The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A IOrLune-IelleF IN new IOIk mas
struck a new plan of telling fortunes.
He does it by the lines on the sole of
a persons foot, and claims that it is
just as reliable as palmistry, which it
probably is.
The United States will be sure to
have trouble on the isthnus of Pana-
ma when the work on the canal be-
gins. More men have died there than
in any place of a like size in the
world.
-Rosedale, Kan, had an election last
week, which was won by the vote of
the women. The progressive party hir-
ed a lot of automobiles to take voters
to the polls, and the women fairly
fought for the pleasure of riding in
them and voting the progressive tick
ct.
IA dispatch to the Chicago Record
Herald from Tabor, Ia. says: THE
small cottage in which John Brown,
the abolitionist, lived for several years
in the SOS, and which was used as the
headquarters of his underground rail-
road for the helping of runaway
slaves. has ben destroyed by fire."
Chicago has a new fraternal order
which is known as the Outlaws. The
insignia is a silver hangman's moose,
which is worn on the lapel of the coat.
The membership is limited to thirty,
and a member must have a record for
recklessness that will put him in a
class with the outlaws Of the dime nov
Ell.
The stage running between Nevada
City and Townsville was held UP by a
lone highwayman recently, about seven
miles from Nevada City. There were
five women and two men aboard. Three
shots were fired by the robber, but no
one was hurt. The Wells-Fargo bon
was taken, but the amount of treasure
it contained is not known!
The Memphis (Tenn.) police have
arrested Jimmy" Bryant, alleged to
be one of the most notorious and skill
full pickpockets,. confidence men and
all-round crooks in the United States
and Great Britain. The police say the
man is wanted in nearly every city of
note in the country. He was taken with
two confederates on a crowded excur-
sion steamer.
The Gear. like the Prince of Wales,
is fond of fishing, but has not a like
idea of the sport. In the grounds of
Peterhof is lake, which was made by
the great Gear Peter, and this is stock
ed with big carp. The Gear allows no
one to fish there, and usually puts the
fish back in the water after catching
them. He uses English tackle and
thinks that he is really fishing.
The Kansas Utopian Association is
,s-z, o.
the Supreme Court at Topeka, Kan,
which handed down a decision in an
appeal in the case of a lodge keeper
from Brown county. Stripped of it's
subterfuge and pretense, it is simply a
whisky saloon" says the court The
decision will result in the closing of
200 lodges" with $1,000 members.
Among the gifts announced at the
last meeting of the trustees of the New
York public library is that of collec-
ton of books, pamphlets, papers and
documents that belonged to the late
Samuel j. Tilden, which were present
ed to the library by the executors and
trustees of the estate. The collection
fills some thirty odd cases, and con-
tains many public documents and pa
pers relating to public and professional
affairs with which Mr.. Tilden was con-
nected.
An Owingsville CKy.) man was
greatly troubled in early life because
he was constantly being arrested on
warrants sworn out against a neighbor
who re1oiced in the same name. The
man thought that the least he could do
for his children was to give them odd
yet pleasing names, SO he tackled Lon
don Judge and Reputable Kingdom
onto his two sons, and his daughters
try to smile when they answer to
Figure, Avenue Belle and Hell-in-tne-
Kitchen.
The man who represented himself
to be Lord r. Seymour Darlington.
lieutenant colonel of the Light Horse
Guards of London, and who, after mar
rying Miss Grace W. Cochrane of Kan
sas City, was a few days later whipped
by her brother at st. Louis and SEN
fenced to the work house for six
months on the charge of disturbing the
peace, was released last week, after
serving two months of his sentence.
He says he will live in st. Louis until
he shall have cleared his name of
charges made by the police, but which
have not been proved.
1t has remained for the patient and
ingenious German to produce cooking
utensils of molten quartz. In appear
ance they are as brilliant as diamonds.
but while they resemble glass in be-
ing transparent they are not brittle
like glass, neither will they crack, it
is said, with sudden changes OF tenn
perature. Quartz pots and pans can
be heated red hot and then be SUBJ
merged in ice-cold water without be-
ing damaged in the least, or they can
be subjected to an equally severe treat
ment on the opposite tack without
seeming to feel it a mite. The reason
for this is stated to be that quartz. I'M
like glass, neither expands nor con-
tracts much uAder changes in tempera-
ture.
Europe leads America in the intro
duction of the trackless trolley,
though the process had its origin here.
In recent number of Cosmos NJ
Emile Gauvini gives a description of
some of the systems employed there,
the Schliemann, Siemens-Halske and
Lombard Guerin, all of which are in
practical operation, with results which
are, on the whole, satisfactory, and
promise a great future for the type of
vehicle thus impelled and guided.
'"They can traverse narrow and tor
tuous streets and serve regions where
the traffic is not large enough to war
rant the installation of regular cleo
trio railroad" Experiments in this
line have been going on in Europe
since 1882, and have now reached a
point of success which promises