The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-10

ILL.,, who prevented the wreck OF the
Big -Four passenger train there re-
Gently. has been given a pass for HIM
self and family over the entire system
for a period of ninety-nine years as
reward.
At a recent meeting of the Society
for the Protection of French Scenery
held in Paris, plans were laid for the
institution of campaign against ''the
dehlement of the advertiser as revealed
in obnoxious and inartistic placards in
stations, conveyances, and other pub
lie places" 1t was also announced that
the deputy for the Doubs would short
~ introduce in the Chamber a measure
for the protection of picturesque and
historical sites in France.
The Paris municipal returns for the
week ending Feb. 25 is deemed most
satisfactory by the authorities. The
number of deaths registered was 1885,
as compared with 962 during the pre-
vious week, and with the age average
of LIS Deaths from both zymotic
diseases and affections from the respir-
atory organs are again below the av-
erage. There were 30 deaths of vio-
lence, including II suicides. The
number of marriages celebrated in
Paris was SAC. One thousand one
hundred children were born, of. which
SIS were boys and 521 girls, 2fS of the
total being illegitimate.
The leading Italian railways have
decided to adopt the combined eAcur-
sion and season ticket system from
June L next, Belgium was'the first Eu-
ropean country to introduce the prac-
tice of issuing combined tour tickets,
and the System-which enables the
traveller to arrange his own itinerary
and to effect a saving of more than
80 per cent. upon the price of ordinary
single tickets-has become so popular
that 1t has since been applied to the
railway systems of Holland, Germany,
Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Turkey, the Danubian provinces, and
in France under certain conditions.
1t is by no means certain that the
Catholic Church will not shortly canon
ize Jeanne dare. What caused a stay
in the investigation of the congregat ion
which has the matter in charge, and
the rumors of a contrary report, was
the death of Cardinal Parocchi, who
was the leader in the movement. 1t
is now known for a fact that when
the investigation was taken up again
1t proceeded in such a manner that
'TAvocat du iablo," which is the title
applied to the ecclesiastic who is a
sort of prosecuting attorney in cases
of canonization, has been able to adj
vance no serious objection to ia Pu-
celle," and that even the legend OF
her retraction has been demolished
through historical evidence.
Count Zeppelin, the inventor of a
navigable airship which was success
fully experimental with on the Lake
of Geneva eighteen months ago, has
just announced through the Swiss
press a new invention. 1t consists of
an automobile launch which, however
has its propellers in the air instead Of
in the water. According to the in
Ventor the launch will be of the great
est use in navigating tropical lakes
and rivers encountered with aquatic
plants, which, of course obStruct the
screw Of an ordinary steam launch.
The Counts boat is extremely light,
draws only ten inches, and on a, fair
day can make from fourteen to sixteen
knots an hour. 1t can navigate at the
rate of ten knots an hour against an
ordinary breeze.
"A curious controversy has arisen
between the newspapers of Berne,
Switzerland, and the municipal au-
thortties. The latter, thinking they
We're too freely criticised by the press,
withdrew all official advertisements,
by which the papers suffered consider
able pecuniary loss. Later the govern
ment became very DESTROYS of passing
a law for the protection of animals.
Every paper in town refrained from
mentioning the bill or the desire of the
government. The consequence was
that the law was not passed The
people simply refrained from voting,
for in Berne city ordinances are a
matter of direct popular vote. 1t
seems that there is a law which re-
quires the government to advertise
certain official business. The press is
now attempting to prosecute the gov
eminent for its defiance of that law.
The fact that the birth of Marconi
has been found registered in Bologna
has cut short the claims of other Ital-
ian towns to this distinction. Florence
however, has discovered that the In
ventor went to school there between
his sixth and tenth years. There has
also been discovered an aged lady,
Signora .Luisa Cavallero, who taught
young Marconi how to read, and she
has been induced to talk for publica-
ton. AS is usual in such cases, the
old lady was sure that she saw in the
inglesino," as she called him, the
eHlDIyO HAL OF genius. nevertheless,
she was obliged to punish him many
times because he was very naughty,
and since he has become a great man
her conscience has severely reproach-
ed her. Fancy, furnishing a genius!"
she exclaimed. eat the same time"
she added in extenuation "he was
never able to learn anything by heart
That was impossible with him.
The British ambassador in st. Pc
tersburg has been informed of the fact
that Miss Ellen Valley, who was WIS.,
iting Moscow in company with her
father, has disappeared from that CITY.
me father reports that the day after
the disappearance of his daughter
who is 16 years of age, two Migrants
called upon him and promised to show
him where the girl could be found pro-
Vided they were properly rewarded for
their pains. The father did not believe
their story, and drove them away In
the appeal made to the ambassador
completely of the Moscow police in her
disappearance is charged. Another case
OF similar nature is already on record
at the embassy. In the fall of 1900 a
young English governess, employed by
a well-known English noble family.
disappeared in st. Petersburg, and was
not heard of for about year, when n
was found that she had been murdered
End robbed by some soldiers belonging
to the First Cavalry Regiment in st.
Petersburg.
All great men were boys once and
the world likes to halieva tha+ 49,,