The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The German Emperor's visit to
Lowther Castle has called attention to
magnificent carpet, now very old
but still lovingly preserved, which was
made in the village by villagers, says
the London Tattler. A much more in
teresting and generally unknown car
pet is that which is treasured by Sir
Tattoon Sykes at Sledmere- This relic
was made at Wansford. near Drifield
for the library of Sir Mark Sykes, who
died in 1928 1t is 12O feet long and
40 feet wide, and is as fresh in its
beautiful coloring to-day as it was a
century ago. 1t is irreplacable, as the
factory where it was made was burned
down some 80 odd years ago. At Sled
mere there is also a priceless inlaid
table of Venetian workm anship, very
like the beautiful specimen at War
wick Castle. which is valued at TO-
900 guineas.
No doctor has ever yet accounted
for the cause of mountain sickness, a
malady infinitely more distressing and
more lasting in it's effects than sea
sickness, says the London Tattler 1t
is only in comparatively very high al
titudes that mountain sickness attacks
SAC IHitADcI. Inc pTeIHO1lIOry SVmp-
toms are an uncomfortable attack of
nervousness. Though the mountaineer
may be in place that is absolutely
safe he feels when attacked by this
sickness that his last hour has come.
AS rule, he lies fiat down and shouts
for help. Then he gets violently sick
and usually weeps. During the making
of the railway to Junfrau several Inedi-
cal men made various experiments to
ascertain the actual cause of this
mountain sickness. but without much
result. Like sea sickness. it seems to
attack all sorts and conditions of peo-
pie, and those who do not suffer from
1t are curiously enough often the most
nervous.
What a wonderful change has
passed over our entire conception of
the word property" says the Spec
tator. The writer is old enough to re-
member when nothing except land and
houses was regarded as true property;
but now man may be a millionaire
and own nothing that he can see. A
few pieces of paper in a box at his
bankers, or, better still, an inscrip-
ton in a book of which he knows moth
ing except that it exists, constitute,
him man rich beyond the drea ms of
CIV III ASC, ciiuy IIlOICON6T, d MAN VINO
has not to guard his property, and
who can realize (which the rich men
of old could not do--in half an hour.
1t is a very curious change and one
the full results of which we have vet
to perceive; but we suspect that
among them will be an immense in
crease in the amount of wealth at the
disposal of industry and enterprise
and an astonishing decrease in the
permanence of the wealthy families.
1t is so easy to spend shares or bonds.
and there are so few to notice whether
you spend them or not 1t took years
to spend great landed estate; but
fortune in bonds may disappear, as
many German families have recently
learned, in year of unlucky specula-
ton or in the early lifetime of one
spendthrift heir.
in Bogota every man is called doc
tor who is not called general, says the
Washington Star. In Washington ev-
cry man who is not judge is a. colo
mel. Every man in Bogota who does
not wear hemp sandals and a blanket
with a hole cut in the middle is ad-
dressed as senior. The would be gen.
teel Bogotan never dresses shabbily.
Whether at dinner or a. funeral, he
is in full evening dress. On the streets
his head is adorned with a black plug
hat, and on his hands he wears gloves
You can never separate a Bogotan
from his gold-headed cane in the street
in fair weather, nor from his urnbrel-
la in wet. For the street and church
the ladies dress in black, and for balls
and parties in the latest Paris crea-
tons. On what is known as the Alta
plains of Bogota the girls marry ear
ly, become mothers at IL and Is and
grandmothers at 20 and 80. Boys are
men at IA, are college graduates at 10
or IL, and vote at IS. In the youth
of the country there are no inferno
date stages; no dolls for the girls and
no tops and hoops for the boys. The
girls glide into the married state be-
fore girls in the United States are
out of short skirts and the boys out
of high-water pants, as if they were
creased. At so a man is counted old.
and at so he has outlived his useful
ness.
Twelve years ago, says the Scien-
tif1c American, the Eskimos numbered
300. In 1897 Peary found that their
number had been reduced to 234. 1t is
now probable that these most northern
inhabitants of the globe do not exceed
200 in number. This is but one in
stance of a great number that may be
cited. All through the Arctic region
the inhabitants are fast disappearing
The Alaskan Eskimos have been deci-
mated. When explorers first went
among them their number was believed
to be from 1000 to $1,000 Now it is
thought that hardly more than 500 peo-
pie can be counted from Point Barrow
TO the Aleutian Islands. The lot of
those unfortunate natives has been
made the harder to bear by reason of
the destruction of seal life by the whal-
ers who harried the Alaskan coast. The
determination of the seal, walrus and
polar bear has likewise done it's share
to embitter the cup of the Northern
races. In Southwest Greenland a sim