The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-10
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Inc former page married MS second
wife at 70 years of age and had a son,
who was Emile's father. He was born
in 1867 and lived till 1852. Three lives
bridged POS years.
-Frans Borich, Nuremberg artist,
is dead. The German papers say he
was the inventor of the picture postal
card. His first cards appeared in
1872, but as early as 1868 German
brewers were advertising their beer by
pictures and notices on cards, which
they sent to prospective customers.
Those are the earliest known speci-
mems.
The whales that swim about the
islands which lie off the coast of Nor
way and Finland, in March and April,
travel immense distances. In May
they appear at the Azores or even at
the Bermudas and sometimes pay a
visit to the Antilles. They swim fast,
for in June they are back again off
Norway. Some of these whales have
been known to bring back evidences of
where they have been, for harpoons of
the peculiar kind used off the coast of
South America nave been found stuck
in them.
Another language is represented in
New York's polyglot press by the ap-
pearance of the Ecoul Americei (the
Echo of America), a weekly newspaper
written in Roumanian. A leading ar
ticle in English introduces not only
the Ecoul. but the Roumanian people
to Americans. 1t says that there are
already between $4,000 and $4,000 Rou-
manians in the United States, of whom
$4,000 are in New York city. 1t like
wise gives an interesting account or
these new immigrants, their habits,
customs and characteristics.
The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin
says: THE German attempt to pro-
duce canned meat equal In quality to
the American and Australian produce
has achieved no definite success. Ger
man canned meat cannot be for Ger
many what the corned beef was-a
good and cheap food material for the
people 1t was a great mistake in our
economic policy to prevent the mpor-
tation of the American and Australian
canned meats. Sanitary objections do
not exist, and our agriculturalists de-
rive no advantage from the prohibit
tion; but, on the other hand, the la
,borer is deprived of a cheap and nu-
tritious food product
"A French scientist has made some
interesting observations as to the be-
havior of different wild animals at sea,
says the Westminster Gazette. The
Polar bear, he says, is the only one
that takes to the sea, and is quite jolly
when aboard ship. All others violent
ly resent a trip on water and vocif-
erously give vent to their feelings UNI
til sea-sickness brings silence. The
tiger suffers most of all. He whines
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and he rubs his stomach with his ter
rible paws. Horses areAvery bad sail
ors and often perish on a sea voyage.
Oxen are heroic in their attempts not
to give way to sickness. Elephants do
not like the sea. but they are amena-
BILE to medical treatment. A good rem
edy is a bucketful of hot water con-
tanning three and a half pints of whis-
ky and seven ounces of quinine.
in feeling" music, says the New
York Tribune, the sound is conducted
from the instrument to the person by
means of electric wires. Instead of the
sound waves merely knocking on the
tympanum of the ear, as in listening
to music, the waves of harmony course
clear through the body, so that the tune
is felt from head to foot. The device
can be attached TO any kind of must
cal instrument, so that one can feel a
piano, monograph, guitar, banjo or a
trombone, and If a wire could be at
tached to every horn a person could
feel the music of brass band. Those
who have practiced feeling music
have demonstrated that they can cas-
lily discriminate between the feeling
of different airs as we'll as of different
instruments. They could readily dis
tinguish the feeling of Home, Sweet
Home" from My Ragtime China
man." although they were separated
from the instrument by walls so thick
that the music could not possibly be
heard.
French society has begun to rebel
at the printed list of wedding presents,
says the Pail Mall Gazette. 1t is no
longer good form, in certain sets, to
run down the gamut, in public print of
the parental check down TO the fish
carver of the servants hall. The Gus
tom has become very ostentatious, and
given rise TO much vulgar speculation
and mental arithmetic. The infection
of the public wedding present has be-
come as great as the infection of the
charity bazaar. 1t means a public
spectacle, with the detective in we'd
ding clothes TO save the fiiching of the
unbidden guest. One of the real rea-
sons of the threatened abolition Is the
reductio ad absurdem of the custom.
Not only the publication of the list
but the exhibition of the presents, has
descended the scale. 1t is no longer
the mark of distinction. And yet there
is danger in the contemplated revolu-
ton. To hide the light Of the wedding
gilt under bushel is to remove in
many cases the main incentive of the
giver. And a presentless wedding is
too cheerless to think of.
The strike of the school children of
Colsterworth, near Grantham. the 9TH
er day reminds one, says the West
minister Gazette, of other strikes equal
ly odd. Some time ago the execution
ers of Canton went out on strike, COM
planning that unless they got more
than 500 cash Ga shilling) a herd they
would starve, the female prisoners IN
NORWOOD Scrubbs Prison struck
against an order requiring them to
carry Goals to the laundry fires, work
which had been the prerogative of gen.
tleman convicts: the beer-drinkers of
Bamberbridge, near Preston, struck as
one man against an increase in the
price of their favorite beverage; the
barristers of St. Armand struck as a
protest against the 'tyrannical atti-
tude" of the presiding Judge; and
many other respectable bodies who have
adopted this form of protest against
injustice within recent years are pau
pers, choir-boys, ministers (who con-
sidered S. a day little better than an
insult'), commercial travellers, and
chow could they summon up spirit TO
do it?) undertakers men.
"A Doukhobor named Vazoff, who