The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-07
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power had been previously erected by Mr..
Corcoran, says the American Machiuist but
upon towers not exceeding i25 high, while the
present tower Is 1eOfeet high This was done
because the spring from which it was desired
TO pump water was upon the beach and at
times covered by the tide, the ground rising
rapidly from this point. so that it was neces-
sary TO raise the wheel TO very considerable
height in order that it might be above all OBJ
structiOns within 1000 feet from it. Twenty
barrels Of concrete, forty barrels OF cement.
2O.OOO bricks, AZ. OO0 feet of Georgia pine and
more than six tons Of bolts, washers and iron
plates were used in its construction. The
mlIl that SurmOunts this tower is 22% feet in
diameter and pumps water through 5000 feet
of pipe to a height Of 223 feet It delivers
water to reservoir Of a caracity for $500
gallons, which it has filled in two days.
The japanese uchiwa or fiat fan. at home
and in history, is a very much more interest
ing object than the modern specimen of its
KIND IN an English room, says the Spectator.
One OF It's most curious varieties is the iron
war fan. inverted in the 18th century for
the use OF military commanders. either for
direction and signaling, or as a shield for de-
tense. The fat fans we're made of leather
and iron. one side being vanished with red
lacquer with the EN- blem of Baddha and some
other native device. I he water fans are
made of bamboo, and thinly laequered. so
that they may be dipped in water to secure
extra GOODNESS while tanning. To harden
these fans they are dipped in shibu juice.
which also acts as dye. turning red when
of uchiwa is the revolving fat
fan which whirls round its stick
and can be rolled up. Another strong fat
paper fan is used as bellows to blow the char
coal fire in the kitchen, Among the folding
fans, or ogi. the hi wood fans are the most
! beautiful; they are painted with flowers and
tied with white silk. Anciently they were
hung with artificial flowers made of silk.
| These were the court fans. and different flow
ers were appropriated by different great fam
lilies, so that fan answered the purpose of
armortal bearings. Som etimes these beauti-
full court fans were made of ivory and partly
locquered. thus becoming fine works of arr.
Folding fans also served the purpose of en-
signs IN war, and an enormous fan. mita
ogl giant fan. was carried in professions in
honor of the sun goddess. Children and dolls
have fans of their own, as exquisite as they
are tiny. Dancers and lugglers carry pecu-
liar fans; there is a tea fan, rikln used al the
ancient tea ceremony. a solemn feast among
the Japanese. This is not for the undigui6ed
purpose of flaming hut for baDding httle
cakes; The ogl fan is yul arized nowadays
by being covered with European advertise
ments, and till newspapers found their way
into Japan 1t was the only gazette 1t was
also used as medium for caricatures, chic 1y
o. western manners.
To judge by the amount of money paid for
works of art in this country, says Pearson S
| Weekly. we ought to be able to buy up the
whole world without going to the trouble Of
! fighting for 1t. From a chat have had with
| several dealers l should estimate that the
amount of cash expended on pictures alone
! reaches at least "a, 100000 year. Some time
| ago at an auction sale, 20 picture realized
| the enormous sum of $50 ll6, one work alone
| fetching flO.395, the buyer being Baron Roths-
! child. Far better than this however were
three pictures which sold for 4l25,0O0. one Of
which was Raphsels "Ansidei Madonna"
bought from the duke OF MARI
R borough two for ot5 $1,000 In the same
realized over El20OOO; three pictures by
| Gainsborough fetched e9975, $500 and
$500 respectively; while one by Sir J. Mil
| la S was knocked down for e5 600 A single
| collection, sold eighteen years ago, realized
| 49l,ll3 Even for one etching as much as
! 1900 has been paid, while within three
| months pi lures at MessrS Christie, Manson
| q Woods, the auctioneers, have brought in
| t26OOO0. have also on record the sale of
| single dinner service for 81, 100. Six hun
| dred pounds and over for single book is
| quite common occurrence: indeed not
| long ago, one volume fetcEe $500 OF other
| articles pair of candlesticks were recently
| sold for &l.9ll, but this price was easily
| beaten by dish, which the auCtiOneer'S ham
| mer let go for e. $40 A soup tureen was sold
| about four years ago for 1000 In spite of
! high prices, however, some really clever art.
ISIS OF The day are almost in want Of bread.
| 1t is the men with the well known names
| alone who can make money; and the matter
| is aggravated by certain dealers who Hood
the market with foreign pictures.
| Representatives of these firms Journey to
| Italy for the purpose of buying up the best
works OF impecunious artists at the lowest
| possible rate. In Italy they are accustomed
! to pay as little as IS for picture for which
they demand 800 when il is exhibited in
| their shop window.
In North America leprosy seems to have
acquired such small hold that the limited
number of cases which have occurred there
! are well suited to study this question of con-
| tagion, says writer in the Fortnightly Re
| view extract notes OF a few Of these cases
| from a book which l have recently published
| and to which l refer for further details Of
! these and many other cases. In July 1873
| DR.. Robe tan authority on the subject) stated
| that there were only three cases of leprosy in
Maryland. Two OF these cases had the fol-
! lowing relation to each other. A man named
! Brown, in Baltimore, was leper. His next
! door neighb0r, married woman with large
! family, and whose husband was in good
health, became leper. She had been some
| years in the neigh Dorhood, and the families
| were intimate At one time there were some
| leperS in Louisiana, but they have almost en-
| tirely disappeared. In 1867 Nine Ourblane
! whose father came from the south Of France
| developed leproSy She died in 1870 leaving
four sons and two daughters. The first sec
! ond and fourth sons and daughter became
! lepers They had all lived with the
mother. nephew, who lived in the neigh
| borhocd. and a young woman not related to
the fam ", who had nursed the mother be
came leprous, as well as a young man also
not related, who had often slept with the
| fourth SON in 1915. since 1920 there has been
/ a small leper colony in New Brunswick which
! certain Ursule Landry. From that case the
! disease extended, and in 1888 there were in
! the laZaretto twenty-four Ieper patients
| These cases have been referred to in most re-
! cent works on leprosy. The brief account
which have given in my book is taken from
paper by Dr.. Graham, of Toronto a reliable
authority. which was published in 1888 [
cannot refer at greater length to the circum-
! stances here, but have in the work referred
| TO- shown how, in New Brunswick endemic
! influences and heredity must be excluded
| and | note the frequent mention of the fact
| that leprosy developed in healthy individuals
after they had slept with lepers.
Prof j. Mark Baldwin. Of Princeton Uni
versity, has been performing a series of ex-
| perments upon one of his children with a
view to finding the origin of right handed
ness. There is no apparent scientific reason
why man should use one hand any more
than another. or why the muscles of one arm
should be stronger than those of the other
| A number of theories have been advanced
to account for the phenomenon. One of the
| most plausible, according to the st. Louis
! Post-Dispatch, is that people become right
handed from the manner in which they ara
! held and carried when small children. The
mother carries the child in such a way as ia
leave its right hand free, and from this early
| experience the habit is acquired which rms
| through its whole life 1t is also n curious
fact that the observation of animals fails 10
show an uneven development of the mus
Giles or limbs on one side of the body as com
pared with those on the other MONKEYS es-
| pecially are known to swing freely bv both
arms equally well, although this is a point