The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Society of Authors member suggest
ed that the adult sons and daughters
of the authors ought to be received
after the regular meetings and given d
chance to fab in love with each other.
He held that from such marriages,
with a literary parentage on both
sides, a superior race Of authors would
result. His suggestion was not adopt
ed.
"A naturalist found black ants were
devouring the skins of some bird spec
linens on table, SO he made tar cir
cles on four pieces of paper, and put
one under each leg of the table. Ants
will not cross tar. Pretty soon he
found the ants busily at work again,
and looking at the tar circles. found
each one was bridged by bits of sand,
which the clever ants had brought in
from the street.
THE old spectacle of a church
moved over the prairies from town to
town has been one attracting much at
tention in the vicinity of Peck, Kan.
The Methodist Church of Andale has
just made the longest journey of any
church on record-forty Understanding
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traction engines hitched to tandem.
The town of Andale did not need the
church, and Peck did, so the official
boards arranged for a transfer of title,
and the problem Of moving the proper
ty was accomplished.
Good society in Korea has many
curious customs. One of these is that
widows must not remarry No widow
in the really smart set would ever
dream of remarrying, however young
she may be or however soon the death
of her husband may have followed her
wedding Married life in Korea is by
no means an unmixed blessing to the
woman so perhaps perpetual widow
mood might not be Objectionable if it
were not Tor the necessity of perpetu-
ally wearing mourning for the depart
ed. ThlS means that during the whole
of her life she is limited to blue, black
and green as colors for her costumes.
in England, where the judges year
wigs and robes. unconventional IAgal
proceedings are not expected. bit the
papers tell of county court being held
on a train. A case before Sir Horatio
Lloyd, county judge, was unfinished.
When ne had TO catch a train to Ches-
ter. il was decided to continue the
case on the train. A first-class ear
risge was secured, and although il was
not reserved, the tribunal was not dis
turbed by any gossipy traveller Drop
ping in to take part in the conv ersl-
ton. The distance to Chester was cut
into two equal parts, and one barrister
spoke the first seven miles, the other
having the remaining seven.
The hypothesis of the indestrueti-
bility of matter certainly appeared 20
be well founded, nevertheless. ie we
were TO examine the question, ilnpar-
TALLY disregarding the dogmatic assel-
tons of the masters. we should have
to admit that the purely experimental
foundations of this law of matter
which is set down and taught as fun
damental, are weak and untenehIo.
LaYoisier, when substances we're
changed by burning, accommodation or
combination with other substances. al
ways found the same chemical weight
after as before the experiment. There
fore he concluded by clever general
ization that matter changes its form
but cannot disappear. His only in
strumental assistant was the snaiss
his only proof the fact that there was
no loss of weight.
Congressman Broussard of T,ouisi.
ana, is, as his name indicates of
French descent. He never spoke Eng
fish until he went to Georgetown TTni-
Yersity. 1T is curious" saws Mr.
BrousSard, how the French languages
mas remained the dominant tongue in
my part of the country. Brought there
by Acradians of Nova Scotia in ths
eighteenth century. it prevails TODAY
and believe always win. Curiousiv
enough, you will find plenty of men
in my district with such unnistakablv
English names as Jones and HAYES
who can't read, speak or write a word
of English. Still funnier is the talk
of the black people. Their negro
French would be unintellieible in
Paris, and yet 1t is the softest sweet
est, most musical speech l ever heard
from human lips. 1t knows no gram
mar, but it is the very essence OF
euphony and melody"
Music in the eyes of the Japanese
says Public Opinion. is very inferior ar.
the general belief being that the con,-
bination of sounds may possibly please
women and children, but that a Ian
anese gentleman could not possibly fol-
crate them, no matter under what pre-
text. In fact. II was not very long
ago that the Profession of musician
was considered by the japanese as be.
ing an insult to human dignity. and
whereas there have existed for cenri-
ries popular songs which waterman
riers and the workers in the rice fields
seng in chorus. as well as war songs