The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-22
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In Persia drunks are nailed to the
sidewalk by the ears. Then when
other people come along they spit in
their faces and kick them until they
are sober.
-Cheng Vow Tong, former secretary
to the Chinese commission to the St.
Louis Fair, has published volume of
poems relating, in the main to the
United States.
1t is estimated that 400 households
may be found upon the Thames and
very gorgeous, and resemble miniature
floating palaces.
japanese officers in campaign have
exactly the same fare as the private
soldiers Marshal Yamagata himself,
when commanding nine years ago in
China, had no better.
1t is thought that George Gould
has doubled the property left by his
father and carried out the old man S
dying injunction of George, look after
your brothers and sisters"
The petrified body of a man six
feet tall was dug up on a Washington
farm a short time ago. The shape of
the head was unusual, the back of it
being very long and the forehead
short.
The Australian government has or
ganized an expedition to explore the
region between Lake Eyre and the
boundary of Queensland. This land is
said to be one of the worst deserts in
the world.
An Indian ak is attracting much
attention in Rockland, Me. 1t was
found by William Geyer of Friendship,
while repairing a road. The ak is of
stone, is perfect specimen and
weighs Ia pounds.
An engine driver was attending to
the machinery at Hays wharf, Tooley
street. London. when the ends of his
neckscarf were caught by the shafting
and he was drawn up thirteen feet
from the floor and strangled.
1t was perhaps a coincidence that
on the very day of the lifting of the
ban on the use of balloon torpedoes in
warfare dynamite should have been
employed by an assassin in st. Peters
burg for the destruction of human
life.
San Francisco can do it's power
work cheaper with transmitted cleo
tricity from the waterfalls and melting
glaciers of its mountain ranges than
it could do with coal if it were deposit
ed without cost at the factory and
furnace doors.
What is said to be the largest cleo
-, - hoe h10 fy,
stalled in the Bridgeport Comm Hos
pital. 1t will be used for extracting
pieces of iron and steel from the eyes
of machinists and other metal workers
who may be injured.
Silk cocoon cultivation is becoming
one of Servia's national industries.
Last year there were collected in that
kingdom 345, 900 pounds of silk cocoons,
and the Servian government is distrib-
uting large quantities of the eggs Of
the silk worm free of charge.
Swedish restaurant keepers of the
old-fashioned sort charge less for
woman's meal than a mans on the
theory that she is physically unable
to eat so much. A married couple
travelling together debfted at many ho-
tells as one person and half.
Mrs. Clarence Mackey says that
since her children were born society
has bored her, as she loves best to
spend her time with them. She is pho
tographed each month with her chill
dren and these photographs are past
ed into large and beautifully bound
scrapbooks.
Streams of colonists are still pour
ing into Siberia to develop it's agricul-
tural resources. and on the shores of
fifty rivers homes are rapidly being
made. Farms as large as those of Hill
nois, Iowa, the Dakotas and Minnesota
are cultivated either by single fami-
lies or by combinations of men and
women in local communities, the basis
of each of which is a mir. or village.
The Persians very seldom hang a
man for crime. If he kills another he
is fined SIS and allowed to go. If he
kills ten or twelve and the people fin
ally decide that he ought to be put
out of the way he is hanged. But he
is not hanged as they hang men in
this country. He is hanged by the
feet and a heavy weight Is tied to his
head. Then he is allowed to die.
After the battle of Waterloo the
Duke of Wellington was created Prince
of Waterloo. and four pensions were
conferred q him and his descendants.
A Belgian paper states that in the
Great Book of the Belgian Public Debt
there are four entries every year of
payments to the Prince of Waterloo.
They are S0,106fr lac, 492fr, S5fr soc.
and Str 47c, or a total of more than f3,-
900.
One of the most remarkable ger
sonages in Pennsylvania is Abraham
B. Myers. With only stumps of arms
he writes a very legible hand, holding
the pen between the stumps of his
arms, without artificial assistance. He
is a marksman of no mean ability. and
pulls the trigger by means of a Irvine.
He plays pool and billiards and even
rides horseback.
The origin Of the symbol 80. K"
is attributed to Jacob Astor, founder
of the Aston family in this country. If
a note of inquiry as to any particular
traders financial condition or credit
responsibility came to him and ne
found the trader responsible he would
write across the note the letters 20.
X" Aston was unable to read or write
correctly and he supposed o. K. to be
the initials of "All Correct"
Some years ago the Sultan of Sulu
learned that the pearl fishermen were
reaping big profits. He supplies his
revenue collectors with sleeves and or