The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Guerra, a Mexican woman residing in
San Francisco, has been sentenced to
a term of one days imprisonment in
San Quentin penitentiary for bigamy.
She has had eight husbands during
the past twenty-four years. The Of
tense committed was in wedding the
eighth man before his predecessor in
her affections had died.
"A military group is being formed
at the French Chamber of Deputies. 1t
will be composed, without distinction
of party, of members who have held
commissions in the army or who have
been on committees dealing with it.
One of its promoters says that it is
expected to prove as useful as the CO.
lonial group, which has rendered so
many services to France.
The Berlin Post. referring to the
British naval estimates, says: THE
figures of the British budget speak for
themselves. A nation which expends
202, 000, 900 marks on new ships in one
year takes the first rank among naval
powers, and will hold that position for
a long time for q great navy can be
improvised now even less than in Bona
parties time"
Mime. Scuba Weinberg, the sister of
Rubenstein, the composer, who died
few days ago in St. Petersburg, was.
like many of the members of her fam
lily, talented musician. Her devotion
to her family only prevented her from
becoming a professional singer. The
only members of the Rubinsteins liv-
ing is Miss Josephine Rubinstein, who
is a teacher of singing in st. Peters
burg.
Judge Leslie w. Russell, of Jer-
sey City, who died not long ago, left
a win which seems to indicate a be-
lief on his part that brevity is the soul
of safety when an estate is to be dis
posed of by testan ent. 1t was in these
words: II give everything / have to
my wife," Then, instead of half a
dozen or more pages of 'in the event
Of this. that or the other, he added:
with reversion to our children"
Referring to breakfast foods. Lite
rary Digest quotes from Cosmos, Paris:
VERY fine sawdust is sometimes mixed
with coral foods, and has at least one
advantage-it is not poison. 1t even
constitutes a sufficient food for the
larvae of certain insects, but it is quite
insufficient for the nourishment of man.
1t was shown in 1898 that certain sus-
pected cereals contained no less than
40 per cent. OF wood sawdust."
Compared with our vast trade with
Europe, that with China win never be
more than a drop in the bucket. The
Chinese trade is not now a dollar per
capita, and it is safe to say that 1t
will never reach the double of that ma
jority. The fact is that the people are
poor. They raise barely enough of the
necessities of life to live on. They
dwell in novels. They have little live
stock. and man is the ordinary beast
Of burden, says ex-Minister DENLY.
DIR. Flexner of the Rockefeller In
stitute is engaged in manufacturing
his dysentery antitoxin, or "bacteri-
olysin," as he terms it. Trial will be
made this summer of this antitoxin
at the Wilson Sanatorium near Balti-
more. In about two months DR.. Flex-
ner will institute course of instruc-
ton for about thirty young men at
his laboratory in Philadelphia on the
identification of the dysentery bacillus,
so that during the summer a very wide
spread study of the summer diarrhoea
of children in this country may be
made.
Experiments were tried the other
afternoon in the Place de PHotel de
Vile, Paris, with a new system of
damp sweeping" for the streets of the
capital. In the past many complaints
were made respecting the dust raised
by the machine brushes used to sweep
the thoroughfares of Paris. 1t has
now been decided to try system by
which vessel filled with water, plac-
ed beneath the drivers seat, damps
the brush and thus prevents the OBJ
jectionable clouds OF dust.
The case of the citizen of Pitts
field who used an umbrella as wea-
pom against a lion is not unique,
says the Springfield Republican. Some
four years ago there appeared an ac-
credited story of a cyclist in Rhodesia
who in a lonely road was alarmed by
the appearance of a lion. Having his
umbrella with him, he tried the ex-
pedient of opening and closing it as
rapidly as possible, and this extraor-
binary spectacle made the king of
beasts execute a growing retreat. On
the other hand, a Jesuit father was
recently killed in Sydney, Australia,
through a misplaced reliance upon this
defense against a runaway horse.
Thinking to stop it, he stood directly
in its path and opened his umbrella
He was knocked down and died in
few hours of fractured skull.
A pair of catfish that were contin-
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