The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-22
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ma of the circus is about the size OF an
ordinary dining-room table, and Prof.
karutsch the director, provides each
one in the audience with large micro
scope for a consideration. To the spec
tators it seems as If the little animals
understand the oral Instructions of the
director for they obey with astounding
docllity: They draw little wagons and
coaches, turn ry-go-rounds, engage
in sham battles and wind up by dane
ing a costumed ballet. Even the circus
clown, who excites boisterous laughter
by clumsily initiating the effete tricks
of his comrades, is not missing. tleas
are the beasts of prey of the insect
world, malicious, carnivercuS demons
who are always thirsting for blood.
Herr Karutsch allows his pets to feed
on his naked arm to their stomachs'
content. not forgetting, of course, 10
have an antiseptic application on hand
| at each meal
The newest club in London is new
in several ways, and seems determined
Ito begin as it means to go on" says
| the London Taller. The Ladies Fenc-
ing Club is the natural outcome of the
| interest that has been gradually built
up in fencing for both men and women
The members of the club recently chal-
! lenged number of masculine amateurs
| to an assault at the Lower Queen s
| Gate Hall. The result was interesting
| if not my any way conclusive. The
men played light" of course, ut the
| feminine fencers acquitted themselves
! better than might have peen expected.
| But it is doubtful whether such "doubl
events will ever become popular, for
they are hardly fair on the 1own-trod~
| den male. A first-class fencer is prob
ably more jealous of his reputation
| than any other exponent of fine art
| (and fine art the white arm" I'M
doubtedly isl, and he would not care
to risk that reputation in fencing with
| an opponent against wnCm he cannot
put cut his full strength and science,
| for if a man vanquishes a woman he
| feels a brute, and if she vanquisheS
| him he feels a fool.
| One of the picturesque English
coronation ceremonies which have
been discontinued is that of lifting the
! King, says a London paper. In the
| old days the monarch always slept at
the Palace of Westminster on the
night before the coronation. The re-
gala, which are still, technically
! speaking. in the Dean and Chapter of
| Westminster, were brought by them to
| Westminster Hall in preparation for
|
a long table, the crown, the sceptrc, the
| spurs, and so on. The King, when he
| descended from the palace to West
minister Hall, was lifted by his mobiles
on to a marble chair, by the way,
which persisted in the ruins of the
! houses of parliament when they were
burned sixty or seventy years ago.
! The lifting of the King into this chain
| was a survival of the old Saxon Gus
tom of carrying the King on his shield.
| The custom survived up to the time
! of the coronation of George ". When
| the monarch was seated in the chair
he at once directed by pointing his
finger which of his mobiles should carry
| the various parts of the relagia to the
Abbey, and the procession began.
! The automobile SENS to be forcing
! it's way into every nook and Granny of
business utilities, and especially so in
| France, where vefitable craze has
| sprung up for the new-fangled vehicle.
The latest fad halls from Mezieres,
| where the financial authorities intend
setting up an automobile savings bank.
and thus bring banking facilities to the
very doors of the peasants living in
outlying districts. The idea has its
good points, although ut first sight it
! seems TO offer a premium for the pro-
| motion of the efforts of the gang" in
| the way of hold-ups, but in Me2ieres
| they peI haps are not acquainted with
| the latest dodge for raising the wind, -
| and thus the perambuiatiHg money box
| may prove q success. The vehicles will
\ carry two clerks of the Maziercs- treas
ury administration and Il cashier, who
will take along with them all the nee
essary bank books, registers and forms,
the cashier being empowered to receive
and receipt for the moneys. If the
| experiment proves a success It is said
that other sections will follow suit. The
| French peasant is about as thrifty an
! individual as can be found anywhere.
and the foregoing scheme proves that
| the authorities are acquainted with the
| fact
The rare substance radium has
been brought into much prominence
of late by the Investigations of Bee
| querel, Curie and others, says the
Electrical World. A constant source
! of Rontgen rays so powerful that it
| should be carried in a lead tube to
avoid danger of burns, is a bit start
| ling to say the least, and while it's
| visible radiation is not strong, it's eX-
traordinary properties are enough to
! set one thinking strenuously. The real
nature of the radiation is, of course,
involved in the same mystery that
| surrounds the Rontgen rays. In spite
| of the very large and valuable body
of work that has been done upon this
subject, the ultimate nature of the
| phenomena is still very far from a
satisfactory explanation, since several
hypothesis meet the facts fairly we'll
and no one of them can be verified
without involving still further by
| pOtheses as part of the argument. But
| the behavior of radium "Opens a beau
tiful vista of possibilities. What would
| happen in the art of illumination If
| some one should hit upon a luminous
| paint fifty times as brilliant and per-
| manent as the ordinary calcium sui
| phide variety? If one had only to eX-
pose the light-giving body to sunlight
| or bright daylight for a few hours to
| obtain storage of energy for the even
| ing, how the electrical arts would get
! shaken up, And yet such a discovery
| is far less improbable than some that
| have actually been made-like Mois-
| sans diamonds let us say. But dia-
| monds are no cheaper yet. and do not
sparkle galore on every fair bosom.
-Electroplated front doors are new
invention, says the New York Press.
You can have front door that looks
| as If IL were made of solid copper
brass or any other metal with bas-re-
liefs and fancy work all over il, which
| will be cheaper, lighter and generally
more desirable than IL would if 1t were
really solid. These doors are finished
in wood first and then coated with a
preparation consisting of n mixture of
llnseed oil and resinous gum which is
designed 70 make them waterproof and
to prevent warping After being
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