The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

India was in 1902, &c., $50 permanently
and 80 $40 temporarily. 1t is said that
a capital OF more than 5000, 900 is
invested in the Indian tea industry.
The annual pilgrimage to the grot-
to of the Virgin at Lourdes, France,
has just been brought to a close. No
fewer than $50 patients were carried
to the grotto on stretchers, but no
reports of miraculous cures have come
to hand.
The Mauser Company, of Germany
is working on an order for 1000
rifles and the Berlin Ammunition
Works are making 100, 600 car
tridges. Under these circumstances, of
course, the world cannot afford to re-
main at peace.
The conclusions of the wireless
telegraphy convention at Berlin will
operate to prevent repetition of the
recent farce on the Atlantic coast,
when one wireless company managed
to make useless the reports of COM
petitor regarding the yacht race.
Elias Crane Winans, a veteran of
the Civil War, died at Elizabeth, n. j.,
recently. According to the history of
the Ninth New Jersey Volunteers, Mr..
Winans set fire to a bridge across the
Neuse river in 1852 in the face of
shower of lead four bullets piercing
him.
in an open letter to the candidates
for office, State Chairman j. Taylor
Ellyson, of Virginia, calls their atten-
ton to the provisions of the Barksdale
Pure Election bill, passed at the re-
cent session of the General Assembly
regarding the spending of money at
elections.
"A bridgeport, Ct, man has invent
en- an engine developing 12-horsepower
weighing but fifty-five pounds. 1t will
run ten hours on two and one-haH
gallons of kerosene. He will use the
engine for propelling an aeroplane'
which will be seen at the Worlds
Fair at St. Louis in 1904.
Years ago Sir Roger Hill and his
son lay dying at the same time. 1t was
of the utmost importance to the sons
wife to keep her husband alive beyond
his father, just sufficient time to en-
able him to sign a will. This she dld
by killing one pigeon after another,
keeping his feet incased in the body OF
the hot steaming bird and as soon as 1t
became chilled changing 1t for another.
The plan was successful and the prop
erty was left to the ingenious wife who
was so soon a widow after the execu-
ton of her plan.
No one has visited Fiji in the past
without being astonshed at the fear
full and wonderful styles of hairdress-
ing. They are geometrical, monument
al pyramidal and trapezoidal. An ad-
6ifinn9l in this nrOdnctlOn OF
the grotesque is that the hair varies
in color as lime varies in bleaching
power, or as the juice of the man
grove in coloring matter. Between
black and white the colOrs ran through
the blue black and all the shades of
red and yellow. Often half the hair
is red and the other half white, CIV
ing a kind of piebald effect.
in Denmark a girl of IL and boy
of IA can marry. In most places the
limit for age is IS for men and 16 for
women. In Germany a man can only
contract marriage before his twenty
first year when he is specially declar-
ed of age, and this can only be done
when he has completed his eighteenth
year. The law of France is specially
notable for stipulating about the legal
rights of each party, and the relations
of each to the earnings of the other.
The man who marries a Frenchwoman
| becomes by French law liable to be
called on for the support of his Wife's
near relatives if they are in need.
"A recent sea-serpent story coming
from England tells how a marine mon
ster apparently tried to swallow the
good ship Glengrant of Fraserburgh.
At the first onslaught it lifted the ves-
al tot 1fx I'm
derneath her but fortunately when it
came on again the only sailor man who
kept his head dashed below and got
gun. 1t is not known whether he hit
it, at any rate, the monster had had
enough and cleared off. The sailors
say this serpent was nearly 200 feet in
length, with a head like a seahorse, a
long name, great green, glistening eyes
and an enormous mouth and teeth.
Some of the New Hebrides people
do their hair up in a bunch on the top
of the head and stain it yellow, while
the inhabitants of Ombai Island pass
it all through a tube so as to make a
kind of plume. The Marquests chiefs
favorite method is to shave all the
head except two patches. one over
each temple. where he cultivates two
horns of hair. No doubt this is to
render him more thing of terror
to his enemies than of admiration to
his friends. His reason for shaving
the rest of the head is to allow more
space for tattooing, as if all the avail
able skin of the body were not enough.
I'm the garden adjoining st. Georges
chapel at Windsor Castle is a tree with
one of the strangest of stories. Blight
ed and stunted by lightning, it stands
to recall one of the tragedies of history.
1t is willow and grew from a cutting
taken from the tree above the grave of
Napoleon at St. Helena. For long it
fiourished in its new position. But on
the day of the battle of Sedan, in which
the power of Napoleon III was crushed,
a flash Of lightning carried away its
chief branch. Still, in it's mutilated
state it continued to grow Justify
enough until, years later, it was smit-
ten by another lightning stroke. Care
full comparison showed that the second
disaster synchronized exactly with the
death of the prince imperial son of
Napoleon III, at the hands of Zulus in
Africa.
Notwithstanding the very low
wages paid, labor is not so very cheap
in Guatemala, as it takes ten or fifteen
men to do the work of one American
with labor-saving machinery. Especial
ly is this true on the farm, where much
of the ground is prepared by the pick
or shovel. OF course in many places
but little machinery could be used, for
corn is raised on the mountain side
where a horse or mule could hardly
pass. The conditions are not encourage
ing, Notwithstanding the fact that