The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-01

OIL luxury heretofore redcneQ Dy any
of it's neighbors. Not content with
ment is about to add a new feature
to the inner courts of the old Roman
palaces, with a pool of water in the
center, lounging rooms adjoining and
every facility for luxurious idleness
which the Chicagoan of the future may
find time for.
--Sponges are gathered by means of
a long pole with a hook attached to
the lower end, with which the sponge
fisherman is very expert He lies up
on his stomach in the stern of a boat
looking straight through an ordinary
water bucket with a glass bottom,
which does away with the glare from
the water and allow him to survey
the bottom leisurely while the boat
man rows or souls the boat. A schoon-
er lies at anchor near by, from which
half dozen or more of these small
boats fish. 1t returns in port when
it is loaded, or at night, as the case
may be.
The late Lord Morris" says the
Candid Friend, was unsparing in the
counter-thrust when he was assailed.
An English official, who filed the post
of under secretary to the Lord Lieuten-
in loud voice, at Dublin dinner ta-
BILE, that it was a strange arrangement,
and one characteristic of ireland, that
he should have a much smaller salary
than the chief justice-Morris was then
chief justice-though his functions were
so very much more important. Chief
Justice Morris, amid the awed silence
which ensued, said: That is a thrain
o. thought that l am sure often occurs
to me tipstaff. -
1T is difficult to realize that in Asia
'the cradle of mankind the Oldest
portion of the earths surface known
to historical research, there should eX-
list beds of collaborating sand which
have never given uD an ounce of their
valuable contents, and great reefs of
gold bearing quartz which have never
yet been struck by a blow from the
miners pick or shattered by a single
pound of giant powder. That such
deposits do exist, not only in Siberia,
but in Mongolia and Manchuria, is a
fact attested by all explorers and en-
gineers who have visited the countries
in question and have taken the trouble
to investigate, even in the most super
fetal manner, the conditions which ex-
list there.
We are rapidly gaining in the aver
age length of human life, says the
Worlds Work. Better sanitation, the
enforcement of precautions against
contagious and infectious diseases, and
the advancement of surgery and medi
cineS, are causing an even more rapid
reduction of the death rate than the
layman might guess. The census bull
letin of deaths that occurred in 271
cities of 5000 population or more shows
in of
every 1000, whereas in 1890 the num-
Der who died in the same cities was
Ii out of every 1000 The average age
at death in 1890 was 81 years; in
1900 it was 1852. If these statistics be
accurate the saving of human life that
has been achieved in a decade is enor-
nous.
Apart from its ethical and aesthetic
significance, music oftentimes acquires
political value, says the Portland
Oregonian. 1t was the enthusiasm for
Wagner's operas that led the Parisians
to assume a more friendly attitude to-
ward the Germans. At Munich, as we'll
as at Beyreuth, French enthusiasts now
outnumber those of any other coun-
| try. Several German orchestras have
in recent seasons visited Paris, where
| they were received with reclamation
| And now comes the news that, for the
| first time, a first-class Partisan orches-
| ira, WILL this autumn, visit the leading
| German cities. Edouard Colonne, the
| famous conductor recently stopped at
Berlin on his way from st. Petersburg
| to complete the arrangements for this
| concert tour. This emphasizes what
| some of our great writer's have long
maintained that music influences in
an infnitude of ways our manners and
! character.
| Certain ingenious Germans recently
advertised a machine by which, they
J claimed, common peat could be trans
! formed into artificial coal, at the rate
| of $1.10 to 81. 20 a ton According to
Mr.. Hughes, United States consul at
Coburg. there are grave reasons for
| doubling whether the machine can do
| any such thing, THE company" he
points out in his official report, sis
said to be located somewhere in East
Prussia and claims that it's process will
make fuel that will take rank be-
tween good English coal and anthra-
cite. 1t is said the managers are going
| to organize company in the United
States, SO it would be we'll for Amer
lean investors to be cautious till the
| real worth of the process has been
| proved. l am informed that it is val
ueless." Consul Hughes uses even
| stronger words Of warning than these
and it is evident that he regards the
enterprise as most audacious scheme
for making money.
is not the decay of domesticity"
really attributable to differences Of
| temperament between husband and
wife, rather than to any other reason?
| Where husband and wife love one an
| other and have tastes in common we
! hear very little about it. On the other
hand, if a domesticated, home-loving
man marries a gadabout wife differ
ences at once arise, and continue to
| arise. 1T is exceedingly difficult for
the average husband to realize" says
George B. Burgin. the English novelist
| the brutal monotony of a domestic life
where the income is small and the wife
| is tied to the house. He has a way of
taking everything for granted, which is
intensely exasperating to the woman
who has stayed at home all day and
has been tagged by a hundred petty
worries of which he knows little or
nothing. 1t is true that he has his
own worries, but it is also true that
| he has his own distractions-the people
he meets at his club. the going here
and there is pursuit of his calling, what
ever it may be. If one had to sum up
on the decay of domesticity it seems
to me that the verdict ought to be:
Both guilty and don't do it again.
The General Athletic Association Of
the University of Virginia is complet-
ing what is believed to be one of the
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