The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-01

manly agent who called to sell new
one and take the old one in part pay
ment will be in luck If he is able to
see or talk before the ides of Novem-
Der.
"A Canadian paper calls attention to
a nursing bottle advertisement, which
concludes with the words: when the
baby is done drinking 1t must be I'M
screwed and laid in a cool place under
a faucet If the baby does not thrive
on fresh milk it should be boiled"
The Ellsworth American is DESTROYS
of learning whether any other Maine
town can produce a heavier child of its
age than Franklin. The child in ques-
ton. the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Bunker. will not be seven years old
until September, yet tips the scales at
l07 pounds.
johanna Mueller, the bookkeeper
of the Danish bank, who eloped with
Julius Anton Jorgensen. the cashier
of the same institution at Copenhagen,
who is now about to be sent back
to Denmark on a charge of abstracting
a large sum from its vaults, has been
released from custody by United States
Marshal Shine upon orders from At
torney General Knox. She will not be
sent back to Denmark, as she was in
no way connected with the theft.
College men from all parts of the
country to the number of nearly 200
are attending the twenty-fifth grand
chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity at
Detroit, Mich. Mayor Maybury well
coined the fraternity men to the city,
and Orla B. Taylor voiced the well
come of the Detroit "Sigs." The re-
sponses We're made on behalf of the
nine sections of the country, and then
Judge Howard Ferris of Cincinnati
responded for the fraternity at large.
A Clay county (Mo.) man, accord
ing to the Plattsburg Democrat-Lever,
took his pastor out hunting one day.
They had but one gun between them,
and the preacher carried it. After they
had been out half an hour the man
felt something poking him in the side.
Turning around quickly, he found the
preacher poking him with the muzzle
of the gun and fumbling over the
hammers. Say. brother" asked the
minister, how do you let these things
down?" The man has sworn off TAX
ing preachers hunting.
Anything to rivet the attention of
the passerby seems to be the New York
merchants motto. In a shoe store
window in upper Broadway is a pair
of very old. much-worn shoes, above
which is a placard reading: This pair
of shoes was sold in 1860 in PeekskiIl
by Senator Chauncey Depew's uncle"
William Ellis Corey. who has been
appointed assistant to President
Schwab of the steel trust. is described
as Jolly-loo--ing, square-faced young
man of 81. His mustache is trained up
at the ends like Kaiser Williams, re-
vealing a wide mouth and a thick I'M
derlip. His fancy runs to baseball,
football and horses when he is out for
recreation. In baseball he is an ardent
enthusiast.
If you poke about the corners of a
garden you will soon understand, says
The Garden. how the stories of toads
imprisoned in a solid rock arise You
hardly ever find a toad in it's chosen
retreat without wondering how it man
aged to get in, and how it proposes to
get out again; and our ancestors en-
shrined this batrachian habit in the
phrase toad in a hole as the name
of dish in which a piece of meat is
baked inside a batter with no visible
means of entrance or exit. This Pc
culiar faculty of the toad for burying
himself without leaving a trace behind
is due to his trick of burrowing back
ward, as crab does, his strong hind
legs shoveling the earth forward until
he is covered.
So much has been said of the
'teeming millions" of China that the
official census recently published by
the imperial treasury department of
China is of no little interest, since it
furnishes a method of determining Just
how many 'teeming millions" there
are. 1t appears that the celestial en-
pire contains 426,0O000O inhabitants,
and that China proper-the eighteen
provinces-contains 407 ,000, 900. The
number of inhabitants per square kilo-
meter varies from 201 in Honan to 80
in Kansu and is on the average 103 in
the eighteen provinces. In Mongolia
the number is Z, in Manchuria ., in
Tibet and in Turkestan 8. For COM
parison it may be recalled that Ger
many has 105 inha bitants per square
kilometer, Belgium 220 and the United
Kingdom 1870.
The chief market for Philadelphia
made gods is India, where the demand
is for Buddhas and Ganesas. The
most expensive ones are marble Budd-
has two feet high, which cost $50.
The models must be accurate, for the
| devotee of India must have all de-
tails additionally exact, as every
| band, every color, every little deco
ration has some symbolic meaning.
The Buddhas are nrade after an exact
| copy of a Siamese Buddha reputed to
| be the best image of the god extant.
| The god Ganesa, with his four arms
and elephants head, is no less costly.
Plain and undecorated Ganesas can be
had for $50. If the divine dignity be
heightened by ornament, the god may
fetch as much as SIS. A bit of color
slightly inaccurate in shade or an or
nament improperly placed may render
| the most picturesquely hideous GaneSl
or Buddha absolutely worthless to a
! Hindoo.
England has a National Trust for
Places of Historic Interest or National
Beauty, which reports saving some
spots of interest to Englishmen and
| one, at least, of more than insular in
terest. Danger threatened the Hill Of
Tara, the most interesting spot in
Neutrality-suspicious. in the United King
dom. The associations of the hill date
| at least from the third century of our
era; it was at once the palace and
the tomb Of the Irish kings; there on
the Kings Rath they were crowned,
on the Lai Fall, or Stone of Destiny
On Easter eve, 433, st. Patrick there
! effected the conversion of the King of
Ireland to Christianity. Unscentific
| and rather foolish persons have done
much in iurV IN the hill nv diCCi7er Z, e.