The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-20
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ing alarmingly. 1t is easily contracted,
because of the pleasant taste of the
fresh-roasted berries, and the exhila-
ration from the active principles of
coffee being similar to that from the
alcohol in beer and whisky, the habit
is hard to break. The effects of cof-
fee-eating are much more marked than
those from tobacco using. 1t wrecks
the nerves, yellows the skin, and de-
stroys the appetite.
Some ten or twelve Australians who
went to South Africa to invest about
$1,000 in farming lands, not as a syn
dictate, but as separate settlers, have
returned in disgust to their own land.
The general complaint is that the land
is held by the British government at
too high a figure. This is due to the
fact that enormous prices were paid
to the Dutch for the land by the I'M
perial government, which is finding it
correspondingly hard to get rid of.
Canada is about to become the chief
source of the worlds supply of arsenic.
The arsenic which for many years BAR
filed the gold miners of Hastings coun-
ty, Ontario, in their efforts to extract
the precious metal from it's natrice
has become the more profitable of the
two minerals. This strange turn of
the wheel of fortune has been caused
by the virtual exhaustion of the for
mer chief source of supply of arsenic
in Germany and England, together with
the superior quality and purity of the
Canadian product.
In Ethiopia and. the soudan the
work of development and exploitation
is progressing. The treaty recently
concluded between King Menelik and
the British government probably means
the early construction of the Berber-
Suakin railroad via Kassala Costing
some SIS, 000 and the subsequent
extension of the Kassala line south
ward to Lake Rudolph, where eventu-
ally it will form a junction with the
Uganda railway at the same time
marking a long step toward. the re-
alization of the Cape-to-Cairo scheme
The new electric trolley line be-
tween Shepherds Bush and Hampton
Court, London, is to be equipped, ac-
cording to a proposed plan with tea
and luncheon cars, so that refresh
ments may be served along the way
without loss of time. This. It appears,
is concession to the large number
of Americans, principally tourists, who
will use the line in sightseeing. The
Londoners, to Judge from the papers,
seem to think that this development
of the trolley car is much further along
IN this country than is really the
case.
Paper gloves and stockings are
now being manufactured in Europe AS
to the manner in which the former are
made little is known, but the stockings
have been carefully examined by ex-
perts, and they are loud in their praise
of them. 1t is claimed that they will
last almost as long as ordinary stock
ings. The reason, they point out, is
because the paper of which they are
made, was during the process of manu-
facture transformed into a substance
closely resembling wool, and was then
woven and otherwise treated as ordi-
nary wool.
The Transvaal is likely to become
again the popular resort of big game
hunters. There has, indeed, since the
war, been such an influx of big game
into the northwestern districts as to
constitute a record in their modern
history. This is due to prolonged
drought, and the consequent destruc-
ton of the pastures in Western Afri-
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beeste, which have for many years
been very rare in the Transvaal, have
made their appearance. However, the
majority of the new arrivals are bucks.
The authorities are doing all they can
to induct the game to remain in their
newly sought fields.
"A few days ago NJ. Lecuier of
Sugny, in the Ardennes, an old pen
sioner, who was wounded on the field
of battle during the Franco German
war and suffered from a tumor caused
by shot in the leg, underwent an OPP
GRAFTON. The bullet had been extracted
in 1870, but the tumor continued, and
finally Leculer could not walk. The
surgeons were greatly surprised in the
course of the operation to find imbed-
ded in the wound coin of 10 CEN
times Ca penny, bearing the effigy of
Napoleon III, and the date 1856. The
penny is believed to have been carried
into the thigh by a German bullet
which had first struck the soldiers
purse. The coin was bent in two and
covered with powder on one side. 1t
will be placed in the local museum.
The following coroner's verdict was
recently rendered in one of the coun-
ties of Indiana: After having care
fully examined the body, seen, heard
and inspected the evidence adduced in
the premises, do not find that the true
and lawful name of said person is as
above given, to wit: Andrew MitZ that
his age at the time of his death was
SO years, feet and 10 inches high.
Black hair and dark complexion and
that he came to his death as follows:
After having the proper witnesses,
which was a son of the deceased,
find that on the 14th day of February,
A. D., 1908, and about o'clock p. M,
his cellar, thought he would walk out
was perhaps a hundred yards away.
After seeing the water coming out of
the tile apparently alright, upon look
ing around he saw a rabbit sitting and
went to the house after his gun, when
he returned, the Rabbit had gone. So
he went back and just before entering
the house thought he would take the
loaded shell from the gun, when by
some means the gun went off. 1t kick
ed back and the stock of the gun hit
him near the Groin causing a severe
merorage. He managed to get into the
house and took his bed and died from
the effects about 80 hours later. The
accident was peculiar but fatal"
When you are writing about the
camel, the proper thing to do is to
call him the ship of the desert and
quote a verse or two of Kipling's
"Oonts," says the Brooklyn Eagle.
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