boat
could have approached within 1000
| yards of an enemy it would have been
| blown out of water.
Has a policeman the right to make
love to a girl to win from her con-
fession of crime? This is what Sergt.
| Wheelwright of the new force has
| done, and the ethics of the thing are
not bothering him at all, for he has
| succeeded in recovering $1,000 worth
of jewelry for Mrs. Samuel Goldberg,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Wheel
wright suspected the maid, Miss Net
| tie Goldman, and, hiring out as a gar
| dener on the despoiled woman's prem
| ises he began making strenuous love
| to the girl. The maidens heart was
lightly won, and in three days she
was ready to elope with him. Then
he began talking about funds. How
| could they go to Paris without a lump
of money? Nettie fell into the trap.
| She confessed that she had taken the
| jewelry, and offered to turn it over to
| her lover with the understanding that
| he would convert it into cash for their
| honeymoon. Then Mr.. Wiheelwright
| locked her up. Miss Goldman used
three nguages-French, German and
| English-to tell the sergeant what she
thought of him, but the sergeant says
| he does not mind.
"A cool summer is pleasant in many
ways, but it makes bad business for
the opticians. as well as for the dis
pensers of soda water and cooling
drinks. A New York Evening Post re-
porter has discovered that in sultry
weather eye glasses slip and fall con-
tinually from perspiring noses. That
makes extra business for the opticians.
In the burial register of White
| chapel, under the year 1649, is the fol-
lowing entry: June 81. Richard
Brandon, a man out of Rosemary lane.
This Brandon is held to be the man
| who beheaded Charles l." A less dis
tinguished candidate for the infamy
was one William Hewlett, actually
condehned to death after the restora-
ton for a part he never played. and
only saved from the gallows by the
urgent efforts of a few citizens who
swore that Brandon did the deed.
Brandon was not available for retri-
button, says Harper's Magazine. He
had died in his bed, six months after
Charles was beheaded, and had been
hurried ANONYMOUSLY into his grave
| in Whitechapel churchyard. AS public
executioner of London he could hard
ly escape his destiny, but it is said
that remorse and horror shortened his
days. In his supposed Confession" a
| tract widely circulated at the time he
claims that he was fetched out of bed
by a troop of horse, and carried
against his will to the scaffold. Also
that he was paid 930 all in half
crowns, for the work, and had ian
| orange stuck full of cloves, and a
handkerchief out of the Kings poch-
ct" The orange he sold for los in Rose
mary lane.
For some time past brigandage
has been on the increase in Greece,
especially in the north and northwest
| of the Peloponnese. In the districts
of Ellis and Achaia, Matchmaking, ar
son. and murder had become quite
common affairs, and many complaints
were addressed to the government and
even to the King personally, says :he
| London Standard. The most notori-
Gus of these brigands, however, a man
| named Ranopulos, speared the coun-
| try people, and confined himself to
| extorting blackmail and ransom from
rich merchants, thus continuing to en-
velop himself with a certain air of
romance. His last feat was to kid
| nap the son of millionaire named
Stavropolos, whom he only released on
| receiving ransom of one hundred
thousand francs. The Greek govern
| ment was at last reused to take ac-
| tive measures for the capture of
Ranopulos. A reward of 5000 francs
was offered for information as to his
| hld1ng-place, and another of 10000
francs for his body, alive or dead. At
the same time squadron of cavalry
and 500 infantry were sent into the dis
trict to effect his capture and to put
down other bands in the neighborhood
At length the gendarmerie succeeded
in capturing Ranopulos while he was
asleep, and the exploit was considered
SO important that the King was imme-
diately informed of it. Ranopulos Of
] fered to point out the spot where he
had buried his treasure: but when it
was opened in his presence, very lit
tie was found, upon which he declared
that it must have been ransacked by
some member of his band. and in his
despair he had to be forcibly withheld
| from throwing himself over a cliff. As
other brigands have also been cap-
tured, great satisfaction is felt by the
population at being rid of their op-
| pressors; but, curiously enough, while
Ranopulos was being taken through
the streets of Patras, a noisy demon
stration was made in his favor by the
| populace.
1t is to be regretted that the work
of the University of London is not bet
ter known in America, for the history
of that institution is full of suggestion
| for educational reformers in this conn
try, says the Atlantic Monthly IT
was established in 1928, mainly in the
interest of Non-conformists, who at
that time were prevented by theoIoei-
cal restrictions from graduating at
oxford or Cambridge. At first if inn
posed upon applicants for its degrees
the condition of previous study in one
of a number of affiliated colleges. hI,t
in 1858 it's examinations were thrown
| open to all corners, with the excen
| ton of women. Twenty years later this
restriction was removed, the Univers-
ity of London being the first academic
pody In Great Britain to ignore the
distinction of sex. One of its most
notable features has been the severity
or Its examinations, which has natur-
ally made it's degrees eagerly coveted
| IT has been by no means unusual for
90 per cent of the candidates to he
| rejected at an examination The re-
suit is that b. A. pas degree at Lon
| don is everywhere rapa rdad 90 = ,.,,.-1