The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The French Chamber has adopted
a bin making it obligatory for COM
rnunes to undertake the erection of
the buildings necessary for the speed
Ter secularization of the educational
and other establishments hitherto con-
Quoted by the congregations. This may
throw a burden on the communes
which it was expected would be borne
by the state.
Mr.. Andres Bull, in London Elec-
trician, describes a system of wireless
telegraphy of his invention in which,
instead of using simple wave impulses
in transmitting signals, as by other
signals of wireless telegraphy, series
consisting of a fixed number of wave
impulses, succeeding each other at pre-
arranged short intervals of time is
used, and thus 1t is possible to give
signals from each separate transmit
ter distinctive feature of its own.
An inhabitant of Creglingen, in
Wurtenburg, whose name is Fritz Kott-
man, claims to be the champion bene-
dict of the world. He has been mar
RED no fewer that eleven times. His
first three wives died young. the next
two were drowned, one committed sui
eide, three died in succession, the tenth
was gored to death by a bull, and he
has just recently married the eleventh,
who had a leg cut off by railway
train last year, so that the wedding
had to be postponed till now.
There is an addition to the story
of the race war in Joplin that will
not reach the telegraph. A former
Atchison woman who lives there writes
to the Globe: THE recent attempt to
drive the negroes out of Joplin was
the worst thing l ever heard of. 1t left
NE without a girl, and with company
in the house. Yesterday l had to do
my own washing. and this morning my
husband had te sweep out his office.
do not approve Of race wars: the kitch-
en- work is hard. and I still have my
ironing to do"
Paris papers report the death of
Trof. I.aborde member of the Acade-
nay CT Medicine. Laborde was one of
the most active workers in the cam
paign against alcoholism. At the time
OF his death he was reing sued by
well-known Partisan distillery for the
sum of 200. o0of. damages because he
declared that there was not liquor
in existence which could be called
"assinthe hygieniaue." 1t SO happened
that the distillery in question has this
very legend placed upon its bottles OF
absinthe. Hence the suit.
The latest development of the
scheme for providing rational and
healthy exercises for Paris working
girls is a class for fencing. After
singing, dancing, and defamation,
Mimi Pinson" is now being taught to
handle the foils. At a recent exhibit
ton at the Conservatoire Popuaire,
the young women, it is said, showed
that they could thrust and parry in
quite a remarkable fashion. The one
thing that annoys them, it is added,
is that they are compelled to hide
their pretty faces behind unpreposses-
sing masks.
Gov. Raehelder's proclamation ap-
pointing Thursday, April %, as a day
of fasting and prayer in New Hamp-
shire is said to be the briefest ever is
sued by a governor of the Granite
State. II recommend" he says, that
the day be observed in spirit of de-
votion; that our people abstain from
their usual labors and in their custom
airy places of worship, in the pure at
mosphere of Gods first temples and in
the family circle, engage in such ex-
ercises as will contribute to their spir-
itual welfare. civic virtues and the up
lifting of humanity"
The servants at Harbor Hills, the
country residence on Long Island of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence H. Maekay,
have gone on strike against a menu
consisting OF eggs three times a day.
According to the complaining domeetics
1t was omelettee, egg sandwiches, boil
ed eggs, roasted eggs, stuffed eggs or
some other variety of the same dish
in Lent and out of Lent, until finally
the chef was petitioned to change the
| menu. The man who presented the
| memorial was discharged on the spot
| and then all the other servants but
two went on strike.
The Vossische Zeitung, in an arti-
Gle dealing with the civil notification
of the marriage of the Princess of
| Saxony, declares that there are four
| royal couples who have applied to the
| Vatican for a notification of their
| marriag es and SO far also without sue
| cess The Pope has already rejected
| the request of the aunt of King AL
fonso of Spatp. Princess Eulalia- who
asked for a divorce from her husband,
| Prince Antoine d'Orleans, because he
| beat her. The names of the three re-
| naming couples are not given by the
| German paper, bus they are supposed
| to be members of the Hapsburg and
| Bavarian families.
When the late General Macdonald
last visited his relatives in Scotland
he wore very curious watch The
curiosity did not lie in the watch it,
self, which was of large size, but in
| the glass, which was rough and thick
| but served its purpose as we'll as an
other. Macdonald was very proud of
this glass and told it's story with much
! circumstance. One day during the Sou
dan campaign he had broken the orig
inal glass, and was puzzled to find a
| substitute for 1t in the desert. At last
! however, he smashed a tumbler The
bottom he ground on a stone until it
was fine enough, and the size he shaped
until it fitted tightly into the setting.
| And so good was the handiwork that
| it lasted until he returned home. He
never had it removed.
Pneumonia dung fever) having be-
come of late years the most deadly
disease at all ages, general intelligence
in regard to its cause and what may
be done to avoid it is desirable The
! disease depends upon a specific vege-
table organism, which, being at all
times present in thickly populated dis
tricts, grows rapidly in the air pas
sages of the individual If his vitality
is suddenly depressed. In these par
ticulars the bacillus of pneumonia re-
sembles that of consumption, but it's
multiplication is much more rapid and
the poisoning from it's excretions much