The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ Mountain has been tunneled by the
| Southern Pacific Railway for a cut
off line between this city and San Fran
\ cisco, and traffic was expected to open
Jan. l. but the opening is indefinite
| ly postponed. AS track-laying was
about to begin it was discovered that
the tunnel sides were bullying. Heavy
| braces and cement were tried, but
forced asunder by the creeping mon
| ster. A portion of the mountain IS
| composed of Shale. and 1t is this that
| is making trouble. Careful observa-
| ton shows that this portion is slowly
| travelling westward, like mighty stone
river, moving toward the Pacific. The
strata dips oceanward. and the move
ment is undoubtedly what is known as
a "slide,'' caused by displacement some
where in the depths of the earth.
M. de Blowitz, giving himself no
BILE Gentle instead of a Jewish origin,
claims in his memoirs to have been
born at the Chateau Blowitz, in Bohe-
mia, which had long been the seat OF
his aristocratic ancestors. But some
/ one has just made the discovery that
| this lordly pile has been in the possess
sion of the high-born Kolowrat family
| for over two centuries! In 1872 1t was
left by the late Count Hans Kolowrat
to his nephew, Count Palffy. On the
continent it was always known as an
established fact that the famous cor
respondent of the London Times was
the son of a Hebrew grocer, Oppert by
NAME in the village of Blowitz, Bohe-
mia, and that he dubbed himself "Op-
pert de Blowitz" in order to distinguish
himself from the numerous other OPP
perts of the country, just as German
Jew called Cohen, on settling at Ant
Werp, took the cognomen Cohen DAN
vers" to differentiate himself from the
| multitudes of his race bearing the;
same name. Once he had occasion to
write to a co-religionist at Cologne,
called Oppenheim, of the well-known
banking firm, when, with brief famil-
| iarity, he simply signed himself &C.
d'Anvers." Adopting the same airy
style, his correspondent on the Rhine
replied with the signature 20. de Col
ogne!"
All conditions must be favorable
to sleep, says Evereybody's Magazine.
| The bedroom should be quiet, dark
| and airy. In winter it is better to
| have the window away up than to
| shut it so that a knife-edged draught
! shall chill an exposed shoulder. The
| temperature of the bed should be agree
| able. Getting to sleep when the feet
are cold is as slow a job as getting
! to sleep when hungry. A hot-water
| bottle in one case and piece of bread
and butter in the other will help things
leave it to you to decide which is
| for which. A warm bed in winter is
easily got, but a cool bed in summer
| is not so simple proposition. How
| ever, sheet made of straw mating,
| interposed between the regular sheet
| and the mattress, will be found to
mitigate sensibly the horrors of a hot
night. 1t preserves the softness and
| springiness of the bed, and yet is
| pleasantly cool, without being too cool
! Personally, I find that sleep comes
soonest when 1 have no pillows at
all. The next thing is to relax utter
~. Remember that the corner of the
| Jaw is the citadel of tension. While
that is clinched no sleep can come. But
most important of all is the DISPOSE
| ton of the mind so that sleep can
is the same as the reason why we
come. The reason why we fail in this
fail in other things. We do not very
genuinely want to succeed.
While recently in Rome a Partisan
lady made the acquaintance of an Ital-
ian count and his wife. The three be-
came great friends, and the Parisienne,
before leaving the italian capital, said
she, hoped soon to see the count and
countess at her residence in the Rue de
Douai. Not long since the noble pair
came to Paris and met the demi-mon-
dame, who invited them to dinner. It
appears that the countess suddenly dis
covered something that made her hor-
r1bly jealous. The Parisienne was evil
GENTLY Turing the count into her nets.
The wife resolved to take revenge. and
having ordered some Vipers at a snake
and rat shop on the quays, she sent
them nicely packed in Golfer to the
deml-mondaine. The latter nearly
tainted when she opened the Golfer and
saw the vipers. She thought that the
receptacle contained Jewels from the
count. The vipers were killed. by the
Parisienne's concierge and under them
was found note from the countess.
who wrote to her rival: "By the time
you have read this letter you will be
stung by the vipers. That's the nice
little necklace that the countess sent
you as a present" The affair having
been reported to the police superinten-
| dent of the district, he told the count
| to take his dangerous wife back to
Rome as speedily as possible if he did
not want her to be sent to prison. The
count has obeyed the injunction.
| Monte Carlo itself is a paradise
stricken with the plague, says the
! World To-day. 1t has the loveliest of
gardens, full of tropical plants and in
Viting arbors and shaded walks, which
no one enjoys. 1t has one of the fin
| est orchestras in Europe, but the au-
dience is listening for the click of the
ball; the gaming rooms are hung with
| works of are which no one looks at
| Partisan cafes and restaurants sur
| round the palace of chance, but PEG
pie dine as if it were a waste of time
| The only thing away from the tables
| in which anyone appears to take a real
| interest is the demonstrating lust
over the sea. Yonder on the cape is
the old town of Monaco. a bit of the
| middle ages with a modern palace fol
the prince at one end; and all around
| stands an amphitheater of massive
| hills which has no equal on the Riviera
| The 'tables" make so much money
that they not only keep UP this para
i disc and throw it open absolutely free
| to. all Corners. but they pay the taxes
! of the Kingdom of Monaco beside; anc
the people who come here lose so much
money that the government pawnShop
with the huge sign announcing the ad-
vances are made on jewels, is one o.
the most prominent buildings of the lit
tie town. Yet the tables are never
empty from one years end to another
and you seldom meet a man who will
confess that he has lost.
The pay of the small Papal army
is included in the disbursements fol
the keep-up of the Vatican. These
troops consist of the Noble Guard, the
Swiss and the Palace Guard. In ad-
dition there is q small party of Vati-
con tSetdarrnas THE Swiss Guard Is