The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-26
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proportion to the population is much
larger every year than in other areas.
| Dogs and cats in many instances he
| come cancerous, but few horses and
cattle are attacked. Men and women
| are stricken on the average earlier in
life in this generation than in those
which preceded it.
"A health farm is planned by the
Young Mems Christian Association. six
miles west of Denver, for the benefit
| of those, particularly the tuberculosis
| who might otherwise be unable to live
| in that state. A sanitary home, nour-
ishing food, skillful medical attention
and an uplifting environment will be
offered to young men. The prices to
| be charged will be within the reach
of those of an average financial condi-
| ton, and whenever possible medical
services are to be offset against such
outdoor work as the patients may be
able to do.
The development of Germany as
naval power is emphasized very for
chilly by the fleet. under the command
of Prince Henry of Prussia, which ar
rived in Irish waters the other day
on a friendly visit, says the New York
| Post. 1t is said to be the most pow
erful aggregation of foreign warships
that has ever visited any British or
| Irish port The squadron consists of
eight line-of- battle ships in two divi-
sions, and three cruisers and is larger
numerically, if not in actual power,
| than the British Channel Squadron or
the French Northern Squadron.
noteworthy quality of the fleet is its
| homogeneity. The four vessels of the
| first division, of the so-called Kaiser
| class, are identical in all respects, size,
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ton, speed, and gun power. All of
them are protected by the same weight
of the very finest Harveyized nickel
| steel armor. Between the vessels of
| the second division there are certain
differences, the slowest of them being
unable to make more than sixteen
knots, as against the eighteen knots
of the Kaisers Moreover, the fleet is
practically new, the oldest of the first
division vessels being only five years
| old, and the oldest of the others only
ten years. Before returning to German
waters the fleet will make a complete
circuit of the United Kingdom.
Wine men have their little sane
titles, says the New York Press. You
| have not money enough to induce a
| champagne manufacturer to seal his
product in other than the regulation
| bottles. l should think it would be
an excellent trade mark to use glass of
another color. The reason why green
was adopted for champagne bottles is
| that the old Merovingian color was the
| imperial green of France. AS for it's
reputed effect on wines, that is all
! bosh. Wine tastes just as good out
! of a black bottle or a yellow one.
There are 100 different shades of green.
! They variously signify joy, abundance,
hope. youth, spring Gods bounty,
mirth, gladness and the resurrection,
and among the Greeks and Romans
meant victory. In metals green is rep
resented by copper, in precious stones
by the emerald. In the plants it stands
for Venus. AS a railway signal it
! means caution, "go slowly" 1t is the
national banner of Ireland and was the
| imperial color of the Aztecs. Scotland
regards green as unlucky. God made
nature green to rest the eye. Man
made the waiting rooms in theatres
! green rooms for the same reason. The
favorite color of gambling hells is
| green The cloth on pool and billiard
tables-also pingpong tables-is green.
| There are no green mammals, though
| history records a race of green dogs.
now extinct. There are green snakes.
BIRDS, lizards, frogs, etc. Many ami
| mails have green eyes, as the cat, tiger,
leopard and lion, and all mock the
meat they eat, hence the "green-eyed
| jealousy.
Prof Pupin's charge that the West
| ern Union Company spends nothing in
improving its service and treats inyen-
| tors and scientists with new ideas as
If they were troublesome book agents.
Is declared by The Electrical World
and Engineer to be pretty near the
truth. 1t says that recently the
GREATEST NJ A
! Geographic work is but part of this
claim to fame, used language even
stronger than that of Prof. Pupin in
describing the unprogressiveness of the
| telegraph companies. with an m
progressive art" continues The Flee
trical World and Engineer, there has
inevitably been stagnant industry.
ana telegraphy has stood still for
years, although 1t ought to have been
as prosperous and expansive as tel
ephony. Much can be done to chean-
en- biography so that instead of send
| ing one message year the average
american will send ten Automatic
and machine telegraphic systems of
the greatest promise. tried and an
proved, await liberal adoption. when
new crop of business as lower rates
can oe created, and biography once
| more come again to its own" The
writer of the articles, saws the NaH,
YORK Times, Pounds hopes of a. chang
ed policy and better days to Soma IN
the new management of the Western
| Union, and says that Col. Clowrv will
cause much disappointment if he docs
not seize his great opportunity TO raise
| American telegraphy out of the ri,t
| INTO Which it has fallen We all know
that 1t costs too much to use the teIe-
! graph and that a vast amount of tinoa
Is wasted in the delivery of messages
Once, without knowing il. lard
Kitchener threw away 100000 saws
| Ilt-Bits. 1t was when the British
troops evacuated Shendy, on the Nile
AFTER the fall of Khartoum. in 1875
Large quantities of stores and nro-
| Visions were ordered to be destrovad
because of want of means for trans
porting them. Among other thinps
/ were 100000 rounds of various sorts
OF ammunition, all of which was to he
thrown into the River Nile. To Kitch-
ener fell the duty of seeing these or
ders carried out, and, accordingly. he
mad every case taken out by boats and
dropped into the middle of the river
| AFTER 1t was all over, and the troons
were well on their way down stream
again, 1t was discovered that among
| the cases of ammunition were two
large cases filled, not with proiectiles
| or cartridges, but with real golden
| English sovereigns-100 900 in each case
| NO attempt has as yet been made to
| recover this Sunken treasure which is