The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

landers and other vegetarian peoples,
well developed physically and of great
endurance.
"A recent Improvement in railroad
locomotive headlights is to send a
beam of light vertically from the To-
connective, as we'll as straight ahead.
The column of light rising vertically
from the locomotive can be seen from
a great distance, even though a hill
should intervene to hide the ordinary
headlight and dull the sound of the
whistle. The searchIight effect used
aboard ships is thus to some extent
utilized. An approaching locomotive
with this device always signals its
coming with pillar of fire" by night,
producing an impressive as well as
useful result.
"A recent issue Of the London Lam
Get dwells on the dietetic advantages
of coffee. Those whose digestion are
disturbed by drinking hot coffee are
advised to make use of it's stimulating
properties by taking it in the form of
jelly A clear coffee jelly after dinner
is said to be every bit as good as the
hot infusion, while it is free from some
Of it's drawbacks. Coffee, unlike alco-
hol diminishes organic waste and
rouses the muscular energy without
the collapse which follows alcoholic in
hibition and gelatin in the form of Jel-
ly is cooling, assuages thirst, is sooth-
ing and has tendency to absorb any
excessive acidity of the stomach.
A traveller in Japan says: II stood
on the Tokyo platform holding a six
inch cube of birdcage wherein perched
small canary. The last train which
could carry me to my steamer at Yo-
kohama was about to leave. but with
out me, it appeared. l was in charge
of a live animal-that animal must be
separately booked and placed in a spe-
cial compartment allotted to cattle,
sheep, tigers, birds or anything that
breathed, not human. A little Japa-
nese girl standing by laughed, whipped
out some pieces of rice paper, fastened
them round the cage: and behold, 1
had only a parcel now. But my train
had gone. The little maid, with frank
hospitality, took me to her mother
home and game me tea and 1 caught
the belated steamer after all"
Commenting on an appropriation of
$4,000 made the other day by the Lon
don County Council for the purchase of
flower bulbs for the parks, the London
Chronicle says: 1T is impossible to
say how many hundreds of thousands
Of daffodils. tulips. snowdrops, crocus,
iris and hyacinths the County Council
will get for the money, but one may
estimate how few single specimens
might be bought for that sum. Thus,
if the Parks Committee put all the
money in the large new white trumpet
daffodil, Peter Barr offered for the
first time last spring, they would get
only nine bulbs; while if their pa
triotic instinct decided them to invest
in Lord Roberts yellow trumpeU at
IL guneas a head they would be lucky
to get forty"
The silkworm is not the only silk
producer. Silk may be obtained from
the shellfish known as the pima, which
is found in the Mediterranean. This
shellfish has the power of spinning
viscid silk which in Sicily is made into
a regular and very handsome fabric
The silk is spun by, the shellfsh in
the first instance for the purpose of
attaching itself to the rocks. 1t is able
to guide the delicate filaments to the
proper place and there glue them fast,
and If they are cut away it can re-
produce them. The material when
gathered (Which is done at low tide)
is washed in soap and water. dried,
Strengthened and carded, one pound of
the coarse filament yielding about
three ounces of fine thread which,
when spun, is lovely FURNISHED gold
en- brown color.
Smuggling was carried on with
great holiness in England century
ago. When Samuel Pellew was APP
pointed collector of customs at Fal-
mouth early last century he found
corruption the chief characteristic of
the service. One day he surprised n
party of his own men attempting to
smuggle in cargo of wine in broad
daylight. Pellew, who was a conscien-
tious man, so worried the smugglers
that they threatened his life repeated
ly and posted bills offering a reward
for his assassination. One smuggler,
who kept a public house, erected a bat
terry of guns to defend his illicit goods
and when sloop of war exhibited
what he considered a too inquisitive
spirit actually fired on her. The YES
sels guns were too low to reply with
ERECT but her crew landed in boats.
attacked the house in the rear and
leveled it to the ground
THE Roman Catholic Church is the
most wonderful organization in the
world" writes H. D. Sedgwick, Jr., in
the Worlds Work. THE German EN-
pire, the French republic, the Italian
Kingdom are in their infancy, the
United States a little more than hun
dred years old; the empires of Russia,
Austria and of England cannot run
their claims back a thousand years;
but within a hundred years after the
death of Christ we find Bishop of
Rome writing to other churches with
authority, and within a few centuries
the church was organized very much
in the same fashion that it is to-day,
and the Pope had become in import
ance second only to the greatest Kings.
Exceptional as the Roman Church is in
time, so 1t is in space. The British
Apple includes Australia, Canada,
South Africa and New Zealand; the
Russian Empire extends from the Bal
tic Sea to the Boring Straits; but the
Roman Church. without a rival in
Italy, Spain and Portugal, is the, chief
church in France, Austria, Belgium
and Ireland and the states of South
America, and a strong church in the
hierarchy side by side with the Church
of England and the Kirk of Scotland
and communicates all over the world"
The punctuality at wedding Of
the chief parties to it has always been
expected as a principal feature of the |
ceremony, and it is a testimony to the |
general interest in the occasion of both |
of them that they are generally on |
hand at the time appointed, and |
braced to the stress of the ritual, II |
I here is Occa siOna1 da1av IN tho mort |