The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-06

she was one day at the house of an Amer
lean millionaire, who, pointing to his pala-
tial staircase, remarked: II venture 10
think, your grace, that even Battle Alb
hey cannot show a finer staircase than
this" "Oh. no." answered the Duchess
OF Cleveland. "the Battle Abbey stairs
are very shabby You see, those old Cru
saders wore them out so dreadfully."
-"As for me-" says NJ. Flammarion,
speaking of the inhabitants of Mars in
the National Magazine, ''I rather envy
them A world where it is always beau
thul, Where there are neither tempests
nor cyclones, where the years are twice
as long as ours where the kilogram is
OF S76 grams, and where, therefore, men
and women who here weigh seventy kilos
there weigh only twenty-six, and where,
IN word, everything is lighter, more del
icate and more refined" And in another
place he goes further, pointing out that if
the Martians wished to communicate with
US they would doubtless have made the
effort many times in the past, and prob
ably long ago abandoned it, deciding it
hopeless business to attempt communi-
cation with a planet so stupid.
Here is a curious thing that fishes do
and one that seems clearly to show great
intelligence" said an old fisherman, ac-
eordng to the New York Sun. at might
be that two fishes some feet apart saw
the same. object Of prey, maybe a smaller
fish, at the same instant and they might
both dart for 1t at once and become vio-
lently into collision while their prey es-
capped Now that would be when they had
each the same chance of capturing what
they wanted; often have seen something
very different happen. Of two larger
fishes following along side by side and
pretty well closed up together pursuing
the minnow, have seen the rearmost
shear off, and let the other fellow have it.;
apparently, either because he knew he
couldn't reach it, and there was no use
of his trying any more, or because he
knew that if he kept on and mixed in he
would make the fish ahead lose the game,
as well as himself. This last would seem
to Indicate, besides intelligence. unselfish-
ness on the part of fish No, 2; but the
action of steering off when he saw he
couldn't get it, showed intelligence, any
how"
The saying that an enterprise has "all
ended in smoke" does not have the sig
found to materialize that airy product
into substances as tangible as oils, acids
spirits and tar writes Prof. Caldwell
Johnson, says the Washington Star. A
single blast furnace in a Western state
has been able to realize enough from this
source to pay a large share of it's run
ming expenses. 1t has demonstrated that
each cord OF wood contains 5000 cubic
feet of smoke, and that $500 900 feet of
smoke will produce 1900 pounds of ace
tate of lime and 200 gallons of alcohol and
% pounds of tar. Smoke from the fac
tory chimneys is largely carbon in an
other form, and in the course of few
years we may expect to see some diminu-
ton of the smoke nuisance so prevalent
in large cities, not from the vigilance of
the sanitary inspectors, but because con-
sumers are beginning to learn that in
stead of allowing the particles of carbon
to escape with the other products, so
helping to poison themselves and their
neighbors they might have lighter coal
bills to pay by burning up these parti-
cles.
-Christiania, Norway, boasts the best
arrenged and best-Inanaged model cheap
deiphia Inquirer. There are two grades
of dinners; one at ID cents for those who
sit in the hall, and at IL cents for those
who carry the food home, and the other
at cents, if eaten in the hall or cents,
meat, potatoes and bread. The portions
are generous and the food excellent in
quality and we'll cooked. The dining-rooms
are light, and clean. with well-scrubbed
floors and tables. Those customers who
save a penny by taking the food home
provides their own dishes and baskets.
and wait in lines at the counter, while
two men supply their wants as quickly as
long practice and dexterity make possible.
One of the ways in which the kitchen
has been of inestimable value is in crowd
ing out the poorer class of cheap restau-
rants, which offered wretched food at a
seemingly low price. but at a price in
reality far too high for the quality of the
material. Side branches of the steam
kitchen make and sell all kinds of force
meats, sausages, preserved fruits and
fruit Juices. The prices are in all cases
very moderate and the quality excellent.
Late English newspapers publish in
teresting statistics of the fisheries of the
United Kingdom. The increase of the in
dustry during the past eight years has
been very notable; the value of the fish
landed at the ports during last year foot
ing up to over nine and a half million
pounds sterling, as compared with less
than seven millions in 1892. The increase
is said to be due to the expansion of
steam trawling but there is a note of
warning sounded in connection with the
development Competent authorities are
beginning to express fears that if the
fishing of the North sea is not conduct
ed on more scientific principles than at
present, the spawning grounds will be
ultimately ruined. There has been a not
able rise in the value of the fish landed
at the ports of England and Wales. Last
year, for instance, there were actually
5000 fewer cwts landed than in the pre-
ceding twelve months, but the total value
was 1882, 900, as against f6726,000 Grims-
by still maintains its position as the pre-
mier fishing port of England, the value
of the 107 47s tons OF fish landed there
last year being no less than Il, 979,57S Hull
is second. and 1t is claimed that last years
operations were the most successful in
the history of the port.
Mistakes do not always turn out to
work to the detriment of those who make
them; sometimes they are golden and put
a pretty penny in the pocket of the blum
derers, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
When Orme won the Eclipse stakes at
Sandown eight years ago the Prince of
Wales sent his friend Mr.. Courthope 10
lay a bet on horse called Orvieto. But
Mr. Courthope misunderstood the name
and placed the Princes money on Orme.
When Orme came in good winner the
Prince thought, of course, that he had
lost, instead of which he had won $50. 600
A lucky mistake was that which resulted
In the opening Of the famous Niersfontein