The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A Liverpool magistrate announced
in court that in the event of any per-
| son being convicted of damaging
| property while seeking for hidden
treasure he would probably send him
to prison without the option of a fine
"A Partisan found a neighbor hang
ing by the neck and promptly cut him
| diwn. The rescued man thereupon
struck his preserver over the head, in
| ficting upon the man who had "butted
| in" a fracture of which he is likely to
| die.
An extraordinary head of hair is
possessed by Mercedes Lopez, the wife
of a poor sheepherder in San Vincente,
Mexico Her hight is five feet, and
when she stands erect her hair trails
on the ground for four feet eight in
| ches.
The death plant of Java has fiow-
ers which continually give off a per-
fume so powerful as to overcome, if
inhaled for any length of time, full
grown man, and which kills all forms
of insect life that come under it's in
huence.
1t was found the other day in Lon
don that a stolen dog, which failed to
identify its owner, had been dosed
with aniseed by the thief. Aniseed de-
stroys the sense of smell temporarily.
The dog did not recover for two or
three days.
The Germans have been quietly
building for three years at Tstein, on
the Rhine, a fortress. It's guns COM
mand the crossing of the river from
the Belfort district. The construction
is so far advanced that the guns have
been mounted.
-"Munching parties" the London
Mail says, are the latest outcome of
the new health fad. The guests at
such meals are invited only on con-
dition that each mouthful of food is
chewed thirty-tWo times before 1t is
swallowed.
The disposition of garbage has been
one of the vexatious problems of
municipal sanitation in Memphis.
Several years ago crematories were
established there, and now nearly 100
tons of garbage are collected and
consumed daily.
Citizens of Manchester, England,
are complaining bitterly and writing
to the papers because the conductors
on the tram cars squeeze twenty
persons into seats constructed for
eighteen" and worse still, ''allow some
people to stand up"
For the building of its 1914 miles
of railway, the Canadian government
has contributed at the average rate of
$9,166 a mile of railway constructed;
the provincial governments at the rate
of $1,757, and the municipalities at the
rate of 1878 mile.
neither so large nor so numerous as
those seen in the Antarctic seas, but
they are usually loftier and more
beautiful, with spires and domes.
When the sun shines on them they
look like fairy city.
1.-THE weather hereabout," said the
stranger, frequently disagrees with
me-" ooh! there's man living in this
town who is worse off than you. The
weather never agrees with him."
whats the matter with him?" He's
the local weather forecaster. '-Phila-
delphia Ledger
What is claimed to be one of the
largest clocks in the world has been
placed in a new tower in Elizabeth, NJ
]. 1t is thirty-eight feet in diameter,
with eighteen-foot hands. The tower,
which is $50 feet high, was built ex-
pressly for the clock. which will be
Illuminated at night.
They are discussing in England
new system of road building, which
would save large percentage in the
cost of construction. Instead of the
present method of convex surfaces
with a gutter at each side, it is pro-
posed to build concave roads with a
gutter in the middle.
-Tulare lake. in California, once
navigable by steamers, is now perfect
ly dry. A man on foot can cross 1t
safely at any point, and in some places
the ground is hard enough for team
to drive over. The cause of this con-
dition is the draining of Kern and
King rivers of their water by irriga-
ton canals.
"A grandfather's clock was brought
to a watchmaker's shop in Peterstown,
N. Y, a few weeks ago for repairs,
the first that have been made upon it
since some trifiing ones in 1878, which
were due to the raid of the Indians
under Brant and the Tory Butler at
Cherry Valley in November of that
year.
The states which lead Washington
in the average wages paid farm hands
are all on the Pacific coast. They are.
in order named, Nevada, Montana, Wy
oming, Idaho and California The diff
ference is not very great between any
of the states. that between California
and Washington being but a few cents
a month.
"A hotel keeper has at last been run
to earth at Paris. He kept a good
sized hotel, and attracted the attention
of the police by turning away all guests
on the excuse that his house was full.
The officers searched the place, and
found that four burglars lived there.
and had been stealing travellers bag
gage which they sent to the hotel. The
hotel keeper sold the goods for them,
and what could not be sold was packed
away in the different rooms. over
100000 worth of stuff was seized.
Secretary Hay has two pictures of
which he is very fond, one a BotticelIi
Madonna and the other a Madonna by
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