The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


whereas in the well-to-do districts of
West London the average age is about
IS.
The state of Panama has no open
seaports except the two railway ter
minaIs and Bocas del Toro. the center
of a large banana industry, to the
north Of Colon.
"A Chicago professor now comes
forward with the statement that fot-
ball is an aid to religious reflection,
He probably thinks a player has time
to think when convalescent.
The experiment of serving honey at
Sunday-school picnic was tried re-
Gently in Kansas. The bees in the
neighborhood learned of the affair and
the picnic disbanded a bit suddenly.
According to a Paris physician,
who has noted the hour of death Of o.
$50 persons, his observation covering
a period of several years, the maximu
hour Of death is from 5 to a. m. and
the minimum from 9 to IL a. m.
BY an English law, passed in 1865.
it was provided that silver penny,
called q sterling, should equal in
weight 80 wheat grains, we'll dried and
taken from the center of the ear. This
is the origin of our grain weight.
Miss Edna Hail. talented woman
of Guthrie o. T., has entered the
Quaker ministry and has accepted a
call to the church at Liberty, in Woods
county, her territory. For some time
she has been under the tutelage of
Mrs. William M. Jenkins, wife of Ok
lahoma's Ex-Governor, and herself a
Quaker minister.
One of the oldest carloads of freight
that has gone through Augusta, Me-,
recently was one composed of live
geese They were loaded in three
decks, and most of them rode with
their necks craned out through the
Stats by which they were confined.
An unusual noise would start the lead
er to honking, and then all would fol-
low his lead, making a concert with
more volume than melody.
DIR. LIE Bron r. Briggs, dean of the
faculty of arts and sciences of Har-
ward University, has been chosen presi-
dent of Radcliff College, for women
succeeding Mrs. Louis Agassiz, who
recently resigned Dr. Briggs is the
man recently chara cterized by Prof.
IAllOl VI I1dINdIQ, DIS pdIlGIll, lSIlQGT1
candid, just and cheering, because con-
WINGED of the overwhelming preponder-
ance of good in the student world"
The smallest salary paid by the
government of the United States to
any public servant is received by
Charles Henry Gibbs of Nantucket r.
l., keeper of the Bug Light" This
lighthouse has been put out of COM
mission because the shifting sands out
side of Nantucket harbor have made
it useless. but the government allows
Mr.. Gibbs, an ancient mariner, to live
in the place to protect the property
and it pays him 81 a year.
Before intoxicating liquor was
made dear by taxes and it's sale was
regulated by licenses the use of it in
England was astonishingly common.
Not only were there in London 5000 or
1000 regular dram shops, but cheap gin
was given by masters to their work.
people instead of wages, sold by bar
bers and tobacconists, hawked about
the streets on barrows by men and
women, openly exposed for sale on ev-
cry market stall, forced on the maid
servants and other purchasers at the
chambers shop, until, as one contem-
porary writer puts it, "one-half of the
town seems set up to furnish poison to
the other half"
Pima" gauze, made by the women
of the Philippines from pineapple
spikes alone, is as delicate as chiffon
and far more durable. They use only
the best leaves and these, tied into
bundles, are placed under heavy stones
in the bed of running stream. After
fhrpa ia of fhiC
they are exposed for a time to the ac-
ton of sun and air Each piece is
closely inspected to make sure that
the process of decomposition was thor
ough, and if it was not the leaves
are subjected a second time to the op-
GRAFTON. The f1brous threads are at last
wholly separate from the cellulose and
lignose particles and cleaned from the
sap and gummy substance. The whole
is then beaten with a wooden mallet,
grooved on the faces like a fluting
machine. The threads are kept moist
while this beating is in progress and
the separate threads are thus blended
into one mass. In color the fibers vary
from cream and light gray to pure
white. After the pineapple CLOTH is
finished figures are stamped on it with
blocks and afterward worked or en-
broidered by hand.
lection of building material for the
great union depot to be constructed
in Washington. Granite will be used,
but it will be granite of every kind that
has never been used for the construction
of any other building erected upon
earth, says a Washington dispatch.
Years ago a stone man up in Vermont
discovered a quarry of unusual prom
Use at Bethel. The granite from this
quarry had peculiar beauties and quail
ties of its own, not found in any other
granite yet excavated or carved or laid
1t was sort of edition de luxe in
the granite line, and he saw profits of
an unusual order pouring in from the
development of his find. He opened his
quarry and prepared to fill orders, when
his son was killed in the property
Thereupon he issued the fiat that this
valuable stone should never be used
for any other purpose than tombstones
or monuments. And it never has been,
But the stone man who erected this
peculiar memorial to his deceased bow
has passed away. Heirs have not the
same scruples about it's use for COM
mon building construction. So a sam
pie of the stone was forwarded to the
men in charge of the construction of
the great union depot, in the erection
of which the government has become
a partner, after a fashion. The sam
pies of this one stone decided them
They would have no other. And the
union depot will be constructed of it.
From the diary of Thomas Creevey,
who lived in England during the early