The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-05
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mon house martin, which leaves England
when nesting time is over. spends the win
ter in Africa. But although millions of
the birds disappear from Europe every au-
tumn, the ornithologist, DR.. Sharpe, knows
of only one single authentic instance of
the capture of a martin in the African
continent.
The largest frozen-meat factory in the
world is at BARRACKS. a suburb of Buenos
Ayres. and belongs to the Sansinena fam
lily. The establishment is capable of an
output of $500 sheep per diem, or 100000
mutton carcasses per month. The freezing
rooms have a capacity of nearly 100000
cubic feet and have hanging room for 5000
sheep. The storerooms in which the sheep
are slowed after freezing to await ship
ment have a capacity of 10000 cubic feet
and can contain upward of $4,000 sheep.
ct hear from an American correspond
emit" says Truth OF London, that num-
Der of chairs with carved backs, purport-
ing to be made from the wood of peWs IN
the parish church at Standardization,
are now offered for sale at Boston, Mass.
The backs of the chairs are deliberately
carved, and are surmounted by a repro
duction of the Prince of Wales crest, and
The character of the construction and
carving has suggested some doubt about
the authenticity of these relics. ! should
be sorry to express an opinion on the
point one way or the other, but the parish
church of Stratford has been restored
and restored 10 such an extent of late
years that there can be very little or the
original fabric left on the spot by this
time, and fragments of it are no doubt
pretty well scattered all over the face OF
the earth. 1t may be that some one who
knows more on the subject than do can
throw some light on the fate of the old
pews."
France or, at feast, Marseilles has be-
come an enormous consumer of American
cotton seed oil, not only the edible OIL
which, it is presumed is converted mic
'olive oil" for reimportation, but of the
soap stock, used presumably in the man.
ufacture of CASTLE soap and other fancy
brands In 1898 there were imported at
Marseilles 120. 541 barrels of edible oil and
143, 739 barrels of soap stock The latter
is a product of cotton seed oil caused by
the refining process, the thick and fatty
parts of the crude oil being preciptated
and so treated as to be available for the
purpose named. The total stock on hand
of American oil on Dec. 81, was 100000
Kilograms C6.537 500 pounds). The average
price of the American oil during the year
was 41.121s francs per 100 Kilograms, @7.94
per 220. 46 pounds. The average price for
English oil was 0.25 francs t$7.79 per 100
| kilograms. During 1898 American imports
| of the cotton seed oils at Marseilles ag-
gregated 81, 009,097 kilograms Q12. 461, S29
pounds, an increase of nearly 100000 kill
ograms over the importation of 1897.
During the past month there has just
been tested on the River Scheldt, near
| Antwerp. one of the largest dredges ever
| constructed. 1t was made for the Russian
| government for use on the River Volga
| excavations for the ship canal to connect
| the Baltic sea with the river. 1t was made
| by the Societe John Cockerill, near Liege,
| at a cost of 100000 francs, and is of the
| same model as the Mississippi river dredge
| Beta, though very much larger, being able
| to remove 1900 cubic yards of earthly mate
| rails distance of 700 feet per hour. The
earth is cut up and mixed with water by
/ revolving trepans until it is of a consist
ency that can be readily forced up by two
| powerful steam pumps of 428 horse power
each. The dredge is PA feet inches long,
81 feet inches wide, and, when working,
draws 4 feet 6 inches of water. 1t can
| excavate a channel nearly eighty feet wide
and fourteen feet deep at one cutting II
| takes 100 gallons of naphtha per hour
| to run the dredge, tanks being provided
sufficient 20 operate the machine for TWEEN
| ty-four hours. 1t takes a crew of thirty
| six men to operate the dredge, twelve OF
whom are engineers.
Writing in the Youths Companion OF
unseized Opportunities for Young Elk.
plorers," Sir Clements Markham saws
In Asia there are unexplored tracts lr
various directions. In spite of recent jour,
neys in Oman and in the Hadramut Their.
is still an unknown region in Arabia up
ward of 400 miles square; and there is also
much yet to be done in Asia Minor II
Persia, parts of Luristan and the country
on the Persian Kurd still remain unex
plored. Farther east DIR. Sven Hedin ex
tensive as his travels have been, has lef
a great deal of work for the future ex
plorer. There are the passes from Tibet in
TO Nepal much unknown country il
Southwestern Tibet, the mighty rang
which bounds the Tsanpu valley on tn
north. and extensive tracts of the north
ern plateau; while Lhasa, the capital, ha
never been visited since the days of HUI
and CADET, who were there upward of fir
years ago. The great river Tsanpu from
latitude ninety-four degrees and ten sec
} onds east to its entrance into the vale,
of Assam, under the name of Dihong,
wholly unknown. The whole region o
complicated mountain and river system
between India and China urgently call
: for bold and hardy explorers to disentan
gle It, There is also much to be done il
) the mountain ranges of Western China
! Passing to the mass of islands lying t
; the south of Asia, there is a great feel
, for exploration in the Dutch portion o
; New Guinea. It's interior is a complet
: blank, with its chain of mountains be
lleved to be $1,000 feet high. Some of tn
larger Islands to the east of New Guine
are also still virgin ground"
!, -Graphology, palmistry and all the othe
new sciences" which are employed 70
E the detection of character, will find
[ troublesome rival il the discovery of Nj
H. 7. Peck, the great ''nasologist," say
= the London News. 1t is not by his finger:
e nor by his palms, but by his nose, de
clares Mr. Peck, that the inner qualitie
and characteristics of a man are revealed
What is your favorite perfume? asks tn
nasologist of his patient, male or female
Tell me what scent you put upon yoU
handkerchief, or what soap you buy fC
d your washstand, and 1 will tell you whe
: manner of man or woman you are. TT
NF 81 s,FV IL s.