The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The removal of Tintorettos huge
painting of 1.-The Last Judgment" in
the Doge's palace, at Venice, revealed
no fewer than fifty cracks in the wall.
They were promptly filled with cement
and mortar.
by the will of the late Count Wal
dersee, field marshal in the German
army, the valuable insignia of his Or
der of the Black Eagle, set with dia-
monds, is 10 be sold for the benefit of
the needy soldiers in his old regiment.
apace. The newest regulations forbid
a soldier to wear his cap on the back
of his head, even when he is on fur
lough,- to carry cigarettes behind his
ears, to put his hands in his pockets,
or to go without his waist belt.
-Cannibalism is still practiced in
New Guinea and Solomon Islands in
the Pacific; in the Muri river county.
West Africa; in several parts of South
America, including Colombia, and is
believed to be practiced in Northern
Luzon. P. l.. and in the voodoo wor-
ship of Hayti.
"A basalt steel found by Rev. Scheil,
Roman Catholic priest, in the arch
Biological museum at Constantinople,
has on it an Assyrian inscription of
King Nobonod of 1.-THE sixth century be-
fore Christ, telling of the destruction
of Nineveh. No other record of the kind
has ever been found.
Prof. E. w. Wordsworth, of the
department of entomology of the Uni
versity of California, has for some time
been interesting himself in the culture
of the silk worm on the Pacific slope.
He is trying to determine whether silk
worms can be raised in California on
such a scale as to make the venture a
commercial success.
Capital punishment is in vogue in
Japan, but no one-not even the exc
cutioner-witnesse the actual dispatch
of the condemned man, who is placed
in a kind of box and left to himself
as soon as the moose is adjusted The
floor of the box falls when the signal
is given, and the murderer drops into
eternity unseen.
Mime. Emma Mantle Babnigg, a
once famous operatic singer, has just
died in Vienna at the age of eighty.
She was a friend of Queen Victoria,
the Empress Elizabeth and Napoleon
III. She sang in London before Queen
Victoria frequently between 1910 and
1850 and remained in correspondence
with the Queen during her majesty's
lifetime.
"A Wesleyan minister in the north of
London possesses a wonderful ring. In
appearance it is an ordinary gold sig
net ring. but it is, in addition, a per-
feet little musical box. BY touching
tiny spring and holding the ring close
to the ear one can hear a hymn tune
BY placing the ring on a box the
charming tones of this unique ring can
be heard all over a large room.
--One of the results of the recent
Anglo-Frencht agreement is a renewal
of the scheme for tunneling the chan
mel between France and England The
London and Paris Chambers of Com
merce are leading in the matter. 1t is
nearly nifty years since the tunnel pro-
Ject was first put upon a practical ba-
Sis OF experiment, but since then the
original estimate of cost has been re-
duced from s50,O0o,OO0 to $20,0O0,OOO.
vTriplets eighty years old celebrated
their birthday d few days ago in Hills
dale, parish of Upham, near Moncton,
N. B. The three have lived in the
same place all their lives. They are
Richard, James and Deborah De Bow,
the children of William De Bow. A
number of relatives and friends waited
upon the triplets and presented to them
purse of money. The triplets are all
in good health and appear to have a
good chance of reaching the century
mark.
The German exhibit in the Art Pal
ace at the Worlds Fair is the finest
display ever made by Germany in
foreign country. Peter Braun's mar
bIes of Adam and Eve" AID Christ
ana the ChtldTen.' are among the no
table sculpture represented. Of the
paintings, Thor A. Van NVerner's six
large canvases are attracting much
attention. One of these depicts a sit
ting OF the great international con-
gress of 1878. in Berlin, Of which Bis
marck is the central figure.
"A recent statement in the Scientific
American says that NJ. Chevalier. the
noted French explorer, has Just return
ed from prolonged trip through Cen
trail Africa, where he secured a valua-
bic collection of interesting documents
and photographs of the country and it's
people. monograph, which he took
with him was the medium for obtain
ing records of the languages Of the va
ricus natives in the regions which he
explored. In course of lectures which
NJ. Chevalier is to deliver he intends
to reproduce these records.
There is now a bill before the Span
ish Cortes, proposed by the Minister OF
Finance, TO encourage the cultivation
of cotton. All land devoted 20 the
raising of cotton will be exempt for
three years from all tax, botn on Land
and on all improvements made, and all
live stock used on the land: and for
the next ten years the tax will only
be the same as before the improve
luents were made. This exemption only
applies while the land is planted in
cotton. Money prizes will he paid 20
those who obtain the best results.
The bodies Of all the Gears of Rus
STA who have died since Peter the
Great lie in a memorial chapel in one
of the islands of the Neva. All the CEN
otaphs, consisting of a block of plain
white marble, are exactly alike ex-
cepting that each bears the name of
the emperor whose body is beneath il.
IF pound of coal is subjected to
a dry distillation and the products and
residual treated chemically the pro-
cesses for obtaining the we'll known
coal tar colors it will yield enough ma
genta to color 500 yards of flannel. YER
million for 1850 yards, aurine for l2O
yards and alizarin sufficient for las
yards of red cloth.