The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-26
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be had from the fact that Yale, Harvard,
| Columbia, Princeton, Pennsylvania and
/ Cornell spent 500, 243 for that purpose last
| year
Experts who have examined rye straw
are Of the opinion that very high grade
/ OF paper, suitable for books as well MS
/ for newspapers, can be made from that
material. Louisiana produces thousands
OF tons of rye straw which is now dis
/ posed of as a waste product.
Oxford has among its undergraduates
a married Lancashire mill hand % years
of age, who worked his way into the uni
versity by studying after factory hours,
with the helf of free libraries and univer-
sity extension lectures. He has won a
| scholarship worth $50 a year.
"A portrait of the late Walker @. Ores
ham, Secretary of State under President
Cleveland, will have a place of honor in
! the galleries of the Emperor of Japan.
| This is 10 be done as a tribute to Mr..
/ Gresham's services in negotiating the
treaty between the United States and
Japan, which was adopted during Cleve
lands second term. Frank M. PEBBLES
painted the portrait.
. Upon opening a car laden with hay
in a Chicago freight yard, the other day.
the consignee was astonished to find two
valuable horses inside, while nearly one
third of the hay had been devoured. How
the animals had got into the car and
! how long they had been there no one
| seemed to know. Their stomachs were so
much dlstended from oVereating that both
animals had to be killed.
In spite of repeated urgings from their
pastor, some female members of The
Methodist Episcopal Church at Knights
town. Ind, refused to remove their hats
| during service Then he directed that
those who persisted in. wearing their head
| gear must occupy reserved pews in the
amen corner" Now these pews have
| regular occupants and there is a prospect
| that they will increase in numbers, for
| most of the women want to wear their
hats although many yielded to the pas
tors wish.
An old Dominican friar, who had serv-
ed his church for forty years in the Phil
| ippnes, was asked by his fellows to write
a book describing the characteristics,
! habits and customs of the Filipino people.
! To this he agreed, with the proviso that
no one should see his work until after his
death. When he died in Manila this year
the book was found among his effects.
! On the first page was the title and all the
| other 300 pages were blank except the
| last, on which was written: This is all
l know, after forty years study, of the
! Filipino people"
"A great change seems imminent in the
manufacture of sulphuric acid. The well
known Baden anlline and soda factory
has patented most importai% improve
ment in the production of this substance.
| By this new process there is an immense
| saving in fuel and the expensive platina
apparatus is no longer necessary. More
| important still is the fact that no selt-
| peter is required by the new process. Salt
| peter is of such enormous value for agri
cultural and technical purposes that any
| economy in its use must be welcomed,
the more so as the saltpeter fields win,
in the course of time, be exhausted.
| The New York harbor tug L. Lucken-
bach has started on voyage to San
Francisco around the Horn. The tug, one
| of the fastest and stanchest, is scheduled
| to make the passage in forty-five days,
record time for a tug. Much difficulty
was had in finding fifteen men who would
make up the crew, as the dangers that the
| little vessel will encounter will be enor-
nous, even for an ocean-going tug. Only
three or four tugboats have made the trip
around the Horn, the best record OF sixty
three days having been made by the G..
W. Pride, which successfully navigated
the Southern seas eight years ago.
An unusually large number of foreign
immigrants appear to be settling at pres
ent in some parts of the New England
states, where they obtain work in the
cotton mills and in connection with other
Industries. Lately, it is said, in Connec-
ticut and Rhode Island the preference
| has been given to Greeks, while in the
| Fail River mills a large number of Por-
tuguese and Poles have found employ
ment. OF all foreign nationalities the
| Portuguese are found the most docile
and faithful. The French-Canadians are
| more difficult to manage, being more
| inclined to move from mill to min and
town to town.
The Hartford Courant tells of a strange
sight witnessed by some of the American
soldiers in the Philippines during a church
service recently held in their honor The
! interior of the church had been bedecked
by the natives in red, white and blue, the
| masterpiece of decoration being painted
eagle on a shield hung over the image of
| one of the saints. On the banner which
streamed from the eagles bill was this
legend: THE Old Reliable Condensed
| Milk" II seems that the artist VINO
painted the eagle had copied it, inscrip-
ton and all, from the label on an old
milk can. believing that the banner bore
the American motto
An artificial stone has recently been
| introduced from Belgium into France.
which is said to have four times the force
of resistance of French free stone. and
| which has nearly all of the properties of
| Cobestang granite. 1t has been tried in
the Malnes Arsenal and was found TO
be insensible TO che action Of cold. and 10
absorb only to per cent. of water
even after a long dry spell. This arti-
| fetal stone is manufactured at Uccles
| near Brussels. 1t consists chiefly of drv
coarse sand and hydraulic lime cooked
| under a pressure of six atmosphere the
| temperature being maintained at 165 de-
grees. The most varied colors are given
to this stone, and its manufacture costs
only cents per cubic foot.
Bruce Benner. of Coffeyville. Kan.
has made small fortune during the past
few months by exhibiting a so-called
"feathered d g. in various parts of the
Sunfower state. So far as the feathers
were concerned the animal was, of course
fraud, as has just been discovered
| through the enterprise of a country
| newspaper. The deg had been complete
| ly covered from nose to tail with a tigb+
| fitting coat of Canton flannel IN which