The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

offense by the Legislature OF Illinois.
TIE penalty is a fine of $500 and i'm
prisonment for six months.
The Kansas Legislature has adopt
ed a joint resolution appropriating ST.
500 for the purchase of a silver service
for the new battleship Kansas.
TO announce to his musical friends
the birth of a son a Welsh musician
has sent a card simply bearing four
bars of music. They were recognized
as from 1.-THE Messiah" Unto us a
child is born, unto us a son is given"
The United States produces no tin.
None has been produced since 1892.
The mines at Riverside. Cal, and those
at Harvey Peak, S. D., were the last
to be productive. The tin in use comes
chiefly from the British Straits Settle
ments.
-Coincidently with the presentation
of a silver service to the battleship
Alabama by the citizens of the Cot
ton State a portrait of Admiral RAJ
phael Semmes was placed in the gal
lery of the State Historical Depart
ment at Montgomery.
Police Commissioner Greene of New
York has begun war upon the So
called sacred concerts" at the vaude-
vile houses. 1t is not enough that the
performers appear in street costumes.
The programmes of the performances
are to be closely scrutinized.
The famed crystal palace of London
has been purchased by Imre Kiralfy
and will become the center of the class
Nf afcy 10 Ior bNr a
Kira1fy brothers. Several others promi-
nent in the theatrical world are as
ISOLATED with the purchaser.
The Jesuit Peter Zottoli, who re-
Gently died at Shanghai, aged rs, was
one of the leading authorities on the
Chinese language and literature. He
had been at work for many years on
dictionary of the Chinese language,
which, when completed, will comprise
ten or twelve volumes.
Ever since Frederick the Great the
house of Hohenzollern has been con-
spicuous for it's devotion to music. The
latest instance is Prince Joachim AL
brecht of Prussia, the second son of
the regent of Brunswick, who has just
completed the music for a spectacular
ballet entitled 1.-THE Miracle of Spring"
Among other novel features of the
st. Louis exposition will be the re-
unions, of the Smith and Lewis families,
which all the Smiths and Lewises in
the country will be invited to attend.
The Smiths are raising a fund of $10,-
600 for the erection of building on
the exposition grounds to be used as
their headquarters during the fair.
AT Ottawa a preacher delivered a
sermon to children on The Bread of
Life !" says the Kansas City Journal.
He had three loaves of bread in the
pulpit, which he cut and passed around.
One was coated with sugar and lined
with candy, but it's interior was filled
with stones. Another was fair to look
upon, but its inside was bitter as gall.
The third was an ordinary looking loaf,
but it was fresh and sweet through
out. The lesson did not turn out just
as the preacher expected. The boys
ate the coating and candy off the
stone loaf and looked with contempt
on the pure, fresh bread"
1t is proposed to increase the al
lowance of sugar in the army. The
testimony of professional pedestrians
is conclusive that the use of sugar en-
ables one to support fatigue with much
greater ease than that of other foods
A gentleman well known for his scien-
I,tific attachments says that the mixture
of molasses or the residue of sugar
with fodder would be productive of ex-
cellent results for working oxen and
for mich cows. He also asserts: "It
is established that sugar can replace
quantity of oats fed to horse with
out diminishing his muscular energy
The room should be sunny in al
of the eye, for sunshine Is the best
germ destroyer we have, and will make
a room more wholesome and sweet thar
any disinfectant, says the Scotsman
Nowadays it is not considered neces-
sary to darken every sickroom as II
used to be, 1t is more fashionable, and
much more healthy, to let in sunshine
all over the house, than it is to close
the blinds so that the furniture may
not fade. 1t is cheaper and much
pleasanter to have a faded carpet thar
it is to have a case of sickness, and
the doctors and the nurses bills tc
pay. The dark, stuffy room, whispering
voices and tiptoe tread have passed
away, fortunately for the patient.
The Lancet has aroused a certain
amount of interest by barking back tc
the good o1d-fashioned methods oil
cooking roasts, and has taken UP the
case in favor of the Cooking Jack
1t declares that the preference fol
meat openly roasted before the fire is
not a mere sentiment, for the flavor
of meat so cooked is infinitely superior
and the tissue is generally more tender
than when it is baked. Now, the flavor
and tenderness of meat have much tc
do with its digestibility, and conse.
quently with it's real value as a food
Without relish and appetite digestion is
sluggish and heavy. AS matter oil
fact, there is a great difference be-
tween the two methods of cooking
roasting and baking. In the latter case
the meat in reality is cooked in hot
air. which has a tendency to decom.
pose the fat into acrid substances
Roasting, also, is a less rapid method
of cooking than is baking, and SLOW
cooking has very decided advantages
in regard to preserving the nutritive
value of meat. Nor is the roasting spit
a thing of the past. In large houses
where neither space nor expense is
under consideration, these open stoves
have been specially built to make pos
sible this old fashioned but still the
best means of roasting.
lin the reign of Good Queen Anne,
says an exchange, duels were no less
frequent than in the rowdy, riotous
days of Charles II. Lord Mohuu, a
dissolute, remorseless nobleman, was
the terror of honest London citizens at
this time, and many were the infa-
nous escapades in which he played