The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-22
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1t has been decided to found an eye
hospital and an asylum for the blind
as ceylon's memorial to the late Queen
Victoria.
in memory of their royal mistress
600 servants of the late Queen Vic
toria's household have endowed a bed
| in Clever ConvaIescent Hospital,
-Canada's military establishment,
consisting of less than 10000 men, all
told will be increased to 100000 If the
| British idea of colonial defense pre-
| walls.
Practical measures are now in
progress with view to exploiting the
various coal fields existing in Egypt
| and elsewhere on the direct Eastern
route. The Egyptian government has
/ finally granted concessions for this
purpose to Edward Nichols, an Eng
| lishman.
A Kansas editor recently contra
dicted a report that young woman in
his county was about to abandon
school teaching in order to- get mar
ried, adding: She is not that kind OF
| a eirlI"-whereby he meant that she
would not break a contract. But the
girl interpreted the phrase differently,
and wrote to the editor to give him "a
/ piece of her mind" Il don't know,
she said, that is is any Of your bust
ness, but 1 give you to understand that
l am not the kind of a girl you say. L
can get married if 1 want to"
| The Manila Volcano has this to say
of its name in its first issue: THE
Philippine Islands are of volcanic con-
formation. The country politically is
in eruption. In this eruption this pa
per proposes to belch forth molten
! lava, sulphurous fumes, hot sand and
other concomitants of volcano in ac-
tive volcano The Manila Volcano
will be heard, and we trust that the
| Examinations from it's crater will shed
| transcendent light on all classes OF So
ciety for the betterment of man in
these islands"
1t appears to be an indubitable fact
that there are persons who have about
them some quality that is deadly TO
flowers, says the Philadelphia Record.
A florist said the other day: Ere
quently a man will come to me and
complain: Look here, 1 paid you SO
yesterday for a bunch of vtolets, and
you said they had just been plucked
and would live nearly week. Well,
my wife wore them in her corsage last
night and they were dead this morn
ing There is nothing for me to re-
ply to the man except that his wife
must be one of those whose contact is
injurious to flowers. If he poohpoohs
this I am able, perhaps, to recall the
tname of some lady who bought violets
at the same time and from the same
lot as he, and l call her up on the tel
ephone, and she tells us how they are
still fresh, though she, too, wore them
the evening before. My clerks corrobo-
rate me also and tell of numerous cases
in their experience where few hours
in the hair or on the corsage of wo-
/ man have killed the hardest flowers.
Indeed, experiments have been made
in this matter, and | know personally
one tall, robust and beautiful girl who
will not have about her a violet or
rose, because she knows her contact
means death to it,
"A correspondent of the Kansas City
Star, writing about Buitenzorg, the
summer capital of Java, says: THE
one great sight in Buitenzorg and the
most famous thing in Java is the bo-
tanical gardens, the finest in the world.
The gardens were started in 1917 by
the celebrated botanist, ReinWardt, and
are still being constantly enlarged and
improved. Trees, ferns, shrubs, plants
and flowers have been gathered to-
gether from all over the world and
arranged with marvellous skill and
: taste. Every plant, tree and vine in
the garden is plainly labeled. There
are great laboratories and workshops,
though no hot houses are needed. 1t
is, in fact, a combination of the work
of nature and of man carried to a
point of perfection beyond which the
Imagination fails to carry one. The
magnificent trees, the wonderful vines,
the superb palms, the graceful ferns,
i. the giant water flowers the beautiful
Towering shrubs and the curious orch
ids arouse an ever increasing interest,
and for one whole morning we wan
! dered about from one scene of beauty
to another until at last we emerged by
. a grand avenue of canary trees covered
with giant creepers, some specimens of
one variety bearing 5000 blossoms at
one time, and returned regretfully to
our hotel"
in and out of Germany it's the fes-
tive toy kingdom that pays its ruler
best-proportionately of course, says
. the Boston Herald. Greece, the poor
! est country in Europe, besides Italy,
; gives Georgios $2OO,S 800 annually, IL
cents per head OF the population. But
that isn't enough for this lusty King.
George couldn't live on a paltry sum;
the governments of Great Britain,
I France and Russia, therefore, add to
his spoils $4,000 each, thus raising his
income to $3.50, 800 per annum. Belgium,
which is as rich as Greece is poor,
pays no more than the latter country
to Leopold per head of population, but
Belgium is the most over-populated
country in Europe. The Emperor of
| Austria, though enormously wealthy in
his own right, still has the hardhood
to tax every one of his subjects 10
cents per annum for keeping the dual
empire from falling into anarchy. Nine
and a half cents is what the Italians
pay their King, every mothers son of
them not forgetting the daughters.
Victor Emanuel himself thinks the
| amount excessive, and has just memo
) rallied his Parliament to cut down his
allowance by a million or two francs,
| if you please. Seeing that he receives
s., 1000, 000,, for maintaining Italy as a
second or third rate power with first
rate pretensions, it seems no great
/ hardship that he be locked 5000, 600 or
100000.
All our great financiers have their
fads, says Town Topics. j. P Nor
gan's hobby is art, and in a lesser de-
gree yachting. John d. Rockefeller lies
awake nights thinking of colleges