The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-23


chair still exists in a busting town not
far from Paris-in Orleans? In this
pretty city, says Paris newspaper, es-
Pecially on Sundays at the hour of
mass, the classic Sedan chair, as it
was known to the gallants of the eigh-
tenth century, is borne through the
streets by robust carriers, its occu-
pants being aged people and invalids,
to whom the jolting of a carriage is in
tensely disagreeable.
San Bernardino county, California,
with an area of nearly 10000 square
miles, is the largest in the United
States, and Bristol county, Rhode ISL
and, with an area of only twenty-seven
square miles. is the smallest. If Bris-
tol county were in the form of a square
a man might walk across it in a little
more than an hour; but San Bernard
inc, in the same form, could not be
crossed by an express train in two
hours. 1t is larger than Vermont and
New Hampshire combined.
An English scientist, who has been
among the dwarf people of the Kongo
forest, studying their habits and max
ing photographs of them and of their
dwellings, says that they are ape-like
and hideous in form and features, but
generally of a cheerful and kind dis
position. Their intelligence, as rule,
is we'll developed. He saw them at
their dances, and was struck by their
gayety and their pretty movements,
which were quite different from the
heavy, awkward movements of the me-
groes.
On the whole. says the National
Geographic Magazine, when the CONT
nent of continents is fairly viewed in
her length and fullness of history as
in her breadth and wealth of land, Asia
must be held at once the cradle OF hu-
manity, the birthplace of nations the
nursery of the worlds religions; and
all right thinking men must hope that
the debt of the western world to the
queenly continent will be paid in full
measure, and in peace and good will to
the men of ancient lineage, whether
their skins be brown or yellow.
AS showing the absence of Amerf-
can vessels in the South American
trade it may be mentioned that the
United States have now to send pas
sengers, mails and freight from New
York to South America by way of Eu-
rope, says a London newspaper. There
have been several attempts to estab-
lish commercial lines between New
York and Brazil and the Platte river,
but none of these has yet come to
anything. 1t seems to be a strenuous
life in earnest that the world is enter
ing upon with the twentieth century.
when the nation which is pictured
abroad as the Yankee Peril is in
turn taking alarm at a European peril
at it's own doors.
"A Paris correspondent writes his
paper that the aeronaut, M. Surcous,
his wife. M. Chardon general secre-
tary of the last Paris exhibition and
M. Binof (architect of the Porte mon
umentale) had an exciting balloon trip
between Rueil and Beauvais. Passing
through the clouds they were caught
in a violent storm, and when they final
ly emerged into clear air it was at a
hight of $4,000 feet, and they We're
travelling over a veritable ocean of
fire, formed by vivid lightning flashes.
The aerial Voyagers landed near Beau
vais after being up nearly four and
One-half hours, and the balloon. which
was covered with snow, caused the
greatest wonder among the astonished
inhabitants.
Lieut.. Tilley, U. S. N, governor of
the province of TutuiIa, by excluding
intoxicants from the island, has per-
formed service that will be of ever
lasting benefit to the natives, says Sue
cess. Nothing else has so greatly
dwarfed the commercial and industrial
growth of the South Pacific islands as
the promiscuous introduction of spirit
uous liquors by irresponsible people.
These islanders are wonderfully pro-
ductive, and the natives would as read
q. :.
the soil as of the horrifying effects of
drunkenness, if the foreigners would
make it their purpose to so deal with
them. Lieut. Tilley deserves, the thanks
of his countrymen. for taking this inn
portant step in the development of
those of the Samoan Islands that be-
long to the United States, and time
will prove his wisdom in the progress
the natives will make when freed from
the demoralizing influence of rum.
The civilization of to-day has not
been ground to that cazcr-edged keen
ness when the painless putting to their
final sleep of incurables Would be JUS
titled" said a well-known Washington
alienist to a Washington Star reporter.
THE progeny of single couple of de-
generates and paupers have been
through several generations, and out of
over 1000 descendants 95 per cent. have
become paupers, thieves, convicts, muir
derers, persons of ill-repute and
charges upon the public in one form
or another. male and female alike.
Students of this interesting social ques-
ton have made other compilations of
degenerate families with equally au-
thentic and startling results. The pow
er of the state to legislate for the pro-
lection of the majority against the
acts of the minority is undsputed and
is eXemplified in many ways, notably
in arresting lawbreakers and confirming
them in prisons, the control and re-
straint of lunatics, and the Selling and
isolation of smallpox patients. In the
advanced civilization of future CEN
turtles this power viii have been great
ly extended, and will, no doubt, place
an iron bound restriction upon the
marriage of persons in undesirable
mental and physical condition, with
the object of the benefit of mankind in
general
An English engine, built in 1870,
has run 100000 miles and is still in
service, says the Chicago Tribune. The
managers of the road to which it be-