The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13

that Belgium mas coal deposits worth
ESQ 1000.
January and October in the same
year always begin with the same day
| of the week. The case is the same with
April and July, with September ard
December, and with February, March
and November.
In future if you want to learn Chi
nese there will be no need to travel to
China to do it. A Chinese college is
| to be established in London; and,
| though the college is not yet built,
some of the professors have already
arrived and have started work.
-Teisserene de Bort, the French aer-
onaut. has secured the lowest temper
ature mark on record-72 degrees CEN
tigrade. or 97.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
The reading was registered on a Their
mometer in trial balloon sent up re-
Gently, which rose to a hight of $4,000
feet.
"A new giant geyser of Rotomaha-
ma, N. H., is attracting attention. A
mass of boiling water half an acre in
extent rises in a great dome, from
which a column of water and stones
rises to 300 feet, while immense col
umnS of steam ascend as far as can
be seen.
M. Cadet. an oculist of Bordeaux
is reported to have been successful
in the treatment of cataract without
operations by the application of baths
of salicylate of soda. He has arrested
the progress of the cataract in num-
erous cases. and is sanguine of success
II the treatment is begun at an early
stage.
Senator Cullen, of Brooklyn, has
made himself remarkable at this ses-
sion of the New York Legislature by
not introducing single bill. my TO-
tion," he said, 'fs that there are too
many bills introduced and too many
laws passed. have introduced but five
bills in seven years and three of them
became laws
In Japan it is always the rule of
roliteness to pay a trifie more than the
sum mentioned on your hotel bill. To
settle the account net would be con-
sidered an insult, or at least a mark
Of great dissatisfaction. People VINO
have travelled in Japan say that the
japanese always tip the waiter on en-
tering the hotel.
The London geological gardens have
received four young wild horses from
the deserts of Dsungaria. Much in
terest and curiosity have been excited
by them, and very naturally so, be-
cause they come from the primitive
and little known solitudes near to the
flrst center of dispersion of part of the
human race. They are small, of a
DUN color and have long, shaggy coats.
The place where they were caught is
south OF Kobdo, close to the great At
las mountains, and nearly in the center
of the continent of Asia.
The smallest microbe yet known is
said to have been discovered by Mr.. o.
Voges of Buenos Ayres. 1t is much
less than the influenza bacillus, and
only just discernible when magnified
about 1,500 times The work of the
smallest bacterium in this troubled
world is to produce deadly assesses,
known in South America as manguea,
in cattle, with this special Characters
tlc-the hotter the climate the more IA
tai the infection. further REGULARITY
is that If the abScess is opened in it's
early stages the disease is arrested and
the animal is saved. Minuteness of
the germs of disease is no particular
advantage to the victim, the influenza
micFobe makes up for it's dimunutive-
ness by overwhelming numbers.
South of the city of Paris the coun-
try is honeycombed with abandoned
quaPries, some of which are of enor-
nous extent, resembling the shafts of
great mines, from 300 yards to half
mile in length, and lying from 80 to
$50 feet beneath the surface of the
ground. In these old quarrieS are
grown nearly all the mushrooms con-
sumed in the French capital. The
mushrooms flourish in these caverns
| at all seasons and they have, in Paris,
| the reputation of being superior in
| flavor to those grown elsewhere. The
| worse enemy of the mushroom growers
| is a species of fly which swarms
| through the dark passages in such
numbers as sometimes to extinguish
| the candles of the workmen. The lar
vac of this fly destroys the beds be-
| fore the shoots have emerged above
| the ground.
"A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times writes: The number of million
aires in the United States, according
| to a list prepared by the New York
| Herald, is 3,82S, one to every 10000
| persons. They are WORTH combined,
| about $4,000 900, 900 out of a total real
estate and personal property wealth
| of $81,000.000, at which the property
| of the United States is fairly valued.
| AS the population is more than 76,000,-
| 900 this would average a little more
| than $1,000 to each person. About 81
| per cent. of these 1928 millionaires are
| believed to have been born poor. The
| Vanderbilt family, with a combined
wealth of over $500, 10000 is richer
than the entire S500,000 negroes of the
| United States. The negroes pay taxes
on $275,000, 900 worth of real estate.
| Greater New York, with a population
of S,55S,000, has 10000 persons that have
| incomes of more than $4,000 a year.
Out of 100000 families in the United
States there are more than 100000 that
have yearly incomes of more than
| $4,000 year. The fortunes of million
! aires are almost always overrated. Jo-
| seph Richardson of New York was be-
lieved to be worth 100000, 900, but after
| his death it was found that he left
| only $1,500,000 Lii Hung Chang was
| said to have 100000, 900, but it now
seems to be only $5,000,000. Coils
Huntington, who died in August, 1900,
was said to have $100,000,000 The es-
| tate is now valued at $27, 000, 900. Rob-
| ert Bonner, the horse owner, was rated
at $6,000,000, but he left only $500, 900.
| Pierre Lorillard, tobacco manufacture
er, was said to have 100000, 900, but
| it seems to have been only 81, 900, 900.
| Allen B. Rorke was believed to
be millionaire, but his estate shows
only $952.56. James Young, a farmer
| king, was supposed to be a million
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