The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT PlOgaStel IN Brittany the BlSnop
of Quimper lately found sixty-six cou-
Piles waiting to be married. After he
had finished the Mayor was obliged to
repeat the civil ceremony as many
times.
-Catulle Mendes has written play
on the Spanish mystic, Saint Theresa.
1t was accepted by the Coincide Fran
caise, but as there was no chance of
its production before two years, it has
been turned over to Sarah Bernhard,
who will bring it out at her theater.
"A portrait of John Bunyan, painted
by Thomas Sadler in 1856, and the only
authentic likeness known, with the ex-
ception of a pencil drawing in the Brit
ish Museum, has been acquired by the
National Portrait Gallery. 1t came
from the Dowager Countess of Cavan,
whose family had possessed the picture
since Bunyan's time.
According to experiments conduct
ed by H. Jansen on Mont Blanc. it
is not necessary to erect poles for
stringing telephone and telegraph wires
in snow covered countries. If the
as good insulator; the wires can
simply be laid down and be ready for
transmission of messages.
"A self-supporting community of
consumptives is established near Den
yer, Col, backed by Denver business
men and 20 local physicians Tie
members of this community live in
tents, and engage in light remunera-
tive occupation which keeps the en-
terprise going and provides healthful
emDlOVmpQt for the afflicted
French tenants have some rights
after all. A Paris tradesman weighing
240 pounds hired a cottage at Fecamp,
after all. A Paris tradesman Weighing
and on sitting on the balcony fell
through and hurt himself. He sued for
damages and won his case in spite of
the defense that French houses are not
built for persons of abnormal weight.
Luxembourg now boasts the longest
masonry span in the world in bridge
over the Valley of the Petrusse. 1t is
277.6 feet in the clear with a rise of
51.35 feet. The Cabin John Bridge,
which held the record previously, has
a span of 220 feet with a rise of 5725
feet. The Luxembourg bridge consists
really of two distinct arches built side
by side and connected by platform of
Some interesting literary discover
les are reported in the Athenaeum.
Oskar Hekker has discovered at Ger
taldo, near Florence, some relics of
Boccaccio's library, some manuscripts
being written entirely and others an
notated by Boccaccio himself. Prof.
Seybold has discovered in the Oldest
known manuscript of "The Thousand
and One Nights" now in the Tubin
gen University library, one narrative
that is in no other collection. Lastly
Bruno Violet of Berlin has found at
Damascus fragment of the seventy
eighth Psalm in Greek and Arabic.
I'm the excavations at the Church
of Saint Agnes Without the Walls at
Rome, under Cardinal Kopp's direc-
ton, an inscription has been found
that establishes the early existence of
monasteries for women. 1t reads:
Here rests in peace Serena the Alb
bess, a sacred virgin, who lived So
years more or less and was buried on
the Ides of May in the Consulship of
the illustrious Senator" The consul is
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator,
the historian Cassiodorus, who was
Secretary of Theodore the Ostrogoth,
That is fifty-five years earlier than
any previous record of an abbess or a
nunnery.
"A London young woman, who at
tanned notoriety two years ago by mar
rying Lobengula's son while he was
on exhibition at the Earls Court Show
has applied for divorce on the ground
of her husbands cruelty and miscon-
duct. She testified that he had given
her black eyes and stabbed her with
an assegai, when the judge, Sir
Francis Jeune, broke in with: THAT
was what you expected in marrying
a savage, was it not?" The Judge put
off his decision, as he doubted whether
it could be shown that Lobengula's
domicile was in England. He said, too,
that he had only behaved like a saw
age and that the petitioner had insist
ed on marrying him and now saw the
result of it.
Ozone is oxygen in a highly active
titles in the air of the sea- and the
mountains. Near Berlin an establish
ment has been erected for the purpose
of experiment on the effects of ozone
in Kidding water of the microbes 1T
contains. OZonized air, containing
from two to three grains per cubic me-
ter Ga cubic meter equals 220.09 gallons,
and gram is about Is grains English)
is passed upward into a tower which is
filled with flints, and in its passage
meets the water coming down, and thus
acts upon it. 1t has been shown that,
as regards water from the Spree, the
number of microbes was decreased
from SOC, 900 per cubic centimeter (0.061
of a cubic inch) to TO- which is prac-
tiaclly nil. British medical journals of
high authority insist that ozone can
be artifcially produced at reasonable
expense, to purify the air in tunnels,
sewers and other places in London.
President Loubet, of France, put
his brother president M. Ador, of
Switzerland, in a delicate position the
other day, when he conferred on him
the decoration of grand officer of the
Legion of Honor, in recognition of
services rendered as commissary gem
eral of the Swiss section of the Paris
exposition. How to return the order,
and yet to appear grateful for the hon
or was a question, but M. Ador need
only have pleaded the prohibition by
the Swiss constitution, which in this
respect is very similar to that of the
United States. The article of the con-
stitution in question reads: Members
of the federal government, civils and
military officials of the confederation,
and federal representatives or commits
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