The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-FAom the manner in which candy is
served at dinner it would seem that
New York has a very sweet tooth.
Candy is on the table universally. One
expects to see the bon-bon dish on the
dinner table as much as he does the
celery or olives. French candies are
used extensively, but homemade
sweets are about as well liked as the
French dainties. There are a number
of women in New York who make
these homemade sweets which they
supply to families. They are delicious
and are a novelty coming as a change
from the regulation confectioners' pro-
auctions. When hostess wants any
thing specially new and novel in the
way of sweetmeats she goes down to
Chinatown, where she may find things
delicious and odd beyond description.
The claim made by the Tibetans
that charms and incantations are of
more use to them in time of war than
force of arms receives some slight sup
port from an incident that happened
during our last little war with them
that has never been explained down, to
TINS day. SAYS the London Chronicle
On the night before their last stand
against the expedition of 1883, under
Gen. Graham, our pickets were watch
ing the enemy all night, and heard no
sound nor saw any sign of activity in
the hostile camp, and yet in the morn
ing, to their amazement, they found
that during the night the Tibetans had
built breast-high wall many hun
dreds of yards in length, and were sit
ting triumphantly astride of it, jeer-
ing our soldiers. That wall still needs
explaining.
Plus gets very nervous when he
is to receive foreign bishops or lay
men of distinction who cannot speak
Italian, writes the Rome correspondent
OF the Paris Messenger. His knowl-
edge of French is limited, so limited
that it was one of the three reasons
which made him hesitate to accept the
tiara. Everyone here says that the
linguistic deficiencies of the new Pom
llI irted from comparative obscuritv
Mgr. Merry del Val, and ascetic-look-
ing preIate, still young, half Irish and
half Spanish, learned, remarkably
wldeawake and perfect polyglot. He
SPEAKS Engllsh, French, Spanish and
itallan to perfection, just the man to
help "monoglot" Pontiff in distress
80 Del Val is now Secretary of State
ana cardinal, and may reasona bIv
aspire tc mount the last round of the
hlerarchical ladder-the Papacy.
The combined value of the exhibits
in the ten principal exhibits palaces of
the Worlds Fair has been estimated bv
T. >. doch, assistant to Director of
Exhibits Skiff. at $72 SOC, 900, saws the
Globe Democrat. This estimate is
passed on statistics at hand in the di-
vision as to the amount and nature of
the exhibits which will be installed in
each building. This does not include
the display in the Fine Arts naIace
Nor does the estimate include the con-
tents OF the various government stI1lc-
lures at the exposition, nor the exhibits
contained In such concessions as will
be of an exhibit nature In the list of
valuations the Manufacturers and Va
ried Industries palace exhibits lead
with an estimate of $4,000, 900. The
others are as follows: Agriculture and
horticulture, $4,000, 900: liberal arts
S1O,0OO.O00; machinery, $4,000, 900: trans
portation, $4,000, 900; mines and metal
lurgy, 100000; electricity. $4,000, 900.
forestry, $2,000,000; education, 81, SOC. 900:
anthropology, 100000
Chinese ladies never rejoice in the
dainty fashions of pretty cottons, as
their Europeans sisters do, but wear
IN and year out they are attired in
SIX, for cotton is of no account in
the Celestial Empire, being considered
Mt only for the coolies, who dress in
1t entirely. Chinese dress does not
call for any great ingenuity on the part
OF the makers, for in form it is al
ways the same. A ladys first gar
ment is the plain piece of silk fast
ened around the waist to form an
apron, which laps over at the back.
! In the place of this poor women wear
a sort of cotton front, which covers
the chest but has no back. Next come
the underjacket, and the overjacket.
the trousers, the apron and the foot
gear. The last consists of bandages
and tiny shoes for the little footed"
or cotton boot" and shoes of sensi-
bic size for the uncrippled peasant
women. In cold weather the number
OF jackets worn is increased the heavi-
est being outermost. which is padded
and quilted or fur-lined. For outdoor
wear a sleeveless overjacket, known
as a front and back" is used.
The champion tall<er has been dis
covered in Baltimore. according to the
Sun of that city. Lloyd Conway says
that he holds that unique honor, and
IN support OF his claim he has issued
challenge to every man, woman and
child in the world 10 a long-distance
talking contest. Mr.. Conway claims
that he can talk S. 40 words an hour
and that he can and has talked in
cessantly eight hours a day for nine
consecutive days without any M effects.
He also expresses the belief that he
can sS1ssd this remarkable record. In