The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Venezuela in June by Harvard Uni
versity has returned with more than
4,5OO specimens Of MOSES, lichens, ,flow-
ers and fungi, secured on the Island
OF Margarita, forty miles off the MAIN
| land.
Recent statistics show an alarming
death rate in india from attacks by
snakes and wild animals. Last year as
many as 1885 people were killed by
| wild beasts, tigers being responsible
for 1,O46 of them. In addition to these
| over $4,000 cattle were destroyed by
various carnivora and nearly 10000 by
| snakes.
1t is difficult in Germany for a pro-
fessional rogue to enter family as q
domestic servant. There every servant
has character book, in which the mis-
tress must enter the dates of the COM
| ing and leaving of the servant, with
her character VIII lie In the service, This
| the girl is obliged to take to the nearest
| police station and have it dated with
the official stamp. thus preventing thu
manufacture of bogus recomme nda-
| tons.
"A London dispatch in the New
York Times says: If puzzles are get
ting scarce in New York possibly some
| or the expert guessers would like a try
at the following: Three boys go gath
| ering apples. They arrive home late at
night with a bagful and, after agree
ing to divide 1t equally, go to bed. Dur
ing the night one of them wakes up,
| and, feeling hungry, goes to the bag,
| divides the apples into three equal por-
tons, and finds there is one over, which
he throws away. He eats his own and
| goes back to bed. Later on the second
| boy also wakes up, and goes through
similar procedure, as also does the
third afterwards, both of them like the
| nrst, throwing away an odd apple In
the morning the three boys divide the
remainder of the apples equally, and
again ind one over, which they throw
| away. How many apples were there
originality"
Forty years have passed since JOS
eph jefferson made prolonged and
brilliantly successful tour in Aus
tralia. 1t was, indeed. in Melbourne
Sydney and the gold fields that he
made his first great hit as Rip Van
! Wrinkle, which has ever since been the
| leading character in his repertory. He
has never recrossed the equator. al
| though handsome offers for another
Australian tour have repeatedly been
submitted to him. In reply to another
OF these invitations, MIR. jefferson, who
| Is now in his seventy-fifth year, wrote
recently: Il was four years in Aus
tralia and the kind reception given me
| by its generous people and the dear
| friends l made while in Melbourne and
| sydney Will never be forgotten by me.
| Some years ago 1 had an idea OF re-
turning, but when L thought of the
many friends who had Joined the great
majority and how like real Rip Van
! Wrinkle l should feel on walking
through the streets unknown and for
| gotten my heart failed me-"
In the days of King George III.
of England the Persian ambassador to
his court demanded but was denied
precedence over all other foreign rep
resentatives. He refused to go to court,
| causing it to be reported, abroad that
he was i'll. He met the prince regent
at the house of the Lady Salisbury of
the time. II am very sorry to Of
fend your royal 'highness by not CO.
ing to court" he said. Now. sir,
| my sovereign, he tell me 1 go first;
your people say must go last. Now
this very bad for me, when I go back
| to Persia" So saying he hade a
| significant pass towards his head ex-
pressing decapitation. The prince
tried to appease him. But, sir, you
still angry with me; you have not in
vited me to your party tomorrow
night" The prince explained that it
was only children's party, but the
ambassador might come If he chose.
He did choose; for he went and, be-
ing the only ambassador there, led
all the guests, thus scoring heavily for
Persia, which made him comfortable
about the neck again.
Mrs. Wolfe, mother of the English
general who died at the capture of
| Quebec. had among her recipes "a
good water for consumption" Here
it is: Take a peck of garden snails,
wash them in beer, put them in an
oven and let them stay till they've
done crying; then, with a knife and
fork, prick the green from them and
| beat the snails, shells and all, in a
| stone mortar. Then take a quart of
| green earth worms, slice them through
the middle and strew them with salt;
| then wash them and beat them, the
| pot being first put into the still with
| two handfuls of ANGELICA, a quart of
rosemary flowers, then the snails and
| worms, then egrimony, bears feet, red
dock roots, barberry brake, biloney,
| NORWOOD of each two handfuls one
handful of ruetumeric and one ounce
of saffron, we'll dried and beaten. Then
pour in three gallons of milk Wait
till morning, then put in three ounces
of cloves (well beaten), hartshorn
grated. Keep the still covered all night.
This done stir it not. Distill it with
a moderate fire. Take two spoonfuls
at a time"
lone of the most interesting phe-
nomena," said G. L. Hughes, of Tus-
con, according to the Washington Star,
sis to be observed in the Bad LANDS
of Arizona. Out in the midst of an
ton of rock covering only about an
acre in extent, and from these rocks,
or rather from beneath them, there
organ was playing, and the strains are
echoed from every direction. The place
has never been excavated or fully ex-
plored, and the theory of SCIENTISTS is
that there is a peculiar formation of
opening somewhere through which the
ducing the music. The Indians claim,
however, that a cathedral was at one
time built upon this place, and that
there was a bad priest placed in charge
of the cathedral, who abducted Indian
woman and children. One night the
ground opened during a violent storm
and the earth closed in over the top
of the cathedral. The Indians believe
that the music which comes from the
ground proceeds from the ghosts of
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