The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Dublin for the purpose of erecting a
worthy monument to the poet Thomas
Moore in the place of the mean and
! ugly statue which now stands in Col
lege street.
"A Mormon once argued polygamy
with Mark Twain. The Mormon in
sisted that polygamy was moral and
he defied Twain to cite any passage
of scripture that forbade the practice.
Well said the humorist, how about
that passage that tells US no man can
serve two masters?'
1t is thought that the turbine will
prove especially efficient with the use
of superheated steam. SuperEeated
steam in the reciprocating engine is
Objectionable, owing to the difficulty
presented by internal friction and the
great wear caused TO cylinders and
valve liners. With the turbine these
difficulties are entirely eliminated.
james J. Hill, pioneer railroad king
of the Northwest, has herculean preju-
dices. Among other things ne dislikes
bells. He owns the finest sleighs and
horses in ST. Paul, but no jingling ac-
companies his sleighing. For the same
reason he has little use for telephones
and never uses one when it can be
avoided. Mr.. Hill maintains offices
in several cities, but none of them is
equipped with that modern con-
venience so essential to the average
business man.
"A curious instance of the formation
of artificial snow was witnessed in the
town of Agen, in France, recently. \
hre broke out in sawmill when the
temperature was 10 degrees below
freezing point. The water thrown upon
the fire was instantly vaporized, and,
rising in the cold, dry air, was imme-
dlately condensed and fell as snow.
With bright starlight and a strong
northwest wind blowing, the whirling
snow above and the raging fire below,
a brilliant spectacle was presented.
When Joseph F. Smith, head of the
Mormon Church, was in Washington
to testify before the Smoot Investigat-
ing Committee, he was visited by d
young man who seemed greatly inter-
ested in what the president had to say
about Mormon affairs. After a
lengthy conversation President Smith,
VINO was much gratified at having so
attentive a listener, said: Young
man, l hope this discourse will be
profitable to you" 1T certainly will, -
replied the visitor. Il am a reporter
and I'm on space"
Frau Elise Schaaf, who recently
committed suicide in Berlin, was one
of the most prominent champions of
woman suffrage in Germany, but she
was so extreme in her views and so
violent in language that the more con-
sentative suffragists repudiated her
The manuscript of a book which she
intended to call How l Became a
Sutfragist," was submitted to several
friendly members of the German Par
lament, all of whom counseled her to
suppress it because it would result in
a number of libel suits.
Anthony Suda of St Louis lives in
a house at 3012 Wisconsin avenue, for
which he pays a rental of / cent 3
month. This rental is charged by his
employers, the Lecoutour Bros. Stair
Manufacturing Company, and Suda 5
task is that of acting as Waterman
at the factory, almost adjoining his
home. The Lecoutours state that they
charge Suda l cent a month rent for
the house in order that he would be
entitled to thirty days notice before
eviction in the event of the property
passing into other hands.
Occasionally Verestchagin, in his
efforts after realism, made some
strange mistakes. There is, for in
stance, picture of his representing
the execution of rebels during the In
dian mutiny which is very powerful
Unfortunately, however, the artist had
not apparently known of the change in
British military costume, and in con-
sequence the British soldiers in the
ipt
helmets which did not come into use
in the army for more than a quarter of
2 century after the mutiny.
What seems an instance of almost
excessive hero worship, even in the
subjects of the Kaiser, is reported from
Berlin. A memorial stone is now be-
ing erected in the Schorfieide, near
Zehdenick, on the spot on which the
Emperor stood when he killed his one
thousandth stag. The stone, which
weighs some fifty tons, bears the in
scription: Our most illus trious mar
grave and lord, Emperor Wilhelm II.
stood here on the Goth of September,
Ammo Domini 1898, when Staying his
ore thousandth stag of twenty tines"
THE life of Miss Jenner. who died
in Wales recently, affords a curious
parallel with that of Miss Elite in
BLEAK House" Miss Elite was con-
stantly seen in the courts while the in
terminable case of Jarndyce VS.. Jarn-
dyce was "on," and Miss Jenner had
as strong a mania for litigation, She
spent some forty years of her life in
an endeaVor to prove right to the
WenVoe castle estates and was a very
familiar figure at the law courts. An
other hobby of hers was to petition the
Home Secretary on behalf of women
sentenced to death.
One of the latest devices of the
smuggler is to bring in rings, watches
and other compact articles of value
concealed in books. A thick. innocent
looking volume is selected for the pur
pose and a hole followed out in The
center large enough TO receive the
struggled goods The book is then
closed and tied up. Its weight offers
no clew to the presence of the valua
bles, even if the inspector should take
it in his hand and a book is. of
course, likely to pass master even with
the most careful customs agents. One
of these books is in a Worlds Fair
exhibit.
The sciaras, of the genus tipulx
tiny, wormlike creatures which are
found in the forests of Norway and
Hungary during the month of July
or early in August, gather in huge
numbers preparatory to migrating In
search of food or for change of con-
ditions. When setting out on this