The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

back stamped Address not known"
The writer has been dead twenty-four
years.
Owing to the protest by church or
CARNATIONS in Germany against the
use of the word baptism" in naming
ships, the Naval Department has or
dered that it shall no longer be used.
While there are 100000 uninhabited
houses in London, in ST. Pancras alone
1,151 cellars are rented to families for
IS to Sc a month. Measures are now
under way to close these plague spots.
According to the official returns
there were 275 sugar mills in operation
in European Russia last year. The best
crop of the country amounted to nearly
100000 tons, while the area under cul-
tivation was 100000 acres.
Vienna telephone booths are fur
nished with napkins bearing the in
scription, Wipe, if you please" The
napkins are changed frequently, and
this undoubtedly serves to keep the
mouthpiece of the transmitters in good
condition.
After distributing his ready money
(e3) to the families of the victims of
the Paris tube accident, NJ Ian
usse, chaplain of st. Cyr Military
School, pawned his cross and ring, a
present from Pope Leo XIII, for "a
shillings and gave that away also.
Mrs. Belmont, the New York So
ciety leader has started model dairy
at Hampstead, Long Island, from which
she will send products all over the
country, having gone into the bust.
ness on large scale. All the latest
sanitary devices will be employed.
Judge William Penn Lyon, the
grand old man" of Wisconsin, former
chief justice Civil War colonel, states
man and institutional manager, is GO
ing to California, where he will reside
the remaining years of his life. He
is 81 years old, and has been a part of
most of the history of the state of Wis
consin.
The chiefs of 9he several depart
ments of the St. Louis Exposition a
few months ago were wondering if all
the space would be taken. To-day
they are puzzling their brains to know
now they can take care of the differ
ent demands, as the applicants are
more numerous than the most sanguine
had expected.
"A group of representatives were
telling stories of their experience in
court when Delegate Smith contribu-
ted this incident from Arizona: Out
in one of the border towns a case was
IN progress, one of the lawyers being
an Eastern. man who was new to the
country. will you charge the Jury.
your honor"' he asked when the evil
dence had been submitted. ooh. no;
L guess not" replied the Judge. Il
never charge them anything They
con know much. anyway. and / let
EN- nave all they can make"
"A Rothschild in Paris goes to iail
for one day because he scorched with
ms motor car: Gen. Russell A. Alger
Pays icy % d me f OF $!9 for some slight mat
Ter or torgetfulness. The Duke of
portland gets in trouble for the in
Jufles OF poacher. George Gould
manages to get reihstated in the Lake.
wood fire department after a years
effort. George was one of the liyeli-
est men in the department, but was
nred out for non payment of dues
$L2o. He had to pull every political
WIRE in the Western Union office to
get back. These be hot times for big
men. The impartiality of Mrs. JUS
tlce Is most amazing She is becom-
ing harder to buy every day.
Coffee as a beverage is traced to
ETHIOPIA, whence it was introduced into
Persia, then into Egypt In 1854 if
was known in Constantinople, where
two private persons, named Shems
from Damascus, and Hekin, from Allen
Pc, opened coffee houses. The use Of
the berry then extended to Western
Europe and was introduced into Eng
land in 1887 by Nathaniel Campus. a
native of Crete. Archbishop Laud AL
lowed him maintenance at Balliol Col
lege' oxford, where he made for his
own use coffee, fact mentioned bv
Evelyn in his diary of May. 1887. In
oxford, too, the first coffee house was
established in England by a Jew NAM
ed JACOBS, in 1850; two years later the
first in London was opened.
The question raised at The Hague
international court as to the language
in which the Venezuelan arbitration
is to be conducted marks the steady
progress of English speech. A cou-
pie Of centuries ago there would have
been no such question. Latin as the
international tongue would have been
used as matter of course: it was the
acknowledged medium of statesmen
scholars and travellers Then, in the
eighteenth century, by reason of the
pre-eminence of Louis XIV. French
succeeded Latin and reigned as the
language of courts, diplomacy and
travel. Its international status was
first challenged at the Berlin congress
in 1878, when Disraeli, prompted by his
insufficient French, proposed and. with
Bismarck's support, made English the
medium of the deliberations. Now
English may be said to divide interna-
tional honors with French
Three young women rode on ton
of a Fifth avenue stage. 1t was cold.
They moved down behind the driver
VINO was talking to a passenger be-
side him. He growled, turning
around: Il know whut jer want: yer
want ter near whit I'm sayin'." Thev
protested that they were cold. had no
wraps etc, and moved down to
warmer place. "Wel, 1 amt goin' ter
say another word. This gentleman maid
me to point out objects of interest
You amt paid nothin'. Whut jer reck-
on I'm here for? Me health? Whut
| know is worth 81 apiece from Won
folks" He then shut up like a clam.
The driver on the return trip told
the girls that there was a regular
union of his fellows, and none dared
tell the name of a building or point
out the residence of prominent New
Yorker without being paid so to do. for
fear he would be found out and ex-
PEELED. Just another and humber form
of graft"
An annual fair at Barnstaple. Eng