The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
will have representative refrigerating
exhibit. The various uses to which
mercantile refrigerators are applied
win be exhibited. There will be skat-
Ing rink, and at certain hours during
the day there will be snowstorrn.
Recently issued instructions pre-
scribe that, in the garrison kitchens and
canteens of the German army, home
| produce only shall be, so far as posi-
| Bile, used. American lard and fat are
not to be eaten. The use even of for
eign jams and conserves is forbidden.
Mature seems to have provided that
no poison which acts externally shall
have any effect internally and vice
versa. Thus the most deadly snake
| venom can be swallowed with impun-
ity. the juice Of the stomach presuma
bly, decomposing 1t and rendering it
| harmless.
In New Holland the women cut
themselves with shells. and, keeping
the wounds open long time, form scars
In the flesh, which they deem highly
| ornamental. Another mark of beauty
consists of having finger-nails so long
that castings of bamboo are necessary
to protect them from injury.
The flag of the Cuban Republic
was hoisted for the first time in Paris
on May rs, when Senior Merchant, the
newly appointed Cuban Minister to
France, took possession of his lega-
| ton. Several of the Paris papers de-
scribed the flag, and some present pic
| lures of it in black and white. They
think it IS a suggestive and pretty
flag"
-"Shakespeare has a statue on
Paris boulevard" said a Frenchman
the other day, in speaking of the An
lo-French raprochement. LAS re-
ciprocated courtesy, why not give Vic
tor Hugo his statue on a London
square? Treaties may serve to bind
governments, but homage rendered up
on foreign soil to great men does more
to bring people together"
The Paris municipal returns for
the week ended May 20 show that the
number of deaths registered was 923,
as compared with $50 for the previous
week and with the average of 9S4.
There were So deaths from violence,
including % suicides. The number of
marriages was 476, and 1,024 children
were born, (519 boys and sos girls, 313
Prof. Ludwig Stieda of Berlin has
published a brochure addressed to the
faculties of German medical colleges,
protesting against the presence of
women students at lectures. He would
not exclude women from medical
study, but believes that they should
be instructed in separate class rooms.
He bases his protest on the ground
that CONSTRUCTION cannot be thor
ough.
Those states which are noted for
the production of forage crops not only
have maintained the original fertility
of the soil, but they spend for CONNER
cial fertilizers less than per cent. of
the annual size of their crops, while
those states which pay least attention
to forage crops have impoverished the
soil and spend annually for fertilizers
from 5 to 9 per cent. of the total value
of their crops.
Gov. Bailey of Kansas takes the
stand that as a rule one ought not to
aspire to Office until he has made some
Roadway in the worlds material pros
perity and has something laid away for
rainy day. He points to the impossi-
bility of ones saving money when hold
| ing office and pictures the hardships
| that fall upon a multitude who must
inevitably yield their places in the pub
lice service to somebody else.
The japanese tradesmen of Toxic
are becoming very fond of hanging out
English signs In one street appears
| the notice: Restaurant shop; Euro
pean nourishing cakes" Another shop
keeper has in large letters over his
doorway the words: photographer
executed" the principal barber of the
town calls himself a ''headcutter," and
has taken to wearing a long white
gown OF approved nightshirt pattern.
Sioux City is much wrought up
over squabble now going on between
the principal shoe dealer of the city
and the wholesale grocers. To boom
| his trade the shoe dealer decided to
have coffee sale. and he advertised
| large quantities of the berry at cents
pound After a few days the whole
| salers refused to sell to him. and he
bought of the retailers. Now the
wholesalers have gone into court to ask
| for an injunction to prevent him from
selling a coffee for less than the mar
ket prices.
The only surviving member of
Lord Derby's administration is the
LUKE Oh hutlanos VINO is now in his
eighty-f1fth year. As Lord John Man
ners the duke served two terms as
postmaster general There is a story
to the effect that in a country post
office the damsel in charge treated
Lord John very uncivilly not being
aware, of course, of his identity. When
her attitude became unbearable the
stranger handed in his card. inscribed
Manners and the hint was both
complete and immediate in it's effect.
Animals vary greatly in the length
of their lives. Elephants, eagles and
parrots may celebrate their hundredth
birthday, but our domesticated beasts
are thought to be aged when they
have reached a quarter of a hundred.
A horse is old at twenty. a donkey at
twenty-five and cat or dog at fifteen.
The span of existence allotted to in
sects is shorter STILL the fly and the
butterfly commonly enjoying but one
summer of vigorous life, and then be-
ing taken off by the cold, If they are
not previously snapped up by a bird
If the remarkable specimen Of
Australian opal which has been
brought to light only turns out as well
in the cutting as is hoped the result
will be a solid mass of beautiful stone
fully eight inches long by five inches
wide, and will probably be the largest
piece OF good opal known in the
world. At present the biggest gem is
that In possession of the Queen of the
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