The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

time "a bright, pretty woman in the
prime of life, with a charming person.
ality and winning ways"
1t is said that the drinking of
kerosene is such a growing evil in
France that measures against it are
proposed. This vice has long prevail
ed among the Indians of the Southern
Pacific. TO such an extent has it been
carried that the Importation of kero-
sene for drinking is an important trade
in Peru and Bolivia.
During the coming spring the Ger
man government will open a perma-
nent exposition for the welfare of la
borers. the purpose of which is to dis
play inventions for the prevention Of
accidents, which will be explained by
lectures, and to exhibit contrivances
for protection against so-called trade
diseases.
Plaster of paris is given the hard
ness and durab of stone, according
to a German writer, by a solution of
boric acid in hot water with the ad-
dition of sufficient ammonia water to
redissolve the borate at first separated.
The liquid is used with the plaster for
casting in the usual way. or is applied
as wash to articles already cast.
Teeth have been and are venerated
as sacred relics. The Siamese formerly
possessed the tooth of sacred mon
key. In the war with the Portuguese,
however, they lost the holy grinder and
had to pay $3,50O,O0O to get it back
again. 1t is now kept in a small gold
box inclosed in six other boxes in one
of the many temples of the capital of
Siam.
The right of women to wear male
attire in France is conferred by the
government as a great privilege, for
which in addition she must pay $40 a
year as a tax. The only women to
whom the right to wear male attire
has been given are George Sand, Rosa
Bonheur, Nine. Dibulafoy, the Persian
archeologist, Mime. Faucalt, the beard
ed woman, and Mime. Fourreau and
Nine. De Jeanette, both sculptors.
king Edward is the latest victim
of the cakewalk craze. Whenever an
American girl is to be introduced to
him his first question is, Can she
cakewalk?' Mrs. Lawrence Townsend,
wife of the United States Minister to
Belgium, completely captivated the
King at Sandringham, where she dane
ed the cakewalk on Partisan lines with
less arm and figure movement than in
the stage version. Mrs. Townsend took
Hamburg society by storm, and is the
American social success of the moment
in London.
A violin story comes from Silver
Lake, N. Y. Miss Mary Quincy of
North Manchester, a young sister of
Mrs. Grace Van Studdiford, the So
prano, wanted an old violin for her
part in a local play. She found an old
one in the possession of a farmer NAM
ed Hiram Ranger, living near Silver
Lake. His children used it as a play
thing. Miss Quincy discovered the date
I'LL on the old instrument and offered
$40 for it. which was accepted. 1t was
later sold for $500, and is said to be
genuine Stradivarius Cremona.
Robert S. Clark, first lieutenant in
the Ninth Infantry, is one of the four
heirs to the estate of Alfred Corning
Clark. His share is estimated at $10-
100000. His mother recently married
Bishop Potter. Lieut.. Clark, for more
than year, has been on special duty
at the adjutant generals office in
Washington. He is impatient to be or
dered on active service. He thinks one
should work for works sake, and en-
tered the army because he thought that
his most natural calling. Lieut.. Clark
keeps up with society and entertains
frequently, occupying a luxurious resi-
dence. Clark is a graduate of Yale,
having entered the army at the time
OF the Spanish war and got transferred
to the regulars at its close.
The schooner Monitor of Gloucester
brought to Boston the other day from
the Grand Banks a ten-pound cod with
the scars of the number "1OO' lust be-
hind the nape bone. The figures had
evidently been cut in by a fisherman
and were barely discernible, Cant
John w. Collins of the Fish and Game
Commission is looking for the fisher
man IN the interests of science Were
the time of marking known an esti-
mate OF the growth of the fish could he
made, while information as to the place
OF taking might furnish interesting facts
bearing on the migratory habits of the
cod. The United States as well as
foreign governments has quite recent
ly released cod after attaching metal
checks for the purpose of Identification
later.
The reputation Of being the drfest
spot on earth is claimed by many spots
i'll many chimes, says the I,ivernool
Post. The latest claimant is Payta. in
Peru, a place about degrees south Of
the equator on the coast that has ris-
en- forty feet in historic times Prof.
David G. Fairfield, a recent visitor.
reports having reached there in Feb
ruary Just after a rain of more than
tWenty-four hours, the first for eight
years. The average interval between
two showers is seven years. Sea fogs
are common. OF about nine species of
plants noticed seven were ANIMALS and
their seeds must have remained dor
mant in the ground for eight years. In
spite of the lack of rain, the long root
ed Peruvian cotton is grown in the
dried up river bed, furnishing crons
that yield subsistence to the natives.
Mammoth squashes may have a de-
termining effect on the success of the
no license campaign in Scituate. Mass.
The huge vegetables, covered with an
propriate inscriptions, are being dis
trfbuted, instead of campaign Iitera-
ture. Walter Scott Harsub, liquor Of
nicer of the town, has fought the illegal
liquor sellers so hard that they want
MIN removed at the town meeting on
March 2. Last summer, when his
squasheS were yet small, he scratched
with a sharp nail various inscriptions
across each squash. The sap oozed out
and as the vegetable grew, hardened
into raised letters. The squashes at
famed the largest size ever seen in
Scituate. Some squaShes are being
sold. Others are being given away to
persons whose sentiments on the H.
cense question are thought to need
changing. Among the piquancies are.
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