The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-03

are to be planted in Southern Illinois
by the International Society of Arbori-
culture. The trees are to be grown for
the purpose of supplying telegraph
poles and the society has a contract
with twenty different railroads to plant
small orchards. An orchard has been
established near Duquoin, ILL.,. which
will be for the use of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad. The latter road is ar.
ranging to plant 100000 trees in Louis
lana
Of the Field, saw a ferret put to a
new use as an electrical engineer. The
electric light wires in my district are
being renewed where required, and, as
the wires are protected by earthen-
ware covers through which they are
run, the only means of putting new
wires in, without disturbing the COW
ers, is by the use of a ferret. The
one saw was very lively and on good
terms with the workman. He had a
metal collar. to which a string was at
tached; he started off to the next man
hole, and then when the ferret was
removed, the wire. to which the string
had been previously attached. was
drawn through"
Those who talk confidently about
making over the languages of distant
peoples. as in Japan, China or the Phil
ippines, ought to be interested in the
condition of affairs in Brittany, a dis
trict of France, the most centralized
and homogeneous country on earth,
and many think also the most civilized.
The bishop of Quimper, in Brittany,
has ascertained that 10 parishes of his
diocese do not contain a SINCE child
capable of receiving religious instrue-
ton in French, while in a small town
only twelve out of $50 understand
French. 1t is this situation that gave
rise to the report that the French
premier had ordered the priests not to
give religious instruction in the Breton
language.
Chinese Is an Geographic Ian
guage, says the Detroit Free Press. 1t
conveys the idea that not the word for
thing. as the figure IS" represents
the idea and not the word The Chi
nese have invented more than 10000
marks for their writing, but it requires
only about 5000 marks for mercantile
correspondence. and it is said to be
easier to learn them than the words of
an ordinary foreign language. Rus
sian is more difficult for Americans
than Chinese 1t takes much longer
to learn the spoken language because
of the variety of dialects, but any one
can learn enough of the writings to
answer ordinary purposes in a few
months, and have his knowledge per-
fected by linguist within about a
year. Exact instruction in one of the
Chinese languages can only be given
by Chinaman.
Some people are successful the
first time they try to commit suicide,
1N.,f u,
attempts are necessary before the final
result is attained said a hospital doc
tor, according to the Philadelphia Rec
ord. There is no combating the suicid-
al mania. The victim may be snatched
from the jaws of death, but sooner
or later he will make another attempt
and if this is unsuccessful he will keep
it up until he succeeds. The person
who once tries to take his own life
will almost invariably try again. AL
most the first question a doctor asks
patient who has attempted suicide
is; is this the first time you have
tried it?' You would be surprised to
know how often some of these poor,
respondent people make a half hearted
effort to end their lives. Some of them
keep it up until they die a natural
DEATH"
-Sixty-eight years ago fire destroyed
the historic old building of the British
House of Commons. For centuries the
public accounts had been kept on GER
tain splints of e1mwood called italics"
About 1926 1t came to the ears of the
excheQuer that there were more mod
ern ways of keeping accounts, and the
tallies were discarded. AS Dickens
said in a speech once: "In 1884 it was
found that there was considerable ac-
emulation of them, and the question
arose what was to be done with them.
1t would naturally occur to an. intelli-
gent person that nothing could be. east
er than to allow the sticks to be car
ried away for firewood by the misera-
BILE people who live in that neighbor-
hood. However. they never had been
useful and official routine required
that they never should be. 1t came to
pass that they We're burned in a stove
In the House of Lords. The stove,
overgorged with these preposterous
sticks. set fire to the panelling, the
panelling set fire to the House of
Lords, the House of Lords set fire to
the House of Commons. and the two
houses were reduced to ashes.
The Baltimore Sun not long since
described discovery by Raffaelh of
Paris, of a method of working oil
paints into solid sticks, to be used as
pastels, thus combining the permanent
cy of oil colors with the brightness and
facility of working of pastels. Accord
ing to the Paris correspondent of the
London Times, seventy-two pictures.
painted by twenty artists with Raj
faellfs oil pastels, are now on exhibit
ton in the Rue Laffitte, and are held
to demonstrate the practical success of
the invention. They possess the mer-
its of both oil paintings and pastels,
having the refined softness and radi-
ance of the latter and the perrnanence
of the former. A great advantage of
the oil pastel is the rapidity with which
the artist can work, dispensing with
tubes. palette, brush and the drudgery
OF mixing colors for each sitting.
There is gain also in simplicity and
the directness with which expression
is obtained. A picture can be paint
ed In one-fourth of the time. required
for the old way. The artists of Paris
approve the new method it appears.
and call 1t experimenting" They have
long desired freedom from the cum
brous apparatus and materials of
their profession, finding that the lat
ter damped their ardor and checked
invention. Titan is said to have sighed
Tor ''colors we can hold in our hands"
--Brer Buzzard no longer depends up
on fable for his claim to ingenuity and
craft, says the New York Times. He
has just given a modern example of
these qualities. Down in Kentucky a