The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is only one statue in Great
Britain with an umbrella. This is to
be seen at Reading and represents Mr..
G. Palmer of biscuit fame, standing
bareheaded with a silk hat and UNI
brella in hand.
Before a recruit can be said to
have joined the British army his name
must be entered sixty-two times and
that of his superior officer twenty-nine
times in the documents required by the
War Office.
United States Consul Ayres, at Ro-
sario, reports to the State Department
at Washington that this years harvest
in the Argentine republic is unprece-
depted, the best estimates placing the
corn crop at approximately 100000
tons.
"A man in Cincinnati applied to the
courts for an injunction to restrain
the tongues of the gossips of the
neighborhood. He learned from judi
cial sources that there are some
things beyond the control OF the high
est human power.
Bishop Coleman, of Delaware, has
been telling an audience that crime in
the United States has increased enor-
mously since 1850. In that year there
was one criminal in every 3,442 of pop
ulation. In 1890, forty years later, the
proportion had increased to one in
every 715.
Israel Zangwill says: There are
three reasons why men of genius have
long hair. One is that they forget 1t
is growing. The second is that they
like it, The third is that 1t comes
cheaper. They wear it long for the
same reason that they wear their hats
long. Owing to this popularity of gen.
ius you may get quite a reputation for
lack of 25 cents"
"A carpet industry was started a
few years ago in a poor district in
Donegal, and commencing with a doz-
en- women workers, it has grown to
such an extent that it now finds en-
ployment for several hundred people
! The carpets are hand made, after the
! Turkish and Persian fashion, in mo-
safes of small wooden squares, the de-
signs and colorings being most artis-
tic and effective.
"A naturalist, while visiting Great
Sangir. one of those islands of the In
dian ocean, known as the Celebes, or
Spice islands, found a curious time
recorder lodged at the house of a ra-
jah. Two bottles were firmly dashed
together and fixed in a wooden frame.
A quantity of black sand ran from
one bottle into the other In Just half
an hour, and when the upper bottle
was empty the frame was reversed.
Twelve short sticks, marked with
nOTNhlS from RI
upon a string. A hook was placed be-
tween the stick bearing the number of
hotches corresponding to the hour last
struck and the one to be struck next.
The sentry announced the time by
striking the hours on large gong.
The pastor of a Presbyterian
Church in San Jose, Cal, believes in
sensational advertising after the most
modern methods. Here is a notice he
published on recent Monday: Found
Asleep-So you slept in church yester-
day, did you? Well, it was rather a
drowsy day. but if you had been al
the Second Presbyterian Church YOU
wouldn't have dozed. The pastor
preached two earnest, enthusiastic SER
mons and the music was alive and in
spring. Mrs. Hillman Smith sang
that old favorite, The Holy City, Ia
the enjoyment of ALL and the chorus
choir rendered two anthems. The con-
gregation was nearly as large as the
church itself. An oldtimer there look
ed around and remarked to a bystand-
err Well, / declare, l thought l knew
every one who came to this church
but the last few weeks / don't seem
to know more than half of them
When King Edward went to italy
he met, according to The London
Chronicle, a king who is more of a
Stuart than himself. Both are de-
scended from James I, but the King OF
Italy is also, through his mother
eleventh in descent from Charles 1. in
strict right, Victor Emmanuel has
more claim to the British crown than
his royal guest who wears 1t. But
for their Catholic religion, the Savoys
would have been installed to rule over
England, and not the Brunswicks
when the Stuarts were evicted. After
the children of James II. the next In
blood was the Duchess OF Savoy
daughter of Henrietta, the youngest
child of Charles I. But she was moi
a Protestant, and so was debarred
Thus IL was that the British crown
was passed 20 the House Of Brunswick
by fhe Act OF Settlement IN 1901
Otherwise the Sayoys would now be
the royal family.
There is little romance about a cir.
Gus. but a circus performance has
about caused the contamination Of a
romance ~ Joplin, No. While Matte
! Price was doing bareback ridfnp