The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-11
ITEMS of INTEREST.

LIAC american anu AuOLlcliAdAA ~ C"NtN
has achieved no definite success. Ger
man canned meat can not 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 impor-
tation of the American and Australian
canned meats. Sanitary objections do
not exist. and our agricultuFists Ge-
rive no advantage from the prohibi-
ton; but, on the other hand, the labor
er is deprived of a cheap and nutritious
food product"
The chief procurator of Russia, in a
late report TO the Car on the state of
Russian religion, brings out the fact
that the power and wealth of the
Greek Church are immense. There are
$3.50 of these churches in the empire.
During the last year 1873 new places of
worship were consecrated. In connec-
ton with these churches there are 49,,
65S monks and 36,156 nuns. There are
1850 head priests and 43,743 ordinary
priests. These, together with 5S,156
deacons and under deacons, make ii
grand total, along with seven other
divisions the figures of which are not
given exactly, of 100000 persons in Of
fetal positions. A sum of nearly $780,,
100000 was paid by the Russian people
organization.
"A dispatch from Omaha, Neb.,
says: President Roosevelt's campaign
Panama hat, transformed into stone,
has been received here by K. E. Buck
ingham, assistant general passenger
agent of the Burlington Railroad. The
gift is the most unique ever brought to
the city. After the 1900 campaign the
Presidents campaign hat found its way
to Burlington officials, who sent it to
the mineral springs at Thermopolis,
Wyoming. The Panama was placed
in one of the hot springs, where it re-
manned for many months, gradually
receiving a heavy coat of the mineral
solution in the water. In appearance
the only change is that the straw has
grown whittier, but otherwise its con-
tour and grain remain perfect. The
hats present weight is about fifteen
pounds.
The production of THE Electric
Man at the Kings Theater Hammer
smith, says the Westminster Gazette,
recalls an extraordinary piece of me-
chanism constructed for the amuse-
ment of Louis XIV when child. 1t
consisted of a small coach drawn by
two horses, in which was the figure of
a lady, with a footman and page be-
hind. According to the account given
by M. Camus, the constructor, this
coach being placed at the extremity of
table of a determinate size, the
coachman smacked his whip, and the
horses Immediately set out, moving
their legs in d natural manner. When
the carriage reached the edges of the
table, it turned on a right angle, and
proceeded along that edge till it ar
rived opposite to the place where the
King was seated. 1t then stopped, and
the page, getting down, opened the
door, upon which the lady alighted,
having in her hand a petition, which
she presented with a curtesy. After
waiting some time she again curtesied,
and re-entered the carriage; the page
then resumed his place, the coachman
whipped up his horses, which began to
move, and the footman, running after
the carriage, jumped up behind it.
Louis XIV had an automation opera
in five acts, with fresh scenes for each.
1t measured 1871 inches in breadth, IL
inches, lines in hight, and l inch, 3
lines in thickness for the working of
the machinery.
Cinematograph records are now made
of all operations performed by GER
tain famous physician and surgeon in
Paris. The latter entered some time
ago into an arrangement with an ar
fist of the bioscope, who has taken
pictures for the doctor on several oc-
casions. 1t is stated that the records
in question are invaluable as scientific
documents. One of the surgeons oper-
atoms which has been cinematograph-
ed was that by which the link of flesh
connecting the Hindu twins, Radica
and Doodica, was severed, and which
was pronounced to have been a re-
markable success, though, to be sure,
both twins died of il. The famous doc
tor has now fallen out with his photog-
rapher in ordinary. Having looked
in at several fairs, the surgeon found
that mutoscope views of operations of
all sorts performed by him, from COM
mon bone saving to delicate cases of
trepannng and laryngotomy, were be-
ing exhibited in the chambers of hor-
rors' side-shows at ten sous for grown
ups, children under fifteen half price,
those under ten not admitted. The
doctor is accordingly brining an ac-
ton against the photographer for in
fringement of new kind of copyright
He argues that the defendant had no
authority to make use of the records
of cinematograph pictures without his
consent, as the proprietorial rights be-
who performed the operations, and thus
supplied the subject of the views.
The staff of the Emergency Hos
pital at the Worlds Fair is now treat
ing an average of fifty cases day.
Last month the number of cases was
1,466. Since the organization of the
hospital a total of 5,6T3 cases have
been treated. OF these $500 were surgi-
cal cases due to injury.
Two big, solemn looking apes pass
ed an official inspection of their table
manners at the Geological Park in the
Bronx yesterday to discover if they
had forgotten during the winter the
table d'hote accomplishments acquir-
ed last year under the tutelage of
Raymond l.. Ditmars, curator, says
the New York Herald. Polly, the
chimpanZee, and Dohong, the arong-
outang, passed muster pretty well in
view of the fact that they have been
permitted to return to the jungle meth
cd of eating during the winter months.
The big apes and their rehearsal at
tracted a great deal of attention from
the thousands of visitors to the park
Dohong and Polly when in training
can work through a seven course din
ner with wine and never make a mis-
play that would be noticed in West
Twenty-sixth street. Polly is partial
to brilliant millinery and seems to en-
joy her dinners on parade best when
she wears the choicest creation of a
Division street Felix or Louise. She
has a truly feminine weakness for
pretending that her appetite is that of
a bird, but there is nothing left when