The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

pear to nave become extinct III lnlS
country, having, like the Newtound-
land, which has shared the same fate,
gone out OF style.
1t is stated that San Diego. South
ern Calofirnia, is rapidly becoming the
Buddhistic center for America. In one
house in Los Angeles shrine has been
erected to Buddha, and the owner, a
woman of wealth, has brought
Buddhist priest from the Chicago
Worlds Fair, and many people gather
weekly there for worship.
The largest coil of wire rope ever
made in Brooklyn was turned out by
rope company of that city recently.
1t measured IT, 700 feet in length, or
over three miles; without break, and
weighed $4,000 pounds. 1t is for use in
a bituminous coal mine, was made of
forty-two strands of crucible cast steel,
took sixteen days to manufacture and
was valued at $1,000.
A new process for the manufacture
of artificial marble has been patented
in Berlin. Asbestos, dyeing materials,
shellac and ashes are pounded into
stiff mass and then subjected to high
pressure. The product is surprisingly
firm and tough not brittle, is very
easily worked by means of tools, can
be given a fine polish and in appear
ance cannot be distinguished from gen
uine marble.
1t is announced at Cornell Univer-
sity that three women have signified
their intention of studying civil en-
gineering in that institution next year.
This is a decided innovation for Cor
nell. Heretofore no woman has taken
n ROHheS-
| ter several years ago completed a ma
jor part of the work in Sibey college.
She gained the sobriquet of "Sibley
Kate" by taking the foundry and
blacksmithing shop work with the
| men.
Emile lola was asked the other day
by a French journalist to give his
ideas regarding education. He replied:
II was educated at the Municipal Col
lege at AK and the Lycee st. Louis in
Paris. [ lost my father when l was
quite young and as my mother was
very weak in her attitude toward me
1 was able to develop it my own way.
l did not learn to read until l was
years old. 1 may say that 1 educated
myself, and l think that is the best
way. 1 do not believe in school educa-
ton"
Vanity keeps up the numerous
clipping bureaus of New York. Ore
bureau has a large number of women
subscribers, mostly society leaders.
But men are far more eager to read
about themselves and their doings than
women. AS a rule, the less worthy the
subject the more tickled with a little
notice. One of the newly rich families
recently arrived from the West with
a fortune estimated at from 1923 900, 900
to 500, 900, and seeking an entrance
into the 400, greedily devours every
mention of its progress and employs
all the clipping bureaus.
Among the achievements that must
be credited to King Edward VII is one
that should never be forgotten, yet it
is one that may easily pass out of
mind, says the Springfield Republican.
George w. E. Russell, than whom no
one is a higher authority concerning
English aristocratic life, has recently
credited the present king with having,
in his Prince of Wales days, killed the
custom of heavy drinking among men
in society by introducing the practice
of after-dinner smoking This is piece
Of interesting information, for not one
person in 1000 could have told the or
igin of the modern after-dinner smoke
which comes when the women leave
the room. If this habit replaced heavy
drinking-and there can be little doubt
that it did, in view of the Homeric
practice eighteenth-century gentlemen
had of falling under the tablet rep
resents a distinct advance in civiliza-
ton.
The English papers quote from the
Budget speech of William Shields, the
new Australian treasurer. He says
Il am an Irishman, and a pessimistic
Irishman is as great curiosity as a
poetic oyster or a benevolent tiger.
At the same time he was not IAN opti-
mistic ostrich, that sticks its head in
the sand while the wind plays fantastic
tricks with it's tall" In the opinion
of Mr.. Shields, Australians are nation
ally and individually an extravagant
people. He proved it with an anecdote
When the present huge Government
House in Melbourne was being plan
ned, the architect consulted the Pre-
mier of the period as to the size of the
ballroom. do you know anything
about bathrooms in other parts of the
world?" queried the Premier II only
know the one in Buckingham Palace"
was the reply. Then build our ball
room third bigger than the one in
buckingham Palace" 1t was done as
the lordly Premier commanded, and so
Melbourne came to possess the biggest
ballroom in the world.
Midway on Cape Cod. between
Barnstable Village and Centreville, on
the ocean side, is an eminence called
'Shootflying Hill that commands a
view OF the entire cape as it stretches
its slender length oceanward," saws
the Boston Transcript 1T was named
thus by gunners, and it's top is crown
ed by an observatory open to the pub
he. From this hight a beautiful piano.
rama of scenery is spread out on all
sides Directly in front lies a lovely
sheet of water. Lake Wequaquet, pic
turesquely intersected with promon-
tories and inlets and the strip of land
that separates it from the ocean ap-
pears very narrow from this elevation
Bay and ocean converge at the distant
horizon, and the eye follows the green.
gently rolling land as 1t slopes toward
the narrowing tip of the cape. IT is
a most wonderful view, and one that
can be studied for hours All sorts of
people visit the observatory and ono