The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-02
ITEMS OF INTEAEsr.

| French capital in January, 1S71, is
thus described by the Iron Chancellor:
Thousands of light-hearted PaAsians,
ann in arm, followed our soldi@s."
Near Ajaccio, Corsica, a fortnight
ago, stage coach was halted and
robbed in the style prevailing on the
island half a century ago. The brig
ands were three escaped convictA.
They attacked without resistance the
| diligence plying between Ajaccio and
Sartene and demanded money from
the occupants of the vehicle. After
having obtained a few thousand francs
and some jewelry they went away.
The French government is said to
be planning some new scheme for the
disposal of vagabonds. OF the 5000
Migrants arrested last year in Paris
about 1000 are still under lock and
key. Official figures show that there
| are at least $4,000 Migrants in France,
II, 900 OF whom are accredited to Paris.
Some of them as "habitual Migrants"
will ultimately find their way to
French Guiana, but ii costs 9O0f. Fer
head to send them there.
There is at least one lighthouse in
the world that is not placed on any
mariners chart. 1t is away out on
the Arizona desert and marks the spot
where we'll supplies pure, fresh water
to travellers. 1t is the only place where
water may be had for at least thirty
miles in any direction. The 'house"
consists of a tall cottonwood pole, to
the top of which a lantern is hoisted
every night. The light can be seen for
ton.
The bruce claimant has at last
appeared in London for the title and
estates of the Duke of Portland. He
is George Hollanby bruce of Mel
| bourne, and his case is financed by an
Australian sydicate. Like the recent
| case Of Mrs. bruce, the contention is
that the claimants grandfather led a
double existence as II. c. bruce and as
the fifth Duke of Portland, and that
the coffin of T. c. bruce in Highgate
Cemetery contains nothing but a lot
of stones.
Paris municipal returns for the
week ending May % show that the
sanitary condition of the city con-
tinues to be satisfactory. The number
! of deaths registered was 1856, as COM
pared with Lilo during the previous
week and with the average of 1884.
There were thirty-three deaths from
violence, including sixteen suicides.
The number of marriages celebrated
in Paris was SCI, and 1909 children
We're born, 1865 boys and 500 girls,) sos
of the total being illegitimate.
Senator Plots scheme for decorat-
ing the mothers of large families in
France has taken the popular ear and
is more praised than condemned, more
seriously discussed than laughed at.
In his letter to DR.. Confbes the sen
| atOr points out that as ireIaen re-
cesve ribbon of distinction for their
SCI vice to the republic, mothers are
not less worthy of our solicitude, and
it is duty we owe to our country to
reward them for their self sacrifice. -
Fathers of large families, NJ Plot
| thinks, should be relieved from tax
| alton.
1t is likely that a considerable num-
Der of American cities will maintain
municipal pavilion as a part of the
model city" or install a municipal ex-
hibit as part of the general exhibition
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
NeW York has already made an appro-
priation of $4,000. Boston is at work
on a similar appropriation and prellm-
mary steps have been taken in Wash
ington, D. c. Secretary Charles Reeves
Of the Committee on Legislation has
addressed to the mayors of the twen-
ty-f1ve largest cities of the United
| States letter urging that each city
| make representative exhibit as a
part of the general municipal exhibit
ton, illustrative of the civic develop
ment and progress of a selected num-
Der of the largest cities in the United
States.
The New Jersey mosquito bears the
reputation of being the most malicious
and persistent of his species, but he
seems to have a dangerous rival in
some OF Missouri extraction which have
| been operating at and about La
Grange. Mosquitoes have been I'M
usually plentiful in La Grange during
the last week." says the Indicator, of
that place. They came near break
ing up services at the various churches
Sunday evening. The congregations
that evening were the hveliest ever
seen in La Grange. The young girls
with short skirts were kept busy
scratching their lower limbs the la
dies wearing thin waists gave their
attention to their shoulders, while the
men with scanty supplies of hair were
entertaining their cousins at lunch
con on the tops of their craniums. 1t
was quite amusing to hear the smack
of some person whose Irish had been
aroused by the bite of d mosquito, and
who had landed on the intruder with
severe blow during the services"
1.-THE growth of mankind" said a
scientist, lis an interesting study. Re-
cent statistics have proved that mems
stature increases up to the age of so
years. This is a refutation of the
former belief, according to which men
stopped growing at % or %, quoted by
the Philadelphia Record Boys and
girls grow about equally here. From
to 10 the boys outstrip the girls. but
from 10 to Is the girls outstrip the
boys. AT IL and at IA the girls are the
boys superiors in hight, and from 10
to 10 they are the boys superiors in
weight. But between 16 to 20 the bows
forge ahead, taking at that stage a
lead which they never again relin-
quish. The boys cease their percepti-
BILE growth at %; the girls cease theirs
at 20. From % onward to 50 men. how
ever, continue to grow (no observations
have been made on women, though
this growth is, of course, slight. They
also increase slowly in weight, but from
90 to SO their weight increases very
rapidly Male strength increases most
markedly from the age of IL to that
OF ~. From 10 to 30 it increases more
slowly. From 30 onward it begins. very
slowly, to decline. Female strength in
creases most rapidly from 8 to 19; then.
slowly, to 30; and after 80 the decline
begins"
The apiary, while his bees buzzed
about his head. talked about the decav
of the honey trade save tho x,I,s,