The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-13


err grades are imported from Belgium.
A better quality, however, is furnished
by Sweden.
According to a report of the Mas
sachusetts Bureau of Statistics on
strikes and wage difficulties in that
state in 1900, the strikers won wholly
or partially in about half the difficult
ties chronicled.
An English newspaper says that
mountain motoring does not seem to be
a promising form of locomotion, but
the restless mountaineer has impress
ed into his service the new vehicle.
Two French tourists nave climbed the
Great st. Bernard in an automobile be-
ing the first to do so and the Grand
Duke Nicholas has just completed
tour in the Caucasus in motor car.
His route lay over the Goder pass
which is 1000 feet high.
The supercilious vegetarian, sneer-
ing at the ease with which mutton for
lamb and horse for beef can be palmed
off on persons whose intellect is dulled
by long course of flesh eating may
now be retorted upon with the imita-
tion new potato, says London news
paper. Late in the season the garden
er plants his crop, digs them up just
DeIOfe winter ana DUTIES lleIH. w HSH
the new potato season arrives the tuber
is dug up and renews its youth in a
bath of boiling I've appropriate namely
solution. Their appearance is hereaft-
er faultless but I've solution somehow
does not impart the flavor of new po-
tatoes.
"A writer in Harper's Weekly says
that the actual direction of univer-
to1 fai fc Ilxy
by a treasurer. He looks after pro-
posed investments and directs general
ly the several bureaus which go TO
make up his department. For in
stance, one of these bureaus looks aft
er the collection of rents for the DOR
mitories and for the food for the dim
ing rooms in cases where a commons
is maintained. Still another bureau
may attend to the details of the uni
versity's investments and the collec-
ton of it's income from these invest
ments. Cornell has a force of farm
| loan inspectors, and maintains land
office in Michigan to look after it's
Western properties.
"A French magazine has discovered
that marriage is failure, and asked a
| Judge we'll known for the breadth of
his views to suggest a remedy. He
merit of originality: There are those
who still hold with marriage as at
| present established he remarks in
substance. by all means, let the in
| stitution be preserved for their bene-
| fit But many others chafe and fret
under the yoke of matrimony, as con-
| structed by the Napoleon code. Why
| not give satisfaction to all? The thing
could be easily managed by insutu-
ting two forms of wedlock After
choosing each other, affianced lovers
would make their choice of marriages.
| Conservative spirits would enter the
| moose which can only be united by the
| complicated, unpleasant and expensive
procedure of the divorce court. The
untameable ones would select the new
marriage, which would be legally dis
| soluable not only by common consent
| of both parties, but on the mere affi-
| davit of either that he or she had had
enough of it. Both forms of matri-
mony would be equally recognized by
| the law"
The destructive power of the ma
chine gun as compared to the latest
magazine small arm, even in large
| numbers, has been the subject of inter
esting trials abroad, reports of which
| have reached the Navy Department.
That one machine gun properly and
| effectively worked Is equal to 200 rifles
| in the hands of as many soldiers has
| been amply demonstrated. Each shot
from the machine gun works greater
| injury also to the body struck than
| the small bullet of the army rifle, and
| its range is far greater. In recent tr1-
ais so marksmen were chosen to COM
| pete with the Hotchkiss S-millimeter
| gun which has lately been adopted in
| France and Germany. The ranges were
| from 400 to 800 yards. At 800 yards the
| so riflemen, each having five rounds
| Independently, obtained "a hits. or 22.6
| per cent. of the number of rounds fired.
| Thirty-two men were then chosen from
! among the so and these had to fire
| eight rounds each in 30 seconds. Under
these condition "a, or 1873 per cent of
| the rounds expended, were recorded.
| The machine gun was then brought in
| to action, and in 3S seconds fired 211-
| bullets, making las hits. No such
| practical tests of the relative merits of
| the machine gun and a number of
| small arms have been made before.
1t was formerly thought that food
| taken at bedtime created Indigestion
and bad dreams. While undoubtedly
rich and hearty food is inappropriate
at the time chosen for repose light,
| nourishing past at night often con-
uuCCS u SOQilQ Slccp ny uTdWlnS Tic
blood away from the brain, says the
| Chicago Chronicle Physicians are now
advising a bedtime lunch for weak,
nervous and emaciated people. The
| long hours of sleep consume about one
third of our existence. Although the
| demand made upon the system is nat
urally much less than during the wax
| ing hours there is a wasting away of
I tissues consequent upon the suspen-
| sion of nutriment for many hours. The
| body feeds upon itself for food taken
| at dinner is digested at bedtime. Of
ten one is restless and wakeful at night
| because the stomach is empty. Says
a well-known physician: Man is the
| only creature l know of who does not
deem it proper to sleep on good meal.
The infant instinctively cries to be fed
at night, showing that food Is neces-
sary during that time as well as
through the day; and that left too long
without it causes 1t discomfort which
| it makes known by crying" If you
crave it, eat a light, easily digested
| lunch at bedtime. And the long hours
of sleep will work out for you a prob
lem in addition, instead of subtraction,
of adipose tissues.
Have you heard. asks a contribu-
tor to the New York Independent, of
my friend p, who used to write for
| the State Boys Own? The publisher
| of that remarkable panar-T am not