The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ana bone man, who, now that he knows
whose illustrious remains he possesses,
intends to exhibit them around the
country in the hope of making a for
tune out of the gallant Percy whose
not temper has become as traditional
is his valor. Laborers were recently
digging in the street of Shrewsbury
for sewer. and in the course of their
work they came across the ancient
triars' cemetery where Percy was
buried and at the spot which antigua
rlans say marks his grave they un-
earthed lot of human bones which,
oy some mysterious means known only
to antiquarians, have been identified
as being the earthly remains of the no
table Earl or Northumberland. They
were sold before the laborers realized
what they were; sold for a few pence
10 be ground up as bone dust But
that fate will surely be denied them.
Ihey may be bought and honorably
buried again or they may make the
rounds of the North England country
1alrS, where descendants of Hotspur's
Vassals may gaze at them for so much
head.
The news that the Niagara Power
Company is to develop it's work on the
Canadian side of the falls has called
those who would leave the cataract
without the touch of human industry
says the Boston Advertiser These
| persons are rebuked by the Electrical
World and Engineer in an editorial
note. 1t says: LAS a matter of fact
there is an awful exuberance of rheto-
flc over the destruction of the falls,
ana those who are trying to reclaim
part of the energy that has been vast
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amount obloquy. 1t is, of course, true
that some of this utilization is I'M
necessarily and sinfully ugly; but it is
not worse than nature often wreaks
in her own domains. OF the later
plans for getting power from Niagara
away from it's finest scenery, it can
only be said that they are both scien-
! tlf1c and preservative of her beauty.
| In reality, a stiff wind up the gorge
does more to keep the falls dry than
man will be able to do in the next
fifty years; and God Himself in one
frost does more to break down the cliff
over which the river plunges than man
| can do in thousand years. The pres
ent work, indeed, by diverting part of
the water, is tending to preserve the
falls"
New South Wales has just borrow
ed the neat little sum of $40, 100000 and
another Australian colony has also
raised large loan, says the New York
Press. Some people think the
colonies are rather too free in Dor
rowing, but as a matter of fact they
| compare favorably with other coun-
| tries which have undeveloped resour-
ces. For real borrowing ability one
has to look to the nations of the East
or to those of South and Central Amer
lea. Turkey has an enormous national
! debt, which it probably never will pay,
and besides still owes immense sums to
| Russia on its war indemnity, large
sums to Russian subjects as indemnity
and other sums to the Damascus Rail-
way. Some of the Central and South
American republics are so deeply in
! debt that there seems no possibility of
their ever being able to pay their
| creditors in full In some cases the
| interest on the foreign loans has not
| been paid for a long time. There is no
| fear, however, that the Australian coll
| onies individually, or the Australian
| Federation, will get into the financial
| state of these countries; for in the 81
and continent there is a constant and
great increase in wealth every year,
| and, so far, the amounts borrowed
! have not been unreasonably large, con-
sidering all things.
Placer mining in the Klondike is
yet in its infancy, according to DR.. A.
! C. Robertson, inspector of the British
| Yukon mines, who has just come out
says the San Francisco Chronicle. He
says: LAS a placer paying proposition
! the Klondike has yet in my Judgment
| twenty years of life, and for the next
ten years the annual output of gold
will continue from $4,000 900 to $780,
! 000, 900. By means of the dredge, steam
shovel and hydraulic dredging 1 think
every foot of ground heretofore worked
| in the Klondike will be reworked. This
| will be done, of course, in the summer.
| In fact, with the introduction of ma
| chinery the Klondike is getting to be
| more and more summer camp. In
view of these improved conditions one
must realize that they have only be-
| gun to open up the Klondike. The
output will continue large. There with
be no perceptible decrease in the yield
| for ten years, though the maximum
| output in a single year may have been
passed. I expect to see great things
! accomplished by steam shovels and
hydraulic operations. The latter, of
course, requires a lot of water. the
| supply of which, when exhausted in
| the creeks, will be from the Klondike
river. One of the best indications that
| the Klondike is to be long-lived is to
| be found in the permanent and very
expensive purchase of improvements.
The new administration under Cover
nor Ross is making wonderful improve
ments. Expenditures for roads alone
this season exceeds $3.50, 900. The re.
duction of the royalty from 10 to 5 per
| cent, with an exemption of $4,000, has
| been a material factor in bringing
about an increase in the annual output
| of the Klondike\ and within twelve
months l look to see the royalty aboi-
ished altogether and an export duty
of per cent. substituted. This will
force the establishment Of an assay Of
| flee in Dawson"
The main source of the amber sup
ply is the sea coast of the Baltic
ocean, says Harpers Round Table. 1t
is fossil gum, originally the emulation
of a species of confer now extinct.
This grew in luXuriant profusion hun
dreds of thousands of years ago on the
| marshy coasts of Northern Europe,
when the climate was much warmer
than it is to-day. The natural history
of amber is thus explained. The i'm
mense forests of amber pine under
went their natural downfall and decay.
! The resin of the wood accumulated in
large quantities in Dogs and ponds and
| in the soil of the forest. Where the
coast was slowly sinking, the sea. by
and by, covered the land and the am
Der, which had been gradually harden
| ing, was at last deposited at the ocean
bottom. But in higher regions the
pines continued to flourish and so am
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