The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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ent German Emperor has caused thir-
ty changes of uniform in the army.
These notifications have cost the Of
ficers of the army an average of 1923. q.
A woman swindler has been doing
a land office business in Cincinnati.
She pretended to~be a canvasser for a
monthly which was giving a set of
dishes with every 81 subscription.
When she got the money she gave re-
eeipts singned ~. r. Dunagan."
A general table of the representa-
tions of the German theaters from tlBe
autumn OF 1902 to that of 1903 shows
that the dramas of Schiller, which
held the front place, were given LII
times, those of Shakespeare 65S times,
those of Goethe SAT times. and the
comedies of Moliere POS times.
There is a parish in London that
does not have a single inhabitant, but
its voting and valuation lists are made
out in due form every year just as if
it had. 1t is the parish of st. Christie
pher lie Stock, and contains the prop
erty in front of the Mansion House,
the Royal Exchange and a part of the
Bank of England.
For the purpose of studying Bib
lical history and geography twenty
one divinity students of the University
of Chicago are going for a four
months tour Of Palestine. They will
take notebooks and cameras and will
prepare written reports of all they
see and do. This will be the second
student expedition Prof. Smaller
Mathews having taken a party to
Damascus three years ago. The
latest party will be in charge of Prof.
Herbert L. Willett.
An amusing method of securing the
marriage of his five daughters. says
the Westminster Gazette, has been
adopted by a wealthy tradesman in
Berlin. AS suitors were not apparently
inclined to seek the hands and affec-
tions of the daughters the father ad-
vertised that he would pay to the ac-
cepted sutton of each daughter a dowry
in cash proportionate to the weight of
the selected damsel, Immediately after
the wedding ceremony. A young law
yer was the first who submitted him
self for the fathers approval, and, hav-
ing produced satisfactory evidence as
10 his responsibility he was presented
to the daughters. He visited them for
a week, and then chose the stoutest of
the five, to whom he was yesterday
married. When the ceremony was over
the lady was weighed, and registered
seventeen stone, the father Immediate
ly paying over to his son-in-law sum
of $4,000 crowns.
Il wonder, says a writer in the Lon
don Leader, whether there are many
dogs so perfectly trained in the arts
of fielding as Jane,the property of Mr..
G. B. Fry. To watch Jane stand well
in at point. every muscle tense, every
nerve strained and then, with very
little bungling and no hesitation, re-
trive the ball and take it back to the
bowler'S feet, is an education in the
possibilities of canine intelligence, and,
seeing that as time-saving appliance
alone Jane is simply invaluable, it
would be difficult to estimate how
much c. BIS admirers owe to the
services rendered by the little lady.
1 do not know exactly what breed she
is. Watching her fielding the other
morning down in Hampshire, it SEEM
ed to me that she must at one time
have been intended for a rather we'll
shaped Scotch terrier, but her evolu-
ton was, possibly with an eye to her
future cricketing utility, arrested at
some point or other, and she develop
ed a strong individuality. Indeed,
aSIe mOUlQ HOW anu t1lGll CIOuCU lAl q
posture Suggestive of d compromise
between am eminent living batsman-
and a snake about to strike.
Here is a story whose bigness, says
the Boston Transcript, almost evertops
that of it's dramatis personae; and yet
true story it is, for all that, since
it comes from a Danish officer aboard
the Michael Sars, and the Michael Sars
is an exploring vessel lately returned
from a governmental expedition in the
North Atlantic When the ship was
cruising in the Danengatt, off Green
land, the crew caught sight of an enor-
nous whale, whiCs was leaping about
like a porpoise and rolling from side
to side, now plunging beneath the sur
face, now reappearing and resuming
its frantic struggles in the water. The
Michael Sars approached the tortured
monster and fired upon it. Then the
commissions ceased and when the sail
ors came alongside the carcass they
found it terribly lacerated, not by the
cruel handiwork of giant squid. An
examination of the whales stomach re-
vealed a squid's tentacle several yards
long. Beyond question the Michael
Sars had come up at the close of
terrific battle between two monsters of
the deep. Such duels are probably far
TdEGs nut II Is LOI SNGIy Qdy We
get trustworthy reports of them.
by far the most valuable part of
Sir w. Ramsay's address at Zion Col
lege, from scientific point of view,
says the London Chronicle, was the
explanation of aurora borealis, which
he showed great reason to believe is
an astrophysical and not a merely
terrestrial phenomenon. In other
words, the sun is sending out swarms
of infinitely small electrons or parti-
cles of electrified matter. and these,
acting on krypton, the recently discov-
cred element, in our atmosphere pro-
duce the aurora. DR.. tombstone Ston-
ey, a high, authority in these subjects,
clearly accepts this theory, for in a
letter to Nature he says: We have to
take into account that outpour of cor
puscles from the sun, which, in the up
per regions of the atmosphere. is able
to excite into intense activity the in
ternal motions of krypton, which pro-
duce the green auroral line Gin the
spectroscope), and presumably with
equal and perhaps increased vigor
imparts energy. to the molecules of
helium which range to still greater al
titudes." Over twenty years ago, in
these columns, apropos of Lemstrom's
observations, we urged the probability
of the aurora being electrical. But
helium and krypton and radio-activity
were then undreamed of.
The Egyptian Gazette Of Cairo pub
fishes the following: The subjoined
translation Of a part of the Kitab ell