The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-28
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present supervising. 1t is said the ma
chine will utilize many principles of
the kite.
Heretofore, the telephone field has
been divided between the Independents
and the Bell interests. The independ-
ents have grown so numerous in New
York state that there is already much
rivalry for the toll business of the va
rious districts. This delicate state of
affairs recently eliminated in the
breaking up of a telephone conven-
ton, and the formation of two rival
independent associations, one with 50
duly accredited companies and the 9TH
er with 40 enthusiastic adherents.
A great scheme is suggested by
the Figaro of Paris for the utilization
of the rainfall of the Pyrenees. 1t In
proposed to dam the valleys all along
the chain, hold up all the mountain
torrents in a series of artificial lakes,
regulate the overflow, run it through
turbines, and so generate electric pow
er. 1t is calculated that no less than
10, 1000, 900 horsepower could be obtain
ed from the Pyrenean range, and TINS
power could be supplied at about one
sixth of the cost of that produced by
steam.
Gen Greedy, chief of the United
States Signal Service, has sailed for
Alaska. where he will superintend the
building of the government telegraph
system from Valdez to Eagle City. is
this the beginning of the government
control of the telegraph? 1t is an
nounced that owing to the difficulty of
maintaining the land lines from Daw-
son to Ashcroft, the government may
lay a land cable over the most dlff1-
cult mountains. At present during Sc
we're storms or freshets the lines are
interrupted by the falling of trees, ETC.
In view of the growing Importance
of the application of light as healing
principle in medical science the medi-
cal congress which recently convened
at Wiesbaden invited Prof. Bic of CO.
penhagen to read a paper on the sub
ject. The lecturer explained the prin-
ciple of employing light for healing
purposes after excluding its chemical
effects. The results attained by this
method in cases of smallpox, accord
ing to the lecturer, are such that the
question is raised whether the light
treatment shall not be made compul-
sorry. Prof. Bic approves the apparatus
invented by DIR. Finsen of Copenhagen
with which the latter has achieved
such remarkable success in cases of
lupus, but urges that no one but quail
flied doctors should be allowed to ap-
ply the light treatment, as disturb
ances are apt to occur which render it
necessary to break it off suddenly.
DIR. Sven Hedin in his recent trav-
els discovered a series OF ruined cities
of Chinese and Monaghan origin about
500 years old, and found in them some
extraordinary sculptures and some an
cicnt manuscripts of an extremely
rare description. These cities would
throw an altogether new light on qUes-
tons affecting the distribution of the
various human races and the migra-
tory movements of Asiatic peoples. He
went through the whole of the noath-
ern and central parts and a portion of
Eastern Tibet, and through the Great
Cobb Desert in Western China. His
last and most prolonged journey was
right across Tibet, first from north to
south and then from south to west.
He proposed to publish three rather
ponderous tones of scientific ma
ture," but he would first compile a
large book for popular reading, giving
a description of his travels. He had
taken over 1000 photographs and
numerous sketches.
An Arab, named Aissa Ben Koul-
der. native of Algeria, has made his
way to Paris to complain to the Pres
ident of the French Republic of an
overthrifty father-in-law. Last year
he bought a wife for 70 francs from
her father, who is sheep owner in
the Province of Algeria. After six
months of welded life Aissa Ben Koul-
1Ay- ~ Nj
feast in his father-in-law's tents. He
went to the place of rendezvous, but
after the fetes were over he had to
leave Madame Aissa Ben Koulder be-
hind. Her father claimed her, stat
ing that she was too young to have a
husband, and that she would have to
remain with him for some years long
er. Aissa Ben Koulder had to part
with his wife, and resolved to begin
legal proceedings against his father
in-law, who, he states had already sold
the girl once, and who now takes her
away for the purpose of raising money
out of a third husband. The law suit
came off in due course of time, but
nothing was done for the husband, who
was deprived of his wife.
"A dispatch from San Francisco,
Cal, says: "The people simply exist
they do not live" declared Henry De-
windt, explorer, in speaking to-day of
an isolated village which he found in
the northern part of Siberia Sredni
kolynsk is the name of this place
This town. says Dewindt, is che far
thest north of any village in the world,
and is just on the edge of the arctic
circle. 1t is four months from ST. Pc
tersburg. Something of it's isolation
may be guessed when l tell you that
until we arrived there Sredni Kolynsk
had not been visited by any one from
the outside world for thirty years
Think of it: thirty years, nearly half
a lifetime, shut in, with no knowledge
of the outside world, no newspapers,
nothing. The people welcomed US with
open arms for we brought them news
Life with them is simply existence. 1t
is too cold to do anything but try to
keep warm. They have no industries,
no pursuits, except, of course, that
they have to obtain food for them
selves. Speaking of food and Dewindt
did not look as though the memory
were pleasant, I have had walrus and
seal so much that have not yet lost
were bad enough, but the food was
worse. How we longed for taste of
bread when our flour ran OUT"
"A dispatch from Toledo, O., says:
Miss Dorothy Stiles. daughter of a re-
tired chemist, formerly from Column
bus, O., but now living seven miles
from Bay City, is gradually turning
to marble, or a substance resembling
it, and her father is nearly frenzied
with grief as he imagineg he is nar-