The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-02

eIeu Will HOl De IOunQ out Tor the nrSL
time. Among these is the substance
which formed such terribly effective
weapon against fleets hostile to the
Greeks, and which was known as
Greek fire. Nothing known at the pres
ent time will do what this substance
was reported to do, namely, to set fire
to ships when brought into contact
with water.
Taxing the five principal maritime
countries, France heads the list with
the largest subsidies, says the London
Express. On ship construction only
there is a subsidy of &232,000, neither
England, Germany, Russia, nor the
United States alloting a penny under
that head. And on navigation France
grants G4SS,000, as against $4,000 by
Germany, sS27,S95 by Russia, (Which
amount, however, includes the volun-
teer fleet), and $4,000 by Great Brit
ain GRANTED to the West India and
Canadian trades). Yet the mercantile
marine of France is on the decline,
which clearly shows that a system of
subsidies is not a certain cure for de-
preston. In France and Russia all
ships are at the disposal of the gov
eminent in time of war. In Germany
but eighty vessels are subsidized for
that eventuality and in Great Britain
IOILy-SlSHL Otily hs tAAS 5ONSA'-
ment's disposal.
1T is difficult to convey any ade-
quate idea of the magnitude OF the
steel corporation. A mere list OF the
properties owned or controlled would
fill an entire number of this magazine.
1t receives and expends more money
every year than any but the very
greatest of the worlds national gov
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of many of the lesser nations or Eu-
rope; it absolutely controls the desti-
MES of a population nearly as large as
that of Maryland or Nebraska, and in
directly influences twice that number.
Its possessions are scattered over half
a dozen states, from Minnesota to New
York and Massachusetts,, with its CHIEF
interests centering at Pittsburg, Chi
eago and Duluth, and the whole con-
trolled from New York city. 1t owns
or controls lis fine steamships on the
Great Lakes and six important rail-
road lines and several smaller ones.
In Pennsylvania its coal possessions
cover over rs, 900 acres of land worth
$1,000 an acre, besides $4,000 acres of
other land and quarries and $4,000
acres of leased natural gas lands. It
owns no fewer than $1,000 coke ovens,
being the largest coke producer in the
world. OF blast furnaces it owns so,
producing 100000 tons of pig iron
yearly, and of steel plants it owns
about $50.
Magical devices for discovering de-
posits of precious metals are out of
fashion nowadays, says the Saturday
Evening Post. Their place has been
taken by various contrivances of a
more or less scientific nature, by
means masses of gold and silver, or
rich lodes, may be located. Most of
these forms of apparatus are electri-
cal. One of them has two long and
sharp iron staffs, which, being held
apart at a distance of a couple of feet,
are thrust down into the earth. At
tached to them are a small battery and
a telegraph key. If the ends of both of
the stats come into contact with a
mass of metallic ore, the current read
ly passes between them, and pres
sure of the key above ground com
pletes the circuit, and causes a. bell to
ring. Another inventor combines the
two STATS in one separating them only
by and insulator. For use in mines,
an apparatus of much simplicity has
been devised, consisting of a little bat
terry, a telephone receiver, and two
brushes that look exactly like shaving
brushes, except that their bristles are
made of wire. If one is seen cropping
out in two places on the face of rock,
and it is desired to ascertain whether
| a continuous vein connects them, one
| of the brushes is placed in contact
with each of the spots. The operator
| then puts the telephone receiver in his
| ear, and, if there is such vein, he can
| distinguish the fact by the sound, the
circuit being complete.
The Republican party, in its forty
five years of existence, elected just six
observation-disclosures, Grant, Hayes
Garfield, Harrison and Mckinley. Just
half of these-Lincoln, Garfield and
| McKinley-were assaSsnated. says Les
/ lies Weekly. The Wing party was in
existence just twenty years, or from
| 1884 to 1854, and it elected two Presi-
dents-.William Henry Harrison and
| Zachary Taylor-in that time. Both
| died in office. Harrison served only a
month, while Taylor was in office a
year and a third. The Democratic
| party has been in existence far longer
than the Wing and the Republican
| party in combination, and 1t has never
| lost President. The Democratic par
| ty was born in 1891, in the contest be-
| tween Hamilton and Jefferson, both
members of Washington's cabinet at
the time, on the question of the estab-
| lishment of a United States bank.
| Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treas
ury, proposed the bank, while Jeffer-
son opposed it, but the bank bill was
| signed by Washington. For 10 years
the Democratic party (called the Re-
| publican party by Jefferson, but known
| as the Democratic party ever since
| Jackson's days. has been in existence
| in the United States. For about half
| of that time it was the dominant par
| ty. 1t elected nine Presidents-Ieffer
son, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van
| Buren,, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan and
| Cleveland. 1t elected five of these
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson
and Cleveland-for two terms each.
Yet not one of these died in office.
An article appears in the Novem-
Der Pearson's on the Reichsanstalt, the
Imperial Physical and Technical In
stitute of Germany. Here are set up
the most perfect instruments in the
world for measuring heat and cold,
for finding the pressure of the atmos-
phere, for determining the strength of
electric currents, for measuring light
and for a score of other purposes in
which the utmost exactness is required
Here are kept the purest gold, silver
platinum, iridium, rhodium and other
metals in the world-the standards of
purity. Here is the purest water in
the world, and the finest glass, and the
most perfect weighing machines. Here