The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An instance of curious marriage
custom is that of the Algerian bride
who enters her husbands home with
her fingers placed upon the blade of a
knife held by the bridegroom himself
who crosses the threshold backwards
In other parts Of Algeria it is part OF
the proceedings, too. that the left
thumbs of the bridal couple are tied to-
gether during the ceremony.
There is a peculiar dialect in Eng
land called the Pogmoor dialect. Here
is sample: Fired Munjest wor passin
t'Three Pidgins wun day. wen t'lan'-
lord happ' min to see him, SEE: "Ah've
putten two tickets dahn ia thee. WeT
| haVvin a rattle for a poor wumman o
| Chresmas eve.'' 'Nooan for me, thenk
yo', seq Fred, shakin's head. 'Ah
shudnt knaw wot ia do wi a poor
wumman. if ah wun her.
Count Solone di Campello, presi-
| dent Of II Circolo Italiano, of which
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is honorary
| president, has been admitted to the
| bar of Boston. Since he came to that
city Count of Campello has done
much excellent work in sociological
way in behalf of Italian residents of
this city. Before he came to America
he practiced in his native land as a
member of the bar of Rome.
Says French contemporary: Ma
polean 1, like other people, had several
hats of various nights, and one of
these, the one he wore through the
Russian campaign, is again in the mar
ket. This hat has history. 1t was
given by Napoleon to his valet, who
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| sold for $3.50 to Nine. Evrard. Next
it was sold in 1875 at the Hotel Drout,
| to Dummaresque. for SIS, and now it
is hoped that it will realize at least
1000.
"A strange story of the discovery
Of an unsupported art treasure comes
from Canada. A Montreal art dealer
was playing golf and drove a ball
through a window Of a cottage. 1t
struck picture on the wall. The deal
er paid handsome compensation and
also acquired the injured picture. 1t
turned out, after cleaning and exam
ination, to be a Dutch interior by Ten
iers, of the value of $500. Half of this
sum the dealer gave to the original
owner, to her great surprise.
Herr Won Moser, the celebrated Ger
man poet, whose body has just been
cremated at Gotha, had in his possess
sion some years before his death q
miniature coffin made of crystal des-
tined to receive his ashes. In this
| coffin were contained a number Of
withered leaves of laurel each of which
had been plucked from one or other of
the wreaths offered to him by admir-
| ers. The explanation of this was to be
! found in the Often-repeated jest of the
| poet: L shall repose upon my laurels. "
This prophecy has now been actually
realized.
An entertainer who visited the Fill
Islands and gave his performance be-
fore the natives had. the following re-
ceipts for one night: Four sucking
pigs, 800 cocoanuts, 1000 of common
class of moonstone collected on the
beach, forty pearls, twenty-three mod
Ell canoes. 200 yards of native cloth,
| forty-two Fiji costumes. three whales
| teeth. hundreds of sharks teeth, one
or two carloads of beautiful coral.
| war implements, such as spears, knob
| sticks and knives. native mats and
pillows and seven grog bowls.
"A report from Cuba says that a
parcel Of the dearest cigars in the
world. $500 in number, has just been
| dispatched from the famous Vueto-
Abajo tobacco fields in Cuba, for the
consumption of an American multi
millionaire smoker. The price of one
! of these cigars is equal to 81. so. None
| but the most faultlesS leaves are used
| in their production. The making of
them is restricted to the most expert
enced workers, who can only make a
| few cigars day. Every cigar is wrap
| ped in fine Japanese paper, and en-
closed in small air-tight box of per-
| fumed wood.
According to Prof. Garner, the en-
tire language of the chimpanzee can
be summed up in from twenty-five to
| fifty words. Ten of these words, he
says, he has learned himself so that
he can make himself understood by
our sin1ian relatives. In tone, pitch
and meditation the sounds are within
the compass of the human voice, but
two of the sounds are much greater in
| volume than it is possible for the hu-
man lungs to reach. Ecgk is monkey
| Tor look out" and "cheny" means
drink" The professor has proved to
his own satisfaction that many mon
Keys have acute faculties of perception
OF form, color number and dimensions.
| hOiO IAaH Thirteen years ago a
guide named Andre Untersteiner was
lost in the Austrian Alps. 1t was sup
| posed that he had fallen into a creyasse.
but all attempts to find his body prov
| ed unavailing. Meanwhile the glaciers
slowly slipped downward into the VAL
ley and short time ago, near the
! village of Grossvenediger, a body was
discovered frozen hard in the ice at
the foot of a glacier. John Inter
steiner recognized the body as that of
his long-lost brother, Andre, and it
was with some difficulty that the re-
mains of the unfortunate guide were
extracted from the ice which had
intombed them for so long.
"A few years ago accommodations in
the highlands of Scotland were very
primitive. 1t is related that a voune
Duchess OF Gordon. on inquiring how
the late duchess managed to entertain
| so much company at Kinrara, where
there seemed no room, was told by the
butler that for weeks at a time he had
slept on the top of the kitchen dresser.
A niece and two other young ladies'
were known to have slept in the OUCH
ess bedroom, which probably was not
large, for they were sent out to wash
In the neighboring brook. Miss Mac
| donell OF Glengarry, who told this.
said also that there was a waterfall
near Ochtertyre which the late Sir
William Murray and his brothers used
as their shower bath.
One of the most extraordinary per-
sons in Paris at the present moment
| is the barrister, who is known at the