The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-28


in South Africa that the question came
forward how the empty sleeve should be
worn. Fashion has decided 1t, and the
empty sleeve, fit d with the full shirt
sleeve, the cuff showing, must be worn
pinned to the breast.
The eastern craze for Belgian hare
meat has inspired an enterprising farmer
in the northern part of Washington
county, Iowa, who is now doing rush
ing business shipping large quantities of
common rabbits to New York, where
they are sold on the market as young
Belgian hares" He claims he has aver
aged $50 rabbits day in shipment.
"A marked rise in the level of the Dead
sea has been noted. The ruin FL Bahr.
that stood like an island near the mouth
of the River Jor an is now completely
under water. A broad lagoon has formed
on the north side of the Jordan delta.
The water does not sink in summer and
il is surmised that the whole bottom of
the Dead sea has been raised by volcanic
action.
Antonio Axnia arrived from Germany
at New York wearing a belt in which
were concealed $1,000 worth of diamonds.
He told a customs officer that he had
nothing dutiable. The officer was about
to pass on when he stumbled and caught
at Annals waist to keep from falling.
His hand touched the belt and the new
conner was soon despoiled of his valuable
shipment.
AN undertaken living in Michigan
town prints this alluring advertisement in
his local weekly: Having eight years
experience and embalming school instruc-
tions 1 am able to prepare bodies for
any reasonable time. 1 have also bought
one of the latest style funeral cars and
1t is now in my shop. / will also have
my little herse painted white for children.
Both furnished and l will make every
thing as pleasant as possible"
The following advertisement was
printed in northern Michigan paper last
week: "If that narrow contracted and
short completed thing don't bring that
trace chain back and put it on the dray
he stole it off of, near the center of
section % of - township, he will see
his fine name in print in this paper next
week. Be careful there is no one close
hereafter when you want to be thief.".
Few persons have any idea of the
amount of capital and labor now being
devoted to the electrical industries of
this country. An expert says that 100000
persons are employed and he divides up
the investments in this fashion: Street
railways, $780, 100000; lighting, 81, 200 000,
600; telephony, $S00,000,OOO; telegraphy,
$3.50, 000, coo; mining power transmission
and plating, together, $3.50 900 600; manu-
featuring apparatus S150,090,000, and au-
tomobies and storage batteries, SIS oO0,-
COO. This is close to $1,000 100000, and is
probably twice as much as Europe has
int 4 1f,a Of b,,ef
West Virginia mud has just caused
Mrs. Harry A. Uray of Pittsburg to lose
husband. Uray applied for a divorce.
charging his wife with infidelity, and
when the case was called in Pittsburg
she failed to appear. Her attorney con-
cluded that she did not wish to contest
and decree was granted. Next morning
she arrived with the information that
she had received notice of the trial at
Warrington, w. Va, where she was stop
ping. but that the roads in that section
We're so bad she could not get to town
until twenty-four hours had elapsed.
From experimental observations made
by a German scientist into the effect of
various paints upon bacteria, it appears
that the kind Of paint which may be used
on walls is really of considerable impor-
apart from the question of esthetic APP
pearance and cost of material. Upon Oil
paint coatings the bacteria were found 90
be destroyed much more rapidly than in
the case of other paints. 1t is recon-
mended, therefore, that oil-paint alone
should be used in hospitals, schools, bar
racks and other places where large num-
bers of persons sleep or are congregated
together.
A surgical case that has been exciting
much attention is that of Miss Rookie
Teller, daughter of the president of the
Standard Oil Company. As described by
DR.. Isador Muller, a celebrated specialist
of Vienna, in a lecture reported for the
New York Herald, the left ear was "af-
fected by the growing together of the
hammer and anvil bones. The trouble
originated during the dentition period OF
infancy, and was so far advanced when
the treatment began that the bone was
partly destroyed. The left ear was ap-
parently entirely deaf and the right WIS
sympathetcally affected. After treat
ment of twenty weeks the affliction was
partly cured, new drum having been
built and the old one entirely DESTROYED
The hammer and anvil bones were sep
arated by the insertion of gold plates, this
measure enabling the drum to grow free
ly in places where this would have other
wise been impossible"
Natural gas in the United States, ac-
cording to the last annual report of the
United States Geological Survey, has sunk
to about one-third, in its fuel value, Of
what it was few years ago." says Cas-
sier's Magazine. I'm 1893 the production
of natural gas equaled in consumption the
heating capacity of 100000 tons of coal.
Ten years ago. when this industry was
at its hight, the equivalent of the heating
output of natural gas was equal to about
100000 tons Of coal. Both the great gas
producing fields are reaching extinction
The Ohio division, which once had $50
pounds to the square inch, has now no
rock pressure whatever. The original
rock pressure in Indiana, once 325 pounds,
averages now 165 pounds, showing that
two-thirds of the product has been taken
out and consumed. over a very consid-
cradle area of Indiana, covering an area
OF about $500 squares miles, Industries
which were using natural gas are either
discontinued, working al disadvantage,
or substituting COAL The effect of this
is plain m various directions, particularly
In reduced business and opportunities for
labor IN part of the state. The aggregate
value of the gas produced in 1899 was 500.
O2i,S64, gain of $47SO,O51 over 1898. This
is in part due TO a slight increase in th.
cost, but still more to an increased de-
mand."
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