The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

speech before the Primitive Methodist
Conference the other. day at Newcastle
on-Tvne. England, the Rev. A. T. Gut
terv of Newcastle defined the present
policy of the British government as a
s'reign of blood, beer, and Birning-
ham"
George Kettler. an aged cobbler,
died recently at Argentine, Kan, and
was once said to be worth $12,000,0OO.
He was a German, and during the
Franco-P russian war owned big shoe
factories in Hanover, making great
fortune from government contracts.
Later he lost everything in speculation,
and came to this country penniless.
Following a long period of unus-
ually wet and sultry weather, a plague
of mosquitoes is reported in Paris. 1t
is said that the ornamental, but stag
nant or sluggish, ponds have something
to DO with the situation, which is rem
dering mosquito nets necessary in
many houses. Many remedies have
been suggested-frOm filling up the
ponds to poisoning the water.
"A married couple named Luxwold-
er-Van bort, has just been celebrating
the seventy-fourth anniversary of their
marriage in Langezwaag, Prussia.
The husband is 81 years of age
and his wife 81. At the celebration,
the husband, who, as we'll as his wife,
is in good health. made a little speech,
in which he told his guests that he
and his wife had agreed to live to
be century old.
An anonymous but fortunate writer
is sought through the medium of the
following advertisement in a recent is
sue of the London Athenaeum: ITO
Poets. Notice If the writer of
poem. entitled Red Rose, which is pub
lished at the Sign of the Unicorn to-
day, will send his Name and Address
to the Publishers, he will receive by
return of post a cheque for Fifty
Pounds. The Unicorn Press, Ltd"
In spite of the Intellectual attempts
made by agents of the late King Alex
ander of Servia to insure his life in
Paris and London a few weeks before
his death, it seems that both the King
and Queen Draga were really insured
for 100000 with a Belgian and a
Dutch insurance company. Half of the
sum will go to Queen Draga's surviving
sisters, and the remainder to eX-Queen
Natalie, who is legal heiress to her
son.
"A Moscow dentist has invented
system whereby false teeth can be
made to grow into the gums as firmly
as natural ones. After a few months
use it is just as hard to extract them
as it is to dislodge the genuine molar,
made on the premises. Soon, possibly,
this tooth grating Muscovite will
achieve, suggests the London Globe,
that giddiest hight to which the den
fist can soar, the manufacture Of false
teeth that ache.
"A recent leading article in the only
paper printed on the Napoleonic Rock
advocates the conversion of st. Hele-
ma into a sort of penal settlement as
the only mode of salvation. st. Hele-
ma had an extraordinary boom of pros
perity during the South African war,
when thousands of Boer prisoners were
isolated there. Now there is no mar
ket for the local beef and vegetables,
and the agriculturists are in despair.
Their lands are full of weeds: their
gardens implanted"
The number of bicycles in France
last year was 1,25000O, or ten times
more than in 1895. Roughly speaking,
the number of bicycles has increased
last census showed 5000 automobiles,
half of them with two places and the
rest with four or more places. Bicycles
and automobiles are most numerous in
the Department of the Seine, especially
around Paris, but they are plentiful in
all the North of France and down the
Valley of the Rhone and along the
Mediterranean.
Gen. '7O'Connor, who seems to be
bent on carving out for France a new
colony in Morocco, made his military
debut in the corps of guides which
distinguished itself in the battles be-
fore Metz in the Franco Prussian war
During the second siege of Paris
brought about by the Commune. he
was Aide de Camp to Gen. de Gallif-
fet, who was the first Minister of
War under the recent Waldeck- Rous-
seau administration. He has also
campaigned in Tunis and commanded
the cavalry in Tonkin.
Lord Grimthorpe, who was 81 the
other day, has the double distinction of
being King Edwards oldest counsel
and our only peer clockmaker, says
London Tit Bits. He spends most of
his time at Batch Wood, near St. AL
BANS. in a workshop fitted up with
every mecnanlcal appliance known in
the c1ockmaker's trade. He is the de-
signer of Big Ben at Westminster, and
personally superintended the great
CLOCKS construction, giving a guaran-
tee that it should never vary more
than sixty seconds in week.
The English railways are about to
devise plan by which the loss of
baggage in transit may be reduced to
a minimum. In England there has
hitherto been no adequate system of
registering baggage, so that if the
piece is stolen and replaced by an
other the loss is not discovered until
the owner attempts to identify what
he does not recognize. In the first
quarter of the present year the French
railway companies paid no less than
9,O00f. as reimbursement to clients from
whom packages had been stolen.
In Norway drunkenness is punished
by imprisonment As soon as man
is incarcerated the delinquent has
loaf and wine morning and evening
The bread is served in a wooden bowl
full of wine, in which it has been soak
ing for an hour. The first day the
drunkard swallows his allowance will
ingly enough. The second day it seems
less pleasing. At the end of eight or
ten days prisoners have been known
to abstain altogether from the food
thus pitilessly presented This course
of treatment finished, the drunkard
except IN rare instances, is radically
cured.