The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

duty on a portable hand mill, which is
strapped on a camel or donkey, during
the nomadic tribal wanderings.
"A rich Partisan has given to the
French nation the little palace of Nal
maison, near Versailles, to be used as
a museum, and the government mas
ordered the original furniture it con-
tanned in the time of the Empress Jo-
sephine, much of which is now in Trl-
anon and Campiegne, to be restored
to it.
Very few persons know that Italy,
among her other treasures, possesses
a small forest of papyrus trees, which
grow on the banks of the Anapus, near
Syracuse. This is most curious, as it
seems that this tree can only live on
the waters of the Nile, the Clane and
this small and insignificant stream at
Syracuse.
Bananas dried contain their full
flavor and nutrition, and weigh but
one-ninth as much as in the bunch. 1t
is proposed to evaporate them on d
large scale in the countries OF their
origin and so save cost in transporta-
ton, cold storage and loss by decay
Dried bananas are valuable as a sub
stitute for -four and unquestionably
the banana contains more nutriment
than any other fruit.
The British army is to publish a
shilling monthly magazine. 1t is to
be called the Army Journal of the
British Empire, and the editor will be
Sir Neville Lyttelton, chief of the
general staff of the army. Officers
and soldiers are invited to submit ar
ticles, which must not exceed 5000
words, and special contributions by
eminent civilians are promised. mo
payment" it is stated, will be made
for contributions, but there will be
prizes from time to time"
Judge C. w. Raymond, recently APP
pointed chief justice of the United
States Court of Appeals in Indian Ter
ritory, was a factory hand in an in
terror town of this state twenty-five
years ago. Joseph G. Cannon, now
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tiVes, became interested in the young
man, induced him to study law and
has remained a helpful friend, Judge
Raymond was appointed to the Federal
court at Muskogee by President Nc
Kinley in 1901.
In the Canadian House of Com
mons last month, r. G.. Macpherson.
speaking about cigarettes and the
growing use of morphine, cocaine and
other drugs, said: Il wish to tell the
House that we have on the market
| a patent nostrum for the cure of
catarrh which contains 5 per cent. of
cocaine. The rest of the compound is
boracic acid. l have known women
and men to become useless, 10 lose
their positions and to lose their minds
as the result of the use of nostrums
of this kind
The poor Filipinos at the st. Louis
Fair are beginning to be bewildered by
the complexities and apparent CONTRA
| dictions of our advanced civilization,
says the New York Globe. They were
| just beginning to learn to keep their
| clothes on, although much more COM
! Portable without them, when now they
are told they must take their clothes
| off. What it all means they are at a
| loss to know. For the first time, on
Monday, they were told they could
| battle in the lagoon that surrounds the
| Filipino village. Accustomed practi-
cally to live in the water when at
home, they all flew to the pond, men
and women, old and young, and re-
| membering the injunction, jumped into
| the water without removing their
larly gorgeously arrayed in his best
| silk gown, and the CONSERVATION of
| the authorities was great-not so great
| however,as that of the Filipinos when
! they were told to come out and take
off their clothes.
speaking of longevity" said Rep
resentative Maynard of Virginia, at
the Ebbitt few evening since, accord
i,,rr 20 1t,
| produce list of nineteen former citi-
zens and slaves of my state whose
years when they died aggregated g.
| 24l. OF the nineteen persons named
| the youngest when he died was 10
| years old. Two lived to be 100, one to
be 126, two to be 121, one to be 116,
| two lis, three ia, one 113, two 112
| two Ill, one no. one 12O, and one, a
negro, lived to the ripe old age of 1856
years. OF the nineteen persons only
six were negroes; all the others were
whites. While 1 am in the humor
will tell another one. There is, or was
few years ago, standing on the
| banks of Neabsco Creek, Virginia,
tombstone carrying probably the old
est monumental inscription in the
United States. The date is 1908, and
it is thought that the deceased was one
of John Smiths men. This is the in
scription: Here lies We body of Lieut.
William Harris, who died May We 18TH
1908; aged 65 years; by birth Britain;
a good soldier; a good husband and
| neighbor."
james w. Sanders, who has just
| died at Kansas City, was the man who
| claimed the credit of naming the Re-
| publican party, which originated, &C
cording to Mr.. Sanders, at Ripon, Wis.
| on March co. 1854, when a small anti
| slavery club was formed, says the
| New York Post. He was one of the
| most prominent figures in the early
| politics of Wisconsin, having stumped
| the state for Lincoln and for Ere
| mont, and was one of the leaders in
the organization of the Republican
party. The action of Congress in
opening up the territory of Kansas and
Nebraska to slavery caused great dis
satisfaction in the neighborhood of
Ripon, and on March 20, 1854, there was
meeting of citizens at Ripon to pro-
test against existing conditions. Men
of all parties were present at the meet
ing and strong anti-slavery resolutions
were adopted. After a fruitless discus
sion as to an appropriate name for the
club Mr.. Sanders moved that ii be
named the Republican party, and this
motion was adopted unanimously. The
resolutions were sent to Horace Gree
ley, who published them and a fun ac-
count of the meeting in the New York
Tribune.
Did you ever notice that peopIe
are right-footed?" asked the proprie-
tor of shore store. according to an
exchange. Watch my clerks, and you