The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-28

| of fifty centenarianS, not one OF whom
| is a bachelor. A curious fact, too, Is
that these fifty centenarians were all
| widOwers.
The Rev. DR.. Henry M Field, the
last of the famous Field brothers,
reached his eighty-first birthday a few
| days ago. He is living at present at
Stockbridge, but will spend the sum-
mer as usual at his Lenox home. DR..
| Field was for many years editor of the
New York Evangelist.
The King of Denmark, who Is IS
years old, is one of ten children. of
whom three survive. The average age
of the ten is nearly II. The late Queen
was one of the five who averaged %
years. Their descendants occupy or
will occupy the thrones of Great Brit
ain, Russia, Denmark, Greece and Ba-
den.
There are coffee inebriates in
Paris Usually they are laundresses,
a class of women who are specially de-
voted to the fragrant beverages. The
coffee inebriate comes at last to such
a state that he or she lives almost
exclusively on an effusion of the be-
loved berry, with the addition of a
little bread soaked in it.
David Bennett Hill used to be a
confirmed baseball "rooter" when he
was in the United States Senate.
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin is sim
ilarly aff1icted-or gifted. He and Mrs.
Spooner attended a game in Washing
ton recently, and when the home nine
won in the tenth inning the Wisconsin
statesman discarded all senatorial dig
nifty and yelled with the best of them.
T. - L.
is fond of the national game, and he
likes a horse race, too, but he never
bets.
The owners of an enormous sheep
ranch in Montana suffer so much loss
from the consumption by prairie dogs
of the tender shoots of grass, which
are an important part of the diet of
sheep, that they have determined to
import cats enough to exterminate the
dogs. The first company of 100 cats
is being recruited at St. Paul. A
facetious writer in the New York Post
shows anxiety for the future of the
cats, their work being accomplished.
He says if they do kill the prairie
dogs they will have the choice, subse-
quently, of starvation, cannibalism or
brigandage.
-Foolery is not confined to the smart
set, for even the company at dinner
on horseback is matched by a firm of
New York Stock Exchange brokers,
who gave a dinner on the eve of the
opening of the new building, says the
Springfield Republican. 1t was at
Sherry's, and for their out-of-town COR
respondents, to amuse whom in one
corner of the dining hall was built a
| bull-pen, decorated with stock tickers
and tape, and containing two bulls and
| two bears, while lambs gamboled on
| the grass mats which covered the floor.
| Delicate little attention, wasn't it? But
| it smelt so, PAIL as Hamlet said
about something else-that the animals
had to be removed. Then man dress
| ed as a bun and another made up as
a bear had a wrestling match, which of
| course neither won. These were grown
| men, too-the whole table-full.
DIR. Murray of Carrollton tells the
| following remarkable story to the Re-
| publican Record of Carrollton, Kan,
| about his dog. He insists the story is
| true, but wisely refrains from throw
ing in an affidavit with it: "A short
while ago some boys from Mr.. Muir
| rays neighborhood went to the min
eral springs, and the dog followed
| them. Near the springs the dog dis
covered three little dead pigs lying in
| ditch, and he brought them up to
level ground and laid them out in a
row. He tried several ways to get hold
of all three pigs, so that he could carry
them home but failed in each effort.
He left them lying on the bank and
was gone quite while, and when he
came back he had a bucket in his
mouth. DepoSiting the bucket on the
ground, he picked the pigs up one at
a time, dropped them into the bucket,
picked the bucket up and trotted home
with an air of triumph. Several of the
neighbors say they saw the dog pass
ing with a bucket in his mouth, but
admit they did not known what it con-
tanned"
There is a new kind of circus girl,
just as there is a new chorus girl, says
the New York Sun. The latest thing
in chorus girls is slight and piquant,
and in marked physical contrast to
the opulent, stalwart beauty who was
formerly considered the only type
adapted to stage display. The new
kind of circus girl is striking princi-
pally on account of her increased
loneliness. The hard-faced, dyed-hair-
ed rider with her set smile and ghast-
ly little coquetries is a thing of the
past. The women are nowadays
fresher, prettier and nearly always
|
the past. Comeliness seems to be re-
garded now as important as their
athletic skill. One very mediocre aero
bat was woman called ''The Beauti-
full Geraldine" who was successful ten
years ago from one end of Europe to
the other, not because she was skill
fui in her work, but on account of her
supposedly great beauty. Yet to-day
she would not seem so much above the
average of looks at the Madison
Square Garden. Their dressing is also
more tasteful in it's colors and the
women who this year ride in habits
are in every way smarter looking than
they were in the past. But it is her
looks that differentiate the present.
day circus girl from her predecessors.
She is rapidly becoming thing OF
beauty as we'll as of muscle and dar-
irg.
AT the Worlds Fair, says the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch, it is proposed By
an Eastern numismatist to give a ma
terial demonstration of a billion by
billiondollar q, OOO. 900 O0O) coin, which
in size and design will be in exact pro-
portion to our current gold coin. Ac-
cepting our $50 gold piece as a unit
of measurement, this monster coin
which may well be called "JJnclt
Sans pocket piece will be forty feet
in diameter and thirty inches in thick.
ness. Some other dimensions are OF
interest as showing it's immense size:
Each milled edge will be six inches