The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-12
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The boys department OF the North
field, Mass, school founded by the late D.
l. Moody recently celebrated its TWEEN
tieth anniversary and it was the occasion
of much rejoicing. The school was never
in a more prosperous condition, so the
reports showed, and 1t is gaining in the
confidence of the Christian public in its
purposes and methods. More than one
hundred of the old students assembled,
ana many of them-journalists, ministers,
doctors lawyers and missionaries-gaVe
testimony as to the value of the school
to them. Col. N. P. Pond of Rochester
has given fine telescope and scholar
ship to the institution. The summer ses-
sion opened on May /, with an enrolment
of two hundred students. s
The Surveying expedition which was
sent out in 1899 by the Deutsch-Atlantisch
Telegrap hengesellschaf and the CONNER
cial Cable Company, collected a large
quantity Of important scientific data In
connection with its regular work This
has recently been published by John Muir
/ ray, London, in a small volume under
the title, Soundings in the North Allan
tic, One of the most interesting dis
coyeries was that of new depression
between the Azores and England with
standings of over 5000 fathonns. A num-
Der of remarkable shoals were also found
rising steeply from over 1000 fathoms
to within 1900 fathoms of the surface,
which were evidently the submits of
submerged mountains. The surveys be-
tween the Azores and the United States
revealed the important fact that the
tail" of the great Newfoundland bank
extends much farther south than has
hitherto been supposed.
The crater of Popocatepetl itself is a
marvel, and is well worth a hard journey
to see, says writer in Harper's Weekly
A huge and gloomy pit it is, its steep
sides emitting sulphurous smoke and
fumes, and it's perpendicular walls de-
scendng, it is said, 10 a depth of 500
feet At the bottom is small lake Of
emerald. green, surrounded by volcanic
rocks and deposits of sulphur. At the top
there is a ledge of rock at the crater S
edge, from which we made our observa-
tons of the crater and upon which we
were photographed. I did not observe any
difficulty in breathing or any noticeable
increase of heart action, but several mem
bers OF the party were painting painfully
and were hardly able to speak One of
my comrades told me that he could feel
his heart beat through his coat and
sweater The temperature was very cold,
but it seemed to be modified somewhat by
the natural warmth of the crater, and
we were protected against the icy wind
outside.
Thursday in the Church of Carmen
in San Angel, occurred one of the most
unique and charming religious festivals
of the year, "the feast of the peoples, :"
says the Mexican Herald. On this day.
which is known as Poppy Thursday"
San Angel is sought oy visitors from the
neighboring districts and from the capt.
tai, who go to see the festival in the in
teresting and extremely ancient church.
The feature Of the ceremony is the pro-
cession through the churchyard of the
priest and his assistants, attended by the
faithful, to the different shrines erected
in the Enclosure. Their progress is made
a perfect cloud of poppy petals, showered
upon them from the top of the high wall
and this, in connection with the floral
decorations on every side, makes a charm
ingly poetic scene. The poppy petals are
also falling during the service within the
church. The fiesta commentaries the ap-
pearance of the Saviour, after his resur-
rection, to St. Mary Magdalene
Sheriff Pearson of Portland, Me-, has
given the name of "sandpeeps' to the
tiny TASKS holding two ounces of whiskey
that are so common in Maine, because
they are like the little birds in being
about all stomach and head. A sand
peep" when ready for the market, con>
tains what is rated as one drink of whis-
key, usually of very poor quality and it
retails, bottle and ALL at Is cents. 1t is
easily handled la the public streets with
out detection. In some saloons the
Whiskey traffic is carried on almost en-
tirely by the aid of these little pockets
TASKS, thus doing away with the use of
glasses, and mourning less risk of seizure
the source of supply being at a safe dis
lance from the saloon. The liquor depu-
ties a few days ago applied to the court
man who they had reason to believe was
pursuing the avocaton of pocket pedler.
They found sixty-three of these little
"sandpeeps," all filled with cheap grade
of whiskey, concealed in his pockets and
underneath his waist-coat.
Arthur Grifiths, of Richmond, Ind, is
said to be a mathematical prodigy. He
has eight different methods of his own
for addition, ten for division and sixty
four for multiplication. He can take any
number, 1t is said. between $40 and 1000
and raise it to the fifth power in thirty
nine seconds without the use of either
pencil or paper. Griffith can add mental
ly three columns at time, 1t is asserted
divide any set of figures or multiply any
set of figures in from one to forty seconds
and extract square and cube roots in from
three to fifteen seconds. He remembers
every problem that he works. The hard
est test which he has yet experienced, 50
he says, is to stand and see a freight
train pass with twenty or thirty cars and
then tell the number of each car in their
order and specify to what road each be-
longs. Besides being a wonder in matne-
MATES, Griffith is fairly well educated In
the common school studies, He can read,
write and spell and can carry on an in
telligent and interesting conversation. He
knows the name and length of every rail-
road in the country. A
-EdoLard Beaupre, the young Canadian
giant, who is at present giving exhibitions