The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-13


taken by many of the migratory birds
in the flight between the North and
the South, and twice a year thousands
of feathered songsters meet their death
by flying against the tall marble shaft
in the night. Just now the fall slaugh-
ter is at its hight. and every morning
many birds are to be seen about the
base of the monument. The dogs and
cats of that part of the city have
learned that the base of the monument
is a good place to get an early meal
in the morning without trouble, and
many of them are regularly on hand.
Most of the birds killed are yellow and
black throated warblers and small
thrushes.
"A blue book has just been issued,
giving the statistics Of the persons en-
ployed, the output and the accidents
in the mines of Great Britain for the
years 1901. 1t appears from the statis-
tics that the total number of persons
employed in and about the mines of
the United Kingdom was S39,178. Com
pared with 1901 there is an increase of
1858 persons at the coal mines and
a decrease of 2,022 persons at metallif-
erous mines. The output of minerals
at the coal mines were 231, 34S, 224 tons,
of which 219037, 240 were coal, and the
balance was fire clay, iron stone, shale
and sundry minerals. Adding 9,705 tons
which come from open quarries, the
total output of coal for the year was
219,O46,945 tons, and this is a decrease
of 6,1S4,355 tons.
"A herd of from forty to fifty buff
falo ranges in ore of the most mac
cessible regions of Colorado. Its ex-
istence has been known to few for
VI afeycf IJa,- ~N1
one of these. His herd has never been
counted in compilations of the number
of buffalo left alive. This band, of
which the commissioner has known for
nearly twenty years, is of mountain
bison. The animals are in prime con-
dition, owing to excellent pasturage
and uninterrupted life. Among the
| hidden herd is a great bull of enor-
NOUS bulk, thought to be the largest
bison on the continent. The home OF
the herd is a beautiful little valley OF
| about 10000 acres in the very heart of
| the mountains. 1t is entered by mar
row, almost hidden, pass. 1t is the
determination of Game Commissioner
| Harris that no one shall learn of the
location of the herd until the govern
ment has set aside all the land in the
valley and around it for great pre-
serve, similar, on small scale, to yell
| lowstone Park.
| The turbine has been meeting with
signal success in late years. and many
engineers are now considering whether
| it is not destined to reVolutionize the
means of obtaining power from steam
both by land and sea, says the Electri-
cal Review. The author suggests that
inventors should turn their attention
toward bringing to perfection gas tur-
| hines fhaCp fl1a nrfY
with the most economical way of OBJ
tanning energy from coal. The funda-
| mental principle attending all methods
| of electrical work is implied by the
word velocity" requirement emf
| nently possessed by the dynamo motor
| and rotary converter, but not possessed
by the prime mover, the modern re-
ciprocating engine. The aim of all en-
gineers should be simplicity, and the
modern reciprocal engine, with it's nu-
| merous complications, cannot by any
means be considered the embodiment
of this principle. Engineers laying
| down new plants have to consider the
| Increased cost of building, the, larger
floor space required, the long lengths
of steam and exhaust piping, valve
opening gears and heavy cranes for
lifting, which are required in the case
of large reciprocal engines, as against
| ShO Oh a SLaLlOD
laid out with steam turbines.
| The biggest hotel in Broadway and
one of the most profitable hotels in this
country, a house whose rental is paid
by the net earnings of the bar alone,
has front door-bell. Probably not one
in hundred of the hotels patrons
knows of it's existence, but it is there,
and in constant use. There is a negro
n ~ % 10
| trance of the hotel and he swings the
big revolving door that is placed there.
When man swings off a car, grip in
| hand and heads for the hotel, the ne
gro notices him. Before the prospective
| guest reaches the curb the negro has
rung the front doorbell. and is ready
to help him and his, baggage through
the door. The electric bell. meantime,
has sounded away down the hall and
the mailman on duty there has heard
| 1T. The captain sends one flying to the
front door and the man is hardly I'M
| der cover before the mailman has met
| him and relieved him of his baggage.
| This performance Is repeated many
| times in the course of an hour, some
times twice in the minute for a contin-
ued time, but so unobtrusively that the
regulars on the settees in the hotel cor
| ridorS are entirely unaware of it.
The moon seems to be a very dam
| gerous planet for writer's to trifie with,
says the Chicago News. In king
| Solomons Mines" Rider Haggard
makes an eclipse of this satellite take
| place on the new instead of the full
moon-an astronomic imposslbility. In
the Children of Gideon" Walter Be-
SAINT has caused a new moon to rise
in the East at 2 o'clock in the morning.
| The most casual observer has, with
| out doubt, noticed that the new moon
appears in the western sky and sets
from the moment 1t becomes visible. In
'Ivanhoe' a knight of Richard 1 holds
converse with contemporary of Will
liam the Conqueror, who was Rich
ards great-grandfather. In 1.-The
Newcomes" Give in a letter date 49,
asks why have We no picture of
the sovereign and her august consort
from Snee's brush?" The reason was
| probably due to the fact that there
was no prince consort before 1910. A
Paris journal recently recorded the
discovery in the Seine of the nude
corpse of man with ten sous in his
waisteoat pocket. But this was
scarcely more paradoxical than the
case of Robinson Crusoe, who before
divesting himself of his clothes to swim
to the wreck took precaution to fill his
pockets full of. biscuits.
From Chicago comes the pro-
posal," says American Medicine, that
the suburban dweller shall breakfast
upon a trolley dining car, in order that
he may save the half-hour Cor is it