The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-15

Is. and when was 50 1 wondered if they
were going to bring in the lhigh-chair at
the table and give me bottle"
Chicago intends going in for wireless
telegraphy on large scale There is
nothing small about the Windy City, and
IL is daily striving to beat creation. The
new method is TO be intro
duced for commercial purposes.
and it is hoped that the sys-
tenn will be in full operation in about
two months. Preparations for installing
instruments in the states of Illinois,
Micigan, Minnesota. Iowa, and Wiscon-
sin, are now being made Preparatory
to the introduction of the system for COM
mercfaI purposes a public trial of instru-
ments to be used in atoms will be made.
The Northwestern Wireless Telegraph
and Telephone Company will conduct the
tests, and introduce wireless biography
into this section Of the country. The
country is a branch of the Federal Wire
less Telegraph and Telephone Company.
which has purchased all patents on wire
less telegraph instruments and schemes,
which il believes are suitable for practi-
cal use 1t has already in operation sew
eral lines. Joseph c. Sohwab, former
member of the Board of Education, is
president of the Northwestern Company.
After the 14th of July next Russia ex-
poets to produce all the coal that she may
require in her manufacturing establish
ments, at least that is the supposition
to be gathered from a recent announce
ment of the minister of finance. Until
that date the coal will be admitted free
of duty. The rise in the production in re-
cent years has been very marked, and
although the anticipations of the minis
ter may not be realized Immediately af-
ter the date above mentioned, still there
is reason to believe that in a compare
lively short period Russia will be indie
pendent of outside sources of supply. In
1897 the domestic production was some
Il 100000 tons; in 1898 it had risen to H.
600, 900 tons. Although the detailed Off
cial statement for 1899 has not yet been
issued, it is known that during the first
six months of that year there was an in
crease of 1905, goo tons over that of the
corresponding period OF the preceding
year, and it is thought that the results
of the remaining six months will be more
favorable. The production of the year
1900 is said to have been still better than
that of 1899.
There would seem to be ample room
for the workings of prison reform as
ISOLATION in Corea, if the conditions were
but half as bad as those detailed by the
Rev. Robert z. Speer in a recent number
of Frank Leslie's Monthly In his de-
scription of his visit to one of the typi-
cal establishments he says the gate was
wide open and the courtyard was full
of prisoners, and the surrounding build
ings were old and tottering. I asked the
chief, whom one of the two or three list
less attendants called for us, why the
prisoners did not run away. "Oh," he
replied, they would be caught and beat
en- again and kept longer. Now they will
get out SOON" But as 1 looked at them
l saw they did not run because they
could not. The life was beaten out of
them The keepers brought the heavy
red cord with a brass hook at the end
and trussed up man with it to show
how the beating was DONE and then
brought us the stiff rods with which VIC
tins were pounded over the shins and
thighs until the beaten spots were SIM
ply masses of fostering rottenness. There
was a room, black, foul, leprous in which
the men was fastened in the stocks The
Black Hole of Calcutta was scarcely less
merciful thba this.
1t has been stated that Uncle Sans
greenbacks are wearing out fast and a
big reserve fund is to be established, to
be kept in the treasury vaults until it is
more thoroughly cured than the notes
now in circulation, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. Orders were given the other day
for the clerks of the bureau of engraving
and printing engaged in printing green
backs to work one hour extra each day,
beginning July !. One hundred million
dollars in greenbac ks are to be accumu-
lated and will be laid aside to get com
pletely dried out before being issued. They
will be one, two and five-dollar notes, and
il is estimated that it will take about
three months to print them Whenever
possible it is the policy of the Treasury
Department not to issue greenbacks I'M
til they have been stored six or eight
months. By that time they are well-sea-
soned and are in a condition to withstand
considerable handling. During the last
two years, however, the unprecedented
demand for notes, especially those of
small denomination, has not permitted the
department to lay aside any quantity
Most of those printed during that time
have been put into circulation within one
or two months after being received from
the big money mill. Any one accustomed
to handling paper money can instantly
detect the difference between green and
seasoned bills. A note that has been thor
oughly cured is crisp, firm and tough,
while green note is thick. soft and
mushy. After the latter has been in cir
culation it becomes rough like a piece of
blotting paper and is soon unfit for cur
rency. 1t rarely lasts more than a year,
while the life of a well-seasoned note |
is anywhere from two to ten years. Bills !
issued in the sixties have come into the
redemption division in good condition, |
showing that they were well cured before |
being sent out. Greenbacks stored for
six to eight months after being printed
get tough, the paper seems to get thin |
and some chemical action takes place that |
sets" the ink.
United States Consul F. w. Hossfeld |
at Trieste, Austria, sends to the State |
Department a long report on ozocerite, |
or mineral wax. a resinous substance re- /
semblng beeswaX. which is found in |
Russia. Rumania, Egypt. Algeria, Cana |
d. and Mexico. as well as in Austria |
Hungary, but which is found in guam
titles sufficient to pay for mining only |
in the district of Boryslav. Galicia, and |
to a limited extent on the west coast of |
the Caspian Sea. Concerning the mining |
OF oZocerite, Consul Hossfeid says: Min |
ing operations are commenced by sinking |
a shaft and connecting it by galleries |
with the beds, or nests" containing the
wax. Sometimes it happens when a nest |
is being opened, that the enormous pres
sure of gases shut up in the same causes |
the soft mass of wax to be forced out
with great vehemence. Such occurrences
greatly imperl the lives of the miners |
who are compelled to flee to some high
er part of the shaft for safety. In some
even the deepest shafts are filled with