The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-23
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Colonel William Hester completed
the fiftieth year of his service with
The Brooklyn Eagle on April IL last.
-Four hundred employees of the paper
united to greet him and present him
with a testimonial. He is now presi-
dent of The Eagle Company.
The people in and about Douglas,
Kan, have organized a burial associ-
alton. 1t has 1000 members. When
member dies an assessment of II cents
is made against each member, realizing
500 for the expenses of the funeral
and $40 for the expenses of maintain
ing the organization. The 'organiza-
ton has bought and stored lot OF
burial goods in order to take advantage
of the wholesale prices.
The moustache was not viewed
with favor in England in the middle of
the last century. An anecdote is told
of the late Thomas Cooper, the English
artist, TO illustrate it. He was brought
before a magistrate in 1916 on some
minor charge and was described in the
police report as being 'fashionably
dressed with large moustaches." The
Art Journal of the date commenting
on it, said that mo member OF the
Royal Academy perpetrates the atroc-
ity of moustaches, most un-English
affectation" Mr.. Cooper became
member of the Academy a few years
later.
Mr.. Schalkburger, the Acting Presi-
dent of the Transvaal Republic, was
born at Lydenburg fifty years ago,
and is the grandson of Vortrekker.
He contested the presidency four years
ago but had no chance against Kru-
ger, in whose favor he gave the casting
vote when the committee of which he
was chairman, sat to consider the rival
claims of Joubert and Kruger after the
election of 1898. 1t has always been
held that but for the fact that Kru-
gers partisans tempered with the bal
lot boxes, General Joubert would have
been elected president of the then re-
public.
Some curious and suggestive facts
concerning the occupations and call
ings most hazardous to human life are
brought out in a recent number of the
Mutual Underwater, an insurance
journal, says Leslie's Weekly. 1t APP
pears that nothing has yet been dis
covered or devised by the medical fra
terliity to lessen the perils attending
mortality rate among plumbers, paint
ers and GLACIERS remains, as ever, very
high, the chief cause of disease being
| lead poisoning. Plumbers suffer
specially from cancer, phthisis and
rheumatic fever. Glass blowing is an
other trade inviting too early death
chiefly from the effects of breathing an
atmosphere laden with tiny particles of
glass. These enter the lungs and cause
hemorrhage and other serious troubles
Glass workers are also apt to grow
dumb through a peculiar complaint in
duced by handling the glass, and which
attacks the jaws and ends in paralysis.
Should Wilhelmina, the present
Queen of Holland, die without issue
the succession would pass, it is stated,
| to Princess Wilhelmina Frederick Anne
Elizabeth Marie of Holland, who in 1871
married Wilhelm, Prince of Wied. This
Princess is descended from Queen Will
helmina's grandfather's brother, and
would, it is held take precedence, as
being of the Orange Nassau line. 1t is
asserted, on the other hand, that
Adolph, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
would be Queen Wilhelmina's success
sor. Willem Ill. father of Queen Will
helmina, was Grand Duke of Luxem-
burg, as well as King of Holland, but
at his death, in 1890, the duchy of
Luxembourg passed to Adolphe, for the
reason that the law of succession in
the duchy did not permit a female to
succeed, whereas in Holland by a law
of 1914 a female was eligible to default
of male heirs. Should Adolphe be re-
garded as next in the line of succession
his duchy by his accession to the
Dutch throne, would be reunited with
Holland. In default of a legal heir the
successor to the throne of Holland is
designated by a joint meeting of both
houses of the Dutch Parliament.
We know something in this country
about sensational literary advertising,
but even these things they seem to do
better in France, says the New York
Post. An enterprising Paris newspa-
per has begun publication of a romance
which has eight leading personages,
and the most successful guesser at the
fate of each is to have a prize of IAN
automobile with four seats" "P0r-
traits" of the characters of the novel
are hawked about the streets, with
series of questions concerning them to
be answered. Thus: "Catharine: Will
Catharine marry? If so, whom will she
marry?" Again, "Liane: Will her
scheme to gain the Marquis be success
fur Next comes. 'Germdlne. VIII
she deceive hershusband?" Then, MA
rie: Will she marry or die before the
end of the romance?" Lastly: "Zizi:
How many men will she attract? Who
will be her last lover?" These indi-
vidual queries are followed by group
of general problems for solution.
(Which of these five women will die
of poison? Which one of them will adj
minister poison? To whom?" We al
most fear to call attention to this haute
nouveaute de Paris, lest some of our
most wide-awake publishers add this
delightful scheme to their other meth
DDS of spreading culture by means of
advertising lodges. Yet, on the other
hand, we may cherish the hope that
this reduction of their tricks to the alb
sArd may induce them to leave off
| some of their. own devices for cultivat-
! ing literature by a combination of lot
terry and circus.
A letter from Moscow in one of the
London newspapers gives some start
ling facts in connection with infant
mortality in Russia, says the New York
Post. The death rate per thousand is
more than double that of Sweden and
Norway and at least so per cent high
er than that of most European coun-
tries. This result Is due entirely to the
| frightful mortality among infants. 1t