The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-22
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cal instruments during the past century
than in any o.her branch of inventive in
dustry.
Baron Won Cohrrs,the court banker OF
Emperor william I. died recently in Ber-
lin. leaving no will His fortune amounts
to 46 Oc0,000 marks, or 100000. and goes
TO his Only daughter. who is a childless
widow. ~
AT the New York aquarium the water
is maintained at different temperatures.
West Indian seals require heated water,
even in summer. OF twelve secured for
the aquarium on the coast of Yucatan
only one survives.
Department stores in st. Paul and
Minneapolis provide bicycle stands, with
boy in attendance who checks wheels
free whether the rider intends to visit
that particular store or not Indeed a BIZ
cycle may be so housed all day.
The city of Stockton Cal, will receive
on the Fourth of July the famous old
guns used by Commodore Stockton in the
conquest of California. The guns are now
at Mare Island, and Secretary Long last
week signed an order for their transfer
to the city named after the commodore.
-Ontario's government has completed
arrangements fer the formation of a for
est reserve of almost 3 00) square miles
N extent, embracing the district in which
Lakes Tamagami and Lady Evelyn are
situated. The bulk of the reserve is vir
gin forest. with the finest white pine in
Canada upon il.
The most prodigious fall of snow in the
mountains recorded of late occurred at
Ruby, a coal camp in Gunnison county,
Colorado during the winter of three years
ago. In one months time 2S9 inches fell,
and during the winter 1905 inches, or six
ty-five feet, were precipitated. This lat
ter amount means 1921 inches of water.
1t is said in London that Gen Cronje,
the Boer commander now a prisoner at
St Helena, is recreant Scotchman; that
his name was originally McCrone, but that
after settling among the Dutch in South
Africa he assimilate1 with them so COM
pletely that he changed his name to
Cronje and pretended to be of Dutch ori-
gin.
In a Western court the other day
man asked for divorce on the ground
that his wife would not get up early
enough to get his breakfast. In her coun-
ter-petition the wife alleged that her hus-
band snored so loud that in the early part
of the night she could not so to sleep.
The court granted the divorce on general
principles, without prejudice against eth
er side
M. P. Castle of London, has sold his
collection of postage stamps for $1JO,O0O,
which is believed to be the largest lump
sum ever paid for such a collection. Now
that The Orange Free State has been tax
en- off the map as an Independent repub-
lie collectors are paying as much as SO
for a single stamp of that government
and the price is rising A full set of
Transvaal stamps, it is said, would now
cost about $500.
According to the recent studies of Sig
nor de Sanctis, of Turin, children begin
to dream before their fourth year, but
are unable to recall dreams before the
age of five. This age, he concludes, is that
at which a child first becomes instinct
lively conscious of self Aged people dream
less frequently and less wildly than the
young. Womens dreams are more fire.
quent, more vivid and better remembered
than these of mon.
The town of Givette in the Ardennes,
is taking steps to put an end to the de-
population of France. Hereafter for a /
town Offices fathers of more than three
children will be picked first, and all mar
ried men will be preferred to bachelors
Prizes will be awarded yearly to those
parents who have sent the largest num-
Der of children to school regularly, AMI
scholarships in the national schools W II
be given only to those children belonging
to households of more than three in fam-
ily Fathers of families will also rave
the first chance of admission to aims
houses and old peoples homes.
1t is said the concession by the Chi
| -ta OF
the river type to navigate the inland wa5
ters of the empire, has proved worthless.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Shanghai states that the Shanghai GUS
toms Taotai have refused to permit q
British vessel to trade between that city
and the Chusan islands, only a few score
miles distant from the mainland. This
is only one OF the many similar refusas,
with the result that nearly all the steam
ers that were specially built and sent to
China for coastwise and interior trade,
either remain tied to their docks or have
been sent back to England by their Brit
ish owners.
The Cleveland Leader says the niue
as a motive power on the canals Of Ohio
has had his day His retirement was an
nounced to-day by the State Beard OF
Public Works, when they entered into a
contract with Thomas N. Fordyce to in
stall power plant for the propulsion by
electricity of canal boats between Dayt On
and Cincinnati. The committee appoint
ed some time ago to investigate the prac-
ticability of the experiments which wefe
conducted by Mr.. Fordyce, reported hat
they had found them feasible in every
way, and Mr.. Fordyce is to have the cl C.
trio system complete and in working CT
der within two and half years The ca
nails between Dayton and Toledo are 10
be equipped within the next four years.
When and where the first successful
electric railway was built in this sountry,
says the Railway Review, is matter of
considerable dispute, several cities claim
ing the honor of having been the first to
prove the mechanical and oommerc al
feasibility of applying electric traction to
street railway transportation problems.
Prior to 1880 there is no record of an cleo
trio railway embodying the essential feat
ures as we know them to-day. Thom1s
A. Edison can probably cain on good
grounds to have constructed tire first me-
chemically successful road in America, al
though his was purely an experimental
line. This was built in 1880 near his lab
oratory in Menlo Park, N. j., and on IL
cars were run, drawn by a LOGON 1tiVe
taking and returning the current through
the rails. In 1889 Joseph R. Finney eX-
hibited in Allegheny. Pa, an electric car
for which current was supplied by en-
overhead copper wire. A small trolley
fitted with grooved wheels running on the
wire as on a track and connected wi h the
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