The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-01

Stored away in the vaults of New
York banks IS Sl5O,OO0.OOO, estimated by
bankers as the amount required TO meet
disbursements during January. On the
first day of the business year the actual
paying out of this great sum will COM
mence. Bankers have been preparing for
ii for some time and the bulk OF the
money win go for the payment of divi-
bends and coupons. Temporarily there
will be a stringency in the money mar
ket. The transfer of $4,000. 0OG is not such
a simple thing even for the big institu-
tons of this great city.
AT a recent meeting of the Lafayette
Memorial Commission in Washington, at
the Office of Controller Dawes, il appeared
from the report of the secretary of the
commission mat a considerable surplus
over the amount already expended and
the liabilities to be incurred for final COM
pletion of the monument would be held
by the commission. The amount of funds
in sight, counting the premium of the an
sold Lafayette dollars, approximates $500,
which, by a small addition, would enable
the commission to erect in Washington a
replica of the monument in all its de-
tails.
Every one of the bonds of the great
Carnegie Steel Company-and there are
$l6O 900 worth of them-bears a fine
steel engraving of Carnegie. The coupon
clippers Of coming generations will have
lance to gaze on his smiling face at
percepuDle intervals, and they are req
sonably sure to call him blessed. The
entire issue of 1850 000 600 is divided into
series, a group of 1000 of the denomina-
ton of $4,000 each for the very rich an
other group of 1000 of a denomina lion of
$4,000 each for those a little less So still
another group of 5000 of a denomination
or 5000 for those who are moderately
rich, and finally a group of 10000 of a de-
nomination of $1,000 each for the little
fellows.
A Bayonne On. J) dispatch says: Will
liam A. Eddy, at O'Clock to-day. meas
ured by means of his kites the altitude
OF the thousands of wild ducks which
were flying southwark along the coast
The average hight of the flying ducks
was round to be 1,500 feet They passed
across the cross-wire space of Mr.. Ed
uy KITES in about three seconds This
tilne was taken repeatedly, and twenty
observations confirmed the speed travel
ed. 1t was found that the ducks were
travelling very nearly forty-seven and one
half miles an hour. Although the kites
were up but 800 feet the ducks appea red
10 De AFRAID OF them, and repeatedly great
hooks steered off to one side or the other
as they approached the point where the
kites Were. Mr. Eddy had aloft two nine
foot and two seVen-foot kites On Dec
~ MI Eddy, by means of his kites
found that the cirrus clouds were travel
ing at the rate of 179 miles an hour. which
Is the highest velocity yet recorded here.
"A highly ingenious apparatus for dis
charging an electric line of high pressure
electrostatic discharges, or those due to
lightning, has recently been tested with
satisfactory results on several trolley
lines during thunder and lightning storms.
says Electricity. 1t consists simply of "a
glass tube about foot long, filled with
small shot. The shot is treated chemically
before used 20 give it a light coating of
lead carbonate, which is an Indifferent
conductor. The tube is provided with me-
tdlic ends and is corrected in series with
a spark gap between the line to be pro-
tected and the ground. To the rapid oscil-
lating current of high pressure Undue ed
on the line by lightning the tube of shot
offers practically no resistance, and The
discharge goes to earth. To the neavy
trolley current which at once begins to
follow along the path made by the light
ming discharge the resistance of the shot
is enormous, and the current is at once
broken. This action is very milar to tn at
of the coherer, or tube of metallic filings,
used in wireless telegraphy.
"A white Ieghorn rooster escaped from
a wagon in South Water street one af-
ternoon recently, and furnished fun for
crowds of people on Clark street and Dear
born street bridges. says the Chicago
Chronicle. He ran the gauntlet of more
than half a hundred chicken hooks, and
finally trlumphantly fioated down the
river on a cake of ice, growing defiance
10 his pursuers. The rooster got away
from William Gordon. a teamster, and
when a chicken gets free in South Waters
street the commission business of Chicago
drops everything and joins in the chase.
lie escaped every snare until forced out
on the Clark street bridge, and then flew
down to the center pier, and from there
to the ice between the plies After climb
ing around on the center pier for ten
minutes with long chicken hook in his
hand, Gordon scared the rooster, and he
flew 10 a block of ice that was floating
down the river. Then suggestions from
the crowd on the bridge ceased. The
white leghOrn shook himself and crew
long and Justify, and, as he swept toward
Lockport, the crowd cheered for the only
chicken that has escaped from South Wa
Ter street this year.
Typhoid fever seems to have become
epidemic in the Crimea, for the children
of the Cars eldest sister. the Grand
Duchess Xenia, are now suffering from
it. The young Grand Duchess who is a
particular favorite of her brother the
Emperor, is married to that Grand Duke
Alexander, who was in this country az
the time Of the Columbian celebration as
lieutenant of one of the Muscovite war
ships taking part in the celebration. AL
though the Crimea is so beautiful in its
scenery, and is possessed of much the
same climate as fhe French and Italian
Riviera. yet it has always been unlucky
Car died there SO. too, did Alexander
l. under circumstances still shrouded in
mystery while the death of Emperor
Nicholas ! was undoubtedly due to his
distress and modification in connection
with the invasion Of the Crmea Peter
the Great met with his most serious re-
verses in the Crimea and, indeed, in ev-
cry reign the Crimea figures in one man
ner or another fatefully 10 the reigning
house of Russia Throughout the entire
time of the Cars illness his wife deter
mined TO preserve her three little ones
from all danger of con .agon. separated
herself from them. Their abode was
transferred to an adjoining villa and ev-
cry day when ii did not rain they were
brought under the Czarina's window so