The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-09


the State House. The latest complain.
is that the custodian some time ago re-
moved two carloads of fertilizer from a
Kansas City packing house and stored II
in a vacant room in the basement of the
Capitol All the members of the Legfsla-
ture and state officers have been suffer-
ing from the unspeakable odor. 1t is ais
made known that Topeka thieves have
been stripping the copper from the roof.
The other day some boys were found tear
ing up the copper, and it was seen that
sheets of that metal had been carrie
away. Is 1t impossible to take proper
care of the main public building in the
state?"
1t may be that the coachman sitting
TRANQUILITY on the box, apparently comfort
able, though the wintry blasts do blow
has got on garment more or less worn
at this season by men much outdoors,
says the New York Sun. These men IN
clude coachmen, truckmen, motormen am
others. The garment is a sheepskin waist
coat. This is a wastcoat made of sheep
skin, with the wool on, and worn with
the woolly side in. The skin is tanned I
a tan color. The waistcoat is cut hign
in front and is provided with pockets.
is worn sometimes in place of coat
that would otherwise be used, or perhaps
with lighter weight coat than the wear
er would put on without 1t. The over
coat is of course, worn over all, as usual
Some sheepskin waistcoats are made to
button together at the front, as any
waistcoat would Others are made to
fasten together in front with straps and
buckles. There's high degree of warmth
in a sheepskin waistcoat, but the price i
not very high. They cost about $3.50
George r. Eyanson, a young electri-
clan of Philadelphia, Pa, is credited with
the invention of a new electric battery
economically and easily appli able to ira
ton and lighting. The invention is COW
cred by between thirty and forty patents
Eyanson has worked in secret on his in.
vention for seven years, and now that it
is completed heavily capitalized compa-
MES have been formed to support the in
vention. Automobiles, according to the
plans of the organizers, will first be fitted
with the Eyanson system. After that
lighting will be taken up. There is said
to be no leakage of energy from the new
battery, and that a system of recovery
has been perfected by which the power
producing properties of the battery are
brought back to their original state at a
trivial cost. and with the great advantage
of being chemically pure. The Eyanson
battery it is claimed, can be built into
a vehicle, and requires only fresh solution
from time to time. 1t is added that 1t
is far less limited in it's radius than the
ordinary storage battery.
There are something like $4,000 church
ediflces in this country, many of them
large and costly modern structures, on
expensive sites, says the Church Econo-
mist. Yet so far as we can learn not a
church in America avails itself of the ele-
vator. The business advantage of the
elevator is obvious. Where land is eXpen-
sive it pays for itself many times by
making practical a repetition of floors
otherwise out of the question. Instead OF
spreading out the modern structure
shoots up. Elevators in churches could
| be used for two purposes: First, to in
crease the value of a gallery. Where a
church has a gallery this is generally the
neglected and unpopular part. An eleva-
tor might easily raise pew rents sufti-
GENTLY to make it a very profitable in
vestment Office and apartment rentals
have been thus revolutionized And, sec
ond, the social fac Titles of a church could
be furnished without the expense of addi-
tional lots and separate construction
This might be done without impairing the
| churchly character of the architecture.
Although a man may risk his accident
insurance policy by riding on the front
platform of a street car, contrary to a
posted prohibition in the car of such ac-
ton, he may not thereby forfeit his right
to recover damages from the company in
| the event that he is injured while so rid
| ing, says the New York Post. 1t all de-
ponds upon whether the railroad company
enforces the rule, the Massachusetts SUI
preme Court in effect says. The rule is
a reasonable one, the court says in pass
| ing upon a suit for damages, but it cam
not be set up by the company 20 defeat
| the claim of a passenger who has acted
| in the belief that the rule was not in
force 1t is supposed that the company's
| officers know the habitual methods of
| their servants in managing the cars, and
that when passengers are freely permit
ted to ride upon the front platforms, pay
| ing fares therefor, the passengers, and
| also the jury may assume that the rule
was not intended to be enforced. Like
some other rules on railroads, it was in
! tended to be enforced in the court, if not
| elsewhere.
The bat of the islands, which grows in
many cases to the size of the American
chicken hawk, is eaten in some sections
of the Philippines, says the Scientific
American. The best classes of natives,
however. do not eat the bats. The mode
of catching the bats is peculiar. The
cities, towns and barrios of all of the
Islands of the Philippine group are quite
overrun with bats, which fly through the
streets at night in large numbers. They
fly slowly and seem incapable of lodging
articles in their path. Therefore, the ma
tive takes long pole, puts "A sort of
combination hooked arrangement at the
top and takes position in a street, and
with the pole held erect waits for bats to
come along and bumb into the hooked
portion. AS the native sees a bat coming
he plans to have the hook in it's path,
and as he moves the pole, so as to bring
the hook into contact with the head of
the bat, the latter usually strikes it with
a bang and drops to the earth stunned,
when the native proceeds to promptly put
the bat to death. After standing in his
position for an hour or more the native
has little pile of bats at his feet. These
receives about 10 cents each for them. The
wings, head and, in fact, all but small
portion of each side, are thrown to waste.
The fish at the Colorado State hatch
cries are kept in several small pools in
order that they may be separated accord
ing TO their kind and cared for properly.
says the Denver Republican. Occasional
ly 1t was desired to clean these pools or
make some alteration to them This
caused a great deal of trouble for the
superintendent. 1t was almost impossible
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