The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-01

The immense indirect cost of war
fare is illustrated by the fact that the
Spanish American war cost a million
dollars a day for over a year, al
though hostilities occupied but three
months.
Germans have long been in the fore
most rank as potato eaters. Among a
very large proportion of the laboring
classes potatoes and dark bread are
the principal staple of daily subsist-
ence.
The Pentateuch, written in Samari-
tan characters on gazelle parchment,
and dated in the year 116 of Mahomet,
or A. d. 1876, was lately discovered in
Syria. 1t is the Oldest Biblical manu-
script known.
Covered with damp moss in muslin
troughs and Theoretically sealed in tin
some 10000 Irish rainbow trout eggs
are on their way from Innishannon,
County Cork, to Toxic, for the Japan
exhibition.
"A short time ago a Sicilian advo-
cate was found guilty of sixty-three
different acts of fraud. For his indus
honesty he was sentenced to 1S9 years
imprisonment.
Fanny Bullock Workman, the Amer
lean geographer, lecturer and noun
tain climber, has engaged the noun
taineers Lorenz and Savoye, who ac-
calnpanied the polar expedition of the
Duke of Abuzzi, to assist her in as
cending the Himalayas.
1t DIS interesting in view of recent
licensing Legislation in England, to note
that between 300 and 400 public houses
are owned by members of the House
of Lords. Lord Derby is by far the
largest owner, with seventy-five Ii
cersed houses. The Duke of Bedford
has half a hundred houses. One MEM
Der of the cabinet-the Duke of Devon
shire-has forty-seven.
Henry Ward Beecher was exceed
ingly clever at meeting an insult and
turning it to good account. Once he
read in an audience various letters re-
ceived by him during the previous
week. One of these contained the
single word, Fool" Now" said
Beecher, II have known many man
to write a letter and then forget to
sign it, but never knew a man to sign
letter and then forget to- write it,"
FELL into a manure pile, while in a
spirituous condition from overindul-
gence in corn extract" That was the
record signed by DR.. William Walter
Winchester, house surgeon of New
York hospital, in the case of man
brought there for treatment. After ex-
aiming the patient another surgeon
MI aA
to the register: Drunk; fractured
thigh"
M. Henri Rochefort. M. Edouard
Drumont, M. Jules Lemaitre, and 9TH
er leaders of the French Nationalist
party have asked their followers to
abandon their seats in the Chamber in
order to retain the Nationalist major
ity in the Municipal Council. No heed
was taken of the appeals, however, and
the Nationalist Deputies resigned their
seats as Municipal Councillors. The
result is that three vacancies in the
Council have been filled by the return
of ministerial candidates and that the
position of the Nationalist in the
Council is far from secure.
On President Loubet's return to
Paris his first ceremonial act will be
to inaugurate the Victor Hugo Mu-
scum in the Place des Vosges, where
the poet lived for many years. Among
other things the museum will contain
a copy of all Victor Hugo's works in
each edition published, also the ma
jority of the furniture carved by the
poet himself, and several of his draw
ings. An important feature will be
the paintings sent by the principal
artists of France to be hung on the
walls. Each canvas will represent a
scene from one of Hugo's plays.
-Apropos of the expulsion of the re-
ligious orders from France, owing to
the execution of the associations law
of which M. Waldeck- Rousseau was
the author, it is interesting to note that
lie TEMPS gives publicity to the follow
ing item without comment: mime.
Waldeck-Rousseau has left the Con-
vent of the Soeurs Augustine in Paris
to return to her home in the Rue de
PUniversite. She entered the convent
on March Is to undergo a delicate and
dangerous operation, which has thor
oughly succeeded, thanks to the skill
of DR.. Poirier, the surgeon, and to the
intelligent nursing of the Sisters"
The physicians of Paris are now
combining with the police authorities
in order to discourage the throwing of
confetti on such occasions as ShroVe
Tuesday and the Mid-Lent carnivals
According to certain medical authori-
ties it now appears that the confetti
is poisonous, and consequently danger
Gus. The paper which is used for con-
fetti is colored with salts, with aniline
as their base, and several physicians
state that since the carnivals they have
had to deal with cases of skin eruption
which they can only attribute to the
effects of these salts, absorbed in va
rtous ways by persons who admitted
that they had taken a vigorous part in
the confetti battle.
The municipal authorities of Paris
have issued circulars to various man.
ufacturers of motor vehicles asking for
plans and stipulations as TO motor cars
which may be used as dust and gar
bage collectors. The present vehicles
which collect refuse placed outside
each house door in movable tin bins
are pronounced Objectionable in every
way by the health authorities. The
carts proceed slowly through TIE
streets, and early Parisians going to
their work catch unpleasant whiffS of
decaying vegetables. Not only. do the
vehicles leave a train of disagrSeable
odors behind them, but fragments of
their contents often overflow AID drop
onto the roadway, to remain there un-
til cleared away by the nightly wash
up of the streets by watring and
sweeping carts. The authorities are
hence arranging an open Contest among
all mechanical designers for the best
model of an up-to-date/ hygienic mo-
tor dust van. To be perfect the vehicle
must be so made that while shutting