The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Each fruit grower of New York
will be furnished with a padded bar
rel by the State Commission to the
worlds fair. The barrel will be pack
ed by the grower and shipped to the
talr at state expense.
There are so many languages
spoken in the provinces of Austria
Hungary that Interpreters are employ
ed IN the various parliaments to in
terpret the speeches of the delegates
and make them ineligible to all the
members.
"A woman at Tacoma, Wash,
claims that the Bank of England owes
her 100000 because some ancestor of
hers lent King William $250,0O0 which
he seemingly forgot to pay back. The
woman says that she can establish
her claims, but has not enough money
10 90 so. Here's chance for the cou-
SIN in the Spanish prison to get busy.
Some foreign military officer re-
Gently looked at a Servian officer over,
his shoulder, or stepped on his toes or
IN some other way deeply insulted his
honor. The officer at once challenged
for a duel, but the other officer re-
fused to fight him, saying that, as
an officer of the Servian army, he had
countenanced the murder of the King
and Queen, and was therefore not ELI
gible to fight as a gentleman, and the
courts of honor upheld him.
Some Americans in Paris have
made a contract with the celebrated
Polish painter, Jan Styka, for the exhi-
bition at ST. Louis of a panoramic
hemicycle, representing Golgotha,
which has had an enormous success in
Europe. There is no doubt that this
painting will prove to be also a great
attraction at st. Louis, for it is known
that the Pope, whoh has only seen the
photograph of it, has given the apos-
tolic benediction to the painter and his
work.
The disagreeable fact has to be
faced, according to the current testi-
mony of fishermen of several nations.
that the shark has once more to he
reckoned with in European waters. In
the Baltic, where sharks had been ex-
tinct since 1853, they have made their
temperance in considerable numbers
and several fishing boats report having
had whole draughts of fish devoured
from the nets, which were broken in
the Belt and the Cattegat. A fisher
man who fell overheard narrowly es-
capped with his life. Shoals of sharks
some of them of large size, have been
seen off the German coast, and thew
are even reported as becoming far
from rare in the North sea. Their
presence is attributed to their pursuit
or the herring shoals on the west coast
of Norway.
A remarkable hunting accident took
place in the Forest Of Rambouillet re-
Gently. The Duchess Dues hunts in
the forest twice a week. The Paris
correspondent of the Newcastle Chron-
lcle states that on this occasion a stag
which had been put up was in fuli
nght when suddenly the Duchess de
Luynes appeared riding leisurely lust
IN the terrified animals front. Thinking
only of escape from it's pursuers. the
stag instantly sprang to vault over
morse and rider, but caught the Duchess
Carrying her from the saddle and falling
with her, While the horse bolted. For
tunately, the soft turf broke the fan
ana the Duchess, on the approach of
the hunt, was able to rise with a laneh
ana none the worse. A similar accident
happened to the King of England at
Compiegne twenty-five years ago.
"A remarkable memory for faces Is
one of the attributes OF George Dem
ny, head Waterman at the state. war
and navy building, which, according
to standard guide books, is the largest
office building in the world. It is as
head doorkeeper of this massive struc-
ture after the Office hours that Dem
ny's peculiar gift stands him in good
stead Like the other government
buildings, no visitors are allowed at
the state, war and navy after 2
O'Clock. Many of the offices remain
open until o'clock. however. and
there Is constant stream of officials.
messengers and newspaper men pour
ing In and out beyond the time that
the doors are closed Denny never
makes the mistake of holding up the
wrong man. He has a trained eve
for faces and though an official con-
nected with any of the departments
may have passed him only once or
twice during the regular hours, Den
ny remembers 1t and he can go in
and out without any fear of being
headed off by a messenger with the
sharp rebuke: After Office hours. No
visitors allowed" The other door
keepers are cultivating the same gift.
Pope Plus X is a reformer Of ICON
oclastic propensities who will tolerate
nothing that appears 10 him to be In
the least bit doubtful and open 10
question. says a writer IA the New
York Tribune. Thus he has Just elm
mated no less than six Pontins from
the list Of his predecessors Ia the
chair Of ~. Peter Until now he has
been regarded az the 2gith Bishop OF