The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-22


goods the gods provide, and are pop
ular with their subjects" Queen Anne
lie IS the eldest daughter of the late
Comte de Paris. The Queen is a beau
tiful and cultured woman, and some
few years ago took to the study of
medicine, somewhat to her husbands
discontinue, as the story goes that she
proposed to try her prentice hand on
him.
Sod houses, or. as they are locally
termed, "soddies," are now being built
in large numbers in Eastern Colorado.
They are made of oblong pieces of sod
cut from the prairie, about IS inches in
length, z inches broad and from to 4
inches thick. No foundation is re-
quired, the sods being simply laid on
the prairie, and up goes the structure.
"Soddies' are cool in summer and
warm in winter. and when the snow
laden wind is whistling without a coy
sodhouse in which there is good corn
cob fire, is not to be despised.
The typewriter is displacing the
pen, says Pearson's Weekly. Celebri-
ties do not write their letters as they
formerly did, and the high prices real
lied for private communications writ
ten by notable persons will be a dream
of the past to our grandchildren. Au-
thors' MSS. has also fetched high
prices, but the author who writes with
a pen is becoming rarity, so that
chance is practically lost to posterity.
The MSS. may have been typed by the
author himself, but there will be no
evidence of that fact in the print-like
copy
-AWorkmen, while excavating for
the Hennepin canal feeder, twenty
miles south of Rock Falls, ILL.,, discov-
cred large iron chest about feet
wide and feet long. 1t was full of
old Spanish coins bearing date of 1884.
The chest was almost easten through
by rust. 1t is evidently strong
box of some of the early Spanish or
French settlers who invaded the Illi
nois and Rocky river valleys in the
latter part of the seventeenth century.
Various estimates have been placed
on the value of the coin. 1t is probably
worth about $4,000,
AS usual, hundreds of Americans
must stay in England for six, or eight
weeks longer than they intended be-
cause they cannot get berths on home
ward bound steamers. They fill up the
hotels and all places of interest and,
as the editorials aver. make London
ers appreciate the great sights of the
free criticism" So many Americans
visit and reside in London that an
American directory is being prepared,
which will include upward of 10000
names. Millionaire Americans figure on
the Scottish shooting leases to an I'M
usual extent.
Prof. Dickson of Yale, camping on
Indian Creek. Col, has demonstrated
the possibility of welding two snakes
together so that the two bodies would
unite and continue to grow as one.
While ii was admitted that human
parts could be made to grow together,
it was contended that the sluggish cir
culation of the reptiles would initiate
against success. A RATHER was extend
ed with an iron hoop circling his head.
An adder was obtained and cut in
two. The RATHER was treated in the
same way. The rear half of the adder
was then sewed to the front of the rat
tier with strong thread, and after
twentyfour hours the iron collar was
removed and the composite reptile was
placed in a cage, where he squirmed
around with every evidence of vitality
customary rattle and warning puzzled
the RATHER when a rabbit was showed
into the den. His supply of virus, how
ever, was not diminished by his cur
tailment. for when he struck the rab
bit it began to swell, and in an hour
was dead The metamorphosed RATHER
will be kept under scientific scrutiny
for the next two months.
Reports from England assert that
the American steel manufacturers are
offering wire rods delivered in Man
chester for $29. 80 ton, says the
Brooklyn Herald. For the same thing
the price to customers in this country
is S39 ton. That is to say, the Amer
lean protective tariff, preventing free
competition, enables the American
manufacturer to charge $50 to Ameri-
cans for what he sells to Englishmen
for 1928 after freighting the goods
across the Atlantic. Either the Amer
lean producer makes profit by SELL
ing his wire rods to the Englshmen at
$29.30 a ton or he does not. If he does
not make a profit on foreign business,
the unfortunate American customer for
wire rods. and all things made from
them, is forced to pay a price so excess
sive that the missionary manufacturer
can let Englishmen have them at less
than cost, which is nice for the for
eigner. II he does make profit on mis-
foreign sales, the case is still worse,
for the manufacturer is protected in
extorting an unnecessary and oppres-
Sive pro1t from his felloW-citiZenS. In
either case the American customer is
fieeced. The manufacturer is able to
fleece him because the Republican par
ty has given him a tariff law designed
and desired for that very purpose.
There is always a lively interest
among travellers on vessels stopping
at Gibraltar as to the manner of life
| of the people who live on that cannon
guarded spot The incoming steamer
| anchors in the bay half mile from
Shore passengers are taken off in boats
| and before entering the city they pass
| rigid inspection by the police, who
| ask number of pertinent and imper-
| tinent questions. The name, national
! ity, occupation and mission of the
| stranger in Gibraltar are entered in
book; he receives a card which enti-
ties him to the hospitality of the rock
| for twenty-four hours. If he desires
| to stay longer a bond of $50 for good
! behavior will secure him immunity
| from molestation for not more than
thirty to sixty days. This permission
| however, can, with the proper kind of
| influence, be renewed many times The
| town is quaint, picturesque and quiet
| with its $4,000 people, mostly English
| and Spanish, though the number of
| different nationalities represented
| makes it one of the most cosmopolitan
| places in the world-Hebrews, Turks,
Levantines. the natives of Gibraltar.
called rock scorpions" Africans and
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