The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-28
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itary CONSUMPTION in Paris sixty-four
could neither read nor write, and nine
ty-nine could read only.
Albert E. Green, practicing en-
gineer. the son of the late dean of the
engineering department of the Uni
versity of Michigan, has been appoint
ed assistant professor of civil engi-
neering, to take charge of the work
formerly done by his father.
Christmas Eve was the Tooth ami
versary of the marriage of Miss Bet
sey Patterson, the Baltimore belle,
and Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Ma
poleon the Great. That's how a Bon
aparte now happens to be mixed up
in the investigation of the postoffice
scandals.
-Forty-one Eskimo dogs were
brought to Kiel from the south polar
regions by the Gauss expedition.
They behaved well until they saw
land when they set up yells of de-
light and became almost unmanage-
able. They were sent to the Ham
burg zoo.
The imperial statistical office of
Germany publishes figures showing
that during the past year the popula
ton of the empire had increased at an
unprecedented rate. 1t is computed
that in the year the population had
increased by 100000, or 1.56 per 100.
The rate of increase in 1900 was 1.5O
per cent; 1895, LIP per cent; 1890, 1.07
per cent, and 1885, OF per cent.
The sweetest little building in the
United States belongs to H. F. Stapel
of Rock Port Mo-, and will be exhib-
tied at the st. Louis Worlds Fair Mr..
Stapel is editor of the Rock Port
Mail Several months ago he conceiv-
ed the idea of having his bees repro
duce his office building in honey. He
accordingly placed in a hive an exact
imitation of the Staper block, and in
a few months the bees completely COW
cred every part of it with honey an
inch thick.
w. 1. Buchanan, the first United
States minister to the new republic
of Panama, is a self-made man, haV-
ing started in life as an edge-tool-
maker in Covington, o., where he was
born fifty years ago. Later he went
into the theatrical business and was
a successful manager in the West for
years. Then he drifted into politics and
held several minor offices before being
appointed minister to Argentina in
1892. He was a director of the Pan
American Exhibition in Buffalo, and
since then has devoted his time to
banking, in which he had his usual
success.
The Agricultural Department has
reason to believe that the tropical
fruit known as the mango, which
mnay persons consider one of the
finest, may be successfully grown in
Porto Rico, and in such abundance
as to supply any demand in this coun-
try The fruit already grows in Porto
Rico, but the quality is inferior be-
cause the trees are seedlings, and
grating will be tried, as is done in
Bombay, whence come the best speci-
mems. 1t is believed that when the
people of this country finu out how
delicious the fruit is they will eagerly
buy it, so that the industry promises
to be an important one.
An eccentric Frenchman named
Monsieur de Pierrecourt, of Rouen, be-
queathed his entire fortune to that city
for the purpose of founding a family
of giants. He believed that science
might be effectively called on to car
ry out the scheme, but when the city
officials took up the matter they found
lllCIllSelNGS dll d. SSdi anu IGlSIIGu II
to the Council of State in Paris for
advice. That distinguished body re-
Gently decided that no attempt to the
desired end could be made, and after
appropriating about $160,000 of the es-
tate to the city of Rouen for the
founding of some useful institution, it
distributed the remainder among the
natural heirs.
"A young woman of Lexington, KY,
Miss Florence Graham Offut. has hit
upon new method of publicity. She
Is out with a card to the public" dis
cussing the reasons that prompted her
to refuse to marry the rich and aristo-
cratic Judge Stout unless she could con-
tinue in her profession, which is that
of teacher of physical culture in the
State College. Her work is purely a
matter of conscience, it seems-a sort
of protest against the senseless round
of gayety' in which most women tray
ell. ANY woman can maintain home
and a profession if she cares to. 1t is
a matter of attending fewer card par
ties, that is ALL" Marriage and di-
vorce do not afford enough opportuni-
ty to get ones name in the paper. The
men rejected are to be turned to ac-
count.
"A dispatch from Charlotte, N. c.,
says: In the mountain district of this
state near Waynesville, N. c., recent
| ly was felled one of the most remark
| able trees ever cut in this great lum-
| Der district. This tree has an esti-
| mated value of 81, 500 and contains U.s.
| 900 feet of frst-class lumber. 1t is
| worth more than the average farm in
the section in which it was cut A
| part of the tree has been engaged for
exhibition at the st. Louis Exposition
next year, and will be placed among
| the North Carolina lumber exhibits
The tree is curly poplar, and twelve
| horses were required to haul away the
butt cut which was twelve feet long
The lowest limb was eighty feet from
| the ground. The wood will be used
as veneering and will be shipped ia
| Eastern markets for SALE
-Chartreuse is going shortly to be
the central feature of a law suit al
most as remarkable as the liqueur it.
self. To put it briefly, the French
| government, through its official liqui-
| dator, claims that by the forfeiture
clauses of the law it becomes vested
not only in all the trade mark and the
patent rights but even in the very
| formula or recipe itself, and the ac-
ton will shortly be tried at Grenoble
with Father Rey, the late procurator
of the monastery and legal depository
| of its rights, as defendant. The man.
ufacture was first placed under the pro-
| lection of the law by Father Grocer
in 1871. n merely nominal value OF
"a was placed upon the business
when he transferred his rights 70 biS