The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

effect that the Grand Duke AIexarl-
der Michailovitch has discovered that
court camarilla has been misusing
It's great influence with the Car for
the attainment of personal advantages,
ana that the Grand Duke will now OPP
pose the camarilla, and will endeavor
70 open the Cars eyes to it's machIna-
lions. The members of the camarilla,
acquired extensive tracts of forest land
in Corea by underhand methods. and
sought TO bring on war with Japan
in order to secure the enormous profits
which they anticipated would result.
-One Henry Jenkins died in England
Dec. 6. 1870, at the alleged age of 1863
years. He is said to have been a fish
ernan Tor lao years. Though he could
neither read nor write his reach of
memory was such that he would calm
~ give evidence in court in matters on
Which his memory went back l20 and
140 years. AS a boy he is said to have
taken horse load of arrows to North
allerton to be forwarded north in time
for the battle of Flodden. At the age
of 100 years he used to swim q wide
stream in Yorkshire with ease. He
lived until four years after the great
fire of London, was poor all his life,
but spbsisted cheerfully by matching
and salmon fishing.
Lombard street, noted in history as
the great London street for bankers,
says st. Nicholas derived its name
from the Longobards, a race of rich
bankers who settled there in the reign
of Edward II, and whose badge, the
three golden balls, taken from the low
er part of the arms of the Dukes of
Medici, continues to this day to be the
sign of pawnbrokers, money-lenders.
The balls on the rich crest of the Me-
dici were blue, and only during the
last half century have they, in the
pawnbrokers' signs, been gilded. The
position of the balls is popularity be-
lieved to indicate that there are two
chances to one that what is brought
there win not be redeemed.
TO the person who knows nothing
about bees they represent the supreme
type of industry, says the London
Chronicle. But even the bee COM
munities are disturbed by those of
their own kind, who break through
and steal. Robber bees are always
a source of anxiety to beekeepers, and
at this time of the year the marauders
seem particularly active. Having
gathered no honey, or at any rate, an
insufficient supply for themselves, they
will descend upon a hive, kill it's in
dustrious occupants and carry off the
golden treasure in an astonishingly
short space of time. We know of a
recent instance in which the attack
was developed and the home bees
killed in couple of hours. Sometimes
hive will attack neighboring hive. In
such cases the old straw skip was bet
ter than the modern arrangement for
knife thrust through the top would
break the comb and set the honey
free, at which the thieves would in
stantly return to seal up their own
store. 1t is not primarily in their in
dustry that bees are human.
"A Kansas school teacher is on pro-
baton, in grave danger of losing his
situation, because he insists that Ann
is Is years old and the trustees know
better. The teacher gave the problem
to the pupils and demonstrated clear
ly by algebra and plain arithmetic
that Ann must be Is. The children
took the problem home and one of the
trustees discovered that Ann was II
couldn't be anything else. He called
the other trustees in council and con-
WINGED them of the correctness of that
conclusion. Likewise, the school teach
er was proved to be, if not an idiot,
an ignoramus, unfit to teach anybody's
children. The trustees put the alter
native Of resignation before the teach
er If he could not reduce AIMS age
by six years. But the teacher refused
to change his figures, and appealed to
the county superintendent to keep him
in his position. There the question
hangs at present The teacher is stiff
necked and accommodating He
should consider the wise adaptability
of the pedagogue who said he had no
preJudices and would teach that the
earth was round or fiat as the school
trustees preferred
The historic Pyx Chapel in West
minister Abbey, the massive door of
which, says the London Graphic, is a
familiar object in what are popularity
known as the dark cloisters, is about
to be lighted with electricity and
thrown open for the inspection of the
public. The chapel which is now I'M
der the control of the Office of
Works, was at one time the depository
of the regalia of the Scottish Kings,
and it was here that the famous rob-
berry of 100000 which had been col
lected for the Scotch wars by Edward
1, took place. How great is the con-
cession which is about to be made
may be gathered from the fact that
access to this remarkable apartment,
with it's double doors of oak was only
possible by the aid of seven keys.
which were in the possession of as
many distinct officials of the ex-
chequer. In former times the govern
ment standards and assays of gold
were deposited here, and among the
other contents of the place are a Gu
rious stone altar, and some ancient
chests, in which state documents, ex-
chequer tally-sticks, and other things
were stored. The woodwork of the in
ner door was formerly covered with
human skin-of warning, no doubt, to
the burglariously-in clined--but little,
if, indeed any, of this remains at the
present day.
The more mellow apples one eats
the better, provided they be taken at
meal times, says the Independent. It
is best of all to eat fruit before meals.
and freely as you like. This will pre-
vent loading the system with a heavy
weight of less digestible foods. Sem
ator Vest says that if a man wishes
to live long and be able to keep up
his work he must eat not less than
one apple with every noon lunch; we
are not sure, but he said half a dozen.
The no-breakfast fad tells us that we
must not only go without the morning
meal, but that we must live much
more largely upon fruit. Some of it's
disciples insist that the apple may
be taken in the place of the ordinary
breakfast. John Wesley once referred
to apple dumplings, as an illustra-
ton of the alarming advance of lux
uries in England. Charles Lamb quotes
a friend who says that "a man cam