The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

By all accounts the affable manner
which Prince Henry displayed in this
country is habittaI with him. While
jaunting around on his auto he nearly
always travels ineognito. On a recent
trip he stopped to buy some benzine,
and the. Storekeeper was so pleas
with his customer than he offered him
a cigar. which Henry took with thanks.
Later in the day he stopped at a tav-
ern, shared his sandwiches with the
hosts children, chatted with the host
ess and on parting got from her a
bunch of roses with the injunction to
place them in water as soon as he got
home.
in Pennsylvania the oil of rattle
snakes is preserved most carefully as
liniment especially good for sore
joints and for rheumatism. In pro-
curing the oil the dead snake is nailed
head and tail to a board and cut open.
The fat is taken out and laid upon a
cloth in the hot sun, from which the
filtered oil drips into a jar. From fear
that the reptile may have bitten itself,
the clear oil is tested by dropping a
portion of it into milk. If it floats in
one globule it is regarded as unaffecte-
ed. IT, on the other hand, it breaks
into beads and curdles the milk. it is
judged to be poisonous, and thrown
away.
Space has been allotted in the
western part of the Worlds Fair
grounds for "a great garden map
of the United States. The map will
constitute part of the exhibit of
the bureau of. plant industry and will
have southern exposure well suited
for the purpose. Two acres will be
taken up with this map. State lines
will be marked by walks in cinders,
red gravel or some other material.
In each state reservation will be shown
the economic. plants produced in the
state. he corn OF Kansas, the wheat
of the Middle Statesr the, cotton, to-
bacco and sugar cane of the Southern
states, the orange and pineapple of
Florida will all be shown. Those plants
which do not grow in this latitude
normally will be forced under glass in
hotbeds. The protector says that two
acres will be sufficient to carry out
this plan. allowing an acre, 200 by 400
feet. With this map spread out on
the southern slope, in the place allot-
ted, it would appear from the agri-
cultural building hill like a bird s-eye
view of the United States, while the
visitor walking on the paths would, so
far as vegetation was concerned, be
travelling through the country.
-4Civilization of the Indian seems
pretty close" says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, when we read that marble
dealers of Omaha have just closed a
contract whereby they are to erect for
the Cheyenne and OgaIlala Sioux In
dams a monument to be placed on the
battlefield of Wounded Knee, in South
Dakota, which the Indians insist on re-
garding as a massacre. There is al
ready monument to the United States
soldiers who fell there at Fort Riley,
Kan. and with both sides to that san
culinary conflict concentrating it, it
is not likely to be forgotten, although
the circumstances have already faded
from the memory of nearly every one.
Should the Indians generally take to
setting up monuments where they have
met their white adversaries in battle
the country would be pretty thickly
sprinkled with them. Those who
doubt that they will ever fall into the
customs and modes of thought of the
whites ought to find something con-
vincing in this project of the Sioux
Indians. 1t is less than half a genera
ton since they were in blankets and
turkey feathers"
liz <AlCuiSOn. GlODe ueScTIDSS WndC
it calls the greatest family reunion
ever known in. Kansas. Eighty-nine
members of the Pennington family are
spending a whole. week at the homes
of ]. E. Pennington and of his sister,
Mrs. Robertson, twelve miles west of
Atchison. There are eleven brothers
and sisters in the Pennington family,
and all of them are present with their
descendants. The Globe gives the fol-
lowing account of how this great kin
crowd is provided with material en-
tertainment: Mrs. ]. E. Pennington
has twenty-four beds up. The corn
crib was divided off like a Pullman
sleeper, with curtains strung across
on poles, and carpet laid. There are
five 'berths' in this, and not many
bedrooms are more comfortable. Three
beds were put in the loft of the barn.
and one in the granary, which was
occupied by two colored cooks. Mr.
Pennington and family sleep in some
of these improvised sleeping quarters,
turning their home over to their guests
Mrs. Robertson provided extra room
by putting up three tents. She and
her family, and all it's branches, sleep
In the tents, and the guests have the
house. In order to visit with every
one, the guests who are at Robertson's
one day, progress to Pennington's the
sent to Robertson's."
Those among us who are anxious
to put in force the obsolete Sunday
trading act of Charles II. should turn
their attention to the curious state of
things which prevail in Switzerland at
this moment says the London Globe
During the summer the Grand Coun-
ell passed a law for the better OBJ
servance of Sunday, and a day or two
ago the matter was brought before the
inhabitants of the Canton of Vaud by
means of the referendum, and greatly
to the surprise of every one the law
was abrogated by a majority of 500
votes. 1t is said that only about half
of the voters took part in the referen-
dunn, because all parties supported the
idea of day of rest, the Radicals and
the Socialists as well as the Clericals,
and so did not take the trouble to go
to the poll. 1t was only in matters of
detail that the act was criticised, for on
the broad principal all parties seem to
have been agreed. Nevertheless, the
Canton of Vaud has rejected the bill,
and the reaction is said to have been
brought about by the efforts of the
small shopkeepers, who saw that if
they We're forced to close their shops
on Sundays they would lose consid-
cradle part of their income. The ad-
vocates of Sunday closing seem to have