The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-13
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the ruling factor in France. Moreover,
the Duke of Cambridge fought along
side the French troops in the Crimea,
and is the only survivor of that cam
paign who held a brigade command
Napoleon Bonaparte died when the
Duke of Cambridge was two years old
and the transference of the body OF
the Emperor from ST. Helena to the
Invalides was undertaken when the
Duke had completed his ajority. Four
revolutions in France occurred during
the Dukes lifetime.
"A very successful rendering of
Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights
Dream was given before a numerous
audience the other evening in the gar
den of the British embassy at Thera-
pia, under the patronage of Sir Mich
olas O'Connor, the British ambassa-
dor, and the ladies of the diplomatic
corps, in aid of the funds of the local
Dorcas Benevolent Society. The play
ers comprised members of the British
embassy, staff officers from H. NJ. 5.
Mohawk and Imogene, and British res
idents. A second performance will be
given later. Great credit is due to the
Hon. Mrs. Whitehead, wife of the first
secretary of the British embassy, and
to George Young. the third secretary
for organizing the fete.
That body can acquire during
the night a different temperature from
that of the surrounding atmosphere
has been demonstrated by Mr.. Well,
an English physician. If a thermome-
ter is taken from the window, wrapped
in cotton and placed on the ground its
mercury will descend seven or eight
degrees. Vegetables similarly stu
ated, and being bad conductors, may
freeze at a time when the thermometer
does not mark the freezing point
proof that the cold experienced by a
plant may be entirely different from
the temperature of the surrounding
air. This low temperature of plants,
however, only occurs when the night
is clear, since at this time the plant
sheds its heat throughout space and
becomes chilled, whereas if the night
is cloudy the phenomenon does not
occur. This gives rise to the popular
superstition that plants and buds are
frozen by moonlight.
The remarkable likeness, in stone,
of the face of George Washington, near
the old log house at Manaroneck, N.
Y, opposite the entrance to Orienta
Point, has been made more distinct
through the recent heavy rains. Wash
ington had his quarters at this place
during the Revolution, and the log
house figures in Cooper's novel, 1.-THE
Spy" aus. the home of Harvey Birch.
The likeness was produced, according
to the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser, by some workmen in blasting the
rock to widen the Boston Post road
at the entrance of Orienta Point. The
face can be seen only at certain angles.
The coloring of the stone helps to make
the face. The mouth is outlined by a
dark red streak. The eyes are formed
by indentations and the nose by a
protrusion, while the neck and chin
to have stopped at this spot and made
the old house his headquarters in 1888,
while on his way to Connecticut to
meet ROchambeau. Later ]. Fenimore
Cooper visited the place while counting
his bride, and made it famous by in
cooperating it in his novel.
with all that is published about
comfort for the feet and Improvements
said a shoe manufacturer in Brook
Ign, according to the New York Times,
nothing has been said about men who
make a speciality of extension shoes for
cripples and deformed persons. 1t is
not so long ago that it was almost an
impossibility for a man with a deform-
ed foot or short leg to hide his mis-
fortune. We all remember the heavy,
thick soled blocks with high heels, that
made man feel almost as uncom-
Portable as though he had a wooden
leg. You see very few of them now.
Manufacturers have been improving on
the extension shoe, as it is called in
the trade, by the use of springs and
other contrivances, until they can make
a deformed foot look very much like
any other foot, unless it is very bad
case. A man with one leg two or three
inches shorter than the other can have
pair of boots made so that nobody
need know it but his shoemaker. Gus
toners in our particular line have as
many pairs of shoes as other men, in
calf, tan and patent leather, and in
all the fashionable shapes, too. They
have to pay about three times as
much for them as men with both feet
alike do; that's all the difference"
This appears to be the song writ
ers' era, when the works of Ameri-
can producers of lyrics and melodies
are sought with extraordinary avidity
not alone at home, but abroad. ItWs
learned that practically all the music
to be made use of in the English pam
tomimes during the coming season is
taken bodily from American sources,
sometimes authorized and sometimes
not. But our publishers are taking
greater and greater precautions as a
matter of protecting the works of
American song writers, some of whom
are growing rich through the produc-
tion of popular ballads. Only the other
day royalties running up to $4,000 in
a single year were paid upon one song,
and now comes Mabel Mckinley the
faVorite niece of the former President
of the United States, imperturbably
rejecting an offer of $4,000 cash in
hand for the royalty rights from a
leading publishing house for her vocal
composition called "Anona," an Indian
love song, now the sensation of New
York. Miss Mckinley, who is receiv-
ing large compensation as a singer of
her own melody, not alone declines to
part with the royalties, but refuses
to give permission to other profession
al performers to make use of it in pub
lie. "Anona," therefore, remains all
her own in every sense of the term.
and she seems justified in expecting a
large income from it for some years to
come
Wine testing by telephone is the
latest contrivance of a Paris inventor.
INSCRIPTIONS vendors will not bless M.
Maneuvrier, assistant director of the
laboratory of researches of the Paris
Faculty of Sciences. He has just dis
covered an infallible method of ascer-
tanning by the use of the telephone
how much a given quantity of wine
has been watered. The principle on
| which the invention rests is tha va =