The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Pope recently granted an order
to M. Bettini, who showed his holi-
ness a photograph made by a new
system. The Pope recited into the
photograph the Ave Maria and the
benedicite, which the machine repeat
id with marvellous accuracy. M. Bet
TIM intends to exhibit the records in
various parts of Europe.
"A sale of autographs which took
place last week at the Hotel Drouot,
Paris, is interesting inasmuch as it
shows the value attached to sigma
lures of the various Presidents of
France. Letters from, Theirs brought
6f. and g.; from MacMahon, 14f; Jules
Grevy, 15f.; Carnot, If. M. Casimlr-
Perier, 2f.; Felix Faure, 6f.; and M.
Loubet, If.
The excavations at Nippur revealed
rot only the Oldest sanctuary, library
and school that are known to the pres
ent time, but also the most ancient
archaeological museum. In an upper
stratum of the library mound the first
museum known. in history was UNI
earthed. The collector lived about the
time of BelshazZar, and his specimens
were antiquities then. z.~r q
"A man who has been travelling in
Iowa has hit upon an odd use of corn
cobs. He says: 81 made a. trip
throughout a big part Of Iowa recent
ly, and I found several grain ship
ping towns that had corncob sidewalks.
In spite of what one would think about
it, cobs make a pretty good walk.
They are a little rough at first, but
when the cobs become trampled down
the walk is smooth
"A Sioux City cattleman is consid-
ering the advisability of interbreeding
the Arctic musk OK with cattle of the
temperate zone, believing that the
stock so produced would be better able
to withstand the severe winters of the
West, says the Indianapolis News. He
has been in correspondence with Lieut..
Peary on the subject, and the Attic
explorer is favorably impressed with
the project. 1.-The vast loss of the
present season among herds off the
Western ranger" says the Sioux City
man, Emphasizes the necessity of
trying to infuse harder blood into
American cattle"
The old Bridewell burying ground,
which is now the subject of legisla-
ton in the English Parliament, is the
resting place of Nine Creswell, so
often mentioned by Nhe Charles II
dramatists, who died in Bridewell
prison, and left G10 for a. sermon to
be preached at her funeral, on condi-
ton that nothing should be said of
her but what was well. The preacher
got out of the difficulty rather neatly
by saying: "All that 1 shall say of
her is this She was born well, she
lived well and she died well; for she
was born with the name of Creswell,
she lived in Clerkenwell and she died
in Bridewell."
1t is reported from Odessa that
two Russian gunboAts together with
an armed steam launch, hitherto en-
ployed as Russian Embassy guard
ships in the Bosphorus, will shortly
be sent to the Far East, and are to
be, replaced in. the Golden Horn by
other vessels of the Black Sea Squad
ron. These vessels, it is added, will
be the four torpedo boat destroyers
which were recently sent from the Bal
tic to Sabastopol through the Dardan-
ellis. The new manoeuvre is believed
to illustrate Russia's claim to the
right of egress from the Black Sea
for her warships as well as the recent
ly demonstrated right of ingress to
the Euxine.
The Scandinavian bridegroom pre-
sents to his betrothed a prayerbook
and many other gifts, which usually
include goose. She, in turn, gives
him, especially in Sweden, a shirt,
and this he invariably wears on mis-
wedding day. Afterward he puts it
away, and under no circumstance will
he wear it again while alive. But he
wears it in his grave, and there are
Swedes who earnestly believe not only
in the resurrection of the body but in
the veritable resurrection of the be-
trothal shirts of such husbands as
have never broken any of their mar
rage vows. The Swedish widower
must destroy on the eve of his sec
ond marriage the bridal shirt which
his first wife gave him.
"A loving cup with an interesting
history has come into the possession
of Sir William Treloar. According to
the inscriptions on the cup, it appears
to have been a present from Edmund
Burke to Samuel Johnson in honor of
the latter's stay at Beaconsfield in IVA
1t then passed to Oliver Goldsmith, and
on his death was given ito David Gar
rick and members of the Turks Head
Club, as its fitting holders, to be
quaffed from by each member present
at cockcrow hour appearing" This
club was a select literary coterie. and
was founded by Johnson and Reynolds
in 1872, taking its name from an old
aoffaa house in Gerard street q Now