The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IA sum OF money mas DeeH SlNcil
to the Germanic museum at Harvard
through the kindness of an anonymous
friend, sufficient to keep the museum
open on Sundays throughout the rest
of the academic year. Accordingly, in
addition to the announced hours, from
9 until $3.50 o'clock on Mondays and
Fridays, the museum will be open every
Sunday from l until 5 o'clock.
Hugh McKinnon, once a famous
athlete, died recently at Dawson City
in Alaska. For the last two years
he had been chief officer in the Yukon
to prevent the establishment of illicit
distilleries and the smuggling of liz
uors into the territory, From 1874 to
1879 McKinnon held the heavyweight
championship as an all-around ath-
lete in the United States and Canada.
He was awarded more than 1000 prizes,
including the Philadelphia centennial
and European sweepstakes. He retir-
ed in 1879 indicated. McKinnon was
born in Ontario in 1912 and was a giant
in stature.
"A remarkable case of a wound in
battle proving fatal after fifty-four
years is reported from Temesvar. A
man named Josef Molnar, who fought
with Kossuth in the rebellion of 1S4S-
'49, received a bullet wound in the
right shoulder at the battle of Isas-
zegh. The bullet could not be ex-
tracted, but the wound healed quite
satisfactorily, and the lead in his body
never caused Molnar any inconveni-
ence until the last few weeks, when,
quite an old man, he began to suffer
quite severe pain in the region of
the wound, and died from mortifica-
ton.
"A company has been formed at
Duluth, Mimi, which has for its OBJ
jects, as set forth in it's articles of in
corporation, to explore for iron ore and
manufacture macaroni. The macaroni
might be used to feed the men en-
ployed at the mines, although-unless
they are all Italians-they might OBJ
ject to such a diet. The iron ore,
however, could not be utilized in MAX
ing the macaroni. The company seems
to be in earnest, for it has begun to
build a macaroni plant and has secured
options on 1000 acres of land within
the limits of the Mesabi formation.
Which product is to be turned out first,
iron ore or macaroni, is not stated.
Stories of betrothed lovers marry
ing when one of them was going to
die Immediately have always a good
deal of pathos and romance in them,
but nothing like the practical pru-
dence and wisdom of the one in which
Hoboken damsel has recently moved
as the principal figure. She went to
the Philippines to marry her soldier
boy lover, found him pretty nearly
dead from consumption, took the first
steamer back, and on the way found
another wooer, whom she espoused as
soon as they came ashore. Starting
off with such a fund of good sense
and freedom from sentimental notions,
they ought to live happy ever after"
according to the formula of story
books, which ofttimes take things for
granted with more liberality than the
general run of experience justifies.
The proprietor of one of Washing
toms leading restaurants. says the
Post of that city, has provided for one
of his employees in a manner most
unique. The pension consists of three
square meals day and as many
drinks. The old man who draws this
pension is an eX-bartender of the estab-
lishment, and was put on the retired
list some time ago. AS the pensioner
was known to be fond of 1.-The cup that
cheers. the employer found it neces-
sary to add one clause to the pension
viz: "The drinks will be given at the
appointed time, before breakfast din
ner and supper, provided there are no
signs of having INDUCED in intoXicants
elsewhere" 1t is q familiar sight to
see this old man comfortably seated
at a neat looking little table enjoying
his food as much as he did i'll the days
when he was in active service.
"A firm in Kent, England, has de-
vised an electrical process for con-
yerting ordinary peat into firm,
smokeless steam coal at a moderate
cost. The peat is cut and excavated
by machinery, loaded into dumping
cars, which convey it to the plant,
where it is packed into rotary iron
cylinders. The cylinders being rotat-
ed at high velocity, the centrifugal
pressure, aided by an interior beating
device, expels nearly all of the 80 per
cent. of water in the material. Elec-
trodes connected with a dynamo are
then inserted in the cylinders in such
a manner that the mass of dried peat
completes the electrodes. The resist
ance offered by the peat, like the fila
ment of an incandescent lamp, gener-
ates heat which carbonizes the ma
terial, producing a mass of disinte-
grated black globules. From the CYL
inders the carbonized material passes
to machines which knead it into a
putty-like mass, which is then pressed
into briquettes or left to dry and hard
en- in masses, which are broken into
Jumps, screened, and graded like ordi-
nary coal.
The ultra-ritualstic church of ST.
Edward the Martyr on East One Hun
dred and Ninth street, New York city,
has been so renovated and decorated
that nobody would know it, and be-
tween the rector, Rev. E. w. Neil, and
the architect, Charles r. Lamb, has
now lone of the most effective and
churchly interiors in the country" say
the officials, says the Springfield Re-
publican. 1t is quite like a Roman
Catholic church in it's altar, reredos,
crucifix and so on. Moreover it DOS
sesses "a large mural painting of the
patron saint of the church, Edward,
saint and martyr" One wonders how
many good Episcopalians know who
this saint is, or how he happens to
be called a saint. He was a West
Saxon King, one of the under kings"
who was put on the English throne ten
and a quarter centuries ago by Dun
stan, the powerful monk and after a
brief and troubled reign of four years,
was murdered by his stepmother, the
beautiful Elfrida, to make way for her
own son, the worthless Ethelred the
Unready. This was also in the inter-
est of the increasing popular jealousy
of the Remaining policy of Dunstan,
and in fact marked his downfall So
that Edward is ranked by the Roman
church as martyr and canonized as
a saint.