The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-14


which was sold in London last week.
Friends and admirers of the late
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler are again
asking Massachusetts to erect a statue
in his memory and again there is out
spoken opposition to the project.
"A congressman whose parents came
from the green isle jokingly remarked
to Benton McMillin of Tennessee that
st. Peter was an Irishman. Maybe he
was said McMillin. Anyway, he
wasn't a negro. No colored man would
have allowed that rooster to crow three
times"
Senator Hoar received word the
other day that a friend who had been
supposed to have appendicitis was suf-
fering not from that ailment, but from
acute indigestion. THAT is good
news" said the senator. 81 rejoice
that the trouble lies in the table of
contents rather than in the appendix. )"
"A hobby of the Princess of Wales
is the collection of parasols. 1t is said
that she possesses at least one hundred
and fifty, no two of which are alike.
They are of all colors and the handles
are works of art. A present from the
Princess of Wales to bride not infre-
quently takes the form of parasol, it
is said.
Representative Frederick o. Mac
Cartney of Rockland, Mass, a socialist,
was elected to the House originally on
the Sunday fishing issue, and, although
clergyman, for three years he has
stood upon the floor of the house in
advocacy of his bill to permit fishing
on the Lords day. The bill has met its
third defeat.
The salary of John ]. Mitchell,
president of the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank of Chicago has been in
creased to $4,000 a year. His salary
is next to the highest paid to a bank
official in this country. In 1873 Mr..
Mitchell entered the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank as assistant teller at a
salary Of $35 a month.
The coronation presents to be sent
to King Edward by the Sultan of Mo-
rocco are of a unique character. Many
of them are faithful copies by Moorish
artists of the most exquisite works of
art in the Moorish museum. Among
the presents are included specimens of
the Moorish craftsmanship of a thou
sand years ago, which have never be-
fore been reproduced or out of the i'm
perial possession.
There is a place called Kakortok
! in Greenland, which was colonized
centuries ago by Norwegians, but
which is now a deserted heap of
ruins. Among the relics discovered
there were the pipes lying in what was
evidently a cathedral and attendant
dwelling houses. From the position of
| these pipes 1t is certain that they were
employed for conveying some fluid to
the apartments Of these several build
inss, and on making a searching ex-
animation the discoveries found that
the pipes were connected to a natural
hot water spring of volcanic origin.
The building of the Emperor's
yacht Meteor gave impetus to the firm
/ OF Townsend G. Downey which it might
not otherwise have acquired in ten
years of the ordinary routine of ship
building, says the New York Press.
Shooters Island shipyard is now own
ed by stock company having a cap
ltal OF S3,500,000 and the capacity of
$S5Oo'OOO, and the capacity Of the plant
Is to be trebled. Its thirteen acres
have been increased to for ty-two. and
It's marine railway, now capable of
accommodating a vessel 375 feet long
is to be extended so as to enable the
| company to construct the larger size
OF transatlantic liners and battleships
So much for a Princes visit and an
Emeperor's prestige.
The Clearing House Report of the
Southern Lumber Manufacturers As
ISOLATION for the month of january
first month of the new year-shows
the heaviest movement of Southern
pine in the long and eventful history
OF that association, the total ship
ments having reached 1873, SAC, 089 feet
against a cut of 100, Ss2,029 feet. AS
compared with the previous months
shipments this is a gain of about &c.
0OO,OO0 feet. For such a tremendous
increase in the volume of shipments
during the first month of a new year.
at a time, too, when building opera
tons are supposed to be at low level,
there must be powerful and telling
Factors behind. In support of the gem
eral strength of the situation there is
no other argument so strong and I'M
ansWerable. Behind such a universal
call for lumber and building tinbers
there are needs of varying phases null
tlplying thick and fast, and to the
manufacturers the outlook is indeed
full of hope and promise. The mills
everywhere are filled with orders and
the producing capacity of the plants
are being severely taxed to keep any,
thing like up with current business.
February has failed to show I'D with
any weak places anywhere along the
line and the month has been remark
able for activity in buying and SELL
ing at both ends of the line and the
placing of contracts at the mills for
spring delivery.
America was reached and peopled
from Alaska to Fuegia during the
Stone Ages by at least two streams of
migration-one from Northwest Eu-
rope, the other from Northeast Asia
mainly by land connections which have
since disappeared, writes A. H. Keane
in the International Monthly for
March. Owing to this subsistence.
which converted the new world into an
clinical as we'll as a geographical ISL
and, and also for other reasons else
where fully specified, all serious migra-
tory movements from the Old World
ceased absolutely after the general
settlement, and "Amerinds," as they
are now frequently called, were thus
left to continue their normal racial
and cultural development in their new
homes, unaffected by foreign influence
of any kind till the arrival of the
Norsemen and the Spaniards. Hence
what they have in common with the
people Of the Eastern Hemisphere is
just what they brought away with
them during the migration period, and
that amounts to very little-the ferns
of the stone implements found amongst
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