The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-08
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The Parks Committee of Hull, Eng
land has refused a gift of polar bear
because it would cost 600 to dig pit
and build house for the animal.
The Austrian Parliament has re-
solved to abolish the army practice of
tying refractory soldiers up to hooks
and binding their hands and feet.
Figaro says that there is in Paris
a night school at which young French
assistants are taught British manners
and the art of speaking French like
Englishmen.
One of the clerical dailies at Brus-
sells which has always characterized
the Sunday publications of newspapers
as immoral now appears every day of
the seven.
To save expense, the French gov
eminent has set its soldiers to work
tearing down the electioneering posters
that now deface practically every
boarding in France.
Mary Van Dyck, a Boer woman,
who is known as Mary the Rihewo-
man." and who states that she fought
with the Beers, is creating a sensa-
tion in the smaller towns of Austria
by giving exhibitions of marksman-
ship.
Miss Eta Josselyn Giffin, in charge
of the department for the blind at the
Library of Congress, Washington, is
about to leave for Europe for the pur-
pose of attending the International
Congress for the Amelioration of the
Condition n the R1iOd which T11oatS
Brussels in August.
w. T. HUTCHINSON, editor of the
Dickson County IN. c. Press, died at
Charlotte, ~ c., June 2, aged Y years.
He had worked in newspaper office
since the age of u. He had always
said that he wished to be buried in
winding sheet made of newspapers
and so he was laid away. His head
was placed upon a copy of the last is
sue of the Dickson County Press, and
copies of the exchanges he admired
were carefully wrapped around his
body in the coffin.
The French consul at Batavia lays
stress on the Importance of bamboo as
a material for constructing builders
scalfolding and he states that in lava
even a lighthouse has been built with
its help. The power of resistance of
a bamboo cane measuring eight inches
to ten inches in diameter, even with
length of sxty-fiVe feet, is enormous
Moreover, bamboo is said not to rot
either when in the ground or in wa
ter, while the drier and older it grows
the t1rmer it becomes.
Some persons are susceptible to
contagion, others are not, and it is
not difficult to determine who are and
who are not, says a medical paper.
Fire will not burn where there is not
fuel. Fermentation will not take place
in pure water, but stagnant water be-
comes impure and may then ferment.
Every plant, germ and insect has it's
natural habitat and its natural con-
dltions of life. Without these con-
ditions it cannot live or propagate.
Germs of lower forms of life are al
ways present sooner or later, wher-
ever conditions favor, and it is inn
possible to exclude them unless we
exclude at the same time atmospheric
air, or oxygen, which is equally nee
essary to the existence of man. SO
contagion or infection may hasten dis
ease in the susceptible but cannot
impart it to those whose bodies are
clean within and without
In general statisticians have to
complain of the unequal increase in
the number of female children as
compared with that of males, says
the London Telegraph. 1t is interest
ing, therefore, to note that Berlin
the capital of the military monarchy
of Prussia, has always broken the rec
ord in this respect so that Kaiser
Wilhelm need not fear that the ranks
of his legions will be thinned Last
year 52245 children were born in Ber-
lin OF these 27077 were boys and
,16S were girls, showing an increase
to the credit of the male population
of 1900. Berlin, for some reason or
other, seems to have the privilege of
turning out more boys into the world
than girls, for taking the numbers
from 1891 to 1900, we find there was
an average annual increase in the male
progeny of the city during the ten
years of 1851 over the female-in
other words, out of every 1000 in
fants born, 513 were boys and 487
girls. The year 1920 was the record
year last century, when 525 boys were
born out of 1000 babies.
Swiss children make believe that
the pursuer in the game of chase or
tag is invested with an imaginary evil
spirit, whose power is subject to GER
tain charms, says the New York Sun.
For instance, if they touch cold IRON
a gatelatch, horseshoe or an iron nail
the power of the demon is broken
Sometimes they make gold or silver
their charm. They play cross-chase
in which the runner who darts across
the patch between the pursued and
the pursuer becomes the object of the
catcher, and the former one goes free.
Again, if the runner squats he is free,
or he may squat three times, and after
often DISCUSSES himself, and unless the
captive can guess who is the captive
is banished from the game. They also
play turn-cap-the chaser wearing his
cap with the lining outside. Another
Swiss game is called not of gold. One
OF the sWiftest runners takes a stick
and pretends to dig for pot of gold
He works away for few minutes
then cries out I've found it, and runs
away with it at the top of his speed |
He has the advantage of a few PAGES
at the start for while he is digging the
other players are grouped behind him
at least one rod distant. The PLAYER
who catches him gets the pot of gold
and becomes in turn subject to robbers.
This keeps every player on the chase
continually.
1t is asserted, says Modern So
ciety, that men of science live long.
and that mental industry is a positive
aid to healthy old age The belief
is certainly borne out by the fact that
four of the gentlemen seated at the
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