The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-26

up its nose at our new tangled contriv-
ances. The supply Of images in the pyra-
mids having run ra h low. owing to the
depredations of curlo hunte%, an Ameri-
can firm has been filing up the vacancies
with most interesting and antique appear
log Hide statues. As a matter of fact
they are manufactured by a new patent
process from various condiments, but hey
look so like ancient stone that they would
deceive any but an expert. Egypt appears
to be getting frisky In its old age An
American merIy-go-round of the Coney
Island type has recently been set up at
Cairo. 1t is largely patronlzed by the
Arabs who cut fine figure in their
Snowy burnooses bestriding the gran a a
gold tigers and el plants 1t is driven by
steam, and It's music is the same old
American g-time. Another coun ry, on v
less venerable, which has become a Gus
toner fer American merry-go rounds is
Spain.
But unquestionably our mos important
Gus omer in the east is China The grea er
part Of the railroad equipment. engines.
rolling stock, rails, all a subject of the
deepest annoyance to the Boxers. come
from this country. And In this connection
II may be observed that one OF the prin-
cipal reasons that the Chinese show s,,e h
are afraid that the graves of their ances-
tors which are scattered pretty freely
over the country and not confined to grave
yards, may be disturbed by the fixing of
the ties. An important and novel recent
shipment to China is the machinery for
waterworks 20 be set up i'm the northern
part of the empire and operated by native
labor. This will be a remarkable innova-
non IN country whose people have hith-
aFf n ta1 afr.
not DO h red about typhoid germs.
Manchuria is one OF the most fertile
countries in the world. Seven crops of
wheat can be raised In the year at GER
tain parts, yet -four for the Russian
troops is being imported. The cause OF
this is a complete absence of modern -four
mills, the Chinese stil clinging to the
old, slow and wasteful processes which
they employed 1000 years ago However.
an up-to-date flour mill has Just been
erected in the interior, the machinery OF
which Is American. others are to fol-
low. and there Is no question but that at
no distant date Manchuria will feed its
own teeming population and the legions
OF the Car. with a considerable surplus
for export.
But the most remarkable testimony to
our mechanical ability comes In the form
of an acknowledgment that we are SUI
to those whom we are accustomed 10 re-
gard as the apostles and high priests Of
the science. An American firm has ship
ped TO China the machinery Of a monster
laundry plant, on which Cinnamon are
to he exclusively employed, where there
is no hand labor. and from which 5000
pieces are turned out daily at a cost of
cent a piece. whether IL be large or
small. complicated or simple. The cost Of
the machinery IL $4,000
Next TO China In Importance as mar
ket for American goods comes Japan, but
the cleverness OF the Japanese Is an OBJ
stacle to extended trade. As imitators
they have no equal. and II is their Gus
tom 90 buy a few American samples and
reproduce them In large quantities.
In spite of the abuse that has been
poured forth on our beer and the unfav-
orable comparisons that have been insti-
tuted between II and The foreign product,
she foreigners apparently see something
in our methods. II ls not 30 long since
Mr.. Allsopp. the famous brewer of Bier
ton-on-Trent, England, started a large
lager beer brewery. In which American
methods and American machinery were
exclusively employed, and even Germany
herself whose beer Is usually considered
without rival. has recently been import
ing American brewing apparatus and
adopting the system OF Milwaukee
Germany thoroughly wide awake as she
Is IN matters commercial. has not been
blind 10 the merits Of American methods
and wares. A great deal Of the cayiare
which IL served ~ the tables Of our ho-
tells ana private houses, and fetches hlyh
price. owing 20 the belief that Il II man
ufaetured abroad. really has lie birth with
IN the confines Of the United States. and
having been shipped 10 Germany, IL re-
shipped hither under German label Ger
many, too, a. well 40 France ana itsly,