The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-19

discovered, says the New York Sun.
According to the Investigations of a
| Frenchman, the credit belongs to Lul-
! ly, the composer, who eventually had
cause to regret his invention. Before
| he adopted the baton, conductors were
/ in the habit of pounding on the floor
with their feet or clapping their hands
| TO mark the time. LuIly found IL
wearisome to keep his foot constantly
I in motion, and so used a stick to strike
| the floor and beat time. He used a
pole six feet long. One day he brought
down the pole with such force that it
struck his foot and made a deep
wound. He paid no attention to the
matter. The wound grew worse and
ultimately caused his death. After
| his time conductors tried more and
more to improve the baton, and II
was ultimately brought to its present
| form
In the Indian Territory, where all
sorts of things are done that were
never heard of elsewhere, they are
blowing asphalt, says the Kansas City
| Star. Eighteen miles southeast of CO.
manche, in the Chickasaw country, six
strapping Missouri mules are hitched
| TO big breaking plow every day and
long burrows of asphalt are turned. 1t
is the same kind of pillow the fairness
use AO DIcdh the DlaCk JACK
| country, and the asphalt is the kind
got by blasting on the Island of Trini-
| DAD. The mules are blowing in the
| center of a deposit one-third larger
than the asphalt deposits on Trinidad.
| Wells have been dug to the depth of
| 100 feet. Strata of asphalt Of varying
| thicknesses have been encountered to
whatever depth the wells have been
| sunk. Men of means have become con-
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be made and are either going to make
1t or lose fortune in their experiment,
United States Consul Oliver j. d.
Hughes at Coburg, Germany, is in
| formed that German cotton manufac-
| turers are intending to make trial of
a discovery whereby cotton and other
| similar highly inflammable materials
| can be rendered permanently fireproof.
| With the. exception of explosives, there
| is no article that flares up so quickly
| as cotton when 1t comes into contact
with a light, especially in those par
| ticular goods which are made of heavy
yarns and "combed out" on both sides
| in order to give the appearance of fan
| mel. The fireproofing process consists
| Of "asbestinizing" the fabric, by which
means permanent immunity from burn
| ing is assured, but the exact manner
| in which it is achieved is not divulged.
| "Asbestine fabrics" can be washed
| again and again and yet retain their
| non-ignitable quality. From this 1t
| will be seen that the process does not
! consist in merely putting upon the ma
| terial chemical that for the time be-
| ing renders it non-inflammable, but
| rather, as in the case of mercerizing,
| in changing the very character of the
material. "Asbestinized" cloths are
| said to be perfectly hygienic, and can
be safely worn next to the skin.
"A new sort of labor union is pro-
| posed in the West, says the New York
Post. It's chief object is to make to
| tremble all men and women who have
been in the habit of ill-treating the
| canvassers who came to their doors.
In fact, it is to be a union of cam
vassers for books, furniture, insurance,
or what not. The members will carry
union cards, and will present these as
soon as they get their foot we'll in the
door-jamb. When the union card
comes to be known and recognized, it
is hoped that the trick with the foot
may be dispensed with as undignified.
The canvassers really feel that they
have dignity If once they could rescue,
| 1t from the debris of abuse and ridi-
Guile which has been heaped around it.
| They feel that they are the sole means
| of communication between the great
| insurance companies and the public,
| and that measurably they sustain
like relation between the book pub
fishers and the reading masses. From
this point of view it is intolerable to
be barked at by irresponsible dogs,
turned away by Insignificant serv-
| ants, and treated with contempt by
householders and housewives. Then,
too, there is need of union, it is
thought, better to regulate the rela-
tons between the canvassers and their
| employers. The canvasser wants his
place made more definite and certain.
He feels like holding the door open by
main force until he gets it. The pio-
neer1ng for the new union is being
done at Indianapolis.
The following letter, signed ''Fron-
tiersman," is published in the PhiIa-
delphla Ledger, and we give it for what
1t is worth as a suggestion toward
mitigating the rigors of the coming
winter: "Our pioneer forefathers,
when out on an Indian hunt, or when
one was out on an Indian hunt in cold
weather, had very ingenious plan of
making comfortable night of it, as
follows The hunter would, with his
hunting knife, dig a hole in the ground
about as large as a family coffee pot
In this he would build a little fire of
pieces of dry bark and little dry sticks,
WHICH MAKE no smoke. by the time
night came on there would be a bed
of Goals and ashes, and he would squat
on the ground with leg on each side
of the hole, drawing his blanket around
him in such a manner as to make a
little tent, inside of which was both
his body and his furnace A mere
handful of Goals and ashes would keen
him comfortable all night, with the
weather at freezing point. New, this
suggests to me that a warming I'D
might be had by putting a droplight
under perforated bottom chair, using
tin pot or pan to prevent setting fire
to things, drawing a heavy blanket
around ones shoulders so that it would
pass over the back of the chair and
leach the floor. Then draw another
blanket over the knees in such a. man
ner as to retain the heat. AS heat
rises, all that would be made would
rise and be retained around the body"
walking with short-legged man
is one of the most tiresome things in
the world" said the man with lengthy
limbs, according to the New Orleans
Ilmes-Democrat, land somehow it is
always my lot to fall in with a man of
this build when 1 have any considera-
Bile distance to walk. Why this is so
do not know. but it is so nevertheless.
Other men, built as am, have told
me the same story, and have declared
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