The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-27
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bring back into the treasury nearly $780,
900 annually.
As an evidence of the supremacy of
the English tongue in the Far East it is
to be noted that the various foreign jour
nails use the English word Boxer" in
speaking of the society which is foment-
ing such grave disturbances in China. For
example, the Germans write die Boxers
the Italians. I'll Boxers and in Spanish
it is 'los Boxers"
The village Of Santa Foy de Taren-
taisc in Eastern France seems doomed to
be engufod. The base of the hill on
which it stands is being eaten away by
the rapid waters of the Isere. Some of
the houses show cracks rivaling those
of our Cheshire Northwich Some day
there will be a short. sharp shock and
Tarentaise will no longer exist.
According to Prof L. o. Howard
chief OF the bureau of entomology at
Washington, the honey industry has
shown marked development in recent
years, and there are to-day more than
10000 persons engaged in it, the valae of
the product being $50, OO0 600 There are
10 apiarian societies and eighty journals
devoted 10 tho Industry. Much of the
honey is exported, England being the
chief purchaser. Nor has the limit by
any means been reached.
One of the most remarkable railroads
in the United Stats is that which runs
from Fabyan. at the foot of Mount Wash
ington, to the summit-a distance of 3SS
miles. The time required in making the
ascent is one and one-half hours, which
is at the rate of mile in twenty-seven
inn IL No.
time. The fare is 81 for the roud trip, or
at the rate of sixty cents a mile. No
other road in the world charges quite so
much, and few run trains at a speed quite
so slow. About G,000 passengers are car
ried annually.
A prize of 1000 francs is offered. says
the Electrician, by the French Industrial
Association against Accidents TO Labor
crs, at Paris, for the most efficacious insu-
lating glove for electrical workmen. The
gloves must be strong enough to resist,
not only the electric current, but also ac-
cidental perforation by copper wire, etc,
and must. in addition, be easy 10 wear
by hands of any size and allow the work
mans fingers sufficient freedom to exc
cute their work The competition is in
ternatlonal, and is open until December
81, 1900.
To discover a universal language, says
the London Globe. is the dream of many
sane and domesticated gentleman. One
of these patient scholars. we are told. has
just hit upon a Voapuk which he calls
"Clarison,' and which contains no let
ter which is not in every Continental
alphabet, and no vocal sound which an
Engl1shman, Frenchman, a German
or an Italian would have to learn" A
shorter way 20 a universal language, we
believe, would be to turn three or four
babies of every European nationality
loose on desert island, with plenty of
food for ten years, and then see what
tongue they had evolved
The new possessions of the United
STATES will be well represented among the
students of the University of Michigan
during the coming season. Thus far one
Cuban and several Puertoriquenos have
registered, and last week three Filipinos
arrived They are Seniors Lorenzo ORR
rabia of Cavile; Artiraga of Manila. and
Juan Tecson of Vulacan. All three have
peen sent by the International Club of Ma
MIA, and were successful candidates in a
competitive examination for scholars hips
in this country. Four Filipinos have al
ready been sent to this country by the
of California. Three others were sent to
Ann Arbor through the influence of Com
missioner Worcester.
The Hartford Courant thus presents
the other side of much discussed cues
ton; 1T would be interesting to know
how many men, women and children have
neen killed because the horses behind
which they were riding had not locked
tai s. Nothing makes a horse behave ug-
Ter and more urrsasor allie than TO get
his unlocked tail across a rein Down
goes the tell and the more the tai
presses the more annoyed is the horse
Off he goes, kicking and running. and
whoever is behind or in front CT him is
n for tr- ub e. The situation is full of
danger. Dumb Animals may not be es-
pec,ally Interested in the fact that hui
man beings are imperilled, but some con-
sideration should lie had for the horse"
The second malarial expedition of the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has
just wired home from Bonny, in Nigeria
news of most important discovery
namely that the parasite which causes
elephantiasis has, like that which causes
malaria, been found in the proboscis OF
me mosquito. Oddly enough. the same
h4SNCNtlS ma just DeeN simultaneously
made by DR. Low in England. in mosqui-
toes brought from Australia. and bv Cant
james In India. Elephantiasis is dis
ease which causes hdeous deformitv in
thousands. or rather millions, of natives
IN tropical countries and sometimes In
european residents. Il is due to a small
worm which lives in the lymphatic YES
sells and occludes them. The fact tha,
this worm can live also in the MOSQUITO
mas long been known, but the discovery
OF II IN the Insects proboscis shows thar
IL enters the human body by the bites of
these pests -
The Par 5 correspond Mt of T.ondon
Truth writes: Is there any Millionaire mr.
tril TO- aire who would like TO make
s;artlingly che present, ana vet one of
an extremely simple character? If 60
n m first buy Panama la1v's cvcling
hat at the exhibition for $50. He can All
this hat with four p ,unds of eol1en-t,n
Tea costing 100, at the Ceylon or Indian
paVlloh Next, he can place in the tea
the Z40-carat diamond, worth f2S0OoD
Does not this remind you of Br llat-Sav-
arms olive in the o-tolau that was Mac
ca in quail and the quail in a wood.
cock. ard tie wcodcock in a phaasan >
When all these birds were roasted the
olive only was to be eaten. Sho,ild H.
Millionaire or millionaire not be enamored
o. simpl ~ he can deck the hat with
some of the rare orchids In the CITY of
Paris greenhouses. They only cost 20
shilllngs ce. few dozens of them