The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-21

eight hundredth anniversary of the
death of st. Bruno, the founder of the
Carthusian order in the original Char
treuse near fGrenoble. The celebration
was held in the Church of St. Cunibert,
where Bruno was a schoolboy. 1t came
just at time when the monks of the
Grande Chartreux had made up their
minds to seek authorization from the
French government and to remain in
France.
Adelaide Ristori recently celebrated
the eightieth anniversary of her APP
pearance on the stage. Her mother
was an actress. and the future tragic
actress was brought upon the stage
when a few months old in play where
a baby was needed. She received the
congratulations of Ernest Legouve,
senior of the French Academy, now in
his ninety-fourth year, whose ''Medea"
provided Ristori with one of her most
famous parts.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell of
the National Geographical Society Of
the United States has been notified by
the chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the International Geographic
cal Congress that that body viii meet
in the city of Washington in 1904 The
first international geographical Con-
gress was held in Antwerp, Belgium,
in 1871. The meeting to be held in
Washington in 1904 will be the first ev
er held outside of Europe. The i'm
portance of the international geogra-
phical Congress and it's meetings. in
the way of promoting the science of
geography, arctic and tropical explo-
ration, etc, cannot be overestimated.
Unless vast new stores of coal
which can be mined and transported
at a reasonable cost are discovered ere
this generation draws its last breath,
says the New York Tribune, the ex-
pense of crossing. the Atlantic in the
fastest steamships is likely to soar to
lofty figures. The number of coal con-
Stunning vessels, naval and mercantile,
is increasing rapidly every year. and
the demand for fuel for iyIch craft is
steadily expanding. Coal nelds which
can be worked to advantage for the
supply of steamships do not contain
inexhaustible treasures of carbon The
biggest and f1eetest boats on the sea
burn 500 tons or more each day. Long
before this century ends the fuel prob
lem may become perplexing.
Most of the Russian peasants pass
a great deal of their lives in work.
shops, where they work, eat and sleep,
the same room sheltering a number,
and probably a pig in the bargain, says
the Saturday Review. There are few
beds. Instead, all around the four
walls of the room is fixed what may
be literally described as a bench. 1t is
made of wood. and at this works the
peasant by day and on it he sleeps by
night, each man at his own spot The
conditions of the Russian workshop, or
factory, and the Russian prison and
military barracks, so far as interior
arrangements are concerned, are akin.
Chairs there will also be, and table
rudely fashioned, as rule, by the men
themselves.
II have always thought that man
named Smith, or Jones, or Brown, was
Handicapped in the race for career.
but now ] have reason to take more
nopeful view of it," says a man named
Smith, quoted in the Philadelphia Rec
ord. Il was talking recently with an
old friend of mine about some ambl-
tons that / have long cherished, ana
ne said to me: You'll have to change
your name. The world refuses to take
man seriously whose name is Smith ;
Although he said this jokingly, 1 was
somewhat impressed. FOR it was rather
In the line of my own thoughts. Sew
eral days later / picked UP a copy of
Who's Who in America a book that
contains biographical sketches of per-
sons prominent in the professions and
in public life. Just out of curiosity l
| turned to the Smiths, and it tickled
me to death to count 1913 of them, to
say nothing of ten Smyths. There were
also sixty Browns and forty-six Jones'
| es- This was q revelation to me, and
1t has given me renewed hope"
You can generally size up a mans
caliber by the way he smoked a ci-
gar" said the. Philadelphia Records
communicative conductor. You think,
being on a street car so much of my
time, 1 have little opportunity for OBJ
| servation, Ell? Well that's where
you're wrong. I come in contact with
| the meanest kind of smokers, the kind
| who carry their butts with them on the
cars, and light up again when they get
| off. l don't mind man walking few
| blocks to finish his cigar rather than
| throw it away but l do kick on the
| cheap skate who carries his cigar into
the car. Sometimes he let's it smoul-
| der, to the annoyance of women pas
sengers, and then tells you he isn't
smoking. Other times he will rub it
against the back platform until the
butt between his fingers. Few things
are more obnoxious to people who don t
smoke than the smell of a cigar that
| has gone out, and once cigar has gone
| out it loses its flavor, and only a cheap
man would attempt to relight it."
The crews of the new Submarine"
are subject to hair-raising experiences
| occasionally, even in the piping times
of peace, says the New York Post. For
| instance the men on board the new
| French submarine Triton narrowly
escaped drowning like rats in a trap
| the other afternoon. The vessel had
gone out from Cherhourg for the pur-
pose of making plunging trials with an
apparatus invented for the purpose by
NJ. Leubeuf. When in about seven
| fathoms of water the plunge was made
and the machinery acted so rapidly
that the ship struck the bottom and
| sustained considerable damage. Water
began to flow in rapidly, but the engi-
neer ordered the safety leads" (de-
tachable weights affixed to the vesseD
| to be cast adrift, and the boat quickly
rose to the surface, but none too soon.
| Had the accident happened in rather
| deeper water it is thought that nothing
could have saved her. AS it was, she
had very narrow escape. In the few
minutes that she occupied in rising to
the surface she took in much water
and her crew were panic-stricken. Once
on the surface the pumps were got to
work, and a tug came and towed her
| into the arsenal for repairs.