The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Recent statistics on suicides in
France and England show that in 1900
! 673 persons took their lives in Paris,
while in London, with a much larger
! population, there were but 451 cases of
| self-murder.
"A circle one hundred miles in diam
eter, with Guthrie. o. T.. as it's center.
would, according to a Western railroad
| contractor, mark the most active rail-
| road building section in the world.
Within that area more than 1000 miles
of road are now being built.
The Bishop of Fano in North Italy,
provides for the association of cleanli-
ness with godliness in his instruction
to pastors. In all churches after feast
days the floors are to be cleaned with
a sublimate solution. At least once a
week pews and confessional benches
must be wiped with a damp cloth and
the grating of the confessionals washed
with I've.
"A correspondent, writing to the
New York Evening Post. says: ITO
| morrow will be the 14th of September
One hundred and fifty years ago to-
morrow-that is, in 1752-it was the
and fifty years ago to-day it was the
ID of September. In 1852, the 3d-1sth
of September was dropped out, thus
making the change from old style to
new style"
The western part of Persia is in
habited by a species of camel which is
the pigmy of it's kind. These camels
are snow white, and are on that ac-
oIv - he
The Shah presented the municipality
of Berlin with two of these little Won
ders. The larger is twenty seven
inches high and weighs sixty-one
pounds. The other is four inches less,
but the weight is not given.
THE member for the Orkneys" is
| Commons who can say that he sits for
| 200 islands, one of them nearly 400 and
another 200 square miles in area. Only
sixty of the islands are inhabited, but
the constituency embraces more than
| $4,000 people. Queen Alexandra, who
visited them on a yachting trip recent
| ly, should be interested in the Orkneys,
| which were once given by Norway as
| security for a queens dowry and were
| never redeemed.
The Rev. A. w. auckland has re-
| ported to the federal authorities at OF
| tawa that he has discovered the rem
nant of a lost tribe of Esquimaux on
an isolated island in Hudson Bay. The
| tribe, it is declared, has not had any
| intercourse with the outside world for
| centuries, and virtually lives in the
| stone age, knowing no metals. It's hab-
| itations are built entirely of the skulls
| of whales. The tribe lives on South
| ampton Island, a seagirt land as large
as Maine, in the extreme north end of
| Hudson Bay.
"A traveller says: 'The strangest
| craft have ever seen were the balsas
of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru.
| These balsas are made of an aquatic
| plant growing in the waters of the
| lake The principle on which they are
| constructed by the Aymaras Indians
| proves their ingenuity. A bale of hay
| naturally floats in the water, and ac-
| cording to the quantity of dried grass
used in constructing the boat do they
| control the displacement or carrying
| capacity. These boats are likewise
| fitted with a most and sail, and in
| some instances carry from eight to ten
| persons. The Indians travel long dis
| tances over this vast inland lake, the
| surface of which is on a level with the
summit of the Jungfrau of the Swiss
| Alps"
There was a church bazaar in the
village of Comrie Strathearn, Scotland,
Aug. %, and a novelty at one of the
stalls was a sale of what was called
scripture sake" which was in great
demand. 1t was made according to
the following recipe: Take four and
| n 40
! clause; two and one-half cups of
! Judges 5:25 CAST clause two cups of
| jeremiah $780, two cup of l. Samuel
30:12; two cups of Nahum 3:12; one
| cup of Numbers 1918; two tablespoon
| fuls of |. Samuel 1925; season to taste
with H. Chronicles go, six of jeremiah
| 17:11, a pinch of LeViticus 2;13, half a
cup of Judges 4:19 (baking POWDER.
| Finally, follow Solomon's prescription,
! Proverbs 23:15, for making a good
child, and you will have a good cake
One feature there is in connection
with the working of the military rail-
ways lin South Africa that must all
ways form a proud chapter in their
history, namely. the devotion of the
staff, and especially of the engine driv-
ers and firemen, says Engineering CT
| villains for the most part these men
each time they boarded their engines
they carried their lives in their hands
Blown up, derailed, shot at, they stuck
| to their work, remaining often seven
| ty and even 100 hours on end on their
engines. On one occasion a driver took
| his train through force of the enemy
| and brought it in safety to the next
| station, his fireman dead beside him
| and he himself, as he stood with one
! hand on the lever, the other on the
| brake, shot through both arms.
-Four magnificent bracelets belong
ing to the Queen of King Ter, who
reigned nearly 5000 3. c., were among
the discoveries made by Prof. Petrie
While excavating at Abydos, Egypt
last year The workmanship of these
| is most ingenious and delicate. The
! finest bracelet is formed of alternating
| plaques of gold and turquoise. each
| surmounted with the royal hawk and
| paneled to initiate the front of the
| tomb or palace. This bracelet consists
! of thirteen gold and fourteen turnuoise
| plaques in the form of facade where
| upon was inscribed the name of the
! Queen. The gold was worked nv CHS
| ell and furnishing. The second brace
| let had centerpiece of gold with anne
thyst and turquoise beads and hands
! of braided gold wire. The fastening of
the bracelet was by loops and button Of
hollow ball of gold. with a shank of
gold wire fastened in it. The third
bracelet is OF spiral beads of gold and