The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-02

noceri ridden by postillions. Many East
ern potentates keep such beasts, for they
frequently figure in the accounts of In
dian spectacular fights between wild
beasts; though it is recorded that as a
gladiator the rhihoceros is apt to be dis
appointing, preferring to look about the
arena for food to attending to the busi-
ness in hand The only thing which he
is always ready to attack, when allowed
TO have his way, is man.
Seattle has secured ownership of
tract of 100 acres, with view to con-
Quoting a municipal cemetery, in in1ita-
ton of a project successfully carried out
in Cleveland. There a level, finely stu
ated tract of land has been acquired by
the municipality, and burial plots are sold
without regard to location at the uniform
price of 70 cents per square foot. This
price includes the actual maintenance of
the plot at the expense of the city In per-
petuity. The maintenance includes grass
seed, sowing, moving and a general care
taking. Flowers and shrubs, when re-
| quired, are, of course, charged addition
ally. The purpose is to defeat speculation
in land for burial places, and to insure
perpetual care of the graves. In Cleve-
land the enterprise is self-supportfng, al
though the charges are very low.
| One of the most unique lines of bus
mess, and one which is followed by but
! few persons in the United States, is that
of buffalo farming, and near the little
| station of Ccchrane, Wis., is located one
! of the most extensive farms of this sort
in the country, says the Minneapolis jour
nal The ranch is operated by Huber
| Bros, and they have large herd of this
| species of animals Twelve years ago G.
Huber went to Thief River Falls, where
he secured two buffaloes that were own
ed by Indians. These, with a few others,
were taken to his Wisconsin farm, and
formed the nucleus of a herd that now
numbers AZ fuH-blooded animals. Huber
Brothers have sold specimens to various
| parks in this country, and one animal
was sent to the London Zoo. Recently
| Burghess & Hanson, of LAana, Iowa, pur-
| chased herd of six from Huber Broth
ers, with which to stock their ranch. In
cluded in this lot were Old Tom and
| Lincoln the kings of the herd. Tom has
lived in captivity for years and was cap
tured without much trouble, but when
an attempt was made to corral one OF
| the cows a partly tame animal, she ran
against fence and sustained injuries OF
such a nature that it was found necessary
| to kill her. Huber Brothers also sold two
animals to a Mr. Knapp, of Rockford, Ill
| At present the Huber herd numbers 26
| full-blood and a large number of cross
| bred animals.
The Department of Agriculture has
been working recently upon what seems
| to be very interesting discovery--name-
| ly that all objects in nature are covered
| with very thin coating of liquid air. 1t
| appears, according to this idea, that the
walls of our houses, the furniture of our
rooms and the very ground over Whicn
we walk are spread with film OF air IN
this interesting and highly concentrated
| An hoe 10
| condensing upon it's surface gases or the
vapor of liquids, such as the water vapor
| of the atmosphere. If you touch the
| wall of room your finger encounters not
the wall itself but film of gas that COW
ers it, 1t is not really one gas, however
| but several the molecules of which have
adhered to the surface In addition TO
water vapor, there are oxygen, nitrogen
| and carbonic acid Taking them all to-
gether, they go to make up something
which would probably, if one could ana
lyze it, be indistingushable from liquid
air. These gases, together with more or
| less water vapor, compose the air or tae
room. Their molecules are darting about
in every direction, and, as they come IN
contact with the wall some of them ad-
here to it, Countless numbers of them
together form the thin film described. The
discovery here referred to IS said to have
practical usefulness, and the fact that
carbonic acid gas tends to form a coating
over every exposed solid is actually being
utilized in certain experiments which the
Department of Agriculture is now making.
II is found that a soil which has been
deprived of it's normal proportion of car
bonic acid may be recuperated in this
respect by simply turning it over and ex-
posing it to the air, so that the needed
molecules may settle upon it.
Though the eagle is obviously more
decorative than the hen, and therefore,
Justly enough, more of -favorite with
both poets and painters, says the New
York Times, we have our doubts about
the wisdom of the eminent Mrs. Alice
Stone Blackwell in advising american
women to make the mother eagle, rather
than the mother hen, the representative
of their aspirations. THE hen," said Mrs.
Blackwell, can do no better than cackle
and scratch" Now, the hen never does
those things without a good reason for
the one and high, or at least innocent
and practical, purpose in the other. More
over, the hen can do many things besides
cackle and scratch, and she does them
all well. The world owes a lot to hens,
and though, from patriotic reasons, We
are reluctant to speak severely of eagles
we really don't know of anything the
very best of them have ever done for any
what they accomplish by the habitual as
sumption of fierce and naughty air that
is spectacularly and aesthetically effec-
tive. We have read that eagles, among
themselves, have always practiced those
domestic virtues and customs to which
humanity has only very recently attain
ed, but they have no regard whatever for
the rights or property of other birds and
beasts, and, for all their grand airs, do
not scruple to live by the robbery OF
creatures weaker than themselves The
hen, on the other hand is gentle AMI
good. her notions are not advanced and
she is content with share of her lord S
affection instead of the whole of it. but
she never criticises the opinions or steals
the dinners OF other birds
"A public house is one of the last places
one would expect to be used as a place
of worship. The Inhabitants of Twyford
a village near Winchester, would not con-
slider this at all novelty, because for
several years past the Phoenix Inn has
been used Sunday for religious purposes
The room in which the religious services
are held will comfortably hold about 800
people and opens at the back on a pretty
tea garden. The most remarkable feature
Of the services is that they are often con-
Quoted while the public house is open for
business purposes, and the customers can
join in the singing If they are so dis
posed. There are two or three instances