The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the megapnOne was LrleQ Dy the BLUSH
officers for giving orders, since the coll
umns sraversing through the african
bush were so long that it was impossi
bic to convey orders in the usual way.
The experiment was unsuccessful. how
ever. because the thick jungle and the
winding paths prevented the sound from
travelling.
The prize of 800 offered some time
ago by the Association des Industrielles
of France for the best insulated glove
for electricians was won by Mr.. Franz
Clouth of Cologne. The prize winning
glove had an electrical resistance of 81
500 megohms and in a breakdown test it
withstood a pressure of 11,0O0 volts for
three minutes and 1920 volts for one
minute before being penetrated. The
glove is of rubber lined with tricot.
"A new turbine steamer was tried on
the Firth of clyde a few days ago. The
vessel, called the King Edward, travel
ed at uniform speed of 20 knots. There
was almost a complete absence of the
vibration common to vessels with ordi-
nary engines. The inventor of this
method of propulsion, the Hon C. A.
Parsons, has every confidence that his in
vention will be suitable for any size of
vessel, the larger and the faster the
better.
Statistics published by the telephone
companies show that more than 1880 far
mers within a radius of 80 miles of the
city limits of Chicago have telephones
IN their homes. This includes only tele-
phones in connection with regular ex-
changes, connecting with the country
seats and other towns, and all can be
bic
showing, there are numerous country
people who own their own telephones on
private. lines with neighbors.
DIR. Wiley, chief chemist in the De-
partment of Agriculture, calls attention
to the anomalous fact mat while various
states have laws forbidding the adult
teration of foods, there is no national law
regulating the matter, so that food which
is adulterated in New York state can be
taken to New Jersey and sold, the law
prohibiting the sale of it in the state of
New York. Some authorizations are
harmful, while others are not; among the
harmless list being the ,adulteratlon of
coffee with peas, beans, chicory, etc.
1t is proposed in Hungary to connect
by canal the Oder and Danube rivers
and extend the line to the Adriatic near
Flume. The Austrian proposition contem-
plates canal from the projected Oder
Danube waterway eastward to the Dnies-
ter river, which flows into the Black
Sea, and another westward to the Elbe.
Still another will join the Danube and
Moldau rivers. The completion of these
would mean a network of canals cover
ing the principal provinces of Austria,
which would afford cheap all-water routes
to the Adriatic, the Black and the Baltic
seas, besides linking the naviga BILE
streams of of the Empire. In addition
Trieste. Austria's seaport, asks for a wa
ter connection between that city and the
Danube, thus making two outlets for the
Adriatic. The cost is estimated at $780,
10000
"A young man of Glencoe, o. T., is
offering 5000 tickets on himself as hus-
band, which he is selling at IS each. and
II Is said they are going like hot cakes
This is how he explains his scheme: by
selling 5000 chances for s. each, it will
bring to me $4,000, which is sufficient
money TO attract any young woman de-
slrous of marrying. l may not get the
prettiest girl in the country, but 1 will
get one, 1 am sure, who is anxious to
marry me. I sell numbers for IS and
agree when paid for the number to mar
ry the holder of said number provided
she draws the lucky number at the, raft
he. l will have the rafting conducted
on fair and square means, by parties en-
tirely disinterested in it, Number from
l to 5000 will be placed in Il pox, and a
clindfolded party will draw out one num-
Der The girl holding the similar number
shall become my wife. l will marry her
as son as she is ready. The money will
be invested so as to support us handsome
ly- | shall take the bride on an extend
ed wedding trip"
A curious little stone is on view at the
Dore Gallery, London says the London
Daily Mail. When placed in a certain
hght 1t shows finely carved face, and
many people aver that the face is the
face of the Redeemer as depicted by
some or the old masters. The stone was
discovered by an American lady on
Mount Kopfel, overlooking the village of
Oberammergau, famous for the Passion
Pay. Geological experts guarantee that
1t is natural and that no tool has carved
It, Among these who have examined il
are DR.. Garnett, of the British Museum.
who calls it "a great natural curiosity,
more curious than anything of the same
nature with which 1 am acquainted, and
the history of its discovery is more Gu
rious STILL" and Sir w. II. Fowler of
South Kensington Museum. who describes
1t as "a small fragment, the broken sur
race OF which shows a striking resem-
blance to human face" According 10
Mrs. Craigie John oliver Hobbes) the
enlarged photographs of the stone do not
give the same sensation of astonish-
ment, and, indeed. reverence which the
original irresistibly conveys"
The question Of wearing or not wear
ing mustache is now troubling the cor
poration of automobile drivers in Paris.
According to circulars which the cor
poration has distributed. a certain auto
mobile renting and storing company has
ordered its drivers to have their mus
taches clipped Off and to keep them clip
ped off. This is for the purpose of hav-
ing a personnel chic" which will consti-
tute good advertisement for the com
pany. The corporation proposes, SAYS
the Temps to pass upon the question at
meeting at the Concert de TUnivers.
Avenue Wagram. The appeal issued 10
the members Of the corporation reads like
declaration OF independence. One of its
paragraphs reads: You would not wish.
as a consequence of your guilty negli-
gence Qn failing to attend the meetine).
that inside of few years the suppress
sion OF the mustache should enter into
our manners the same as II has done into
those Of private coachmen. footmen and
Wallets de chambre, while other CORPORA
tons, such as those of the garcons de
cafe. cochers, funeral functionaries and