The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

negro naQ beaten the door IN ne had
been punished enough.
"A miner in the Occur D'Alene dis
trict of Idaho has the peculiar sensa-
ton each spring of shedding his skin
A day or two prior to loss of his cuticle
he feels unwell. When the shedding
process is finished it is necessary for
the knight of the pick and shovel TO
begin over again the task of hardening
the palms of his hands.
An old negro has recently died in
Kansas. and the cause of his death is
strange. He fought in the Civil War
under Gen. Miles, and later campaign
ed against the Sioux with him. The
old man was greatly disturbed at the
way in which the administration treat
ed his old commander. and is said to
have worried himself to death over it.
Leland M. Finks of Calhoun. Mo-,
claims to have a watch which was once
the property of George Washington. II
is a silver affair and is said to have
been used by Washington to time his
fast horses. Mr.. Finks also has the
coat-of-arms of the Washington fam
lily. He claims that these two things
have been in his family for many years.
James De Groot of Morristown. N.
j., is just now the leading physical
curiosity of that section of the country,
as it has been discovered that his heart
is misplaced On the surface there
does not appear to be much out of the
ordinary in this, as this is the time of
year when hearts are apt to get mis-
placed, according to the comic papers.
Portrait painters have found that
the best shade of brown paint can be
made from a ground up mummy, and
as mummies are bit expensive the
paint is but little used. The reason
why mummies make such good paint
is because they were wrapped in cloth
coated with asphaltum, and this has
penetrated into the tissues of the
mummy during the passing centuries.
The de Pierrecourt's fortune of g.
100000 francs, left to the city of Rouen
for the propagation of a race of giants,
is to be diverted from this purpose,
and 5000 francs will be retained by
the Rouen foundation for a philan-
thropic institution, the rest to go to
the natural heirs, who contested the
will on the ground of immortality. So
says the Paris correspondence of the
New York Tribune.
The advertising craze is getting a
foorhold in Germany, if reports are to
be believed. Some German students
recently wished to make an ascent of
Mont Blanc, but did not have money
enough to defray their expenses. They
went to some large German manufac-
turing concerns and offered to paste
their advertisements on the path up the
mountain if their expenses were paid.
Some nf he
and now it is thought that the officials
will forbid the posting of the disflgur-
ing signs.
At the second reunion of the John
Taylor family at Hadley, Mass, the
other day, the information was given
forth that the Taylor name runs back
to Baron Taillefer, the Norman hero,
who lost his life at the battle of Hast
lngs in 1866. Like many other family
names it has passed through a series
of changes from "Taillefer" to "Tayle-
fer" and at last to Taylor" with var
iations of Taller" and Tayler." The
Taylors are an ancient and honorable
family. whose beginning is far back in
the dim, unmeasured past. But so,
too, the tailors!
Nantucket Island is full of strange
names, which often bother the summer
visitor. Here are few of them: Goa
tue, Coskata, Nauma Wauwinet, Po-
como Squam, Quidnit, Quaise, Sac
hacha, Sankoty Head, Polpis, Siascon-
set, Pochick, Tom Never's Head, the
territories of the late Sachems Wan
nochmamock, Autapscot and Potconet,
the Shearing Pens, Shawkemo, Shin
mo, Monomoy, Massasoit Bridge, Mop
que, Wannacomet, the Washing pond,
No Bottom Pond SauTs Hills, Gains
Hill, Madequet, Whale House lookout,
Miscomet pond, the Haulover, Tucker
muck, Muskeget, Abrams Point, Jer-
emy's Cove. Wigwam ponds and
Egypt.
Hanson Cabs have recently been
introduced into Berlin, and the Ber-
linese have nicknamed them ''promen-
ade-schaukel." This translated into
English means 'promenade-swing,"
which is harmless enough, and will
surely not wound the feelings of the
most sensitive of rulers. But, the citi-
zens of the German capital are quick
witted, and, having invented one CATCH
ing phrase, they are likely to coin an
other. Not content with nicknaming
the cab, the Berlinese have proceeded
to call the cabby "Schaukel- WilIem,' -
which may be rendered into English
near to lese majeste, and his imperious
and imperial Majesty, will probably
he heard from on the subject.
An interesting experiment is report
ed at Harvard. A number of hungry
white mice were put into one end of
long wire cage, full of intricate and
purposely puzzling passages, and some
tempting food was placed in the other
end. The mice shifted the food and
desired it, But in the first attempt to
obtain it, according to the Boston
Transcript, they ran helter-skelter to
and fro in the utmost confusion. Sew
eral minutes elapsed before they sue
ceeded in finding their way through
the mystifying labyrinth to the desir-
ed goal. In the second trial. imme-
diately given, they made the journey
in much quicker time, the third time
quicker STILL and finally without a
double or hesitation they dashed
through the mazes of the cage in COM
paratiVely no time at all. Prof. Boyce
calls this ability of animals to use their
own past experience, "docility," and
says ii is 1.-The most persuasive of all
the signs of mind"
"A rather exciting wedding occur
red in Kingman, Kan, according to
the Leader-Courie Just as the ex
cursion train was ready to start for
Pratt, the conductor having said "all
aboard" a young man came running
to the train and breathlessly INQUIRED
for Probate Judge John McKenna, who
was on the train. The judge came for
ward and asked what 1rae ,,.a,,4.S