The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Some enthusiastic Dundee anglers
are about to convert a morass near
the town into an artificial loch, thirty
five acres in extent, SO as to have
Loeb Leven trout near at home.
For sweeping the streets of Ben
digo, Australia, where much expense
roads for the sake of gold dust obtain
able, man has been fined 20 shill-
ings.
The baby born in 1903 has three
times better chance of living through
its first year and five times a better
chance of living to be five years old
than it would have had a dozen years
ago.
Within half an hour of the death
of one of pair Of twin boys, at Lieces-
ter, England, the other one died
through, the doctor said, a certain
curious sympathy which exists be-
tween twins.
The valuation of the park lands of
Greater New York is now put at $500, y
100000; of Chicago at s65, 600, 600; Bos-
ton, $50, 000, 900; Philadelphia, $22 900, :
600; San Francisco, $12,000,000, and st.
Louis, $S,OOO,OOO.
The Papyrus Club of Boston, COM
posed chiefly of authors, has just ceIe-
brated its thirtieth anniversary. 1t has
numbered among its membership near
. ly all the distinguished men of let
tiers in the modern Athens.
While off the Azores a vessel was
boarded by a carrier pigeon, which
proved to belong to Ruabon, in Wales.
1t had not been seen since last July,
when it was thrown up in flying COM
petition at Nantes. in France.
Mrs. Mary Ann Cooper, the orig
inal of Dickens Little Dorrit, is still
living at the age of 80 years. Mrs.
Coopers home is in Southgate, near
London. Her family lived in John
son street, Clarendon Square, exactly
opposite the home of the Dickens fam
lily, and she and Charles were ac-
quainted from early youth.
Electrical transmission has been
distinguished in the past year by a
number of important events In this
work the tendency has been to increase
the voltage of transmission and thus
cover larger territory. There is now
plant at Butte, Mont, operating at
$4,000 volts, while plants operating at
from 10000 to $4,000 volts are not I'M
usual.
In the frozen Northland, almost
within the Arctic Circle, w. T. Loop
is looking after his publication. the
Eskimo Bulletin, probably a unique
paper. 1t is published at Cape Prince
of Wales, and the Bulletin is issued
but once every twelve months. In
deed under the head of the paper is
the announcement: THE only yearly
paper in the world"
France has a special association
for discovering a remedy for seasick-
ness. In September, 1901, it held an
exhibition at Ostende. The investi-
cations nave since been continued
partly with the aid of a steamer lent
by the Belgian government. The re-
suits are now made public in a book
written by DR.. Madeuf of Paris. 1t
contains various rules as to diet, cloth
ing, ETC., but points out no sure rem
edy.
The doyen Of French medical men
is DR.. David of Montpelier, who cele-
brated his one hundred and third birth
day on Feb. 10. The doctor practiced
medicine until he reached the ripe age
of SO years. He then retired and went
to live at Montpelier with his daugh-
ter. DR.. David is in full possession of
all his faculties. He is an authority
on certain diseases and patients still
come to consult him, some from great
distances.
The policy of Western educators
regarding the Rhodes SCHOLARSHIPS has
been decided upon. Young men, to be
eligible, must be at least twenty-four
years Old, unmarried, and not under
the grade OF juniors in college. accord
ing to the decision of the representa-
uVes of twenty Western universal
ties. Dr. George II. Parkin. repre-
senting the Rhodes fund, was present
at the meeting OF the educators which
was held at the University OF Chicago,
recently.
In A. ID. 5l2 the Emperor constan-
tine Of Rome granted liberation 10 the
Christians and IN 1921 he gave imperial
sanction 70 the observance OF the frst
aay Of the week. The edlct which In
Hooheed new era Ia Sunday Obsery-
hnes runs; "On the venerable day Of
me sun let The magistrate ana people
ttsialhg ~ cities rest and iet al work.
SHOPS DE closed In the country, how
ever persons engaged in the work II
CULTIVATION may freely and lawfully
continue Their pursuits, because Il o.
tfh happens that another day Ia u0f
~ suitable for grain sowing ~ Or
siiis PLANTING Lest W neglectlng tbs