The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


nurse sits behind and regulates the
speed, which does not exceed a mod
crate figure.
A notable result of the recent
Daily News census Of church attend
ance in London is the discovery that
prayer meetings, which were once re-
garded as the vital breath Of the life
of the church. have almost ceased to
exist.
A billiard game that began twenty
five years ago was finished several days
ago in Binghamton, N. Y, between
James r. Dubois, formerly United
States minister to Switzerland, and
Charles J. Langley. In 1873 they were
playing a game, but something inter-
rupted them when the score was a
tie, and not until a few days ago did
they meet and have chance to settle
it, Mr.. Dubois winning.
Charles E. Libby, of Scarboro, Me-,
who five months ago lost his reason
and for two weeks wandered through
the woods in a demented condition, has
been restored to his senses in pecu-
liar manner. A pile of wood fell upon
him inflicting a severe wound on ms
head and causing the blood clot which
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fall sustained five months previous,
to pass away, and he is once more in
possession of his mental faculties.
Returning voyagers from England
bring back this story told by H. Clay
Evans, consul general at London: An
American from Buffalo went abroad.
He visited Paris and afterward fell
| on London, where he boosted of his
knowledge of Partisan customs. meals,
wines, pictures and everything else,
the traveller sees and gets. "Of course"
said Evans, you enjoyed some POM
mes de terre in PARISH" mot at all
not at ALL" replied the man from Buff
falo. My wife is travelling with
me-"
"A st. Louis boy who sneaked
through a hole in the fence surround
| ing the Worlds Fair Grounds has just
| sent Csc to the financial department
| of the show as a conscience Offering.
| -Sixty-two years ago a man named
| Jones moved from Kentucky to Dade
county, Missouri, taking with him his
| family of ten children. At reunion
recently held at Everton, 1,O19 of his
| descendants were present, and there
| are a few who were unable to attend.
| Almost all his descendants have mar
ried and settled in the same neighbor-
hood in Southwestern Missouri.
A broad general classification of
the graduates of the Military Acad-
envy up to date show that West Point
has given us one President and two
candidates for President, eight presi
Dental electors and four members OF
! the cabinet, 20 diplomatic representa-
tives, "a members of Congress, 122
other federal officers, Is governors and
lieutenant governors; IS members of
state Legislatures, 124 civil and IT'S
military officers of states, GA city Off
Gals, 230 educators, 236 railroad off,
Gals, 233 civil engineers, ga Judges and
lawyers, % clergymen and 80 members
of otehr professions, 26S business men,
230 farmers and planters and 172 au-
| thors.
"A new automatic switch has been
brought out in England, the object of
which is to prevent a trolley car be-
ing left in darkness if the trolley pole
| comes off the wire or the main supply
is interrupted from any cause. The
| ordinary lamps of the car are connect
ed in series with a battery and an
electromagnetic device, by means of
| which the circuit containing the emer-
| gency lamps is held open. When the
| trolley is on the line, current flows
! through the ordinary lamps and
| charges the battery, returning to earth
| through the car wheels in the ordinary
way. If the trolley comes off the line.
the armature of the electromagnetic
device is released. and the emergency
| circuit closed.
Jerusalem, the " City of Peace" and
Stronghold of Zion," is at least $500
years old, yet only three years ago
did the natives of that part of Palestine
begin to use ice, says the New York
Press. Many of them had never seen
! it, in fact. A diminutive French plant
| has been turning out about 700 pounds
| a day. Jerusalem water Is the finest
| in the world, being collected from the
housetops and stored in cisterns. The
! ice, therefore, is like crystal, melting
slowly and without a particle of sedi-
| ment. The demand for ice in the sa-
cred city was started by a modern
| hospital. Hotels soon afterward began
| it's use, and now nearly all of the for
| eign residents and many of the wealthy
| native families are consumers. No nat
ural ice is brought into Syria.
"A case came up before the Su-
preme Court of New York the other
day for which no parallel exists. A
rich man, who had buried a wife and
a child in a Protestant cemetery, re-
| Gently married a Catholic woman
Last week he died, and his wife had
the body sent to Catholic receiving
vault with the purpose of subse-
quently having it buried in a Cath
Ollie cemetery. The dead mans son
| appeared and demanded that his ia
theirs body be buried with those of
the deceased members of his family.
The case went to court, and the deci-
sion is foreshadowed in a remark
made from the bench by Justice Scott,
who said: when a man provides him.
self with a graveyard it seems to me
he has right to be buried there"
Questions often arise about the
hight of clouds, and information on
this subject is neither plentiful nor
very definite. At the Simla OBJ
servatory in India a series of photo
grammetric measurements have been
made during a period of twenty
months, and the results are reported
in the Indian Meteorological Me-
moirs." Simla has an elevated situa-
ton on a mountain ridge, and the
observatory is placed at an altitude of
1924 feet, which is above the ordi-
nary lower clouds. Hence the obser-
vations made relate to the lofty cir
rus clouds, the mean hight of which,
above Simla, in AZ measurements, was
| found to be 440 feet, or nearly six
miles. The maximum was 38, 440 feet.
| OF the thicker cumulus clouds the
| mean was 1904 feet-over a mile and
| pna- third-and the maximum 14,13S