The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel into
New York is being constructed at the
companys Altoona shops.
During the recent storm on Lake
Superior, a flock of goldfinches were
blown far from land. and scores of
them alighted in the rigging of pass
ing lake boats.
Rents are paid quarterly in Paris,
and every quarter day is marked by
large number of suicides, the victims
being poor wretches who cannot pay,
and seek thus to escape eviction. On
Oct l no less than nine persons took
their lives for this reason. The char
coal brazier was the favorite means
adopted.
"A group of prominent German mu-
sicians. among them Prof. Joachim
and Herr Richard Strauss, are plan
ming to establish a palace of music in
Berlin. 1t will comprise a concert hall
to seat 5000 persons, with a platform
giving accommodation for 1000 per-
formers, a ball room, a smaller con-
cert hail. a school of music, a museum
Of historical musical objects, and a
portrait gallery of celebrated must
clans. 1t will be the largest musical
institute in the world, and will cost
$l,250,000.
The United States Consul in Not
tingham recently wrote a bicycle firm
in England asking for certain infor-
nation. The head of of the concern
sent this snappy reply: Dear Sir
Yours of the oath ult. informs us that
you are instructed by the government
at Washington to ask us for certain
inf ion, ft,o
but, as we formerly sold from 10000
to $4,000 worth of goods annually to
the United States, Which your govern
ment shut out with a As per cent duty,
we think it Just like Yankee cheek to
now ask US for information respecting
our affair. Yours truly"
Most people look on the under
takers profession as a disagreeable oc-
cupation," said Columbus (Mo) I'M
dertaker the other day. Instead of
that it is fascinating. There is some
thing about it that fascinates all who
have ever engaged in it, and you sell
dom hear of any one quitting it to go
into something else. When 1 first be-
gan to work at it 1 couldn't sleep at
night thinking of the corpses 1 had
handled during the day, and when 1
would go to sleep I would dream about
them. Night after night l would have
the same dream-that 1 was on
hearse driving corpse to the cemetery,
when the corpse would come to life and
l would knock him in the head and put
him back in the coffin. Finally, after
| had become used to handling bodies,
l wasn't troubled any more with the
corpse that would come to life"
Some students of the University of
Pennsylvania were smoking and dis
cussing curious experiments, says the
Philadelphia Record. LAS curious an
experiment as 1 ever heard Of" one
said, was made with brick and a
piece of twine-a long piece of twine-
a piece, in fact, three miles long. One
man had bet another that he couldn't
bulge a brick three miles away to
which a string three miles long was
tied. The bet was taken. The feat,
you must admit, looked easy. So they
got their brick and their Irvine, and on
very straight and level road in the
country the experiment was made. The
brick lay in one village; the end of the
Irvine lay in another. The Irvine was
duly tugged at, but over the telephone
three miles away word came that the
brick had not budged. And it was
impossible to bulge it, Time and time
again the experimenters tried to move
the brick, but not one of them sue
ceeded. Why. 1 don't known; but if
you thing you can move a brick that
is three miles away yourself get some
long balls of Irvine and try
In a North flights family accord
ing to the ever veracious Joplin (Mo.)
News-Herald, there is an infant
prodigy, who, as a time-keeper, has the
ordinary family clock skinned a block
At precisely 5 o'clock every afternoon
the infant falls into a heavy slumber
Regardless of conditions, the baby is
bound to have his sleep. No matter
where he may be at the time the baby
closes his eyes, yawns and drifts into
Greenland The child's parents have
noted the remarkable trait of their Off
spring, so quite naturally they were
much alarmed the other day when the
young man closed his eyes and fell
asleep ten minutes ahead of time oh,
1 know my little tootsie wootsie cannot
be wrong walled the mother, as she
rushed to the telephone. Hello, CEN
trail she eXcitedly exclaimed, what
time is it?' six seconds past s. was
the reply. The fond mother drew a
sigh of relief. Her clock was ten min
utes slow. Since then the neighbors
regulate their clocks every afternoon at
5 o'clock, and they have not the slight
est doubt but that they get the correct
time
The Marquis Sacchetti, who is
grand marshal of the court of the Vat
lean, is a nobleman of Florentine origin,
who may be said to owe his fortune to
the fact that while an officer Of the
noble guard of the Pope he managed to
secure both the heart and the hand Of
Donna Maria Barberini, the only
daughter and heiress of the last of the
Barberini princes. Donna Maria, who
is beautiful woman, brought to her
husband not only an enormous fortune,
but likewise the famous Barberini pal
ace, the picture gallery and library of
which are both of worldwide fame,
the former containing the celebrated
portrait of Beatrice Cenci, while the
library comprises no less than 1000
manuscripts of extraordinary value.
Leo XIII, with whom the young officer
was particular favorite, not only au-
thorized him to assume his wife's name
of Barberini. but likewise her fathers
title of Prince Palestrina. The Barbe-
RIM palace. it may be added, is con-
structed in great part with stones taken
from the coliseum, which led to the
old Roman saying that what the bar
barians had spared the Barberinis had
spoiled"
w. L. r. Emmett read a paper on
Recent Steam Turbine Developments
at the Saratoga meeting of the Ameri-
can Street Railway Association. The
General Electric Company has been
Schenectady with modification of the
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