The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

(Mo.) schools sent what he deemed
"scathing rebuke" to a newspaper ed
itor for 'butchering the Kings En-
glish." The editor marked thirteen err
rors of grammar in the pedagog's let
ter and sent it back with note say
ing he would publish it when it was
written correctly.
"A violent Mt Of sneezing accom-
plished for Samuel Veale of Hazleton,
Pa, what a number of physicians had
failed to do-restored his hearing. For
several years he suffered from an at
Fiction of the head which finally made
him deaf. He sneezed the other day
and heard what sounded to him like
a miniature explosion, after which he
could hear.
"A story told by the late Commo-
dore Edward Barrett, United States
navy, shows that plated ware when
no longer useful for mess purposes on
warships can be devoted to the service
of diplomacy. According to this story,
some American navy officers, wishing
to conciliate an African potentate
named king Billy" presented MN
with a discarded soup ladle and lot
Of gay ribbons. This so delighted the
dusky sovereign that when he came
aboard the ship to make a visit in
state he wore the ladle tied on the
front of his ample person with the va
riegated ribbons, and also wore d.
lapidated stovepipe hat
Red tape is just now having high
frolic on the Danube. Some two
months ago the project OF Silistria
placed on board one of the Danube
navigation company's steamers two
women with passports for Rustchuk
The police there, however, without as
signing reasons, refused to allow them
to land So did the police or every
other river port touched at whether
Rumanian or Bulgarian. This mas
been going on for two months, the
women remaining on board at the COM
pany's expense. Finally they took their
costly passengers back to Silistria, but
the project absolutely refused to let
them land. THE company TOOK them
on board 1t must get rid of them II
it cam" was all the explanation ne
would give.
In Warsaw recently a banker died
and left his entire fortune to which,
ever of his three nieces-daughters or
three different brothers and sisters
married first. The parties interested IN
this provision were present when lne
will was read, and all or them LOOK
immediate steps to secure the prize
BY procuring special licenses ana TAX
ing other unusual measures 1t was
found that the earliest possible time
for a wedding to take place was at
O'Clock on the morning of the tenth
day after the will had been read. Be
fore noon on that day all three nleces
appeared at the notary's once Win
certificates showing that they had ne
come wives between and 8;l5 tnat
morning, though not one or them mao
even been engaged whe nthe VIII was
read. All three claimed the fortune,
and the courts solved the dltflculty py
dividing it into three equal parts.
The garden city movement indirect
ly received a pleasing impetus in Paris
two weeks ago when the Minister of
Commerce lent his official dignity to
the Inauguration of the private enter
prise of the head of the Magasins du
Louvre, NJ. Chauchard, who has hand
ed over his superb property at Versail-
les for the benefit of all his employees
who can show at least twenty-five
years service and do not receive more
than $500 a year. The immense park
has been divided into 105 lots, so as to
insure to each meritorious servant
holding of about 600 square yards. The
land is given free and the employees
can erect houses to their liking. So
pleased are they with the gift that a
building society has been formed, and
it is expected that by next October a
little colony will be well started. A
small castle occupies a place on the
estate, and this will be converted to
small flats for the accommodation of
aged bachelors in the establishment.
The ordinary houses now being con-
structed have small dining and drawing
rooms and kitchens on the ground
floor Above are three fine bedrooms
and then the usual garrets. In the
gardens attached retired shopmen,
bookkeepers and accountants from the
Louvre will be able to cultivate cab
bages or grow flowers.
The domestication of the zebra is
no longer regarded as hopeless; and
from the Journal of the Society of
Arts we learn that a serious attempt
is being made to utilize the herds
which range in the East African pro-
tectorate. A stockade or bona was
erected in a favorable spot on the
Monordat river, inclosing an area of
about forty-eight acres. Out of this
protected an arm. into which the herds
were to he headed. Four or five hun
dred natives were collected, and, on
an, OCTOBER morning the GORDON of
beaters surrounded the ground on
which the zebras had been seen to
Craze. But on this occasion the zebra
went the wrong way, the whole 300
of them charging through the COR
don and escaping. Later on the COR
don was strengthened, and European
riders We're added. 1t was a most ex-
citing struggle. A dozen or so were
got into the arm. The large herd got
the wind of the smaller herd, and en-
tered the arm at full gallop. SUISSE
quent counts showed the number Of
animals to be eighty-five; two foals
have since been born in the bona, and
the old and young are becoming Won
derfully tame. They now frequently
Craze within a few feet of the tents
in which the men are encamped, which
have been pitched within the bona.
The handling and breaking of the
young animals has meanwhile been
started.
Carl Gutherz ESQ one of tha ,,oo.+