The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-21
ITEns OF INTEREST.

that Teddy's been doing to get the coal
here"
The city of London recently car
ried out the old feudal custom Of pay
ing some horseshoes, with nails for fix
ing them, together with some severed
fagots, to the Kings Remembrance,
as land rentals due to his majesty the
King This custom and manner of pay
ing two particular "quit-rents" has OBJ
tanned for 667 years. The room at the
Law Courts was filled with visitors and
officials when Lord Dunboyne, the
Kings Remembrance, took the ros-
trum. The tenants of a piece of waste
ground called The Moors,' In the
county of Salop." were commanded to
come forth and do your service"
Thereupon the city solicitor laid
"fagot" on the sacrificial wood block
before him, and with repeated blows
of the Ratchet divided 1t. Afterward
the tenants and occupiers of a GER
tain tenement called The Forge, In
the parish of st. Clement Danes" were
called upon; the horseshoes were count
ed out one by one, and the nails in tens
until sixty had been totalled. And
one" continued Sir Holmw God Craw-
ford. Good number" replied the
Kings Remembrance, and the oldtime
ceremony was over.
If one grain of sand on the shore
of the ocean were lost, and scientists
were to spend years in trying to find
it, says the Toronto Mail, they would
be attempting a task resembling that
to which leading astronomers of Eng
land and France are now devoting
themselves One-sixteenth of a second
is missing, and no one can tell where
it has gone. Between the suns time,
as recorded at Greenwich, and as I'M
derstood at Paris. there is that brief
and seemingly unimportant discre-
pency. No expense Is being spared to
trace the missing fraction. A special
building has been erected at Paris,
costly instruments installed, a corps
of mathematician engaged, and
process that may take years to COM
plete has been commenced. The mac
curacy is more important than will
appear to the lay mind. Longitude is
calculated on the basis of Greenwich
time. 1t determines the boundaries of
many countries. A slight variation of
time may change the nationality of
thousands of people. The pursuit of
the missing fraction of a second is
therefore of worldwide importance
We shall all be much relieved when it
has been found, for then not a grain
of the sands of time will be missing.
Outside of the Wall street specu-
lators themselves there is no class of
persons who keep SO close a watch
on the stock market as the jewelers.,
says the New York letter of the Phil
adelphia Ledger. Their trade depends
in a very large degree on the state
of speculation. If the market is ac-
tive and advancing there is a large
demand for jewelry. If the market
is dull and weak the business of the
jewelers. falls off to an extent that is
often alarming. Even such great
houses as the Tiffanys watch the
stock market in order to keep their
buyers posted If there are signs of
speculative depression they are eau
toned against overstocking The
present slump in Wall street. there
fore, is having bad effect on the
jewelers. trade at the very time when
the retailers expect their hearty .har-
vest through the holiday buying. A
leading manufacturing jeweler in
forms your correspondent that unless
there is a sudden turn in the stock
market for the better the jewelers. will
suffer severely. In every panic the
jewellers are always the first to feel
the pinch. In the great panic of 1857
they had to melt up their stock of
rings and necklaces in order TO get
the gold to buy the bare necessities
Of life.
oil operators who have visited the
Kentucky oil fields this fall. says the
st. Louis Republic, have been very
much puzzled over an old volcanic we'll
on Richland, six miles from Barbour
vile. The well in question becomes
disturbed regularly every year during
November, and at intervals during this
month. erupts big streams of oil, gas,
salt water, mud and other substances
The well was drilled in 1910, near
Jayne's creek, by the old settlers, who
were after salt water, fro1., -hich they
obtained their salt supply. The ma
chinery used in the drilling was very
crude. but the drillers got to depth
of $50 feet, when they encountered an
Immense stream of oil, which gushed
for several days. The people did not
know what the oil was, and were very
much Disguised at the nasty black
stuff" as they termed it. The effort
to reach salt water was abandoned
and drilling stopped. In the course
of time the bed of the creek changed
until now the water flows over the
mouth of the old well. At any time
one may see the water bubbling I'D
over the hole caused by the gas pres
sure. AS far back as the people can
remember the well has made the an
nual eruptions. The disturbances this
year were somewhat earlier than
usual, and attracted more than ordi-
nary attention, on account of the oil
operations in that section. At one
time the water and oil were cast nm
nearly fifty feet. Just after a flow
q match may be touched to the creek
and a flame will fit across the water.
the gases causing this, Only a few
feet from this old well is the Harnrnons
OH gusher, which makes $50 barrels of
oil daily.
Women have branched out i'm an
other field of activity, and they are
swarming in great numbers" said an
observant theatrical man to the New
orleans Tfmes-D Democrat, land on this
occasion they have invaded the ter
ritory which was supposed to be ne
culiarly the field of masculine effort.
fut plainly and quickly she has be-
CONG lately the advance man and
press agent OF various theatrical COM
Dinations which are now TRAVELLING
around over the country. and If vo,,
want to know the truth about the
matter there are hundreds of the,,, 81
this time engaged in this kind of
work. The women have been a littIe
slow in waking up to the opportuni-
ties AFFORDED along this line. but thew
nave at last come to the conclusion
that there is good chance for them
mere, and they are now taking adj
vantage of 1t. Really there is no rea-
son why a woman should not make
good advance agent and nress ron