The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-10
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death of the Russian author Gogol is
to be celebrated at Moscow on March
2, 1902, by the unwilling of a monument
in his memory. Three prizes for mod
els have been offered.
In the earthquake which on the End
of February. 1903, took place at Yeddo
Cor Jeddo), the chief city OF Japan, the
place was almost destroyed and 100000
people were killed. One hurdred thou
sand people were killed an earth
quake at Pekin, the capital city of
China, on the 30th of November, 1881.
Eighty thousand people were killed by
an earthquake at Sehamaki in 1867,
and 100, 900 by an earthquake in Sicily
in September, 1893. The cities of Are
quipa, Iquique, Tacna and Chencha,
besides many other smaller towns in
Peru and Ecuador were destroyed and
Is, 900 people killed by an earthquake
in August, 1868, while other 10000 peo-
pie were rendered homeless and the
loss and damage to property was esti-
mated at G60,000,000.
About sixteen miles south of Gro
mer, on the sea coast of England, is
the little village of Eccles, and here.
actually upon the beach amid the sand
hills, stood until four or five years ago
the tower of the old parish church. 1t
formed a sufficiently striking object. in
weird isolation on the lonely shore, the
sand silted up round its crumbling
wall and the wind whistling through
it's hollow, dismantled belfry. Three
hundred years ago Eccles was a large
and fiourishing fishing village with an
acreage of 1000. To-day barely $50
acres and fourteen houses remain, for
~ t,e T1ox Of
terrible inundation in 1905 swept away
from the parish several hundred acres,
sixty-six houses and the church, all
but the tower. This too, has now
fallen and strewn the beach with its
broken masonry.
Bad water supply has caused much
sickness in Jerusalem for many years.
Thirty years ago Lady Burdett- Coutts
offered to give $250,000 to bring water
from Ain Arroub, but the Turkish gov
eminent barred the way. At last, how
ever, at the suggestion of Mohammed
Djjevad Pasha, recently installed gov
ernor of Jerusalem, the Sultan has
given permission to carry out a plan
submitted by Franghia Effendi, one of
his engineers. A ten centimeter iron
pipe will bring water from Ain Salab
(the sealed fountain) along the bed of
the old aqueduct which Solomon built.
On July was held the opening cere-
mony, in the presence of representa-
tives of the Greek church, Roman
Catholic, Turks and other commune
ties. In two months time, at a cost
of $4,000, water will be available for
all the people of Jerusalem.
The natives of Tutuila, one of the
islands of Oceanica, have a peculiar
method of catching fish. At a given
signal all the inhabitants of the viii
lage assemble on the seashore to the
number of about 200 persons, each one
carrying a branch of the cocoa palm.
With these in their hands they plunge
into the water and swim a certain dis
lance from the shore, when they turn,
forming a compact semi-circle, each
one holding his palm perpendicular in
the water thus making sort of seive.
The leader of the party then gives a
signal, and the fishers all approach
the sea shore gradually in perfect or
der, driving before them a multitude
of fishes that are cast on the sands
and killed with sticks. The fish are
then cooked over hot Goals and served
with bananas and coaconut milk. The
scene is most picturesque and interest
ing, the effect being heightened by the
appearance of the natives, who usually
have their hair powdered white, the
warriors in the tribe having theirs
powdered red.
If the experiments recently tried
abroad are to be regarded as conclu-
sive, land there is every reason to sup
pose that they may, the tickets to be
placed against the bronze statues in
our museums will bear the words,
please touch!" Those experiments
show tht handling preserves them. 1t
was observed in Berlin that those parts
of bronze figures that had been sur
reptitiously handled by visitors were
brighter and looked in a better state
of preservation than the other por-
tions. Inquiries of antiquarians and
experts revealed the fact that the
Greeks made a practice of polishing
their bronze by rubbing with the bare
hand from time to time, and that the
oil exuded from the human hand was
good for the metal. An experiment
was tried with four bronzes for GER
tain period; one way polished with oil
occasionally, another was rubbed by
hand, third was wiped with mix
ture of oil and chemical preparation,
and the fourth was left untouched The
last suffered most, while the bronze
polished with oil took first place, and
Paving experiments are to made in
Havana with vitrified bricks granite
squares and sandstone blocks. The
most durable materials will, of course
be used in the streets in which heavy
vehicles are most numerous. After
Havana gets substantial pavements in
its business quarters the city govern
ment should take care that the road
ways be torn up as rarely as possible
Here in New York our pavements are
almost like the tides of the sea, in
condition of perpetual unrest. They
are broken open, split apart and toss
ed about so often that they get no
peace, and when they are put together
again the work is botched, and gaps
and riffs and hills and hollows abound
This is an era of experiments in
food. Scientific investigators in Eu-
rope, after thorough tests of horse
flesh diet, say that this sort of meat,
when the use of it is continued for
a time, tends to lessen the weight of
the consumer. whether man or beast
These physiological sages have come
to the conclusion that the choicest
steaks and roasts from the latest
colts and fillies are inferior to beef or
veal, mutton, lamb or ham in sustain
ing vital force and preventing decline
in strength. This is puzzling, because
horses are as clean feeders as cattle
or sheep, and much cleaner than pigs,
How can it be accounted for?
The usual idea that a drowning
man is stretching out his hands for