The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An English patent medicine nrfn
offers seat to view the coronation
procession to every one who will find
a hundred purchasers for its remedy
for rheumatism.
THE churches" says an advertis-
ing man quoted by the Philadelphia
Record, seem more and more inclined
to take space in the newspapers. Spe-
| cial services of various kinds are Of
ten quite generously advertised on Sat
urdays, and in some cities, notably
Boston, the church advertisements oc-
cupy considerable space, and are at
tractively set in display type. l dare
say we shall live to see the time when
the church will have it's press agent,
just as the theater has, when the re-
ligious editor will gauge the volume
of advance notices by the amount of
advertising space taken, and when the
church critic will vie with the dra-
matte critic in dissecting the logic Of
a sermon and praising or condemning
the eloquence and oratory of the
preacher. Wait and see if am not
right"
The question Of the ancient astron-
omical instruments which the Germans
carried off from Pekin, and which the
Chinese authorities refused to take
back again when the captors tried to
rid themselves of the responsibility,
came up in the Reichstag the other
day, and caused Chancellor Won Bue-
low an uncomfortable quarter of an
hour, says the New York Post. He
explained that they had not been re-
stored because the Chinese govern
ment attached no importance to their
possession, and in reply to German in
quiries, had placed them at the dispo-
sition of the German government. An
other consideration was that, owing to
the peculiar views of the Chinese, the
great mass of the people would have
supposed that the instruments were
restored by order of the Chinese gov
eminent, which would have been a
serious blow to German prestige in
East Asia. Moreover, added the Chan
cellor, the Dowager Empress of China,
very clever women, who understood
the political situation, would have
been much offended If the instruments
had been returned, while the masses
would have thought that Germany had
sustained some terrible defeats. He
then went on to say that the proper
light in which to regard these articles
was present from one friendly gov
eminent to another, for which there
gestion provoked much irreverent hi
larity but the president rang his bell,
and the incident was allowed to drop.
The automobile question is becom-
ing burning one in Great Britain,
where a prejudice still exists against
permitting locomotives to run at pleas
ure, wildcat, on the public highways,
says the New York Post A protest
signed by many interested manufac-
turers and capitalists is published in
the daily newspapers. 1t complains
that the whole industry is paralyzed
by existing regulations, and maintains
that the motor-car is infinitely safer
for pedestrians than a horse carriage,
because it can be stopped so much
more quickly. A motor-car going at
seventeen miles an hour, it says, can
be stopped within twice it's own length.
What happens under these circum-
stances to the passengers is not stat
ed. In spite of this capacity the pro-
test goes on to say, motor-cars in Eng
land may only travel at twelve miles
an hour, with the result that their
use is greatly restricted, and that man
ufacturers will not embark money on
their production. What cripples the
industry still worse is the fact that
heavy motor cars-i. e., motors suit
able for carrying country produce-are
practically not allowed on the roads
In conclusion, the signatories of the
appeal ask that the present regula-
tions should be taken off, and that
instead means should be taken for the
identification of cars so as to prevent
reckless driving. One of the special
grievances of the English AUTOMOBILE
lists is that they have no chance with
the country magistrates, who are bit
terly opposed to them on principle. and
invariably decide against them when
ever they are called upon to answer
a complaint. They are getting tired
of having to pay damages, and want
to have the chance of appealing from
the local magnates to a higher
and more disinterested court.
AT meeting of the Cymmrodorion
Society, Mr. T. E. Morris, barrister-
at-law, lectured before a representative
audience on the inconvenience and
confusion arising from the paucity of
distinctive surnames in Wales, says
the London Chronicle. In Liverpool
alone, he said 430 Welshmen reioiced
in the name of John Jones, and at an
inquiry held at Westminster into the
County Council water scheme sixteen
witnesses bore the same simple cogno-
men. feIOre the Welsh Land Commits
sion, out of 1S4 witnesses Nm one ooun-
ty who gave evidence 109 shared IA sur
names between them, and of the 100
as many as SIS bore proportionately the
names OF Jones, Evans and Davies.
Recently at the Corwen Board of Guar
dams, owing to the numerous Joneses
who are members of that body, it was
decided TO enter in the minutes each
mans house and parish, as his full
name was not sufficiently distinctive.
TO remedy this state of things, Mr..
motifs advocated the liberal adoption |
OF the beautiful place names which |
ABOUND in Wales as was done in Scot |
land and Norway. and the revival of |
the characteristic "Ap' with personal
surnames. He pointed out that the !
law allowed any man to change his |
surname, provided that it was done |
honestly and without any fraudulent |
purpose, and his suggestion was that
a snort act of Parliament should he |
passed enabling any person to register |
change of his name with the district |
registrar on payment of a small fee
In this way an authentic and official |
record of the change would be made at |
the time.
"A dispatch from Washington saws:
Ihere is no such thing as a burglar |
proof vault or safe, according to a re- |
port that was submitted to-day bv |
treasury experts to Assistant Secretary
Iaylor. The best tempered steel M |