The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-26
CURIOUS AMERICAN EXPORTS.
REINDEER HAULING AMERICAN MA
CHINERY OVER SNOW.

Bagdad Is Invaded by the Yankee
Lamp, India by Ice Machines and
Soda Fountains, Egypt by Merry
Go-Rounds, China by Laundry Ma
chimes, and MuscOvy by American
Barber Chairs and shaving Appli-
ances.
New York. Aug. 24-There is no civil
lied land in the world and few savage
ones where evidences of American in
genuity and skill do not confront the
traveller on every side. Up iii the north
of Sweden trains of reindeer are drawing
American wood-cutting machinery to
points not far distant from the North
Cape. The machinery has to be hauled
hundreds of miles over the plains of snow,
but the shrewd Swedish lumbermen have
found that it's use almost doubles their
profits. Again Puntas Neras in TERRA
del Fuego is the most southerly continent
tiai spot on the globe. The important
lighthouse there is equipped with cleo
trio machinery manufactured within few
hundred miles OF New York city.
Some of the schemes devised by the
enterprising Yankees are so daring that
they might have been almost sacrilgious
in a less practical age. A large conslgn-
ment OF steam pumps was lately shipped
to the east. Their destination was the
Jordan. Formerly pilgrims with an eye
to the main chance had found it profit
able to secure calabashe of water from
the sacred river and sell their contents
n N hn a
holy water. A wide-awake American
saw his opportunity. He devised a steam
pump of convenient size. a number of
which were set up at suitable points along
the banks of the Jordan. The result was
profitable business in retailing to the
churches all over Europe
Again, American devices are finding
their way into the Vatican itself The
sovereign pontiff has recently been our
which stands by his couch and can be
ignited at any moment during the night
by pressing button.
Tradition has assigned to Bagdad the
honor of producing the most celebrated
Of lamps. But a New York house mas
superseded Aladdin and his geniL The
lamps are of fanciful pattern, and are
decorated with devices often more pleas
ing 10 the eye of the Oriental than the
pie design. operating without a chimney,
on the principle of the blast furnace. They
are conveyed to a point on the Persian
Gulf, from whence they are hauled over
some 200 miles of desert on camel back
They are then transferred 90 RATS and
towed q hundred miles up the Euphrates
where they are again loaded on camels.
which convey them TO their destination
200 miles from the river. These lamps
are quite the thing I'm the Orient. Among
the residences that they decorate are the
palaces Of the Sultan OF Morocco, the
Prince Of Siam and several rajahs in Brit
ish India. They are also popular In Je-
rusaem.
In India, too, II looks as though al no
distant date the punka will be thing
OF the past, and the punka walla seeking
a new Job. A demand for electric fans
Of American manufacture has arisen
among the more up-to-date OF the native
princes "A little Sultan I'm Borneo I'm par
ticular having laid I'm considerable sup
ply. The torrd climate OF India opens
up a number OF possibilities 20 the enter
prsng trader. A few soda fountains have
recently been shipped 10 Calcutta expert
mentally, and II Is thought a c0nsidera-
BILE trade IN this typlcaily American arti-
Gle may ensue. lee plants. too. have been
shipped 20 various parts ~ the country.
and there is o cali FOR more Another ar.
tirle cons.1ered Indispensable IN many
PARIS Of ihia country. mosquito curtains.
large consignment mas recently been ship
ped 20 Syria.
Nor does the ancient land Of Egypt turn