The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-05
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| erected in Chickamauga National
Park is nearly completed. and will be
dedicated about the last of July or the
first of August. The state will be rep
resented at the dedication exercises by
at least one regiment of the National
Guard.
The Sultan has taken radical steps
to suppress drunkenness in the Turk
ish army. 1t is announced that any
soldier found drinking in public will
be imprisoned forty-five days for the
first offense and severely flogged for
the second, besides having his name
entered on a black list" for the Sui
tan's inspection.
Tradition was badly shattered in
Oklahoma the other day when Gov. T.
B. Ferguson appeared on the street in
Guthrie wearing a tall black hat. The
headgear had been presented to the
Governor by members of his staff and
he therefore felt called upon to wear
it, but territorial pioneers shake their
heads when they think Of the innova.
ton.
The death in Dublin of Miss Rose
Mcdowell in her eighty-first year re-
moves link between the present gen.
Grafton and Daniel O'Connell. Miss
Mcdowell in the closing years of DAN
iel O'Connell's life was a young lady
of extraordinary talents and beauty.
She captivated OsConnell and had the
refusal of his hand and heart. The
rejection of his suit is said to have
weighed heavily on OConnell and to
have been one of the proXimate causes
of the illness to which he succumbed.
The great increase in the utiliza-
ton of water power is one of the not
able signs of the times. Waterfalls are
now running factories, driving tram
cars, lighting cities, irrigating farms
and doing various other kinds of serv-
ice, in many cases at a distance of
miles from the fall itself Italy is con-
spicuous for the progress it has made
in this way, the Alps and the Apen-
mines Astounding in waterfalls. Now it
is proposed to make use of the Doogh
/ Sugar river, in India, to produce 50,-
600 horsepower.
The Paris Health Department has
been devoting it's leisure time to cal
cuating the number of rats and mice
annually killed in the French capital,
and has prepared the following esti-
mate: Eighty thousand in the Central
Markets; %, 900 in the other markets;
butchers; 100000 by the grocers; 100000
by private individuals; 100000 by the
tanners; 10000 by rat-catchers, in the
sewers, cellars and streets, and 100000
by various poisons. With these fig
ures as a basis, the statisticians con-
clude that the rodent population of
Paris is about 100000.
The bronze group Spirit of the
Confederacy," the work OF F. w.
Ruckstuhl, for the Maryland Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy, has just been
cast at the Henry-Bonnard foundry in
West Sixteenth street, Manhattan. 1t
is a fine conception; Fame, a colossal,
winged figure, supporting with her
right arm a dying soldier, while in
her high-lifted left hand she holds the
warriors wreath. The Countenance of
Fame is naughty, the attitude of the
figure classical. The soldier, in shirt
and trousers, presses his left hand to
his side, while his eyes are closing; i'll
his right hand he holds loosely his soft
felt hat. The group is to stand on a
pedestal of red Missouri granite, and
will be put up this month in the CEN
tSr of the raised promenade of Mount
Royal avenue, Baltimore.
China is land without mattresses
VI COuulcIpdIlcSb says OutAll6s ~ OC0
or kong, is merely a broad wall of
brick built across the side of the room.
On first acquaintance it seems absolute
ly impossible for an Anglo Saxon, but
a man in the interior of China must
either sleep on a kong or not sleep
at all. 1 determined that if the bricks
would not yield to me l must yield to
them, and. as a means of yielding
gracefully, I studied the sleeping meth
DDS of my Chinese companions. I
found that their practice was to climb
inside of quilted sacks, called pookas,
which they tied and folded around
themselves. until a row of men on
kong looked not unlike sealed envelopes.
Whenever they rolled or turned over
in their sleep, their pookaS rolled with
them; in whatever position they hap
pened to lie on the brick pile, they
could not escape the ameliorating eff
feet of their pookas. Obviously 1, too,
must have a Dooka. From a dealer in
leather, in a town through which we
passed, bought two goat skins. 1 had
them sewn together with the hair side
in. I devised a system of strings by
which l could tie myself in my appli-
ance, and in this way I succeeded in
sleeping in China.
Tom Jenkins, who is training in
lOCdl SyHlIdSluLlS says lHdC very rev
wrestlers nowadays care to use the
strange" hold, even if this dangerous
grasp were permitted and stipulated in
the articles of agreement says
the New York Sun. Jenkins adds
that there are a number of other holds
equally as effective. of which the pub
lie knows little. There is hold, which
I usually use in Matches" pursued Jen-
kins, (which is nearly, if not more,
pernicous than the strange. 1t is cal
led the smother hold. and is as certain
to punish and annoy your man as is
the strang1e. This grasp is applied by
placing either arm around your rivals
head and smothering his nose and
mouth with the palm of your hand. OF
course, there are ways to avoid it, but
you have to be quick and mighty
strong. There is also another grasp
which is also as effective as the smother
and strangle. This is the rib-lock. This
is applied by placing your arms around
your opponents body and rubbing
against his rib muscles with the back
of your fist. These muscles are sensf-
tive and he will try and push your
hand away if possible. In doing SO he