The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-04

The Rev Louis Mazawakinyanna-,
a Sioux Indian, as his title would indi-
cate, a regularly licensed minister, was
one of the callers at the rooms of the
Historical Society, at st. Paul, Mimi,
the other day. He participated in the
Sioux massacre of 1862, but claims TO
have saved the lives of many whites
during the uprising.
"A number of Parisians who were in
the siege have decided to erect a mon
ument to the memory of the pigeons
that carried the dispatches which kept
up communication with the outside
world. 1t will consist of pedestal
surmounted by bronze vase, on which
Will be cast group of the birds that
proved of such utility to the French.
The committee includes the names of
many well known literary and scientific
people. The gratitude comes somewhat
late, for after the war the pigeons in
question were sold by auction and COM
memorated in pigeon pies.
The Prussian budget provides for
the construction of a new royal pal
ace at Posen. This will bring the
number of the Kaiser's residences up
to fifty-three. He has already the
Chateaux of Bellevue and Mon Bijou
and the Royal Palace in Berlin; the
Royal Palace, the New Palace Babels-
berg, Sans-Souci, the Marble Palace,
the Orangery, the Star Pavilion. Belve-
dere, Sacro, Charlottenhof, WildparK,
Paons and Alexandrowska, in Potsdam
and neighbOrhood; numerous shooting
boxes throughout the country, and i'm
perlal residences at Hanover, Stettin,
Breslau. Coblentz. Wiesbaden, Konigs-
berg, Osnabruck and elsewhere.
In a few weeks there will be open
ed at Rome a very interesting estab-
lishment, the asylum founded by YER
oil for musicians in their declining
years. 1t is for both sexes, is replete
with modern comforts and attached to
it are charming gardens. The apart
ments of the men and women are en-
tirely separate, but they will have sa-
loon and dining room in common. The
men will wear coat and soft hat
similar to those usually worn by the
founder. Attached to the establish
ment will be Verdi museum, full of
the personal belongings of the found
err There will be accommodation for
sixty men and forty women. A friend
of Verdi has left a sum of money for
the decoration of the crypt where
Verdi's remains lie.
"A train stalled in the Cascade tun-
mel, on the Great Northern Railroad,
near Wellington, Wash, not long ago
endangered the lives of every one on
board. The tunnel Is 1928 feet long,
and on such a grade that a helper is
required to get trains through. The
helper and regular engine became
separated in the tunnel and the crews
were afraid to risk proceeding with the
train. The helper was sent ahead for
aid, and the train remained in the tun-
mel. The gases from the two locomo-
, tives had so poisoned the atmosphere,
however, that most of the trainmen
and many of the passengers were
overcome. Had it not been for an ex-
ira fireman, who happened to be on
the train, and backed the engine down
the mountain, it Is probable that many
lives would have been lost.
Did you know that all the weep
ing willows in this country are descend
ed from twig planted by the stepson
of George Washington at his place at
Abingdon, a few miles from Mount Yer
non?" asked a tree-lover who has just
returned from these interesting estates,
according to the Philadelphia Record
1T was this way: Young GUSTS, as a
member of Washington's military fam
lily, sometimes carried messages, under
a flag, between the belligerent COM
manders. In this service he became
acquainted with a young British off,
GER, who, like others, had come over
with an impression that the rebellion
would be speedily crushed out, and that
he would then settle on the confiscated
lands of the rebels. He had even
brought a twig from the weeping willow
near Popes villa at Twickenham, care
fully wrapped in oiled silk. AS his Wis
ions of castle in America faded away
he gave the twig to John Parke Gus
It's, who, on his return to Abingdon in
the spring planted it near his house. 1t
grew and flourished. Just how II null
tiplied may be noted from one end of
the country to the other"
All our earlier Presidents ate with
their knives-the stately George Wash
ington, the irascible John Adams, the
original Thomas jefferson, the learned
James Madison, and the popular James
Monroe-each shoveled in his food with
his knife, says the Utica Observer
John Quincy Adams was the first Pres
ident who ate with his fork. And his
wife felt it necessary to explain to the
guests at the White House that "Mr.
Adams had learned to eat with his
couldn't overcome the habit" Andrew
jackson restored the republican sim
plicity" of eating with his knife. All
of those we have named also poured
their tea or coffee into their saucers
to cool it. 1t is related of Gen. Taylor
that when he was President he could
be seen in the streets of Washington
early in the morning with a market
basket on his arm going from one
butcher to another and bargaining for
a steak or rib roast. If he had bar
gained less persistently he might have
served out his term, for we have heard
1T was owing to the inferior quality
of the cherries he ate on the 4th of
July, 1850, that sickness attacked him
and he died on the 9th of July.
Some reasons for answering the
question of whether gold grows in the
affirmative are given by Popular
Mechanics, which warns the reader,
however, that he must not expect to
grow gold eagles from dollars. Says
the writer: 1T has been found that
gold nuggets under favorable condi-
tions actually increase in size. Gold
is known to have grown on mine tim
bers which have long been immersed
in mine water. In the California State
Mining Bureau Museum there is a
specimen of a piece of jointed cap and
post taken from the Comstock, where