The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-17
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homeopathic. S4S at the eclectic, and
S39 at the physiomedical and monde
script schools. Germany, with more
than two-thirds the population of the
United States, had less than a third as
many students of medicine.
The London Times is much excited
over the receipt of letter. signed &C.
H. Warwick" stating that the writer
had visited Blarnev Castle and liber-
ated fourteen rattlesnakes in it's vi
cinity, with a view to discovering
whether st. Patricks edct is a myth
or not. The Times says the writer
of the letter has committed a bastard
" act Other London papers are
making fun of the Times for having
been taken in" by such hoax.
Gen. Andre, the French Minister of
War. has decided to take steps to Sc
cure the registration of automobiles
owned by all Frenchmen liable to army
service, so that the military authori-
ties could Immediately requisition
them in time of war. During the
annual training of reserve and terri
torial regiment officers are to ascer-
tain and register the names of all men
holding chauffeur's certificates, and
these names are then to be commune
Gated to depot commanders so as to
facilitate automobile mobilization.
On the day before his death, which
occurred recently in Moscow, Prof.
Phillipoff addressed d letter to a pa
per of that city stating that for years
he had been experimenting with a view
to evolving a death-dealing instrument
of such power that war would become
impossible, and had found a means for
transmitting the effects of an explo-
sion over a distance of thousands of
miles. The professor announced that
he would shortly impart his discovery
to the st. Petersburg Academy of
Science and it is now being questioned
in scientific circles whether he has
taken his secret to the grave. His
death was due to poisoning from prus-
sic acid.
The Paris papers announce that
Mile. Gjena Lunjevics, the youngest
sister of the late Queen Draga, is
about to make a tour of the principal
music halls in Europe, commencing
at Zurich in September, in order to
earn her livelihood by reciting the
story of the machinatio tons which led
to the tragic assassination of her sis
ter and her brOther-in- law, the late
King of Servia. The lectures will con-
sist of the disclosure of many new in
cldents in connection with the crime.
and, above all, the part alleged TO
nave beeen played in the tragedy by
the present King. A Servian land
owner, d friend of the family. has adj
Vanced the preliminary funds. In the
course of her tour Mile. Lunjevics, who
Is 70 years of age, will visit Vienna,
Budapest, Frankfort on Main. Berlin
BRUSSELS. No arrangements have yet
been made for her appearance in Paris.
out 1t is considered probable that the
sister of the unhappy queen will be
seen In one of the principal music halls
in London. Mile. Lunfevics spe.ai[s
excellent French.
"A military gentleman of venerable
aspect, wishing to cross the roadway
in Trafalgar Square, according to the
London Chronicle put himself in the
charge OF constable, pleading that
ms eyeslght had suddenly failed. The
constable took his arm and walked
with him some little distance. Ian
gushing for exciting incident. the on
lockers quickly noted this, and the
question ran from lip to lip. What
mas the old gentleman done?" Soon
there was a procession, and his sun
posed delinquency was audibly debated.
who'd have thought it? Looks so
respectable Picpocket, no doubt"
Much elated by this popularity, he
begged the constable to escort him to
his club in Pail Mall and after a, short
consultation another policeman under
took this Office, leading him by the
arm. The crowd was now quite i'm
posing, and the criminal was pro-
NOTED from picking pockets to willful
murder. Imagine the public stupefca-
ton when, arriving at the entrance
to his club, he was gravely saluted
by the constable, and mounted the
steps with the air of a cornmander-in-
chief.
The Petit Partisan reports an in
teresting discovery of treasure found
in an old house at Audierne, belonging
to DR.. Pitou. Workmen had occasion
10 raise an enormous fagstone in the
basement, and there, in a large hole
they came upon leathern sack full
OF silver pieces of money and some sill
yer lngots, the total weight being ia
pounds. Nearly all the coins bear the
effiEy of Louis XIV, the others of
Louis XIII, and the stamps on the in
gots disclose still earlier period.
They are in perfect state of preser
Vatlon. The Louis XIV pieces are of
extreme interest, inasmuch as thew
cover each of the phases of that mon
archs reign. The most ancient
those of 1913, represent the King as a
child: those of 1855 show him as hav
ing attained his majority, and those
of 1860 portray the "Roi Soleil'' in full
manhood, the long hair falling pro
fusely over the big, square shoulders.
The 1879 coins are divided into pieces
struck at Paris and at Rennes. In
1858 the sun replaces the royal palm
on the money. Finally, we have pieces
dated log, six years before the ter
of Youis XIV's reign. In that
year, owing to the famine which was
raging, the mobiles were commanded to
send their silver to the mint. The
King set the example, but a number
OF provincial lords buried their for
tunes. and it is doubtless one of these
boards which. 1876 years after burial
has now been found at Audierne. Ac-
cording to French law, the treasure
trove has been divided into two equal
shares between the owner of the house
and the workmen who found it.
of all the pheasants the great Ar
gus is the rarest and most peculiar in
his habits, says Country Life in
America. In his wild state he inhab-
its the dense forests of Sumatra. the
JaVan peninsula, and he is also found
IN similar localities in Borneo. The
big birds are large and tender. and
rarely ever take a wing There is no
record of one ever being shot. So shv
are thew that only Y,,o,Ja,,,