The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-08
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of a rat snake. The resident hauled
out the rest, and, on taking measure
ments, found the cobra TO be feet s
inches long, and the rat snake it had
tried TO swallow 5 feet 2 inches.
In Berlin a parrot cyclist is draw
ing great crowds of admirers. The
bird conducts itself like an experienced
rider, working with it's feet the pedals
Of a diminutive machine whose grooved
tire runs along tight rope. With its
beak it manages the handle bar. AL
though il carries along another par
rot hanging in a trapeze beneath, it
maintains perfect equilibrium.
Arthur Jennings. age 81, a resident
of Florence, Cal, has negotiated with
an Eastern medical institute for the
purchase of his head. Jennings head
is almost twice the normal size. Ac-
cording to the informant, the price is
500, 900 down and an additional 81, 900
to be paid to his relatives at the time
of his death. His head measures thir-
ty-six inches in circumference.
The Swedes of New York city and
of the cities along the Jersey shore
are planning a monster demonstration
on July 81, in celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of John Erics-
sens birth and the tenth anniversary
OF the raising of his statue in Bat
terry Park. The day is always observed
by the Swedes, but this year the cele-
bration will be of unusual scope.
BY the record of the Cincinnati Ex-
press-Gazette, it appears that there
were twenty-five train robberies in the
United States in 1902. In the past thir-
teen years, according to the same au-
thority, 1928 railroad trains have been
held up in this country, and ninety
eight persons have been killed and 107
injured, mostly by gunshot wounds,
in the preparation of the crimes.
Sir William Turner, who has been
elected principal of the University of
Edinburgh, occupied for thirty-six
years the chair of anatomy known as
the first chair of the Empire. 1t is
the best endowed in Great Britain, If
not in the world, being worth $4,000
year. Practically all the British, Ca
madam and Australian teachers of
anatomy have sat under Sir William
Turner.
Two French doctors have been
looking into the question of bearded
women, and have discovered that out
of every 1000 sane females, 290 are
bearded. OF these 230 have only light
down, forty have a very visible beard,
and ten are Enthusiastically adorned
with this hirsute appendage. Out OF
1000 insane women examined, 49l had
slight boards. while fifty-six had
beards well grown.
Perhaps the most remarkable
bridges in the world are the kettle
bridges in Russia and Siberia, of which
Cossack soldiers are expert builders.
They are built up of the soldiers lances
and cooking kettles. Seven or eight
lances are placed under the handles
of a number of kettles and fastened
by means of ropes to form raft.
Each of these RATS will bear the
weight of half a ton.
Pupils in Michigan must hereafter
go directly home after the close OF
school. The Supreme Court of the state
has declared that such a rule is valid
and may be enforced by the principal.
Furthermore, If a principal sees Mt,
he may enter a store and order the
children he finds there to leave and
go home, and the owner of the store
can not get damages on the ground
that the principal has driven away
trade and injured the business of his
store.
In his childhood days Senator
Morgan of Alabama, played great
deal with the children of Cherokee
braves. While making a speech about
Indians in the Senate last week, he
told in simple, but most affecting fash
ion, how he and Arkeeche, one of his
red-skinned playmates, went black
berrying. The Indian boy was bitten
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Indians thought the reptile hated Ar
keeche, who was bitten, they declared,
because the Great Spirit wanted him.
AS a result of the introduction of
the Bertillion system by the Zurich
police the town has practically cleared
out all its bad characters. Even
tramps give the place a wide berth,
for as soon as a person is arrested he
is photographed and his measurements
taken, even if the charge is not serious.
OF late the police have had so little
to do that there is talk of reducing the
number CT the force. So few crimes
are committed in the town that Zurich
is considered to be the most moral
town in Switzerland.
-To-day's scientists who are looking
for means by which they can resusci-
tate the dead have good precedent for
such attempts. This interesting para
graph was printed in the London Times
on Jan. "a, 1903: DR.. Galvani has dis
covered n principle by which motion
can be restored to dead bodies; and
Citizen Potel of Paris, has discovered
a mode of employing the Oxygenated
muriatic acid gas for the actual resus-
citation of the dead. If thus death and
disease are subject to the powers of
human invention, what miracles are
we not still to expect from the age of
wonders?
Probably the Oldest house on Long
Island is the family seat of the Thornp-
sons, Sagtikos manor is a landmark.
1t is in the corporate limits of Islip, and
its other name is Apple Tree Wicke.
The bronze tablet on the front of the
house reads: "Sagtikos Manor, Apple
Tree Wicke. Purchased from the ma
tive Indians, Oct. 2, 1892. Patent grant
ed June 2, 1897, by William III, King
of Scotland, Ireland and France. Col,
Benjamin Fletcher, Esq, being captain
general, governor-in-chief and vice
admiral of the province Of New York,
This manor house was built in 1897 by
the Hon. Stephanus Van Cortlandt.''
Two girls-twin sisters from the
mountains of Tennessee, have gone to
Vinita, I. T., to meet a man at that
place who has agreed to marry the one
who makes the best impression upon
him at their meeting. This is a case
where the parties were brought into
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