The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-21
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He saved the lives fer forty per-
sons, and was killed by the forty-first,"
runs the inscription at the head of a
grave in one of the Paris dog cemete-
| ries.,
Charles w. Eliot was a teacher of
mathematics for fifteen years before
he became president of Harvard Uni
versity. He attained this position at
So years of age.
The latest official returns of pau
perism in London show a somewhat
startling increase. There are now some
5,676 more paupers being cared for by
the city than there were at this time
last year.
I'm 200 years the stone work of
three successive parish churches erect
ed at Rowley Regis, Staffordshire,
England, has crumbled away, and it
has now been found necessary to erect
fourth church.
"A Birmingham, England, insurance
Office recently received a claim for
compensation from a woman for the
loss of joint of meat which was burnt
in the oven. She informed them that
thC AOSo was Que 10 IRE.
Germany, following the course of
the English and French cotton manu-
facturers, is agitating a movement to
cultivate cotton in German Africa,
With the idea of securing a source of
supply independent of the American
market.
John w. Gates made his first mon
ey by husking corn. At the end of two
or three seasons he had saved enough
to buy one-third interest in a thresh-
ing machine outfit, from which he
saved $50 year for three years. He
invested this in timber, from which
he made 81 600, and with which he
opened hardware store.
When Assistant Secretary Adee of
the State Department travels abroad
as he does every summer, he always
carries two watches on his person with
Washington and European time. He
says: when l want to think United
States 1 pull out the Washington
watch and when I want to think Euro
pean l look at the other.'
John D. Spreckels, who has prac-
tically succeeded to the control of the
extensive business interests establish
ed by Claus Spreckels, the sugar king
. is one of the most strenuous of the
second generation of millionaires. He
is not only enterpriSing and success
full in a dozen business projects. but
ne has made himself potent influence
IN Republican politics in California.
France is going to try the expert
ment of suppressing paying employ
ment agencies and to conduct a pub
lie labor exchange in connection with
the local municipal government a reg
lister setting forth the offers and de-
mands for work and situations to be
maintained at the Mayors office in
each community of less than 10000 in
habitants. and larger communes are
to conduct free municipal agencies.
Maj. Gen. w. T. Clark, inspector
of the United States Treasury Depart
ment, is the last of Gen. Grants staff
officers during the Civil War. He
served with the silent man from Ga
lena" all through the war; Gen. Clark
who is just turned 7S, enlisted as a pri-
vate and came out with his present
rank. He usually travels about U.s.
600 miles year, checking up clerks
in the Treasury Department.
+ Quite as romantic as any novel is
the true story of how the Earl of Darn
ley met his clever and charming wife.
he was then Two Bligh and while Wis
iting Melbourne with the English
cricketers injured his hand at a cricket
match. The wound was bound up for
him by a woman who was present, who
used her own handkerchief for the pur-
pose, and when, later on, Mr.. Bligh
wanted to thank his good Samaritan
and return the handkerchief he was
introduced to Miss Florence Brophy,
daughter of a local magistrate,
charming young girl, with whom he
fell instantly in love. The sequel
reads like a story book, for they were
married in 1884. Sixteen years later
Mr.. Bligh, by the death of his brother,
became eighth Earl of Darnley.
London papers are often illumi-
mating on things American, says the
New York Tribune. I'm denouncing
the policy of the Republican party as
one of standing fat" says the Lon
don Chronicle, 1.-The chairman of the
st. Louis Democratic Convention was
kind enough to give the uninitiated
some hint of that mystic phrases sig
niticance. 1t came from the gamblers
table, he said, and stand fat was a
precept of passiVity and inaction born
of cowardice. A fat hand in the
game of poker is a hand which it's
holder considers satisfactory as it is
so that he does not take the chance of
improving it by buying any fresh
cards from the dealer. To stand fat,
presumably is to play a defensive
game with whatever is dealt to you,
leaving other players to take risks.
But it is doubtful whether stand fat
will pass into common acceptance as
bluff has. Thousands speak of bluff
fing' with no thought that they are
using a metaphor from poker"
Jupiter Pluvius is playing queer
pranks in Oregon this summer. SAYS
the Portland Oregonian. The semi
arid belt, which he usually neglects
until autumn, is being treated to CO.
pious showers, cloudbursts, etc, while
the Willamette valley, which has the
reputation of being always damp, is
sadly in need of rain. This may be an
equalization of favors, for it is on rec
ord that in past seasons when the val
ley was turning off bumper crops. the |
country east of the mountains was
suffering for want of rain. The recent |
showers in Eastern Oregon and the |
Palouse have practically assured an
unusually large yield of spring wheat
and this. with the winter wheat which
was already safe, will swell Oregon's
agricultural output TO more than the
usual proportions, in spite Of the
shortage in the Willamette valley. AS
the farmers in the valley no longer
carry all of their eggs in one basket.
the loss or the grain crop will be less
severe than 1t would have been a few
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