The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-19


arms thirty-two years ago, but he can
do most things that other men accom-
plish by the aid of those members.
Says he: Anybody can get along with
out his arms If he has to. Every time
/ row, fish, hunt or plough ] find a
better way to do it, and it continual
ly grows easier to get along" The arm
less wonder is not new. Montague de-
scribed an exhibiting one of the six
teeth century in words that would At
modern press notice.
Norway was the last of the Euro
pean countries, except Turkey, to adopt
the art of printing, notwithstanding its
early famous literatu but to-day has
429 newspapers and periodicals, an av-
erage of one to every 5000 of the pop
ulation. OF these 1876 are political news
papers, IS are literary weeklies and las
are reviews, magazines, professional,
religious and scientific publications.
Norske intelligence eddelen is one of
the oldest papers in the world, having
been founded in Christiana in 1853, and
has been the organ of the government
from the beginning. For a century and
a quarter it's contents were limited to
advertisements and official announce
ments.
The late Joseph Cook was celebrat-
ed for his positiveness, which those
who did not admire him termed "cock-
surenesS." The Boston Pilot relates
several stories in illustration of this. 1t
says: when he went over to Scotland
to demonstrate by practical experiment
the dangerous effects of alcohol on the
human brain, he beat up the white of
an egg with spirits until the mass CO.
agulated, but it did not convince his
hn he
contrary, it only evoked from Prof.
Blackie the quiet remark: That seems
to prove that whiskey must be good
for softening of the BRAIN But the
cruelest sarcasm said of him was when
Bill Nye demurely wrote: L under
stand that my friend the Rev. Joseph
Cook has completed a. thoughtful es-
say, entitled, A Bird's-Eye View of
the Kingdom of Heaven Joseph was
capable of looking patronizingly down
on even that Dominion-or so his crit
les said.''
Those society ladies who want to
be strictly up to date should employ
the services of a Japanese maid. That
is what all the prominent society la
dies of New York are doing at the
present time, and they find that the
pretty Jap women can attend to their
wants far better than the French
maid, who for so long has been in such
great demand by the smart set. There
are several reasons why the Japanese
woman makes a better maid than the
French, German or English woman. In
the first place, she is the most clearly
person on the face of the earth, and
that counts for a whole lot. Then she
knows how to dress the hair. better
than any of her sisters, and she knows
,soI, 1F al,t.o
in miladis boudoir than the woman of
any other nationality. New York la
dies are enthusiastic over the Japa
nese maid, and their brothers also find
that the little male Japs make the best
kind of Wallets.
The uncommon longevity of men,
bers of the Society of Friends is noted
by a correspondent of the Times, Lon
don. He says: During the year ending
in 1900, there were reported the deaths
of 299 members of the Society of
Friends in Great Britain and Ireland.
The proportions were 159 males and 140
females. The average age at death
was little over siXty-one years and
seven months. A table compiled from
the returns shows that there is a very
limited mortality of children, and that
ii is chiefly in this respect that the
death-rate of the Society of Friends
differs from that of the general popu-
lation. Only fourteen deaths out of the
299 were reported as those of children
under five years of age: between five
years and twenty years the number was
nine; between twenty and thirty years
the deaths were sixteen, and the same
number was that of the deaths
between thirty and forty years.
From forty to fifty there were twenty
four deaths, and from sixty to seventy
there were sixty-two deaths. From
seventy to eighty the number was if
ty-seven, and from eighty to ninety, six
ty-nine. There were eight deaths of
Friends between ninety and one hun
dred years Of age, and there were two
deaths of persons over one hundred.
One of the latter died at Croydon in
her one hundred and first year, and
the other had passed one hundred and
one years of age"
The Pittsburg Bessemer and Lake
Erie Railroad, owned by the Steel
Company, is a new road built exclu-
sively for the ore and coal trade says
James N. Hatch, in the August Engin-
eering Magazine. There are used some
of the heaviest engines ever built,
hauling a long train of immense steel
gondola hopper cars holding so tons
VI ore apiece. InlS road forms direct
line from Conneaut to Pittsburg.
When these ore trains reach the Car
negie furnaces they must be unloaded
as quickly as possible, to save cars and
TO save storage track room. The cars
are stopped on the platform of a tipple
and clamped down to the track. The
tipple is then set in motion, lifting a
section of the track. loaded car and
all, and turning it through a vertical
circle until the car is turned upside
down and the so tons, more or less, of
ore are emptied into bucket cars, which
stand on track alongside. This ma
chine is guaranteed to handle 300 cars
in a day of ten hours. These bucket
cars are hauled away to the side of the
stock yard and stopped under the can
tilever of the largest bridge tramway
every built. This tramway has a troll
ley travel of about 800 feet, and can
pick up the bucket with it's load of
p, 400 pounds from the car, and carry
it to any part of the yards. This load
of over ten tons can be lifted from the
ground at the rate of $50 feet per min
ute, can be moved across the bridge
at a speed of 800 to 900 feet per min
ute, and the whole machine, load and
all, can be moved up or down the yards
at speed of rs to 100 feet per minute.
The new pride of the navy, the rap
id-flre seven-inch gun, is a wonderful
piece of ordnance, and that, too, with
moderate weight and moderate caliber