The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Drug taking for insomnia has be-
come a craze among certain sections
of London society.
More than a quarter of the popu-
lation of this country live in cities of
$4,000 inhabitants and over.
The round the-world cruise Of the
Duke and Duchess of York cost the
British government $4,000.
of the 10000 American soldiers who
participated in the Mexican war, only
about 5000 are living.
Isles is that on Salisbury Plain, where
artillery can fire 1000 yards. entirely
over war office land.
The largest sum ever spent in i'm
proving one street was $14,S00,000 on
the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. New Cannon
street, London, cost $2950,000.
-Farthing breakfasts, consisting of
coffee, bread and butter and jam, are
now being provided by the Salvation
Army for poor children in Newcastle,
England.
of 40 epileptic patients in London
whose histories were carefully follow
ed up 80 proved to be descendants of
alcoholic parents-a proportion of Ga
per cent.
-Twenty-four heirs striving for the
property of a deceased relative, in New
York state, found that the estate when
settled was worth IS, and each in time
received 80 1-3 cents.
A Partisan lamplighter makes his
rounds on bicycle, with a long torch
carried over his right shoulder. He
guides the wheel with the left hand,
and is so expert that he lights the
lamps without dismounting.
More than twenty varieties of rice
are known in the Philippines; but
though this cereal is so important to
the natives, not enough of it is pro-
duced to supply their needs, and large
quantities have to be imported annu-
ally.
The largest fir tree in the state Of
Washington has been cut down near
Arlington in Snohomish county. The
tree was IS feet through at the base
and zoo feet high. One 20 foot section
VIII require two fiat cars to haul it.
Among Russian towns whose popu-
lations have most rapidly increased the
Polish center of Lodz is conspicuously
the nrst. Fifteen years ago the So
called Russian Manchester was a place
OF some $4,000 inhabitants; it now con-
tains an industrial population of 5000
souls.
In 1S4S guttapercha trees were
abundant on Singapore Island and on
the Malay peninsula, but they have
been so thoroughly cleaned out that
the botanical gardens of Singapore
cannot obtain plants. The destruction
OF gutta trees in Sumatra and Borneo
has been widespread.
The London Lancet says that the
essential oil that forms the base of all
perfumes is a powerful antiseptic, and
possesses d1sinfecting properties equal
TO those of carbolic acid. A perflmed
handkerchief, therefore, many not onIv
please the sense of smell, but prove
guard against infection.
All the black and white plumes
come from the male ostrich, the srav
from the female. The feathers are NOT
plucked out, as you might imagine
put are clipped off with a sharp knife
leaving the end of the quill in the
nesh, where 1t remains for two or three
mounts until 1t dies" when it is
pulled out with forceps.
Frank D. Shoemaker of Pbi1adel-
phla, Frank D. Shoemaker of st. Iouis
ana Frank D. Shoemaker of Rutta
Mont, were guests at the Auditorium,
hotel, chicago, one day this week. and
trouble began at once. First, the Butte
man received delicately perfunned
note intended for the PHILADELPHIA man
Later on the st. Louis man read II
ana when 1t finally reached the PniIa,
oelphlan 1t bore two penciled marks
opened by mistake" An hour later
the Phlladelphian received a bill of 81
TOT CAP rare. This should have gone to
the Butte man, and there was excite
lnent until 1t was explained. Mean
Mnle' the Phlladelphian's laundry had
gone TO the room of the Butte man
whose shirts found their way to the
room of the Philadelphia. The ST
Louis man received the baggage of Ali
tIlree Shoemakers. the climax came in
the evening, when, despairing of get
ting their own letters or laundry. three
men dashed down to the clerks des,r
ana demanded their bills. The PhiIa-
delphia man had been at the hotel one
day and received bill for S3S. He i'm.
Hleulately set up roar, to which was
aoded the strenuous voice of the cattle
man from Montana, who found. bv ref
erence to his bill, that he was pavine
Just twice what he had been told was
the price Of his room. The ST. louis
man had been at the hotel nineteen
Gays ana was handed a bill for 81. The
clerk finally introduced the three Shoe
makers and Strengthened out the bills
The House Committee on the Re.
vision of the Laws, says a Washington
dispatch to the New York Sun. in the
course of some tinkering with the STAT
utes ran up against the tinoe-vorn
proposition whether a singular or
plural verb goes with the United States
Ihere was much discussion among tha
members of the committee, and the
Worshlpers of the constitutions. quoting
from that instrument, had much +he
pest OF the argument. 1t was suggest
ed That the committee consult anv an
thorlty on the subject that could he
round. Accordingly, the librarian of
Congress, the Supreme Court officials
ana others were asked to throw light
on the question. The result showed
that while the constitution and nearly
all the laws, documents and MESA PES
IN the early days of the republic used
the plural verb, the tendency had been
steadily toward the singlar form. which
curing the past fifteen or twenty wears
nao optalned almost exclusively. The