The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wnen IN Danger tHey SHIN SSlGS
and inertly to the bottom just like a
leaf.
When the Governor of Fenghw'ang-
cheng received Gen. Kuroki it was
noticed that the Chinese guard of hon
or was miserably armed. Nearly every
man had a different arm from his fell
low-one an old carbine, another Z
muzzle loader, a third a Winchester,
a fourth a Mauser.
"A Roman mother of classic days
hung a bulla about her baby's neck
as soon as he could walk. Often this
was just a disc of metal or leather
bearing the name of the child's fam
lily, but more often it was a hollow
metal case. highly ornamented, which
held charms against evil spirits.
Two novelties in the way of pas
senger train equipment have been in
PRODUCED by the Pere Marquette Rail
road between Chicago and Grand Rap
ids. In each end of every coach and
also in the baggage car is placed a
large electric fan, run by power fur
nished from the aXles. Power for
electric lamps throughout each train
is also obtained from the same source.
Many of the London curiosity shops
planted in the back streets of most
county and country towns are simply
kept up by large London firms, who,
from prolonged study of human ma
ture, have discovered that people who
are shy of buying old furniture or old
silver in Bond street or Picadilly are
ready and eager purchasers of pre-
cisely the same objects at a rather
higher price when they come upon
them in the back streets of a country
town.
In response to a general desire of
the party the officers of the Puerto
Rican teachers expedition at Har-
ward are making arrangements to have
the Puerto Rican coffee served regu-
larly to them, as this is one of the
things they have missed the most
since leaving their homes. Special in
structions are to be given the deal
ers by a member of the party as to
the exact method of roasting. as Puerto
Rican coffee, to be satisfactorily to the
natives, must be roasted perfectly
black.
-Anatole Leroy Beaulieu, the
French publicist, economist and mem
Der of the Institute, is coming to
America to lecture under the auspices
of the Federation DIES Alliances Fran
caise. He will be the seventh annual
lecturer to come from France at the
invitation of Cercle Franchise de TUTni-
versite Harvard to deliver the Hyde
lecture at Harvard this year. NJ.
Leroy-Beauleu is a brother of the
famous French economist, Paul Leroy
Beaulieu, and holds many positions
of distinction. including the presidency
of the National League Against Athe-
ism.
Lady Violet Greville, writing about
the golf mania, says: 1T has reach
ed all classes: it has swept England
like whirlwind and decimated it
like pestilenCe. If you neither play
golf nor bridge, you are not a man;
you are merely a number. The golf
Votary believes that life was made for
golf, not golf invented to enable one
to live. It is an obsession, a mad
ness, an overmastering passion. The
ardent golf player fOrgets his wife and
children, his business, his sweetheart,
his country, while he is on the links
swinging his. golf stick staring at
the tee. -
The largest coil of rope ever seen in
this city says the Portland Oregonian.
has been made for a towline for the
big raft of piling collected by the Ore
Son Rafting Company, which is to be
tOWed TO San Francisco by the steamer
Francis Leggett, now taking in her car
go of lumber at Inman e. Poulson's
mills. The huge coil contains $50 faith
oms of cable AZ inches in diameter,
weighs little over three tons and
costs in the neighborhood of 81, 000 1t
needs to be stout and strong and per-
feet in every fiber, as the raft to be
lowed contains $4,000 linear feet of
piling, equal to 6,50OO0O feet, lumber
measure.
William A. Clark, Jr., son of the
Montana Senator. boarded a street car
in Butte the other day, the line be-
ing owned by his father. He found
that his pass had run out and told
the conductor who he was. But the
man had just been engaged, and the
superintendent instructions were still
fresh in his mind. My orders are
to collect fares" he said, holding out
his hand. Young Clark was about
to pay, but found himself penniless.
A walk seemed inevitable, when a
friend who had been enjoying the scene
loaned a nickel to the son of a man
worth several hundred millions. and
the incident closed.
- he COSl Oi lIle CORONATION OF King
Edward VII, details of which were re-
Gently published, establishes a record
for modern times, says the London
Chronicle. 1t was considered. until
yesterday. a lordly and magnificent
thing for the subjects of George w to
spend 1921 900. William " and Queen
Adelaide were content with a modest
$50, 900. 1t is not easy to understand in
what King Edwards f359. 900 was sunk.
not so easy, at least, as in the case of
George IVA sumptuous record of
whose coronation proved too costly to
finish. The part which did appear con-
L ined seventy-three colored drawings,
finished like enamels, on velvet and
white satin" Each portrait cost fifty
guineas.
Look around during your next
exploration of Chinatown" says a
close observer. according to the Phila-
delphia Record, land see if you can
find any Chinaman with a gray queue
l have seen gray-haired Cinnamon all
right, and one or two with fuZz on
their faces which might, by courtesy,
be called boards, but a gray queue
never. A good deal of the average
queue is all make believe anyway, sew
eral inches OF the end of it being COM
posed of black braid I have always
suspected that there was more or less
false hair about IL, too; but that is
of course, a matter that cannot be
determined by casual inspection.
Such Cinnamon as have seen
with gray hair have had black queues