The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ers have been quietly drawing pay
at Washington for codifying the Fed
eral statues. So quietly have they
drawn their pay that a Boston man
thought it would be good scheme to
codify the Federal statues, and he has
been working away with a large force
of clerks under the direction of law
yers. Last week he learned that the
government is supposed to be doing
the work, and he is "out" the cost of
| clerk hire. stationery, Office rent and
sundries.
An enterprising German has just
complied dictionary of insulting ex-
pressions, which contains $500 cpl
thets carefully tabulated, classified and
indexed. The volume is called the
"Schimpfworter Lexicon" and its con-
tents are classified under five general
heads-insults for men, insults for chill
dren and collective insults for syndi-
Gates, groups and corporations. These
classes are subdivided into smaller
ones, so that when one wants to call
his enemy a name he can readily find
an appropriate term to fit the case.
The introduction of lavendar into
England is due to the Huguenot refu-
gees, who settled in the valley of the
Wandle; and Lavender hill, Lavender
sweep and Lavender road, in the
neighborhood of Nandsworth, attest
the popularity of the plant. 1t is still
largely cultivated in Milcham, Car
shalton, Wellington and Beddington,
but all Surrey lavender comes under
the name of Mitcham lavender. Eng
lish lavender, we learn from Protita-
BILE Farm and Garden, commands the
best price in the market, but it fluc-
| tuates terribly, 1t has been down as
low as 29s. per pound, but, on the 9TH
er hand it has been sold at 54s., and
| indeed. has reached the high price of
| zoos. per pound.
Commenting upon the operation of
the prohibition law in Kansas, the
Kansas City Journal says; According
to the official report of the druggists
| in Ottawa for last month, it took
| eighty-two gallons of whisky, eighty
eight gallons of alcohol thirty-eight
| gallons of wine, fourteen gallons of
| gin, twenty-three gallons of brandy,
four gallons of beer, three gallons of ale
| and four gallons of malt to cure the
| ills of that distressed community. The
| liquor was wanted for a multitude of
| diseases, ranging from in-growing toe
nails to appendicitis. One honest fell
| low signed up under the mechanical
clause of the constitution. He said he
| needed four gallons mechanically-he
/
THE Australian Federal govern
ment." says the London Chronicle, ere
Gently wrote to Washington suggest
| ing an interchange of official publica-
| ton between the Commonwealth and
! the Republic. Mr.. Barton and his
| colleagues have been somewhat stag
| gered by the promptitude, the cordial
| ity and the completeness of the re-
| Spouse. No less than sixty-eight close
| ly packed cases of United States Off
cial literature were landed in Mel
bourne the other day and conveyed on
| Custom House drays to the Parlia-
mentary Library. Ministers and Off
Gals surveyed this first installment
with conflicting emotions, and wonder
| ed whether Brother Jonathan intended
to have periodical fits of this embar-
RAISING generosity"
"A dispatch from Fort Scott Kan,
says: At his home on the peak of
| Prosperity Hill j. Conine, the chick
en- fancier is having an immense in
cubator cellar built, which will be the
| first thing of its kind in the state. The
idea originates with Mr.. Conine, al
| though something similar has been
| successfully tried in the East After
careful study, Mr.. Conine has discov-
cred that for scientific reasons fowls
raised in the dark for the first month
| OF their lives will acquire great size
and be most perfect birds. All of his
incubators will be put in a cellar
where a ray of daylight never enters
The chickens will be kept in darkness
for four weeks after Matching, and
then they will be turned out into the
light When feeding the chickens Mr.
Conine will have a green lantern for
light.
A Russian military expert in the
'Novoe Vremya" says that the princi-
pal qualities of the German soldier are
boupdless arrogance and unlimited
confidence in his own prowess. The
| German soldier is trained to regard
himself as superior to any other SOL
| der in the world, a system which pro-
duces a dangerous tendency to under
estimate the strength of an enemy. He
is not without good qualities, but his
| tenactty of purpose and staying power
are weak. He is fighting machine
utterly without initiative, and would
be helpless if required to act on his
own Judgment in position of diff
| Guilty. He has to be fed and pampered
in comparatively luxurious way in
| order to be kept in Mt condition, and
it is more than doubtful that he would
be able to stand the hardships of a
long campaign. The article states, in
| conclusion that the German army is
absurdly overrated, and it expresses
the opinion that Russia can contem-
plate the possibility of a war with Ger
many with perfect serenity.
The decision of the Glasgow mag
istrates to abolish barmaids has caus-
ed a veritable stir in that city, says
the London Graphic. The damsels
whose good looks, naughty manners
and autocratic ways have been the
theme of satire from the days of Dick
ems to those of Arthur Roberts, repre-
sent national institution. They no
not exist in America, most practical
of countries, where the art of concoct-
ing liquid refreshments has reached
its apex, and the general opinion in
England is against their retention.
One has heard constantly complaints
of their long hours of work and in
sufficient pay, yet there are plenty of
good-looking girls always ready to en-
ter their ranks, and, no doubt, in
some cases it is considered a road to
marriage. Anyway, a barmad's life
is more interesting, more varied and
more amusing than that of a domestic
servant whether it is as desirable in
the best interest of q woman remains
an open question. The canny Scotch
man, no mean hand at the drink,
| thinks not.
A dispatch from Tacoma says: A
| new method for extracting gold from