The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18

hbers is now employed at Dusseldorf,
Germany, for manufacturing cloth,
bandages, hats, rugs and so forth. Ten
years have elapsed since the first at
tempts to make turf wool, and it is
aVerred that recent improvements in
the processes have resulted in the pros
duction of a soft fibrous material,
which can be spun as readily as sleeps
wool, and which, besides possessing ex-
ceIlent absorbent properties, is capa-
BILE of being bleached and colored for
use in various textile industries.
1t is twenty years, at least, since
the forests in the provinces of Ontario
and Quebec have suffered as severely
from fires as they have this season.
Disastrous fires have devastated the
timber limits on the ISippewa and
Temiscamingue during the past month.
The rain, which fell in torrents a few
days ago, extinguished the flames, and
men have since been travelling over the
burned area, but even now it is impos-
Slble to arrive at any accurate estimate
of the damage which the lumber in
terests have sustained. AS near as can
be gathered 1000 acres of valuable pine
forest was burned over, millions of old
pines were badly damaged, and many
millions of young trees were destroy
600 to 81 100000.
The specialist who visits the Eng
lish metropolis usually finds himself,
before he has been in the city a week,
introduced to some club, big or little,
according to the nature of his special
~, where he can hobnob with others
engaged in similar labors, writes a
London correspondent in the New York
Iimes. Be he playwright or poet,
Psychologist, student of early English
or the Elizabethan drama, or old
French ballads, or Oriental metaphys-
les, there is sure to be pointed out to
him house, fiat or single room, some
where between st. Pauls and the Full
ham road, where he can talk shop with
other enthusiasts. From the time when
Shakespeare, Ben johnson and Kit
Marlowe gathered together O. nights at
the Mermaid to drink sack and spout
their latest verses, clubs have been one
of the recognized features of London
life.
How an electro-magnet may be
made highly useful as a means of saw
ing life in surgical cases is illustrated
in several instances recorded by Elec-
tricity, says Leslies Weekly. One case
occurred in France, where a two-year
child had swallowed a nail two and
half inches long. Efforts to extract it
were made in vain, but after a time
the trouble arising seemed to have
passed away and it was thought that
the nail had passed through the digeS-
tive tract. After some months, how
ever, the child began to suffer with
labored breathing. A photographic eX-
animation was made and it was found
that the nail had lodged in the right
bronchial tube. Tracheotomy was re-
sorted to under an anaesthetic, and
then an electromagnetic was inserted
through the opening and pushed down
into the trachea as far as possible. The
nail was Immediately drawn from the
bottom of the bronchial tube and be-
came attached to the magnet. Several
days afterward a Bordeaux physician
learned of this curious operation and
performed a similar one on a three
year-old child who was supposed to
have swallowed a nail. BY following
the same methods he succeeded in
drawing out the nail, which had De-
come fixed in the left bronchial tube
for year.
The bad egg, says an exchange, is
generally supposed to be an utterly use
less product, and yet at least one en-
terprising Philadelphia is doing a lu-
he at t,v anu hlSiIly Iespecteo business
~ ~ LIS rtso a .lioi oushiy uecayeu egg
;tz $50 oast gnu eIaDliis II 70 aoa
40 llous. enaie 70 .ne sum totaI OF
i,,a tL Ian meailn anu prosperity. Our
eggs were rendered what appeared to
be worthless. En- route to the city
from the west the heat destroyed nu-
tnerous crates ana many eggs We're
Iounu useless py the time they reach
eu fnliaoelpnla; Naturally, you would
tnlhk THESE pau eggs would De thrown
away. MOI 80. NOT is the egg dealer
even colIIpeIieo 10 pay Tor hauling them
away. II Is mere that the enterprlsing
uedier IN pdq eggs asserts MS ingenuity
anu usefulness IN the community. he
V ss1 tne commission merchant and
o JI 10 Hdui theiil away free OF charge.
rurtheTHore' When eggs are scarce, he
pays at the rate OF Two or three cents
oozeh LOT the oecayeo products, but
now Wneh the neat causes such a large
percentage 10 De rendered spoiled he
9oeS not nave TO pay anything; the
uealeI - eidu enough 10 nave his as
sIstdhce IN naullng the spoiled and use
tess eggs away. Ihese ne takes to the
iaeloly, anu they are there converted
luIO o. SOiutlOh uSeu III tanning. The