The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dick Turpin's pistol was sold in
London recently for s26.
Vienna is threatened with a strike
of chimney sweeps.
-Bulgaria's chief exports are wheat,
wine and altar of roses.
Oysters for King Edward are be-
ing obtained from the west of Ireland.
"A. c. Bird. the new traffic man
ager of the Gould railway lines, re-
ceives a salary of $4,000 a year.
Thirty tons of caulifiowers from
Italy are now being landed daily at
Folkestone for the London market.
Using pepper to deaden the pain of
toothache has caused the death of a
man at Middlesborough through blood
poisoning.
deliberately painted and mounted
with silver fittings, an irish jaunting
car is being made in Dublin for Bos-
ton millionaire.
Military horses in England are
now to have their tails and names left
long in order that they may drive
away the mosquitoes.
In Sweden the Riksdsg has pro-
posed a special tax on punch" the
national beverage. 1t will increase the
retail price by rs per cent.
Striking resemblance has been
pointed out between the remarkable
ancient ruins at Zimbabwe, in Rhode
STA, and antiquities in Cornwall.
Overcome with joy at his unexpect-
ed release from prison a convict coll
lapsed and died as he stepped out of
the Jail door to freedom at Leutschau,
Hungary.
Ten young Koreans are being sent
by the Emperor of Korea to finish
their education in Russia. the first of
regular parties whose expenses the
Emperor will pay.
AIR. Davis, the American, who has
expended considerable sums in explor-
ing work near Thebes, Egypt, has
found a splendid chariot in the tomb
of King Thothmes.
While trimming a large tree at
Periguez, France, recently. two men
fell and were killed. Sixty years ago
to a day two men met their deaths
while cutting the same tree.
AT the last court ball at Berlin,
the Kaiser took a pair of scissors from
his pocket, and giving them to an Off
Ger, requested him to assist a young
lady whose train had become torn.
Out of 10000 children whom a
surgeon at Leeds, England, has exam
ined as to their fitness for factory la
Dor, $4,000 were found to be rickety
in consequence of improper feeding
when babies.
John Temple Leader, an American
by birth, and very wealthy, has just
died in London. He owned the Castle
of Vincigilata, near Florence, which
is fitted up magnificently in the me-
diaeval style.
Charged with being drunk in his
own house, Bury Lancashire, Eng
land) publican claimed his legal priv
ilege to be as drunk as he liked in his
own private ROOM" The bench allow
ed his claim.
-Zola was generally believed to be
worth about 100000 in cash when he
died, but it now seems that he was
almost dependent upon his. royalties.
Nine. lola has sold nearly all his prop
erty and from investment of the pro-
ceeds will have an income of about
$1,000 year. Friends of the deceased
writer are at a loss to understand what
he did with his money.
The laments of eminent personages
over the increasing birth rate in the
United States have prompted Chicago s
health department to print in the bull
letin the best possible evidence that
the birth rate in that city is satisfac-
tory. 1t says: The increase in the
under seven-year population was 57.3
per cent, or SO in excess of the in
crease of the total population at all
ages. This excess is obviously due to
the births during the period"
DO children lie? Yes; constantly,
persistently and universally, says
kindergarten Magazine. A child does
not tell the truth because he could not.
He does not know the truth, and his
approximation to the truth is very
much wagner than ours. And there are
certain qualities of his mind which
make it inevitable that he should per-
vert the truth. In the first place. truth
is synonymous with knowledge. He
does not know what truth is. In the
second place (and 1t is the same with
us), children gradually approximate
the truth. They have their ideas of
truth In the third place, the child s
imagination drives him often to tell
what is not true.
In 1895 Queen Victoria took a
great interest in whiskers in the Brit
ish navy She wrote to the first lord
of the admiralty in that year: THE
Queen thanks Mr.. Childers very much
for his communication on the subject
of boards. She thinks the order will
do extremely well. Her own personal
feeling would be for the boards with
out the musta ches, as the latter have
rather a soldierlike appearance; but
then the object in view would not be
attained, to prevent the necessity for
shaving. Therefore it had better be
as proposed, the entire beard, only it
should be kept short and very clean.
The Queen wishes to make one addi-
tional observation respecting the
heards, that on no account should
mustaches be allowed without boards.
That must be clearly understood"
An Englishman in Russia thus tells
his experiences: when at Simferopol
it fell to my turn to do the market