The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-10

Thirteen snuffboxes in agate and
jasper, ornamented with gold and pre-
cious stones, and formerly the prop
erty of Frederick the Great, have been
presented by the Kaiser to the Ho-
henzollern Museum.
The latest thing at Paris is the
sending out of engraved cards to an
nounce a divorce. 1t is said to save
much gossip and scandal in the news
papers. 1t sounds well, but is the
amount of the alimony put on the
card?
1t has been learned that the recent
big fire in Indian Territory was caused
by a "tenderfoot" who neglected to
put out cigarette butt which he
threw on the ground. Many of the
fires in our woods are caused by this
same brand of fool
"A dance was recently held at AL
bion, Ia. and, sad to say, it broke up
in a general row. Now an ordinance
has been passed there which makes
every one who wishes to attend dance
present a certificate of good character
20 the city clerk and pay SIS for a
dancing license.
"A project is on foot at Nome,
Alaska, to build a gambling casino on
the ice of Boring Sea, outside the three
mile limit. This would put the casino
beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal
authorities, and would make the place
about as lawless as any such institu-
ton could possibly be.
"A Boston professor takes a whack
at history by declaring that Columbus
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wealthy gentleman, who paid large
part of the cost of his voyage; that he
was tall and red haired, utterly I'M
like his portraits, and that Isabella
had no jewels to pawn, having hy-
pothecated them several years before
1892
The servant question seems to be
absorbing about as much interest in
Japan just now as the probable date
of Russias reply. The Japanese pa
pers are giving up much space to the
discussion of the relative merits of
Japanese and Chinese servants and the
fight wakes hot. The best way to
stop it would be to import a healthy
200-pound cook with auburn hair, who
had first seen the light in County
Glare.
mission, which is delimiting the
boundaries of the Niger and Lake Chad
regions, has placed an important town,
believed to have been French, within
British territory. The Sokota line, as
delimited, leaves the French with no
communication between the Niger and
Lake Chad. except through the water
less desert. This matter is said to have
lately formed the subject of discussion
between the British and French gov
ernments.
"A local admirer of John L. Sulli-
van has just come into possession of
the diamond-studded gold belt which
the citizens of the United States. or &
small section of them, presented to
that doughty champion on July 4, 1887,
in recognition of his distinguished serv-
ices in the ring, says the Philadelphia
Review. In one of his periods of pow
erty' Sullivan ungratefully pawned the
belt, and 1t has remained secluded from
public view for many years 1t is a
handsome affair, about two feet and
a half long and four inches high, and
is said to- have cost its present owner
$10;5O0. 1t bears this inscription: Pre-
sented to John L. Sullivan by the citi-
Zens of the United States, July H.; 1887"
On it are also pictures of Sullivan and
Paddy Ryan, while seventeen large dia-
monds and numerous smaller ones add
to it's value. Sullivan became cham
pion of the world by his defeat of
Paddy Ryan in 1882 and held that lofty
title until 1891, when Corbett gave him
a Knockout blow.
"A curious law suit has arisen about
a monument in one of the Partisan
cemeteries. Some years ago Russian
princess, wishing to erect it over her
mothers grave, came to an agreement
with a French sculptor. 1t was set
forth in the document that the monu-
ment should consist of a group and
a bas-relief to be executed in the best
Carrara marble for the sum of 10000
francs. The group was to consist of
two lifesize "personages," the one rep
resenting the deceased lady seated in
an arm chair; zen grande toilette dec
olletee," with her coronet on her head,
the other her daughter kneeling at her
feet in 1.-THE attitude of ecstasy" On
the bas-relief was to be represented
Christ in Heaven looking toward the
group. The group was delivered with
out the bas-relief, and fault having
been found with the quality of the mar
BILE, the princess went to the law with
the sculptor, who consented to dimin-
ish his bill by 5000 francs. The affair
has been complicated by the sculptor
having made over his pecuniary claim
to a banker and there is likely to be
good deal of pleading at intervals for
several weeks.
"A German psychologist has been
exploding the well-known theory that
the ''tick-tock" of clock is purely sub
jective, and that in reality the two
beats sound precisely alike. This has
often been used, says the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, as an illustration
of the irresistible tendency of the mind
to construct a rhythm, and the "tick"
was supposed to seem different from
the "tock," simply because it came on
the down beat. But DR.. Rosenbach of
Berlin, after vainly consulting the
clockmakers, set himself the problem
to solve, and found that the action of
the mechanism is such that the cogs
of the escapement wheel do not strike
the arms of the anchor" in precisely
the same way. Tick comes at the
right, with the cog rising; took" at
the left, with the cog descending The
result is that tick is more sharply
accumulated Couder) and of shorter
duration, while took" is higher in
pitch. With this differentiation the
source of the universally felt double
rhythm is apparent. Yet it is none the
less true that by an effort of the will