The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

and Leipsic. The cost of the project
is estimated at s47, 900, 900. According
to the proposition put forward by the
committee, Prussia and Saxony will
contribute jointly $25, 900, 900, while the
various manufacturers interested in
the scheme will contribute the remain
ing 81. 100000.
"A writer in the Forum declares
that there is more of filth, squalor and
general slovenliness in public places
and works, in streets, squares river
sides, docks, quays, roads and bridges
in the United States than in any 9TH
er country of the first, or even second
rank. He says that in this respect we
rank with Turkey rather than with
England or Germany. Oriental Japan,
tiny Switzerland and slow going Hol-
land stand far ahead of the United
States in this respect.
Coventry intends to repeat its
SHOW" at the time of the coronation
and advertises for some one to take the
part of Lady Godiva The trouble
is that whereas when the legendary
Lady Godiva rode through Coventry on
her white horse the townspeople mod
estly kept indoors, except one Peep
ing Tom," on this occasion the streets
will be filled with spectators. When the
show was given some years ago $50
was paid to the "Godiva" and $50 more
to the agent who furnished her.
-Viscount De Aite, the new Portu-
guese minister to this country, comes
from a distinguished family which has
| for generations been in the diplomatic
| service of Portugal. He resigned as
| charge d'affaires in st. Petersburg to
| accept the new post 1t will be remem-
bered that his predecessor, Viscount
! Thyrso was suddenly recalled last au-
tumn because, through an unfortunate
| set of circums tances, he announced to
| his government the death of President
| Mckinley two days before the event
| occurred.
Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia
recently visited a mining parish for
the purpose of administering the sacra-
ment of confirmation. He asked nerv-
| Gus little girl what matrimony was
and the child said it was "a state of
| terrible torment which those who enter
it must undergo to prepare them for a
brighter world" mo, no." said the
| purgatory." Leave her alone" was
the archbishop's observation, his eye
twinkling the while. What do you or
I know about it?'
| The idea that the waves of light
| produce a mechanical push, or pres
sure; was advanced years ago by Clerk
| Maxwell, but he could only offer theo-
retical proof Recently Prof. 'Lebedew,
of Moscow, made an experimental dem
| onstration of the pressure of light. He
employs a radiometer resembling the
familiar Crookes' radiometer, using a
larger and more completely exhausted
bulb,> from which the heating effect
that is the principal agent in
moving the Crookes vanes, is excluded.
When the light falls upon the vanes
they are driven by it and the intensity
of the pressure thus revealed comes
within 10 per cent of that calculated
by Maxwell.
The up-to-date farmer can estimate
quite closely what amount of work his
men do in day, and the way in which
he, does it is very ingenious. Assuming
| that a good ploWman will walk about
| eighteen miles a day, he proceeds to
| determine how much land will be gone
| over in that walk. The factor in the
case is the width of the plow Cut
| ting a seVen-inch furrow, a full day s
work will mean the blowing of an acre
| and a quarter; an eight-ineh furroW
eleven-inch furrow, two acres, and a
| fifteen-inch furrow two and three
| quarters acres. Thus the farmer knows
how many men he needs before be-
ginning the work, and also what each
man should accomplish every day.
The English colony in Valparaiso
Chile. has cricket club, the officers
of which recently sent to England for
a large consignment of bats and a few
stumps. On arrival they were liable to
a duty of 30 per cent, but it occurred
to the captain, who had had a good
deal of experience in custom house
| business, that it would be a good move
to enter the goods as ''utiles para agri-
cultura," i. e., agricultural implements,
which were allowed to enter free OF
duty This was done, and it was point
| ed out to the vista (the custom house
| official who examined the goods that
with the end of the stump a hole was
| made in the ground in which the seed
was placed, till, by the aid of the bat
it was securely located therein. This
explanation was considered satisfac-
tory, and the entry paper marked
''libre" (free).
The cold wave of the past week in
this region is already being ascribed
to the great seismic or volcanic dis
turbances in the West Indies, says the
Springfield Republican. Here is an in
teresting field for speculation among
meteorologists and scientific men. Dis
| patches from abroad say that an I'M
usually cold wave has been expert
enced in England and a large part OF
Europe. and over there people are
quick to ask if it was not related
somehow to the West Indian phenome-
ma. Some one suggests that the vol
canic eruptions heated the air in the
American tropics, that the hot air
| rose high above the great area and
that to supply the vacuum the cold
air from the Arctic regions has been
drawn toward the tropics. We certain
latter part of last week. 1t would be
interesting to know what the weather
was in the south temperate zone at
about the same time, say in Buenos
| Ayres.
Within 50 years from the present
time the Great Salt Lake of Utah-the
most remarkable body of water of its
kind in the world, says the Saturday
! Evening Post-will have ceased to ex-
list. 1t will have dried up, and it's place
will be occupied by an unattractive
desert, save pehraps for a few irrigated
| farms. Such, at all events, is the opin-
ion of biologists. Prof. w ]. Niece.
of Washington, remarked in conversa-
ton the other day that half a century
was an outside estimate for the survi-
val of the lake. He was inclined to
| tIinIx ba II would he 49, x,oo -