The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The newly-eiected Mayor of Brock.
ton, Mass, is a union plumber.
Eight fine stays have been sent by
the Emperor of Austria as present
to the Gear.
DIR. Sewell, the grand old man OF
Oxford, warden of New College, is to
resign. He is SO years of age.
Sheriff de Braggs, of the Queens
county Jail, New York, mas purchased
dogs to assist him in the capture OF
escaped fugitives.
The Italian parliament is consider
ing proposal to grant a pension OF
$50 a year to the four granddaughter
of Gen. Garibaldi.
Capt. Harry Webster, survivor
of the Samoan hurricane of 1889, has
been placed on the retired list of the
navy with the rank of rear admiral.
Sweden is said to have the lowest
death ate.of any civilized nation. Dur
I ing the last ten years the annual aver
age has been only 1910 per thousand
-Lofki is the name of a large grey
hound belonging to the Car. This
dog accompanied his master on his
visit to Paris, three years ago, and
shared with him in many of the hon
, ors of that visit.
During the eleven months ending
Oct. l, 1902, there were organized and
chartered : by the affiliated national
unions and by the American Fedora
ton of Labor direct $500 local unions,
with a membership of 100000.
With the object of diverting the
stream of emigrants that now travels
to America via Germany, the Hun
'garian government proposes to estab-
lish a line of steamers running be-
tween Fiume and the United States.
The Rev. DR.. Charles L. Spinning
of Orange, N. j., once an Indian known
among the race as Chief Blackboard,
is now preacher in the First Pres
byterian Church, and is deeply inter-
ested in everything concerning the
welfare of the red men. B.
In Berlin a parrot cyclist is draw
ing great crowds of admirers. The
bird conducts itself like an experienced
rider, working with its feet the pedals
of a dinlinutive machine whose
grooved tire runs along tight rope.
With it's beak 1t manages the handle
bars, 1t carries along another parrot
hanging on a trapeze beneath, and
thus maintains perfect equilibrium.
A visitor in Washington heard Sem
ator Depew deliver a speech the other
day. The New York statesman mode
joke about pressing the hand of a
fair Mormon widow, the widow num-
bering seventeen. The remark proyok-
ed deal of laughter, but it sounded
familiar to the man in the gallery.
Later he found that MIR. Depew had
borrowed the joke from a skit written
by Artemus Ward some forty or fifty
years ago. .
An eminent English student of
economics. Prof. Smart, regards the
trusts in Britain "as, in the main, the
elimination of the understandable nm
necessary persons the unnecessary
processes, the unnecessary machinery
of production and distribution. They
mean smaller cost of raw materials
the dispensing with costly advertise
ments, larger shipments, fewer mid
dlemen and a smaller staff" He does
not refer to the elimination of unnec-
essary profits.
-Gwilym Miles, the famous bass
baritone of New York, is a young
Welshman, who has already made a
great name for himself. He was dis
covered, it is said, some years ago
working in one of the iron factories
of Pittsburg, where by chance he was
heard singing. Several people became
interested in him and he was taken n
New York and placed under some Of
the best teachers. His voice has de-
veloped into rich bass baritone with
range that is said to be very re-
markable, taking tenor notes with
wonderful purity. clearness and sweet
ness. He is very small in stature. but
very broad and muscular, with splen-
did chest development.
One of the youngest looking old
men in the English House Of Commons
is Sir John Gorst He is now getting
on TO 40, but he has a brisk step. his
complexion is rudy and he speaks
with the same brightness, lf-posses-
sion and acidity which he DISPLAYED in
the S0s. He attributes his extraordin-
nary youthfulness 10 the fact that he
has for years followed the advice Civ
en- him by the late Sir Andrew Clark
the celebrated physician. and has, un-
DER al circumstances, remained nine
hours Of every twenty-four IN bed.
The method known as epeetrau
analysis originated in the discovery az
fFannhofer that ray OF llght deeoms