The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the United states mas ever appointed.
"A monument is to be built for Rou-
get de Lisle. author of the "Marsel-
laise." His body is at Cholsy- Ie- Roi.
A monolith will be set up over the
grave, bearing his medallion. his title
to fame as the author of the national
hymn, a Tyre, crossed with a sword,
and finally the score and words of the
''Marsellaise."
Not for a century has the Garter
been bestowed upon so young a man
as the Duke of Marlborough, Consuelo
Vanderbilts husband. Four of his sew
en- predecessors in the dukedom got the
Garter, as did six of the seven dukes
of Rutland, six of the eleven dukes of
Bedford, four of the ten dukes of
Leeds, and all of the eight dukes of
Devonshire.
1t is reported in Science that Mr..
J. S. Budget, F. 2. S., Balfour stu
dent of the University of Cambridge
left England on May 81 for Uganda,
via Monbasa, on mission from the
Geological Society of London. He is
to select a station on the Semliki
river, where he will collect mammals
and birds, study the fishes, and en-
deavor to investigate the habits of the
okapi in the forest of Mboga. Mr..
Budget is a practical collector of
fishes and an experienced African
traveller.
Twin sons were born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Casper of Oswego recent
ly. One was named after President
Roosevelt and the other after Prince
Henry of Prussia. President Roosevelt
wrote him saying he was delighted.
On Saturday Mr.. Casper received a let
ter from Prince Henry written in Ger
man in which he gave his permission.
The Prince said that, following the
German CUSTOM the youngster named
for him would be remembered by him
at Christmas time.
Swell sojourners in Newport have
been treated to a rifle of excitement by
a strike among the large staff of house
servants employed by Mrs. Berwind,
owner of a handsome new villa there.
This residence surpasses in luxury and
splendor every other residence in the
aristocratic resort, and entails the en-
pIoyment Of some fifty or sixty SER
wants The other day they struck in
a body, demanding more wages. Mrs.
Berwind would not meet their views
and they all left together, but have
been replaced by a new force from
New York.
There is a plant in Holland known
to night of five or six feet, and
bears a profusion of large, yellow
. flowers, so brilliant that they attract
immediate attention, even at great
distance. But the chief popularity
about the plant is the fact that the
flowers, which open just before sun
set, burst into bloom so suddenly that
they give one the impression of some
magical agency. A man who has seen
this sudden blooming says it is just
as if some one had touched the land
with a wand, and thus covered it all at
once with a golden sheet.
A European international agree
ment has been concluded at Paris for
the protection of birds useful to agri-
culture The parties to the agreement
are Belgium, France; Greece, Lichten-
stein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Austria
Hungary, Portugal, Sweden, Swtzer-
land and Spain. Among the birds ac-
counted useful are certain nocturnal
birds of prey. as we'll as decorators
swallows and several birds of the spar
row species While ravens, magpies
jays and some others are branded as
mischievous. Italy, country in
which the capture of northward- bound
birds is a regular trade, does not ap-
pear among the signatories.
-Brevet Mayor General D. H. Ruck-
er, late quartermaster general of the
United States army and now retired,
entered the army as a dragon sixty
five years ago, when the military force
consisted of a scant 10000 officers and
men. Michigan had just become a
state when he was nominated from it
to the Senate to be lieutenant in
the First regiment of the United States
dragons. He now enjoys green old
age, having the other day witnessed
the graduation of his only grandson,
Philip H. Sheridan (the son of the late
Lieutenant General Sheridan, who mar
ried Cen Bucker's daughter), from the
United States Military Academy.
Perhaps no missionary ever preach
ed in more parts of the world than the
late Bishop William Taylor of the
Methodist Church. whose death has
been noted recently. He went to Cali
fornia as missionary along with the
"forty-niners, then he preached in
Canada. Thence he went to England
and the continent, visiting Egypt and
the holy land, holding evangelistic ser
vices wherever it was possible. Later
he worked in Australia Tasmania,
. New Zealand, India, South Africa, the
Congo region, the West Indies and in
various countries in South and Central
America, thus covering every CONT
nent.
Stress of business and the dearth
of time will lead to a change in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's signature. He has al
ways been accustomed to write out his
first name in full, but he finds that it
will save him about so per cent. of time
and trouble to make it simply r.
Roosevelt. Where a man has to sign
his name about 1000 times a day it
makes big difference. There is a man
in the office of the auditor for the post
office department who, it is said, owes
his appointment largely to the fact
that his signature contains but five
letters. He is Second Deputy Auditor
n. Chew. He does little but sign his
name and he does that for about eight
hours day steadily.
An Australian newspaper tells of
some curious results of the new cleo
toral rolls of South Australia. The
number of men on the rolls has shrunk.
in little over three years, from 49,
$40 to 1871. On the other hand, wom-
en- voters have increased during the
same period from 6S,375 to II $50 In
the three chief metropolitan districts
the men voters have dwindled in num-
Der from 36,5S7 to 80, 4S4, a reduction of
nearly 16 per cent; women voters in
the same districts have slightly in
creased their numbers, and now count
no less than 80, SOL. The women voters
in hA Il tee off