The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-07
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years to a very marked degree. In
the vicinity of Banaul, for instance,
there are at present 300 creameries,
against two in 1896. The demand for
milk vessels has consequently assumed
large proportions. A factory for the
production of these articles has lately
been established at Kurgan, but, as 1t
cannot even approximately supply the
demand, the greater part has to be
procured from Moscow.
One of the attractions of the ST.
Louis Worlds Fair. it is said, will
be an aerial globe, seven hundred feet
high from stone base to roof. At the
hight of ITO feet will be a spacious
roof garden about one thousand feet
in circumference. This space will con-
tain two restaurants and two theaters.
At an altitude of 295 feet will be a
huge coliseum, with walks around the
globe, giving a complete view of the
grounds. Below will be two regular
circus rings and racetrack. Under
the seats will be a menagerie, viewed
from the circular walk.
An interesting archaeological dis
covery, says the London Jewish
Chronicle, has been made at Strass-
burg affecting the history of the es-
Establishment of Jews in that city. Dur
ing the course of excavations for the
enlargement of the public hospital the
remnants were laid bare of Jewish
tombstone. of which only a portion of
the inscription remains legible. DR..
CHASER, the author of a History of
the Jews of Strassburg," after restoring
the inscription, found that the stone
was erected in the year 1926. The
Jewish cemetery, in those days, occu-
pied the site on which the Palace Of
the Statthalter now stands. In 1882,
when the Jewish Gate" was demol-
ished, a still earlier stone was discov-
cred, as it bore the date 1928, with an
inscription in Hebrew.
For more than a month past a
Chinaman's long pigtail has decorated
the walls of the Casino belonging to
the non-commissioned officers of the
Gardes du Corps in Potsdam. The pig
tail was brough back by "China war
rior," who had been invalided home,
and who thus kept a promise made
before he left China to a friend in the
Gardes du Corps to bring back Chin
naman's pigtail as a trophy. The
warrior" in question wrote, when for
warding the trophy to Potsdam, that
he had not cut off the pigtail himself,
but that he had captured the original
WGdTCT Ol II. he secured prize Dy
the end of his pigtail, and made him
trot along by the side of his horse. To
his dismay he soon discovered that al
though he still held the pigtail in his
hand, his prisoner had disappeared. The
latter had preferred to sacrifice his
head decoration, which is most pre-
cious to a Chinaman, rather than fall
into the hands of the Germans" "Who
would have thought" continued the
humorous warrior" "that the Chinese
prepare for the worst by secreting a
pair of scissors on their person." For
the Germans this was matter for Jest,
for the Chinaman it was real earnest.
The French give the name white
coap to Switzerland's Alpine SHOWS
because the torrents of water that flow
down the mountains are now being util-
lied everywhere to generate electricity
for lighting and manufacturing pur-
poses, says the Baltimore Sun. In the
south of France, also, the streams are
much used for this purpose, making
lerge areas independent of the coal
miner. The glacier does the work in
stead of black coal. The substitution
has an aesthetic value, since it re-
moves the unsightly chimney and its
SCOT from the cities and tends to bring
.WOrkmen back from huge factories in
to small Industries at their homes. Now
that power can be distributed by wire
every workman ought to have power
in his own house The cost of electric
power needs to be further reduced, per-
haps, before this ideal will become a
practicable ideal in mountainous coun-
tries. 1t is to be regretted that the
water powers going to waste in the
Piedmont regions of the South are not
to a greater extent employed to pro-
duce electricity for the use of manu-
facturers. There is a great future for
electricity in the South, if capital can
only be tempted to do there what it
does elsewhere.
Prof. r. w. Wood of Johns Hop
kins University has recently described
a rather startling optical illusion
which any one may see with a little
practice. A lead pencil is held, point
up. an inch or two in front of a wire
window screen, with a sky background
If the eyes are converged upon the
pencil point, the wire guaze becomes
somewhat blurred and of course dou-
Died AS the gauze has regularly re-
curing pattern. however, the two i'm
ages can be united, and with a little
effort can be accommodated for dis
tinct vision on the combined images of
bAiC ihCSii- AS SOOH as accommodation
is secured the mesh becomes perfectly
sharp and appears to be nearly in the
plane of the pencil pont If now the
pencil is moved away from the eyes
which are to be kept fixed on the
screen, it apparently passes through
the mesh and becomes doubled. If now
the pencil be removed entirely il will
be found that the sharp images of the
combined images of the gauze persist,
although the eyes be moved nearer to
or farther from the screen. Now bring
the eyes up to within six or eight
inches of the plane in which the mesh
appears to be and attempt to touch
1t with the finger. 1t is not there The
finger falls upon empty space; the
screen being in reality a couple of
inches farther off. This" saws Prof.
Wod, 'is by all means the most start
ling illusion l have even seen, for we
apparently see something occupying
a perfectly definite position in space
before our eyes, and yet if we attempt
to put our finger on it we find that
there is nothing there"
According to a writer in the Sep
TENDER Century, railroad switchman
is often in peril of his life. The poetry
of motion surrounds with a halo those
who move. The stage driver and the
locomotive engineer have a. local fol-
lowing and are worshipped from afar
by host of admirers. 1t is the en-
gineman who gets the credit for the
fast runs. not the fireman who keeps