The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-09

be no top on a turret, for the reason
that the ventilation is so bad, and the
facilities for observation so poor in
time of battle, that officers can not
we'll direct affairs from closed tur-
ret"
1t is estimated that the worlds al
mond crop, exclusive of Cali
fornia and Arizona, will amount
this year to about 1000 tons.
The nuts come from Italy,
Sicily, Majorca, Spain, France. Por-
tugal, Morocco and Algiers. The high
ly priced Jordan almonds come from
Malaga, Spain. Physicians say that
the almond is the most indigestible of
all nuts, and contains very little nour-
ishment.
Tn no municipal election of recent
years have the occupations represent
ed by the candidates been so various
as in the present campaign" says the
New York Evening Post. A table COM
piled by that paper shows that among
the candidates for Office in the metrop
oils are 113 lawyers, Al artisans and
mechanics, 40 merchants and trades
men, II clerks, II physicians. SO liquor
dealers, IL professional politicians, 10
officeholders, rs real estate brokers'
and s underwriters.
with reference to the far hearing
of BELLS" says Rev. John M. Bacon in
knowledge, lone most important state
ment to make is that their sound is
extremely uncertain. Seamen, light
house keepers, and others, whose train
ing makes them close observers, con-
stantly insist on this. / have already
shown how remarkably the sound of
bell may be lost in the free upper air.
Against this may be quoted state
ment which have on the authority of
Messrs. Mears, the well-known bell
founders. 1t appears that the tenor
bell of the peal of st. Bees, on the
coast of Cumberland, has been heard at
the top of Scafeil Pixies, sixteen miles
distant in a straight line. This is GER
tainly record, and must probably be
largely accounted for by the slope of
the mountain. My own experience is
wholly against the possibility of the
hearing of a deep bell across such dis
lance and at the hight of 5000 feet in
the free heaven"
One of the most important instru-
ments on modern vessels is the So
called loud talking telephone, says
Electricity. Experiments have re-
Gently been made with it in the Ger
man navy, and have proved so salts
factory that instruments are now be-
ing placed on most of the large sea-
going ships. The special value of this
telephone lies in the fact that cap.
tain standing on the bridge can easily
hear any words that may be spoken to
him from the interior of the vessel,
even though a violent storm may be
raging at the time, and can in turn
transmit without straining his voice
his own orders to officers or men in
any part of the vessel. Bad accidents
no. YrrI1 Io,.-
standing of orders given at a critical
moment, due to the fact that the words
were not distinctly heard, and it is on
ly reasonable to assume that casual
ties of this kind can be avoided in the
future through the use of this loud
talking telephone.
AN ingenious device which meas
ures the actual time a telephone has
been in use, so that the company may
charge the subscriber only for the ac-
tual service he has had, is the subject
of a patent lately granted to Mr.
Thomas Baret of Sydney, New South
Wales, according to the London Electri-
cal Engineer" as quoted in Electricity.
The idea is that a subscriber who has
but little use for his telephone will
not be compelled to pay the same as
one whose instrument is in fairly con-
slant use. To this end the lever switch
of the telephone is connected with the
clock or other mechanism, which shall
be imperative when the telephone is
not in use; but as soon as the receiver
is lifted from the hook the clockwork
shall commence to operate, and will
| thus register the extent of time that
| the instrument has been working. The
apparatus is so arranged that the up
| and-down movement of the lever
switch shall wind up the clockwork,
and thus the operation will be almost
entirely automatic. A dial is provided
! for indicating the length of time the
telephone has been in USE"
Southampton, England, has a new.
monument, fine drinking fountain re
Gently unveiled as a memorial to Mrs.
| Mary Ann Rogers, the heroic steward
ess of the Stella, whose wreck on the
| Casquets on March &c. 1899. will be
| remembered. After the Stella struck
Mrs. Rogers helped all the ladies in her
| charge to fasten on their life belts, and,
| finally, finding a young girl without a
| life belt, Mrs. Rogers took off her own
| belt and tied it around the girl. When
| the last boat was leaving the
sinking vessel the sailors shout
| ed for her to jump in, but she re-
| fused, because she thought there was
no ROOM and went down with the ship.
we are accustomed TO thinking OF
| France as a country every inch of
which is settled and cultivated, and
| to regard the wolves which once
swarmed in that fair land as having
| vanished long ago along with the
"Loupgarou." But it seems that
wolves still are numerous and destruc-
tive of life and property. So rapidly
| did the wolves increase after the war
| with Germany that in 1882 a law was
passed offering a reward for every one
| of these fierce animals killed. Since
| the institution of these premiums near
| ly 1900 wolves have been killed and
| over $130000 has been paid out in pre-
| miums. Last year there were lis
| wolves killed. For killing a she wolf
with young $50 is paid; for full grown
wolf of either sex, $50, and for whelps
| IS apiece. In medieval times wolves
were the great pest of France. They
! killed people at the very gates of Paris
and were even known to prowl about
the city streets at night.
New methods of utilizing natures
| energy constantly are being discovered.
and doubtless the future has in store
greater discoveries than yet have been
made. T. c. Mendenhall, in Casters
Magazine, writes of the stored energy
of the heat of the earths interior and
the possibilities of using it as a source
of power. He says: 1.-THE stored en-
ergy of the heat of the earth's interior
is beyond power of calculation, and
some not entirely unsuccessful at
tempts to utilize this have already been
made. From a short distance below