The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Vatican has decided on recalling Mgr.
Lorenzelli, the Papal Nuncio in Paris,
few days before King Victor EN-
manueFs arrival in that city. This
statement the French Ministry of For
eign Affairs will neither deny nor af-
firm. The Papal Nuncio, as may be
explained, is the "Doyen" of the diplo-
matte corps by virtue of his office, and
it is probable that speculation as to
the part which he might be called upon
to play on this occasion may have Civ
en- rise to the rumor of his absence
while King Victor Emmanuel is in
Paris.
The Shawnee Herald offers this ex-
ceptional value in bird stories: Jesse
Davis, a farmer, who resides east of
town, has a sparrow's nest which was
built in the rear of a buggy seat
which Mr.. Davis frequently uses. The
cover of the seat had worn away, and
the old birds took possession of the
moss padding and made a very COM
Portable home. Mr.. Davis once
week comes to town to remain all day,
but the old bird stays at home on these
occasions, returning to her nest as
soon as the buggy reaches its shed.
The eggs she laid there have now
Matched and Mr.. Davis is in Shawnee
to-day with the buggy and the little
sparrows, but the parent bird is at
home awaiting the return of her young
ones.
Emperor William, 1t is reported
from Berlin, on the occasion of the url-
yelling of a memorial to Frederick the
Great at Doeberitz, recently, said in the
course of a speech: MY army will al
ways remain the instrument which
need to support, if needful, my policy,
so that where the pen fails the keen
edge of the sword may support it. He
sketched the rise of German power. The
army, he said, was national instltu-
ton, and it was a magnificent school
for the education of the youth Of Ger
many in a national sense. 1t taught
not only tactics and strategy, but
pride, respect, and love for the incom
parable traditions of the army 1t
must, his majesty concluded, continue
to maintain the standard already set.
The annals of the Pasteur Institute
state that during last year the num-
Der of persons under treatment at the
institute in Paris was 1106, of whom
only three died, one of whom had not
completed the treatment When he sue
cumbed to hydrophobia. OF the persons
under treatment, nine were English,
two Spaniards. two Russians, and one
each Greek. Dutch and Swiss, making
sixteen foreigners to 1859 French. The
diminutation in the number of French
patients as compared with several pre-
ceding years is explained by the open
ing of anti-rabic institutions at Lille,
Marseilles, Montpelier, Lyons and
Bordeaux to one or other of which
persons residing in the neighborhood
of those towns have been sent instead
of going to Paris.
Several interesting items are to be
found in the decennial report of the
Financial Department of the Corpora
ton of the City of London. From 1892
until 1903 the municipal receipts
amounted to 1881, $50 and the expen-
ditures to e7,716,510. Among the chief
items of expenditure were: Income
tax, G11S,050; charges on markets, 31,-
532 010; expenses of the Magistracy,
ELL, 436; city police, &356,7Sl; admin
istration of justice, 282,072; allowances
to ten Lord Mayors, 9101, 900; expenses
of the Mansion House, 974,941; salar-
les to officers, 1927 ,267; charitable do
nations and pensions, 9197, 1S5; dona-
lions for public and other purposes,
e43. 900: technical education, e3.900;
receptions of royal and illustrious
guests, etc, sci, 900; celebration. of
coronation, G27 $50; celebration OF
Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee,
99,7S6.
The Eldorado Republican gives a
picture of an early statesman and his
picturesque attire. When the Hon.
David L. McCabe was elected to the
Legislature from Butler county, in
1866, and went to Topeka to be sworn
in, he astonished not only the natives,
but everybody else, as he was the most
gorgeously dressed statesman the
county had ever produced. He was
very dark, with long black hair. On
his head was a coonskin cap, the tail
of the coonskin hanging gracefully
down his back. His coat was made of
Wolfskins, nicely tanned and lined with
red flannel. Six handsome tails hung
from his coat tails and tapped in the
breeze as he meandered up to the
Speakers desk to take the oath. He
wore a spotted doeskin vest, buckskin
knee breeches, handsomely fringed;
top boots, gloves made of beaver skin,
a watch chain done in headwork, a
flannel shirt with a flaming red ban
dana pocket handkerchief around his
neck, and it is needless to say he
created a sensation.
Here is a common geography mis-
take corrected: 1.-THE educators of the
Indian territory should endeavor to
educate the various schooI-book pub
fishing companies in regard to the
capitals of the Indian country" re-
Gently said Tams Bixby, chairman Of
the Dawes Commission. Every geog-
raphy published has Tablequah as the
capital of the Indian territory. The
maps of the territory in these geog-
raphies show scarcely any other towns
But Tahlequah is always played up
in heavy black letters, with the star
representing the capital 1t is about
time that authors of Biographies knew
something of the geography of the In
dian country, and the educators here
ought to draw their attention to the
inaccuracies of the text books on ge-
ography.' AS a matter of fact, says
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the Indian
territory proper has no capital as it
is not regularly organized territory.
1t is simply the Indian territory. The
seat of government is Muskogee. Each
of the five civilized tribes, however,
has capital. Tahlequah is the capital
of the Cherokee nation, Okmidgee of
the Creek nation. Tishomingo of the
Chickasaw nation. Wewoka of the
Seminole nation, and Tuskahoma Of
the Choctaw nation.
On being asked to name the direct
cause of the Belgrade catastrophe,
well-known Russian diplomatist now in
Paris gives it as his opinion that King
Alexander put the hand of every patri