The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

newspaper which was recently sup
pressed in Madrid, and transferred it
| self TO Paris, has been suppressed by
| the French government on the COM
plant of the Spanish ambassador that
| it contained an article defaming the
| Queen Regent.
Rotterdam is building the biggest
| excavated dock in the world. It's area
is $50 acres, with a depth of water of
fourteen feet. which will be dredged
| out later to twenty-eight feet. The
earth dug up has been used to build the
surrounding quays and to raise the
level of neighboring streets.
"A device invented by Karl Fros-
check for preventing people being run
over when knocked down by an electric
tramway car has been tested in Berlin
and found satisfactory. By means Of
revolving cylinder in front of the ar
the person knocked down is gently
pushed aside without injury or bruis-
| ing.
The Towers of Silence" are two
tall towers used by the Parsees as GEM
eteries. They never bury their dead,
but leave the body exposed on the top
of one of these towers until the sun
have cleaned the bones of all flesh.
Then the bones are collected and placed
in the other tower.
The expression blackguard origi-
nally indicated the solutions, kitchen
boys and pot washers who brought up
| the rear when a great mans household
was moving from place TO place. AS
these persons We're by no means choice
in their language or elegant in their
| department, the word was soon ap-
piled to those who in speech or action
resembled them.
The police force of Montreal, Can,
will soon be in a position to conduct
case in court provided they study
| hard enough. Chief Legault has sue
| ceeded in having portion of the po-
lice appropriations set aside for the
purpose of hiring an instructor who
| Will deliver lectures to the members
of the force once a week in both civil
and criminal law as it concerns their
duties.
The Congregationalist says that in
a New England city recently a Uni
versalist was to be indicted to the pas
torate of the local church. At the last
moment various emergencies prevent
pastors who had consented to take the
various parts of the service, and the To-
cal pastors were drafted in as substi-
tutes. The sermon was by Congrega-
| tionalist, the prayer by a Methodist, the
right hand of fellowship by a Baptist
while a Unitarian and second Con-
gregational pastor extended the greet
ings of the community. The Episcopal
rector sent a letter of welcome. No
| TF1iN CT
The Rome correspondent of the
London Times reports that Signor
Boni, director of excavations in the
Roman Forum, has made a discovery
of unusual interest. He has come up
on a prehistoric tomb, believed to date
| approximately from the eighth cen
tury B. c., containing large urn, or
'dolium" of black ware, full of cal
Cined bones, and several reticulated
egg-shaped vessels besides a bowl and
a cup, with horned handles, like those
found in the terremare of the bronze
age. The tomb is situated in the bed
clay, some u feet below the level
of the Sacred Way, opposite the Re-
gia, and close by the Temple of An
toninus and Faustina. In some re-
spects this discovery is the most i'm
portant yet made in the Forum.
-"Uncle" Isom Gamble, an old negro
of Marlin. Tex, is a member of Willis
l.. Lang Camp, L. C. v, of that city.
He is a native of South Carolina. and
says that when that state seeded from
the Union his master (now deceased),
who was DR.. Joe James, told him he
intended to go to the war, and asked
his then young slave if he wished to
go with him. He replied Eyes, mas
I will xx-if6 +iII
one or both of us are killed" All dur
ing the war DR.. Joe" James was a
division surgeon, having enlisted with
the Fifteenth South Carolina. Isom,
mis- young slave, was his trusty servant
during all that time, and returned
home with him at the close. Uncle"
Isom says the Confederate cause is
still live cause and is yet dear to
his heart.
A German Christian missionary
who has worked for many years among
the Mahometans says: Honesty COM
pels every candid student to acknowI-
edge that the old view formerly en-
tertained in Christian circles concern
ing Mahometanism, according to which
the teachings of the great Arabian
prophet are nothing but devils doc
trines and dogmas, is altogether incor-
rect. In reality, Mahomet anism is
nothing but a railroads.&c. type of
Christianity in the form of a most I'M
fortunate state religion. The times are
past when scolding about the Moslem
creed as the production of the devil will
satisfy, and the struggle against Islam
on these premises is a failure. Prac-
tically all of the mission literature that
in the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries was written
against Mahometanism is useless"
From 700 to 500 persons are killed
annually by lightning in the United
States, according to estimates made by
Alfred ]. Henry of the United States
weather bureau. In 1900 the bureau
received reports of 713 cases of fatal
lightning strokes. In the same year,
according to the reports collected by
the weather bureau, 973 persons were
more or less seriously injured by
lightning. The loss of life from light
ming is greatest in the Ohio valley and
the Middle Atlantic States. If destiny
of population only be considered it is
greatest in the upper Missouri valley
and in the middle Rocky mountain re-
gion. OF the 713 fatal cases reported
in 1900. 291 persons were killed in the
open, 15S in houses, 81 under trees and
So in barns. The circumstances at
tending the death of the remaining ISL
were not reported. This seems 70 dis