The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of interest to everyone at the ST. Louis
fair who appreciates the value of our
present swift transatlantic steam
ships.
"A curious surgical operation is re-
ported from Dresden, where DR.. Hal
mel, who was attending a girl years
of age who had lost the forefnger of
her right hand, amputated the second
toe of his patients right foot and sew
ed it on to the stump of the missing
finger. The two parts were then in
cased in plaster and after three weeks
it was found that the toe had become
firmly attached, forming good sub
stitute for the finger.
lie Petit Journal of Paris an
nounces that Miss E. Lowe. daughter
of Sir Hudson Lowe, the famous Gov
ernor of st. Helena during the cap
tivity of Napoleon /. has just cele-
brated her eighty-fifth birthday. She
now lives very retired at BALKAN,
England. TT is somewhat curious"
the Journal continues, that, although
Miss Lowe reached the island at the
age of 10 and must therefore have
often seen the Emperor, she has re-
tanned no remembrance of the Illus
trious exile
La Figaro Of Paris states that the
members of the Jockey Club of that
city have serious affair to settle with
Leopold II of Belgium, on his next visit
to the French capital, which will oc-
cur toward the end of the present
month. 1t seems that when the King
was last there, in February, he dined
at the club off a "canard aux navets,"
which he pronounced to be the finest
he had ever eaten, and the next day
the chef of the club disappeared. 1t
was later learned that he had been
kidnapped by the Belgian monarch and
is now in charge of the royal kitchens
at Lachen.
Among the features already in
shape for st. Louis which has never
been seen at former expositions is a
quaint wooden chart used in the Post
office at Manila. The names of those
who have letters in the postoffice are
written on a slip of paper and pasted
on a strip of wood which fits into its
proper niche on this wooden chart
When the Spanish Filipino went to the
Manila Postoffice, If he saw his name
was not on the chart he did not disturb
that official. Our late rural free de-
livery magnates in Washington might
learn a lesson in expedition and econ
omy from this method, the result of
which would be of great benefit to the
taxpayers of this country. Near this
chart is a Spanish flag which once
waved over the Postoffice at Manila.
The Huka Falls-the Niagara of
Maoriland-which the New Zealand
government has an idea of turning to
account for the generation of electric
power, are on one of the head reaches
of the Waikato river, few miles from
where the great stream flows out of
Lake Taupo. Lake Taupo lies very
high above sea level and the Waikato
has it's beginning through a narrow
chasm in the rocky wall of the lake.
Flowing out through this passage, the
enormous mass of water is whirled at
last over the huge pricipice at Huka,
and the falls from one of the grandest
sights in New Zealand. On the report
of an expert, the Wellington govern
ment expects to get electric power
enough from the Huka Falls to supply
the whole of the North Island for all
purposes.
The Cynomis ludovicianus is the
long scientific name of the short prai-
RE dog, which has been, over large
areas of the Western country, more of
nuisance than many people imagine.
until recently he spread over sixty
eight counties in Kansas, to say moth
ing Of his occupancy elsewhere, dam
aging local crops to an extent not in
keeping with his unobtrusive dimen-
slons. All kinds of poisons We're tried
on him in vain till the recent discoV-
cry of new one, its constituents not
disclosed, which sweeps him off the
earth, root and branch, so to speak,
leaving of his hide and hair neither
park no animation; a good radiance of
this damaging marmot, which. with
ITS companion in sin, the pocket 60
pher, has cost the Western farmer no
end of money by its ravages.
There is a billiard table in London
at the present moment that can boast
OF lifetime of two centuries and a
long acquaintance with men who
have made history. 1t belonged
originally to Louis XIV, passed
into the possession of Napoleon l. and
now, in its old age, has come into the
hands of Messrs. Orme & Sons, and is
on exhibition in Soho Square This
celebrated table is smaller than an
English table. The body of the table
Is a block of oak, weighing 10000
pounds, covered with a cloth of cleo
trio blue The frame of the table is
OF rosewood, and the six pockets-per-
haps the most striking feature of the
@otoiS a ASpAOuuCllOnS IN bronze of
queer, hideous old gargoyles When
the ball falls into the pocket the lower
Jaw OF the gargoyle drops, and the ball
is found in its mouth. 1t is a clever
piece OF ancient mechanism.
Since the roof that once sheltered
the Paris guillotine has been removed
and the ground it occupied, in the
Rue de la Roquette, sold for the pur-
pose of erecting desirable residences"
the gu1llotine has gone a-begging. 1t
is now stored in the Prefecture of Po-
lice, and, although several sites have
been selected for it by the government.
the people in the neighborhood of the
sites have aroused themselves in their
might, and every project has been fin
ally laid aside. For fifty-two years.
La Veuve' under the skillful manip-
ulations Of Monsieur de Paris" has.
as occasion required, been brought
from its convenient shelter nearby and
placed on the notorious four stones.
which no Paris gamin will approach,
just opposite the Roquette Prison.
Among the most notorious visitors to
La Veuve" were Troppmann, Campi,
Prado, Eyraud. Moreau and Carrara.
and now, owing to the lack of her Off
cial residence, the next criminal on
the black list expects to spend a long
sojourn in prison between the time of
his sentence and its execution.
French publicists who are opposed
to the old-age pension measure are
strengthening their arguments by re-
ports from Australia, which have al
ready served to furnish many inter-
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