The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-07

withstanding the slump in the price of
crude oil early in the summer. The rec
ord of the year 1895 was phenomenal, but
it was easily surpassed during 1900. when
1923 oil wells were drilled in the field, of
which $40 were dry-that is, non-produc-
ers. The increase in the number of COM
pleted wells over that Of 1899 was 7i0. The
cost of the wells put down in Indiana
during the past year was A,74O,S00, and
the amount expended in drilling dry holes
was $l624,O0o.
There is said to be a lawyer in Phil
adelphia says the Philadelphia Record,
who possesses a trick of the voice to
which a certain measure of his success i'll
United States Supreme Court practice 's
due. The trick consists in waking a
judge Whether it is a common prac-
tice for the high dignitaries of the Fed
eral Supreme bench to indulge in a nap
in the course of long and tedious argu-
ment such happenings are not unknown,
and it is well for an able logician of the
bar to be prepared for it. The trick. of
waking sleepy judge would seem to be
something in the nature of siamming 4
law book under his nose or connecting his
personality with the current of an cleo
trio Battery. But the trick is explained
as purely a matter of sound involved in
the skilfui control of the voice 1t is said
that barrister practised in the art and
rhetoric of addressing the bench can gath
er all the waves of sound from his throat
into focus and deposit il in the orifice
OF the judges ear with the general effect
of bomb.
"A little white dog that sits on the
music-box of a blind man, in Minneapolis
and permits people to drop pennies in a
basket tied around his neck by ribbon,
on last Fourth of July refused to attend
TO business says Our Dumb Animals. tie
snarled and showed his teeth when any
attempt was made to put on his uniform.
The little fellow shrieked and gambolled,
tugSed at his chain, bit the stumpy tails
of his stray companions, and generally
misconducted himself The blind man says
that the dog has never been asked to
work on Sunday. He thinks that Sunday
ought to be a day of test for blind men
and dogs as well as more fortunate be-
ings, so every Sunday the dog gets an ex-
ira fine breakfast, consisting of boiled
liver, and full liberty to do precisely as
he pleases. Thus the little curly dog has
come to regard Sunday as a full holiday,
and he knows when the day comes around
because on that day his master puts on Il
White shirt and his bcst hat The blind
man is patriotic and so on the Fourth
he wore his white shirt and best hat,
hence the dittle white dog thought that it
vas Sunday and refused to work.
In an article in the current number
of Success Thomas A. Edison makes some
hopeful predictions for electricity. He
says Not only as a motive power for
massive enterprises will electricity find
| uses during the coming half century, but
| he 10
Sciences If l may use the term. By this
L mean surgery, optics and astronomy, but
| greater minds than mine must dwell or
| this particular branch of electrical usage
! Already we have surgical Instruments that
are being operated by electricity witt
| gratifying success; indeed, they have gone
! beyond the experimental stage. 1t will
find large field in the operation of man.
! ufacturing machinery, as the Niagara
Falls plant shows, and it may even ex-
| tend to the airship, but l think, it bes
| to confine it's uses to the EARTH unit
| these uses have been exhausted F,lec.
| trlclty as a science should be made one
OF the several studies in every school In
the land. 1t should rank with spelling
| and arithmetic for the more il is used
the more potent it becomes as an i'm
portant element in all of the worlds gen.
eral affairs, and its value in connection
| business
FAIRS cannot be given 100 prominent &
place in Americas future"
The longtime popular notion that bats
are dissemlnatOrs of bedbugs and other
parasites is thus treated by a contributor
TO the Rural New Yorker: [ do not find
any OF the true lice recorded on bats. and
the only parasite l know of as making
| the pat ITS host is a species of bedbug
q
or species of bedbugs in this country;they
may be commonly called the human bed.
bug, the swallow bedbug and the bat bed.
bug. That is, man, the swallow and the
| pat are each infested with a distinct kind
OF bedbug. The species infesting the swal-
lows nests is very common, and that in
| Testing man IS often altogether TOO IA
miliar, but, so far as l can learn bed
bugs have been found on bats in but few
instances. There have been several re-
cords of a bedbug being found on bats
but it is apparently only recently that this
| bedbug has been critically examined and
| found TO be distinct from the one attack
| ing man, and identical with the bedbug
| or the bat in Europe. Thus, bats are some
| times infested with a bedbug, but there
| is, so far as 1 can find, no evidence vet
| submitted to indicate that this kind of a
| bedbug ever attacks man. Nor is there
| any evidence that the more common bed
| bug infesting the swallow is ever thus in
| troduced into our homes and attacks man
1t is a great sufficiency for me to know
| that one kind of bedbug makes man its
host, without trying to make myself be-
| lieVe that the bcdbugs of the bats and
the swallow might also be allowed to
have a taste of human blood. The bats
are great insect catchers, and do man NO
harm. They have not yet been proved
guilty of the crime of introducing the hui
| man bedbug into our homes, so let them
| pursue their insect hunts through our
| garrets unmolested until there is more
| evidence against them.
The great and mysterious Goddess OF
! Fashion has for some reason best known
to herself, decreed that beads should come
| into vogue again. says Sir Edwin Arno'd
in the London Telegraph That command
| ing whisper which comes from no visible
source and yet is heard and obeyed every
| where, has passed through the world OF
womankind; and the observer may already
notice strings of many -eolored beads APP
| pearing on the necks and breasts, the
wrists and tresses of the fair votaries OF
! the goddess. In this her edict she goes
! back to a mode never really out of favor
| since humanity first took to self-adorn-
ment. Beads are certainly the most an
cient Of all forms of the bedecking of the
| body unless we except the field and for
est blossoms Nobody knows who first in
I vented beads. PERHAPS il was some Drimi-