The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-07
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lonesses, and dislike troupe Of both sexes
tering the den is quadrupfed, and mischief
IS pretty sure to result sooner or later.
Sunlight penetrates the sea to depth
of more than 1880 feet when the water is
perfectly clear. says the Philadelphia Re-
| cord. Recent experiments made in the
Mediterranean about 10 miles off the coast
of Corsica, confirmed this by Photographic
exposures at that depth. Ordinarily sun
light at the depth of 165 feet is no strong
er than the light of the fun moon, while
at $50 feet ii is no more than a mere twi-
light. At $50 feet the darkness is total I'M
der ordinary circumstances. In some parts
of the ocean, where the water is of al
most crystal clearness there are eXcep-
tons to this rule. The spotted corals near
Mindera in the Indian ocean are clearly
visible from above, although imbedded
about 10 feet below the surface, and the
Caribbean sea is also as clear as crystal,
and objects lying at the bottom are seen
even at considerable depths.
The real industries of New Mexico are
cattle and wool, says Leslie's Weekly
Las Vegas is one of the largest primary
markets for wool in the United States
The whole territory is spotted with sheep
farms, which are held under Spanish
grants. OF these the largest is the Max
well grant, which is something like sixty
two miles square and runs from the Ca
madam right across the railroad. Another
large property is the Bell grant, which adj
joins the Maxwell grant on the southeast.
Both are immense tracts of exceedingly
hne land, bearing a grass on which sheep
and cattle thrive. But, probably, in con-
sequence of errors in the mana cement,
the English syndicates which own them
are not believed to make money 1t takes
a n rid 10 2 Ill,
and at every step of the way the eye en-
counters fat cattle, heavy sheen and beau
tiful meadow land it is only the owners
who are lean and poor.
Chiefly by reason of its newness and of
a certain cosmopolitan aspect, says Will
liam Allen White in the August Atlantic,
the Kansas town differs from villages else
where in the United States, and presents
few interesting variations from the
common type. The largest town in the
common wealth has hardly forty thousand
inhabitants. Most of the county-seats in
the eastern half of the state. where the
rainfall is copious, and where crops are
Hountltul and regular, contain about three
thousand persons each. The county-seat
is in the strictest sense a country town
The inhabitants live almost entirely upon
the tributary country. There are no fac
tories The money that the farmers of the
COUNTY spend for food clothing, fuel, and
the comforts of the farm home is the cash
capital upon which the town does its bus
mess. This capital is passed from the gro
GERS to the clothing merchants, to the
druggists, to the furniture dealers, to the
hardware sellers. and to professional men.
In the older communities of the eastern
and middle states. necessity has developed
factories, which convert raw material into
finished products. and money from the
outside world comes in. But Kansas is
yet hardly generation old and it has not
entered the manufacturing era of indus
try.
Lord Playfair has realized the fact
that Queen Elizabeth used to write her
lord mayor scolding letters because he al
| lowed the city to grow so fast; it actually
| contained az the time 100000 people who
| as the queen wrote, became heaped to-
| gether, and in sort smothered," and ac-
| cordingly she forbade any more houses to
| be built within three miles of London and
| Westminster. 1.-THE rate of mortality then
! was so in 1000, whereas now it is 10, and
| is being steadily reduced. No one was
ever a better hygienist than Moses. The
| conditions which he enjoined were those
| which we now seek to attain-clean air,
| clean water, clean food. clean soil. The
| Romans also practiced cleanliness and en-
| joyed good health Unhappily between
| the ancients and ourselves there was a pe-
y
! torian or the period, said that no man or
woman in Europe ever took a bath Those
| poor Middle Ages suffering from the
| modern specialist as from the sciolist; the
| Dirty Ages Lord Playfair would have them
| called. And yet they built cathedrals that
/ we cannot even restore becomingly, and
| gave us chivalry and an ideal of woman s
| purity that is still Transforming life Lord
| Playfair thinks he has characterized St
Francis when he says that ST. Francis
| knew nothing of the bath; but we wonder
/ what st. Francis would have thought of
! Lord Playfair and the materialstic ideals
| that ignore the soul.
The redwood. says John Muir in the
August Atlantic, is the glory of the coast
range. 1t extends along the western slope
in a nearly continuous belt ten miles wide,
| from beyond the Oregon boundary to the
south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly
| 400 miles, and in massive, sustained gran
| deur and closeness of growth surpasses
| all the other timber woods of the world.
| Trees from ten to fifteen feet in dame
| ter and 300 feet high are not uncommon,
and few attain a hight of $50 feet or
| even 400, with a diameter at the base Of
fifteen to twenty feet or more, while the
| ground beneath them is a garden of fresh,
! eXuberant ferns lilies, gaultherio and rho
| dOdendron. AS timber the redwood is too
| good TO live. The largest saw mills ever
| built are busy along its seward border,
with all the modern improvements" but
so imemnse is the yield per acre il will
| be long ere the supply is exhausted. The
| big tree is also to some extent being made
! into lumber. Though far less abundant,
! 1t is, fortunate less accessible, extend
/ ing along the western flank Of the Sierra
In a partially interrupted belt about $50
| miles long, at a hight of from 1900 to
| 5000 feet above the sea. The enormous
! logs, too heavy to handle, are blasted into
/ manageable dimensions with gunpowder
| A large portion of the best timber is thus
| shattered and destroyed, and. with the
! huge knotty tops, is left In ruins for ire
mendous fires that kill every tree within
| their range, great and small.
| Between two hundred and three hun
dred Of the colonial and American visitors
now in London went to the Westminster
town hall TO see the famous old tobacco.
| cigar and snuffboXes says the London Tel
egraph. In 17i3 one Of the overseers, Hen
/ ~ Monck. bought a horn tobacco box OF
! about three-ounce capacity, and presented
/ a a aN ert. al