The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-11

Hagerstown, Md. The bride, groom, best
man and officiating clergyman were all
deaf and dumb. The bride, Miss Alto
May Louman, was graduated from CAL
laudet College, Washington, d. c., in
1892, with the degree of B. Ph., being the
first deaf woman In America to receive
college degree,
I'm London the other day very high
prices were given for some pieces Of
Nankin Chinese pottery, the purchasers
being probably moved to unusual. prodi-
gality by suspicion that after the pres
ent Chinese troubles shall have been set
tied such pottery will be more than ever
difficult Of procurement. Three vases
each ten inches high, brought SIZES and
a pair of long-necked bottles sold for
1850.
There has been the usual summer
drop of two and one-half feet in the level
of the Brooklyn bridge span, due to the
heat, which has, as usual every summer.
expanded the cables. The level of the
center OF the span in the coolest day in
winter is taken as the standard from
which the measurement is made. Last
summer some of the bridge trusses
buckled because of the expansion of the
cables.
The Knights of Pythias of Kansas
gathered at Abilene recently for gener-
al reunion of the organization through
out the state, and in the course of their
obedience to the programme for the occa-
sion attended local church in a body
About half way through the services the
choir, TO the worshippers, temporary
CONSERVATION and subsequent amusement,
sang the anthem, There VIII Be No
Night There
Wesleyan University of Middletown,
Conn, has DECIDED that not more than 20
per cent. of the whole body of students
may be women. They are barred from re-
eeiving degrees with male students; bar
red from holding class exercises in con-
junction with male students and limited
to a separate place in the catalogue. The
action Of the trustees seems to have been
che result of representa- lions made by GER
tain of the alumni that many graduates
of preparatory schools refused to enter
wesleyan as long as women are accorded
the. same rights and privileges as men.
Judge Finn Of the First Municipal
Court, New York, is one of the coolest
poker players on Manhattan Island. A
case was before him the other day in
which the defendant refused to pay
poker debt of 1872 The judge asked what
poker was, and five lawyers. with all of
whom he has often played, diffidently
opined that 1t was played with cards. rs it
a game OF chance?" inquired the count
That depends altogether on how good
a player the other fellow is" answered
one of the lawyers, mildly. After much
consultation the court gave a verdict for
plaintiff
When Lord Charles Beresford was in
China one of the best servants it was his
lot 10 have was a certain Chinaman
named Tom Fat. Unfortunately Tom Fat
did not always devote his undoubted in
tellect to worthy objects; he learned to
initiate his masters handwriting so clever
ly that he forged checks amounting to
over 900 in two years. And on one oc-
casion, when Lord Charles was protesting
a spirit of broad federation towards the
heather of all denominations, one of his
friends ventured to inquire what he
thought would be the ultimate fate of his
Chinese servant whereupon Lord Charles
instantly replied, That fat will certainly
be in the fire!'
For years the male residents of
Healdsburg, Cal. talked of certain i'm
provements which the town needed Moth
ing came of the talk, and then the women
Improvement Club This organiza ton has
transformed The place, having by their
active influence nd organized labors
procured for the town a municipal water
system, municipal electric light plant,
comfortable seats in the plaza, an intelli-
gible name system for the streets, sign
boards with street names at all corners,
a drinking fountain costing 5000. These
improvements were brought about with
aGiD 70.
purposes first named.
"A beginning has been made with for
estry in the United States. New York
has adopted measures 10 protect the head
waters of the Hudson. In the Adfron-
dack Park 100000 acres are reserved, of
which 100000 is owned by the state.
as much more is in private game pre-
serves and the remainder in the hands of
those who will sell to the state when
they can get their price. Cornell and
Yale conduct practical schools of fores-
try. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
says the cotton crop of 1899 and the
wheat crop of the present year were dam
aged by drouths that would not have
occurred if the forests had not been
wastefully slashed away.
In Utica, N. Y, a block of new apart
ment houses has just been furnished with
complete install alton of electric cooking
utensils in each fiat The electrical kitch-
en- furniture consists of three round plat
tiers or Stoves, an oven and a broiler
1t is declared. apparently with reason,
that meats broiled on the electric grdron
are much more palata BILE than those char
red and scorched in the ordinary way
over hot Goals. The most remarkable fea-
ture of these electrical kitchens is that
the stoves, etc, are simply placed on an
ordinary kitchen table and when the
cooking is completed can be stowei away
in a convenient closet. leaving the kitch-
N free CT even trace of cookery. Space
is thus saved.
Expert Nicola Tesla, in a recent paper,
predicted the immediate advent of tie
aluminium age" thus Frightening some
tlmid holders of copper stocks. For the.
assurance of the latter the New York En-
Sineering and Mining Journal declares
that both iron and copper have long lives
OF usefulness ahead of them. 1t Will not
even concede that aluminium will supersede
copper in electrical work, where il might
be expected to make itself felt, IL any
where. NJ is true says the Journal.
that aluminium has been tried for cleo
trical work in some places, and has been
found to answer very well. But the sup
ply will have 10 be much larger than it is
at present to affect the CONSUMPTION of
copper In any appreciable degree. The
price Of aluminium has been reduced from
time TO time, and it is now-allowing for
the very much lower specific gravity Of