The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10
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visited Rome. This Is well enough
among kings in Italy, but IL certain
royal gentleman goes to st. Petersburg
and tries any such game on the great
white Gear, some one is apt to lose an
ear.
The society column in, the Hunter
(Okla) Enterprise is always breezy
and interesting. This item is fair
example of small incident which was
considered to be worth recording. Zone
of our smart young men recently tried
to kiss a girl he was sweet on for the
first time. In order not to seem too
willing the young lady smashed him
With fiatiron. And for that only he
Tilted her on the spot and has not been
back since. Tickle young mani"
Rev James G. Bradley of Guthrie,
Okla, made funny slip a couple of
months ago when Offering a prayer at
a young peoples meeting in his church,
and he is now very glad of it. He
prayed. 20, Lord, give us clean hearts,
humble hearts, pure hearts, sweet
hearts" 1t nearly broke up the meet
ing, and afterward a young woman
asked him if he knew what he had
said. He came to time in good style,
and they have just been married.
Hell Roaring Bilr' Hayden has been
given the position of prison guard at
the Salem (Ore.) prison. "BilP' got his
title in the Philippines, where he served
for three years, and also in the hunt for
Tracy, the outlaw. When "BilP' asked
for the position, the warden asked him
if he could shoot a rifle. Bill" thought
he could. The warden asked him to
give and exhibition to prove it, and
HRi1I'' landed civ Ccfue hIII1c
at 100 yards, and took the job.
The first automobile elopement has
taken place, and Memphis, Tenn,
claims the distinction of witnessing it.
Miss Lucille Taylor, II. the daughter
of prominent business man of Mem
phis, and Harry L. Wynne were the
happy couple, and were married in
spite of parental objections. The groom
met the bride in his automobile, raced
to the Court House for the license, and
then whirled away into the dark coun-
try. A country justice of the peace
was reused out of bed, and, clad in
bath robe, married the young couple.
The papers of Hamburg state that
an explorer. whose name is not given,
just returning from the Calneroons, OIL
the eastern coast OF Africa, has
tusks of an elephant which is believed
to be the largest ever shot. So far, 1t
is reported, the record of killing the
largest elephant belonged to an Amer
| lean physician, Donaldson Smitt, who
twenty years ago, in the vicinity Of
Lake Rudolph, In Central Africa, slew
an animal measuring in hight Am. 20.
The hight of the elephant which was
killed in the Cameroons measures, ac-
| cording to it's skeleton, exactly SIN. S.
Two Hebrews at Achison, Kans.,
got into a dispute over which must pay
gas bill of Slips. "Blackman," says
the Atchison Globe in describing the
affair, Threatened to attach MansOn's
effects, claiming Manson should have
paid the bill. Manson went into the
store and some warm words followed
in Hebrew. 1t is claimed that Black
man fired up and came at Manson with
'Bonetta, which being Interpreted,
means you're another Henry Mes
ter prevented further developments by
getting between the two men, saying,
'Sheri mo lochum.' This sentence has
nothing to do with the police station,
suspicious as that last word, lochum,
may sound. 1t means Peace be with
YOU Mester then held the gentlemen
while they shook hands"
lie Journal des Debats proclaims
the discovery that lie cakewalk% did
not originate with the American negro,
but was quite the fashion at the Court
of Marie Antoinette. According to
the Debats, at the time of the Revolu-
ton many aristocratic French families
| fed to New Orleans, taking with them
much of the culture of VerSailles-so-
cial customs and dances-and with 1t
the indolnitable cakewalk. This cake
walk was danced by the refugees at
their social gatherings Just as the min
net was danced, and slaves looking on
soon began to initiate what they saw.
Thus having gone out of France with
the fall of the old regime the cakewalk
returns after more than century of
| absence. under the Presidency of NJ.
| Loubet."
A note from Berlin states that the
PrusSian Minister of War has sent a
confidential communication to the
Reichstag Commission which advises
| the purchase by the state of the iron
works of Herr Ehrhardt at Dussel-
dorf, with the idea of turning the es
| adjustment into an enormous plant
| for the manufacture of cannon direct
| ly under government auspices. For
some time there has been feeling in
the German War Office that the Krupp
establishment should be brought more
| directly Under government control or
should be prohibited from dispOsing of
! its war material abroad. This scheme
having failed. an official plant was de-
cided upon. 1t is also stated that Gen.
Won RCichenau will have charge of the
works TO be acquired.
For several years it has been Gus
tomary in Athens to celebrate the an
niversary of certain events in the
Greek war for independence. For more
| than twenty-five years no veteran has
been present. On the recent anniVer-
sary of Maniots, veteran appeared
| leaning on a cane. He is probably the
! only surviving soldier of the war His
name is Col. Mavroyeni. He was born
in the Island of Peros Jan. 20, 1898.
He was just terminating his medical
studies in Paris when the war for in
dependence broke out. He Immediate
ly proceeded to Greece and took part
in several battles. To-day he is able
to read and write without specta cles
and, aside from slight and infrequcnt
attacks of rheumatism, which merely
cause him to employ a cane, he is said
to possess the agility of a man of 20.
A sister of Col. Mavroyeni died the
other day at the age of lis. He has
a firm conviction that he will live Just
as long.
Motor intoxication" is a new dis
ease discovered by the savants of
Paris. 1t Is the temporary mental dis
order of speeding automobOlists M