The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tureG during ner snort HIe.
The little town OF Owenton, KY,
boasts Of 121 men born within its limits
who have become cashiers of banks.
They are scattered through the states
of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.
The Oldest ship in the world, the
mail schooner Visilant, running into
St. Croix. f. w. L, although now un-
der the French flag. was built of Es-
sex oak at Essex, Mass. in 1902.
John Shuler of Hughesville,, Pa,
has read the Bible through from Gene
sis to Revelations forty-three times
and is now engaged upon his forty
fourth reading. He is 70 years old.
Auburn Theological Seminary will
receive a valuable addition to its
faculty this month in the person of
Rev. Harry Lathrop, who assumes the
post of assistant professor of new tes-
lament Greek.
Visiting nurses for patients suffer-
ing with contagious diseases are the
latest and one of the most impor-
tant branches of work taken up by the
New York Board of Health in its pub
lie nursing service.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles will be pres
ont at the unwilling of the Sherman
statue at Washington in October as a
representative of the Army of the Po-
tomac He is one of the few surviving
general officers of that organization.
Eight of the present governors of
states are Methodists; all Republicans
but two. The Presbyterians have sew
Ell governors, all again Republicans
but two. The Baptists have six, all of
whom are Southerners' and all Demo-
Gratis.
Tom Browne, the English painter,
who has achieved wide fame, although
still very young, was once an errand
boy for Nottingham lacenfaker. Once
when on a tour in Spain, unable TO
speak the language, he pictured MS
wants.
Mrs. w. w. King of Los Angeles,
Cal, is a phenomenal f1fteen-ball pool
player. She has defeated all corners
save her husband, who is the recog-
nized champion of the Pacific coast
and has at times nearly wrested the
supremacy from him.
Rev. Granville Lowtf1er, who was
expelled from the ministry and fellow
shin of the Methodist Church by the
Kansas conference in 1902 because ne
entertained and expressed soc1allstlc
views. has been restored to his former
estate by the conference at Syracuse,
N Y, whittier he had gone to reside
Rev. Father Luigi Sartori of Mid
land. Ind, is preparing to leave Tot
to Al
none. The two have not met since
Father Sartori was a youth. Since MS
elevation the pope has written 10
Father Sartori extending a cordial IN .
vitatior TO him to personally renew ola
relations.
FLOR .hustling" Chief Justice start
of Minnesota on the state fair grounds
the other day ST. Paul policeman
has lost his star. The justice says
he was interfering with no one when
the officer compelled him TO move amns
by q vigorous display of physical force
that amounted either to 1ese majestic
or contempt of court.
According to experts who have
been studying the question, the death
and total extinction of the prehistoric
glaciers is only a matter of time. In
the Dauphine Alps seventeen main
glaciers have been under close obser-
walton since 1880. and all have shrunk
steadily during the period, some of
them as much as fifty feet a day.
For some time past doctors in
France have been warning the public
against the dangers of the latest craze
opium smoking. The habit has been
introduced by officers and others home
from Indo-China, and gradually ex-
tended to society at Alarseilles and
Toulon. After being adopted in other
seaports. the mania has now reached
widely spread.
Among American colleges, Harvard
has 5.46S students; Columbia, 1882; Chi
! cage, 1926. The State University of
| Michigan comes next with 1854, follow
| ed by California, 1888; Minnesota, g.,
| sos, and Illinois, 3,2SS. The privately
| endowed University of Cornell has g.
| PSI, after which comes the State Uni
versity of Wisconsin, with 1854. The
| Northwestern University on private
| foundations, shows total of 2,s75.
The department of physical educa-
I ton of Amherst College has received
an endowment of a fellowship of $500
a year from the daughter of the late
| Charles Pratt, of Brooklyn, whose sons
I had previously given the gymnasium,
( athletic field and hospital. Under its
/ provisions. a graduate of the college,
| by year or more OF work in theory
| and practice. may fit himself to be-
| come a TEACHER of physical education,
| meantime rendering service in the de-
partment.
| Herr Zeller, head of the Bureau of
International Statistics at Stuttgart,
has published an interesting table of
the religions of the world. He places
! the aggregate number of human be-
| ings on the earth's surface at 1,544. 516.-
| 600, of whom only about one-third, or
! 900, profess any form of Chris
| tianity. The adherents of Confuscius
number 500.00O000, of Brahma. 1890
900, and of Buddha, 121, 600. 900. The
number of Jews in the world is given
| at 10.S60,000.
Chicago has an alderman in the
person of Stanley Kunz who has a
somewhat novel way of backing up his
| convictions on municipal affairs. He
mas commended that the city has been
| paying exorbitant prices for street
| paving, and now that certain contrac cts
| are to be readvertised he has wagered
| $4,000 against two new hats that the
price will be less than S4.22 per square
yard. The hats are put up by the pres-
ldent and secretary of the Board of Lo-
cal improvements respectively.