The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-29

The London Chronicle remarks that
for soaring and coruscating eloquence
no Irishman on this side of the At
1antic can hold a candle TO Bourke
Cochran"
Australia wants 100000 British
wives, Canada wants 10000, and the
Cape would like 10000. 1t is stated
that there are nearly 100000 more
women than men in the British isles.
1t is as a deadly pheasant-shot that
King Edward has won his reputation
er Lord Walsingham and Lord DE
Grey. the finest pheasant-shot in Eng
land.
All German soldiers must learn to
swim. Some of them are so expert that,
with their clothing on their heads and
carrying guns and ammunition, they
can swim streams several hundred
yards wide.
Admiral Sir Harry Keppel, "the
father of the British feet" has begun
his ninety-fifth year. The venerable
officer is a sailor by instinct, and has
often declared that he hopes to die and
be buried at sea.
Though not taking all the money
he could find, a burglar who broke into
a woman's house in Paris left a note
saying he could not find it in his heart
to take her jewels lest they were heir
looms.
r.. T. Daniel, who owns many
blocks in Spokane, most of the town
of Trail, in British Columbia, and TO-,
900 acres of land in Cuba, left Glasgow
Ky, twenty-five years ago and ar
rived in Spokane with just 81 in his
pocket.
"A characteristic story of the late
Sir Hector Macdonald is just told. AL
ways man of few words, when send
ing his only son to a public school for
the first time he addressed the follow
ing brief note to the headmaster:
Herewith boy Hector, to be made a
man Of"
"A Japanese Buddhist dignitary was
buried a few weeks ago. The police
made the following terse return of the
side issues of the ceremony: "311 in
juries, rs fainting, 121 thefts, 374 pick
pockets captured, 1,021 articles lost.
Seventy-nine people fell into creeks OF
bitches"
THE Stickit Minister" was begun
late one evening, and the bulk of II
was written in less than a week. Then
as the author himself said afterward
he ignominiously lost hold But aft
er a little time he was seized with
fresh inspiration and the rest of the
book was written in forty hours, actual
| working-time.
The Protestants of Boston are max.
ing contributions to fund of $50, 900 tC
convert Spanish women. Headquarters
will be opened in Madrid, and it will
he known as the Gulick Institute. Bish-
op Lawrence of the Episcopal Church
of Boston says it is time for his church
| to convert the Italians, who are settling
in that city in large numbers.
The irrigation works recommended
by the Geological Survey give interest
to the report on the irrigation works
of India. The net revenue to the gov
eminent was 1856 per cent. on an outlay
| of $4,000, 900. The value of the crops
raised on the irrigated area during the
year is estimated at $4,000, 000-a sum
in excess of the capital outlay
John Whittier, Lowell weaver, is
a consistent advocate of physical cul-
ture. He walks twenty-four miles each
day between the factory and his hon1t
| in Littleton. Between the daily jour
neys on foot Whittier spends ten hours
before a loom in a Lowell suspendeI
| factory. He is a small man, about A,
| years old, and is all muscle and grit
One of the largest families in st
Louis, Mo.-that of Arthur w. Becker
is ioyously celebrating the birth of 6
baby girl. This is the first time in IA
years that a girl has been born in the
| family. The grandfather, ]. Becker
had five boys, and his father, jacob
Becker, had four male heirs. The father
Of Jacob Becker had no sisters and nc
| daughters, and none of his sons haG
any daughters.
An important event In the scientific
world is the acceptance of a profes-
sorship in Columbia University by Prof
Joseph John Thomson, D. &c., F. r
| S., 1889, for the last eighteen years
| Cavendish professor of experimental
| physics at Cambridge University, Eng
land. His recent work in the investi-
| cation of atoms and molecules ano
| their relation to electrical charges are
| fresh in the mind of the public.
British residents of Greece are
much wrought up over the action of the
| government in accepting the offer of q
| foreign capitalist to erect a gambling
casino in the old British cemetery in
| Corfu. When the Ionian Islands were
coded by England to Greece in 1864, il
was specifically provided that the GEM
eteries would remain undisturbed. The
new scheme includes a hydropathic in
stitution, concert hall and casino, where
a fun Layout" will be run after the
fashion of Monte Carlo.
Mr.. Herbert Gladstone is still occa-
sionally greeted by the historic nick
name which he bore so cheerfully at
| Eton When his father added twopence
to the income tax about thirty-fve
years ago, Herbert. who was then a
| diminutive lower-form boy was
promptly christened '"Tuppence," a
name which chung to him through the
remainder of his school days. Mr.. Glad
| stone is a shortish, broad-shouldered