The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-05
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eating crackers. He said that the
record of his and other coroners'
courts showed that 80 per cent. of
the children who died in commissions
had been afflicted from the same
cause.
The hamlet of Barbizon, France, so
well-known in the artistic world since
the days of Corot and Millet has had
its celebrity officially recognized by be-
ing elevated into a distinct commune
by the Council of State. Thanks to
its new status, the artistic population
of the little place will be able very
largely to manage their own affairs
and not be under the municipal rule
of neighboring villages.
AT a recent meeting of the Acade-
mic des Sciences, Paris, M. Laveran
held out hopes of getting an antitoxic
serum for the malady of sleep, which
affects negroes of equatorial Africa.
1t is, he believes, due to the blood
swarming with trypanosomes, and as
an antitoxic serum for trypanosomes
can be obtained from human blood. ii
is possible that another can be got
from animal blood.
The question of the clearing and
identifying of the Champ de Mars,
Paris, has now, according to a Paris
ian newspaper, entered into quite an
active phase. Plans have been adopt
ed by which a line of buildings Will
be erected on each side, at right an
giles to the Seine. The center will be
laid out as public garden, with al
leys running in parallel and diagonal
directions. 1t is stipulated that no
permanent building is to be erected at
any point of the garden.
The Municipal Council of Paris
has ordered the establishment of a
bereau of scientific and educational in
information for the use of foreigners,
to maintain which a subvention has
been offered to the University of
Paris. The bureau will place its serv-
ices at the disposal not merely of for
eign medical and engineering students,
but of all engaged in any branch of
physical science. Facilities will be ex-
tended them for obtaining free access
to hospitals, laboratories, museums,
statistical departments, etc.
With Lieuts. Col de Lounay and
NJ Boissele, respectively, as president
and vice president, there has been
formed in France a new stamp col
lectors' club. with the title Fedora
ton Philatelique de France. The club
will occupy the premises formerly in
habited by the Grand Cercle Republi-
cain, at the corner of Rue de Gram
mont, Paris. and will hold exhibitions
and an annual phiat1ic salon, at which
some of the owners of the most val
liable known collections have prom
Used to show their rarest stamps
A homeless horse in Paris the
other day ate up several hundred
francs worth of new hats. It seems
that q halter of the Boulevard de Belle
vile adorned his premises with Pan
anna hats. He left the shop for lit
tie while, and when he returned found
a horse busily eating away and seem
ingly enjoying these creations III
straw. The Panamas had already dis
appeared down his throat The ami
NAL, it is thought, had probably been
starved and had escaped from a neigh
boring stable. He was sent to the
pound.
The Legislative Council at Nicosta,
in Cyprus. recently passed a resolution
to the effect that if England should
evacuate the island. the latter would
be placed under Turkish control. When
the news of the resolution reached
Limassol a great demonstration was
held condemning the votes and cheering
for union with Greece. A deputation
followed by a multitude singing the
Greek national anthem and waving
Greek flags Immediately awaited upon
the British Commissioner while the
bells of the Greek churches were set
ringing. The Commissioner informed
the people that. so far as he knew.
Great Britain had no intention of sur
rendering her dominion over the
island
From recent advices from France,
showing the way in which cases of
fast automobile driving are looked into.
it is evident that the JUICES de PaiX,
like certain American municipal judges
in regard to cases of adulterated milk,
take the evidence submitted by the po-
lice as sufficient to convict. Recently
M. RouX was arrested for fast driv-
ing. He proved that his machine
could not possibly make more than
forty-eight or fifty kiIometers an hour
The Juge de Paix then remarked that
in justice the testimony of a gendarme
was accepted; that he had estimated
the speed at which the prisoner was
proceeding at ninety kilometers; his
testimony was sufficient, absolute, and
without condensation, to condemn NJ.
RouX, and no proof to the contrary
could be accepted by him.
1t is a notorious fact that the
worstfitting uniforms worn by any
first-ratc power are those which cover
the bodies of the soldiers of France
Unfortunately, the new uniform which
is about to be adopted has other OBJ
jections. La Presse of Paris says:
THE Ministry seems to have over
looked the most important attribute
of all for a uniform prestige. The fine
clothing causes them to go at their
work with greater pride and greater
spirit. In depriving our soldiers of
their red trousers, Gen. Andre has de-
priVed them almost of their 'raison
d'etre.' To deprive the army of its
distinctive signs is to show that he
wishes to attack it in it's vital prin-
ciple." Those who have ever seen the
sack-like trousers of the "Pioupiou''
will appreciate this criticism.
San Antonio ought to be called the
city of crickets." said man who has
just returned from Texas to a reporter
of the New Orleans Times-Democrat
"for 1 never found as many crickets
anywhere on earth as found out there.
The streets are literally filed with
them. 1t is not simply a case Of the
cricket on the hearth. It is a case of
the cricket everywhere you go. have
been trying to figure out why it is that
these insects are so plentiful in the
Texas town in question. At night thew
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