The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-27
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cy, that has not reached this country
yet. If one of them wishes to have an
escort on her day out" she can hire
one by the hour and if she likes him
can keep on renting him. Many have
found husbands in this way
Stockholm claims the largest school
house in the world, which has accom-
modations for $50 children. In the
basement are 100 bath rooms, where
the children are required to battle if
their teachers think they are not
taught habits of cleanliness at home
Soap and towels are furnished free by
the city.
The dressmakers of the Middle
West, sitting in a solemn circle, have
declared that the shirtwaist must go
They are running the trade, because
most of the women in that section
make their own, and the dress maker
had to do something in the line of pro-
lection. 1t now remains to see whether
Paris will follow Chicago and the shirt
waist disappear in the East.
The latest advance in Swiss clock
making is the photograph alarm clock
1t is set like the usual diabolical alarm
affair, but has a monograph attach
message you want hurled at you in the
morning, and a bell rings and the pho
nograph goes off. 1t will be a decided
embarrassment if the photograph is of
the sort that will repeat what a man
says when it wakes him UP.
"A Swiss mechanic claims to have
invented an automatic baby nurse. The
apparatus is attached to a cradle. If
the baby cries, air waves cause spec
tally arranged wires to operate a pho
nograph, which sings a lullaby, while
simultaneously clockwork is released
and rocks the cradle. When the crying
stops, the wires cease to vibrate and
the cradle stops rocking. One by one
the bachelors excuses are being de-
stroyed.
In the British museum there is the
in Egypt, who, judging by the stone
implements by his side, lived long be-
fore the very first of the Pharoahs.
His skin is still of a fair, rudy COM
plexion and his hair bright red. And
it is probable that as we gaze on that
recumbent form, we are in the pres
ence of one of the antediluvian inhab-
itants of the earth: possibly even of
one who had conversed with Adam
himself, and heard from his own lips
the story of the fall.
The Pope is almost a vegetarian
His early breakfast consists of a cup
of chocolate or coffee, the latter but
rarely. Two o'clock is the dinner hour,
when he partakes of a bouillon and
couple of eggs cooked in Bordeaux
wine. The Pope rarely takes meat,
but is very fond of salad-a dish which
does not agree with him, but in which
he INDUCES now and then, notwith-
standing medical orders. Supper is
served at TO- after which his holiness
retires to his study, where he often
works until the early hours in the
morning.
The thousand esteemed and most
eminent persons of the world-emi-
nence being determined by the promi-
nence given them in encyc1opedias-are
grouped according to nativity by Prof.
Cattel in Popular Science Monthly.
France leads followed closely by Great
Britain. Then there is considerable fall
to Germany and Italy. Greece has
produced more pre- eminently great men
than Germany. OF the eighteen great
est composers of music Germany pro-
duced twelve and Italy six. Russia
has to- her credit but nine men who
are eminent. In the 1000 but thirty
two are women.
There are about 10000, 900 migratory
sheep in Spain which each year travel
as much as two hundred miles from
the plains to the mountains They are
known as trans-humantes and their
march, resting places and behavior are
governed by special regulations dating
from tho
tain times no one may travel the same
routes as the sheep, which have the
right to Craze on all open and common
land on the way. For this purpose Il
road nlnty yards wide must be left on
all inclosed and private property. The
shepherds lead their fiocks. which fol-
low after and around. The flocks are
accompanied by provision mules, and
by large dogs to guard against wolves
Inc merino sheep travel forty miles
10 the mountains. and the total time
spent on the migration there and back
is fourteen weeks.
While the Casket Coverers and
Trimmers' Union. in the United
States. demands that all collins shouId
bear the union label, the grave digeers
at Guayaquil, Ecuador, have gone on
strike and refused to bury people
Lhey dSheu the admlniStra tors of the
cemeteries for an increase of nav
since the epidemic had doubled their
work, and was exposing them to dis
ease. Their demand having been re-
Jected, the grave diggers refused TO
oury the corpses, which were piled in
the cemetery's public vault Some
wealthy families offered to nav the
price required by the strikers hut
their offers were rejected. The sit-
uatlon had become very alarming. for
the epidemic would be aggravated bv
the failure to bury the dead, and the
CITY authorities were discussing. at the
time of the latest mall the best means
to put stop to the grevious and dam
gerous strike.
The skeletons of sixty mastodons
have been found in the state of New
York distributed along certain we'll
marked belts, as follows: Thirtv-four
IN eastern New York from ALBANY
south through Newburgh; thirteen
from Rochester south through Living
ston county; two near Chautauo1Is
Lake and two near Ithaca. Outside of
these belts the state is barren. II
would appear therefore. that the mas
todons had distinct feeding grounds
and the remains indicate that the
beasts were living in a time not very
remote. Their skeletons are now
usually found resting on the boulders
OF OLD streams in a comparatively thin
layer OF peat No specimen of the
mammoth has yet been found in the
state. When Presidep+ Doo--.--,.