The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-05
ITEMS of INTEREST.


hordes of rats at the London docks,
255,S72 have been destroyed.
"A walking match at Haywood, Eng
land. for 800 between a legged
man with a crutch and another with a
cork leg, was won easily by the latter.
"A German physician recommends
soap as cure for sleeplessness. The
soap lather must be allowed to dry on
the skin before the patient goes to bed.
The old negresses of San Juan,
Porto Rico, who sell vegetables in the
markets, smoke long, black cigars, and
they smoke them with the lighted ends
in their mouths.
Doctors in Vienna have certified
| that a six-year-old girl, who has just
| died, was born without a brain. She
has never learned to eat or to move
without assistance.
Goldfish are of Chinese origin. They
were originally found in a large lake
near Mount Tsiantsng, and were first
brought to Europe in the seventeenth
century. The first in France came as
a present to Nine. de Ponpadour
Congress appropriated funds to
build five new battleships in which
electric motors and other devices will
| be used to an unprecedented extent.
| Most of the ammunition hoists will be
| controlled by electricity, while a NOV
ing platform passing by the doors of
| the ammunition rooms will carry a
| continuous supply to the lifts, the men
in the magazines having merely to car
| ry the boxes to the door and place them
on the travelling Sidewalk" from which
h@x will 1l1 -
at the various hoists, which are to be
| directly underneath the gun stations
served. A safety feature of the ships
will be the method by which all of the
| doors in the principal water-tight bulk
heads can be controlled from a central
emergency station. They will be closed
| automatically by the simple pressing of
button.
Even the dead can be rehabilitated
in the Latin countries by the revision
of trials in which they have been con-
demned. The rehabilitation of CALAIS
was of this character, and the same
process is to be applied, in Italy, to the
notorious Fra DiaValo. According to
Scribe and Auber, he was a brigand
of the deepest dye; but he is now to
be officially proclaimed a patriot.
That, it may be remembered, was the
view of his character taken by Victor
Hugo, whose father, Gen. Joseph
Hugo. captured Fra Diavalo and
brought him to justice. Fra Diav-
alo," wrote the poet belonged to the
type that is found wherever a country
is a prey to the invader-the legitimate
bandit, fighting against the conqueror.
He corresponded in Italy to the EN-
pecinado in Spain, to Canaris in
Greece, and to Abdel-Kader in At
RIGA"
A coal black negro of the name of
Daniel Solomon has just died at Cape
Town at the age of 100, where he lived
for the last quarter of a century, his
chief title to distinction being that he
was the full-hedged brother-in-law of
an English earl and peer of the realm,
namely, the late Lord Stamford. The
latter, an eccentric old nobleman, for
many years active as a missionary in
South Africa and a clergyman of the
Church of England married in 1880
his Hottentot cook, a negress of the
name of Martha Solomon, by whom he
! left at his death, in $780, a mulatto
daughter, born subsequent to the mar
riage, and a son who came into the
world prior thereto. The dusky
widowed Countess of Stamford has
since married a Boer of the name of
Pieter Pieterse, at Wynberg, Cape
Colony, and old Daniel Solomon, who
at the age of II had been sold as
slave, was her only brother.
"A remarkable tale comes from
tragic results. Snyder and Mountain
Park are rival towns three miles apart
separated by a creek. For some time
Snyder has been Turing people away
from Mountain Park, the inducements
offered being free lots in the former
town and the removal of their Noun
tain Park houses to the new sites free
of charge. To facilitate the moving
of the houses bridge was built across
the creek. Naturally the relations be-
tween the two towns became intense.
Thursday afternoon citizens of Noun
tain Park succeeded in buying the
bridge and getting a bill of sale. Then,
afteF dusk, they went down to the
creek with their workmen to destroy
the bridge Citizens of Snyder had
learned of the sale and were in am
bush on the creeks flank, waiting for
them. The first volley dropped half
dozen of the Mountain Park men.
The Snyder men, perhaps frightened at
what they had done, retreated to their
WALLACE, pursued by the other crowd
with execrations and rifle shots. At
latest advices all the able-bodied men
on either side of the creek were armed
to the teeth, and federal deputy mar
shals were bustling to the assistance
of the sheriff of Kiowa county in his
efforts to command and enforce the
peace.
An automatic fire kinder, the OBJ
Grafton Of which is regulated by IN
ordinary alarm clock, will doubtless
appeal 20 every person whose duties
include getting up early to start the
fire in the kitchen stove, says the Sat
urday Evening Post. With this new
contrivance installed in house it is
necessary upon retiring simply to as
semble the fuel in the stove or any
fireplace, connect an attachment to the
clock and set the latter at any required
hour. When the alarm sounds a full
inmate is ignited, which, communicate
ing with an infiammable substance in
the stove, range, furnace or CRATE, i'm
mediately starts the fire. BY the time
the householder or servant Is up the
fire is burning briskly and the water is
boiling. 1t is claimed that these new
devices may be so set that they will
start fires whenever wanted and thus
nave home thoroughly heated before |
the occupants stir from their beds. |
From the back of the clock used in
connection with the automatic fire |
Kinder extends a shaft on which is |
mounted a rotary friction disk or pull |
ley, the periphery of which is milled |
or otherwise designed to create fric- |
ton when rotated in contact with a |
relatively stationary member Nv the