The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

by the Electrical World at 10000. NOT
only does il serve to mitigate the heat
in summer, but in a great many In
stances it answers the purpose OF
sanitation and ventilation so economi-
cally and efficiently that few other ap-
planes can compare with it.
The watch worn in Mexico by Gen.
Worth of Mexican war fame is now
in the possession of his son, Gen. w.
s. Worth of the United States army,
retired. During the Civil War Gen.
Worth left his watch with Jeweler
in one of the Southern cities for re-
pairs. He afterward discovered that
the jeweler had taken advantage of
the opportunity to inscribe on the
works, where it could not be readily
seen, the words "Hurrah for jeff Da-
Wis.,"
There are many historic trees in
the country and it is believed by the
Department of Agriculture that interest
I'm tree planting can be stimulated by
distributing a limited number of these
tress under proper direction. The seed
ings, when grown, Will be sent to
schools in various parts of the coun-
try, and there will accompany each
tree a concise statement setting forth
the historic events connected with the
tree itself and the growing of the seed
ling.
The thousand esteemed and most
eminent persons of the world-eminence
being determined by the prominence
given them in encyclopedias-are
grouped according to nativity by. Prof.
Cattel in Popular Science Monthly.
France leads, followed closely by Great
Britain. Then there is considerable fall
to Germany and Italy. Greece has
produced more pre-eminently great men
that Germany OF the eighteen great
composers of music Germany produced
twelve and Italy six. Russia has to
her credit but nine men who are emf
nent. In the 1000 but thirty-two are
women.
News that extensions are being
made at Balmoral castle, King Ed
ward seat in Scotland, in the way of
augmented accommodation will be well
coined by every member of the Brit
ish cabinet who remembers the hous-
ing given to ministers in attendance
during Queen Victoria's reign. Then
only small bedroom was set apart
for ministers, who found Balmoral
deadly dull. They could not leave the
castle for a day at a time, as they
had to dine at the royal table each
evening. Unless the minister cared for
fishing he had no amusement in the
spring months, and in the autumn, if
he was no hand at grouse shooting,
he had no recreation to fall back upon.
There were no entertainments afoot in
the castle, very few guests to chat
with and everywhere the air of royal
residence where the sovereigns pres
ence was felt but not seen. On wet
days the minister's lot became crush
ing.
"A report of an inspector of schools
of st. Lo, in the department of La
Manche, gives an alarming account of
the growth of alcoholism in Normandy
The teachers report that the children
frequently come fuddled to school, usu
ally as the result of the celebration of
a family festival overnight. The ca
reer of the Norman child is irrigated
with alcohol from the day of it's bap-
tism, when the mother considers it the
correct thing that the infant should
not be forgotten and accordingly adj
ministers a spoonful. Chemists who
change the nipples of feeding bottles
report how constant ain ingredient in
the infants milk alcohol is, for the
mothers stoutly contend that it is good
for anaemia and better than the classi-
cal cod liver oil. There is a case on
record in which a group of eleven per-
sons celebrated a family event by con-
Stunning 1O4 hters of cider, which
amounts to about sixteen and one
half pints a head.
An interesting test, according to a
New York paper, was made by Four
nier recently of a device invented by
c.. L. Horack, a city engineer, that is
designed to take up all the jolting of
an automobile going over a rough
| road. The testing was done on various
granite paved and asphalted streets of
the West Side. The device consists of
a piston, which operates in a cylinder
| of compressed air and oil. The cYlin-
| der is positioned horizontally between
! the running gear and the body of the
| vehicle, and the motion is caught and
| conveyed to it by an ingenious arrange
ment of levers. After trying it for a
couple of hours. Fourier said it was
| the best thing of the sort he ever had
seen. He thought that on good roads,
such as they have in Europe, solid
| tires, instead of pneumatics could be
comfortably used. Owing to the use of
| both oil and air, there is no jar on the
| recoil any more than on the jolt, and
| the device is always ready for a sue
| cession of jolts.
| (Kan) Post retires behind the edito-
rial 1--WE" in dignified account of a
| recent incident in the streets of his
town. He writes: Last Monday we
had the misfortune to become mixed
| in street fight with one of the tough
characters in this town by the name
| of McClannahan. We are heartily
ashamed to have been compelled to mix
| with such a character and hardly
made an effort to protect ourselves,
as the Mayor had called upon us to
maintain the peace, and we endeavored
| to do so. In our doing SO no protec-
| ton was offered us, and in consequence
| the tide was against us. The next
| time we are attacked in such man
| ner we shall endeaVor to furnish our
| own protection in the matter and shall
| defend ourselves to the best of our
ability. Both parties pleaded guilty
and were fined $3.50 and costs, which
were 81. There is a class of men in
| this town who encourage such acts, and
in doing so place premium on crime
| Their influence is always for the worst
| condition of riotous conduct, and this
influence predominates the best inter-
ests of this town. We understand this
class Clipped in to pay the bully S
fine"
The appointment of the Rev. Will
liam A. Spooner as warden of New
! College, Oxford, has caused a flood of
! "Spoonerisms" in the English press.
| Mr.. Spooner is an absent-minded
scholar, who frequently transposes the
! initial consonants or syllables of words
| in speaking. In his earlier life he was
in charge of a church near Oxford