The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-17

1 in the world" is to be seen in use at
! Kiel. Its own weight is 450 tons, and
/ it is capable of lifting as much as $50
! tons. Its arm stretches so yards from
point TO point, and is so yards and
more above the foundation. 1t is
worked by electricity.
"A record in courtship and proposals
has occurred at Lubbock, in Germany.
! where resides a hotel proprietor with
| a family of six children-four sons and
two daughters-who were all betrothed
/ in one day. The half dozen happy
! couples were also married on the same
day, and one wedding breakfast served
/ for them all.
Westminster Cathedral. the basili-
ca which Cardinal Vaughan is building,
has come into possession of the Dup
! plin carvings" bought for it from the
Earl of Kinnoul. There are fifty-four
/ superb cathedral stalls, which were
originally in the monastery of st. Ur-
ban, near Lucerne. They were sold
at the suppression of the monastery,
and forty years ago came into the
| hands of the Earl of Kinnoul. The
Swiss government tried to obtain them
for its National Museum.
The Egyptian pyramids are soon
TO come out of their darkness of 5000
years, and will be accessible to all
tourists. General Director Maspero of
| the society which has in charge the
| preservation of the antiquities of the
country, has been experimenting with
! the electric light, and began his work
on the temple at Karnak, at Thebes.
| The experiment met with so much APP
prevail that he has decided to light the
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| great pyramids. This will provide
Egyptian tourists with new attractions
and they will be able to penetrate TO
| the innermost recesses of the pyra-
mids.
1t is a firm belief of the Eastern
monks of the Greek Church that God
will not allow a monastery to be burn
ed. When the Russian monastery Of
ST. Pantelemon at Mount Athos was
burned a few years ago the Greeks,
who constitute the great majority of
the six thousand monks on the PENN
sula, maintained that their Russian
brethren had brought the calamity
on themselves because they had fire
engines and extinguishers and did not
trust wholly in God. Now the neigh
boring Greek monastery at st. Paul,
which had no fire engines, has recent
ly been utterly destroyed by fire. 1t is
said that the monastery of st. Paul
was the only one at Mount Athos
which has ever been visited by a wo-
man. The wife of a British ambassa-
dor landed from her yacht one day on
it's tiny pier and insisted on entering
the church. In consequence the monks,
relieving each other by relays, for for
ty days and nights maintained con-
tinuouS service of prayer to purify the
church from this contamination.
M. ]. Thoulet has investigated the
constitution of the ocean bed. and
finds that the more deeply it is pene-
trated the less the proportion of slime
and the less calcareous matter. On
the other hand, the proportion of sand
grains and pure clays increases with
the depth. No regularity obtains in
the distribution of the non-calcareous
mineral grains. This normal distri-
button appears to be more pronounced
the deeper the ocean bed itself lies
| below the water surface, but, in any
| case the variations due to ocean depth
are small. Even in the deepest water
| the constitution of the bed shows
traces of the conditions prevailing near
| the surface of the ocean above the bed.
| The latter remark is of importance,
as the author points out, when we con-
slider that a complete analysis-chemi-
| cal, mechanical and mineralogical-ap-
piled to ancient geological strata is
competent to shed flood of light upon
the ancient conditions that prevailed
| at the surfaces of oceans that have
| long since disappeared leaving no trace
other than their effect on the ancient
ocean beds.
| Jewish tradition explains the pas
sage in the first chapter of Genesis,
which defines one of the purposes of
| the lights of the armament that they
| should be for signs as we'll as for sea-
sons and days and years, by the signs
| of the zodiac Hebrew lore, according
| to the Jewish Messenger, connects the
| twelve signs of the zodiac with the
twelve patriarchs and with the death
bed blessing given to them by Jacob.
| 1t will be remembered that when
eleven stars bowed down to him, the
| stars were understood to symbolic
| Joseph's eleven brothers. According
| to tradition, Leo signifies Judah, whom
| Jacob describes as "a lions whelp. :"
| Pisces is Zebulon. who shall dwell
\ at the haven of the sea-" Issachar is
| Taurus, a poetical metonymy for the
Strong ass" ScorDio is Dan, "the
serpent in the way" Aquarius typi-
| fies Reuben, unstable as water" Gem
mi, Simeon and Levi, the brethren
Aries, Cad. "the leader of the troops"
| Libra, Asher, "the weigher of bread"
Capricorn, Naphtali, the "hind let
loose;" Sagittarius, Joseph, whose
| 'ibow abode in strength" Cancer, Ben
| jamin, "he shall devour." And Virgo
| is Rachel
One of the most curious traits to
| be found in the animal nature, said an
! observant citizen to writer in the
| New Orleans Times Democrat, is that
| which grows out of the unconscious
| imita tiveness of creatures of the lower
| order. l have observed many instances
| of where the creatures of a lower or
| der have taken on the characteristics
in some noticeable degree of members
| of the human family One might know
| for instance, the beggar's dog just
! from the look of the dog, from the
| droop of the eye, the pathetic hang of
| the lip and a certain general air of
| dependency and hopelessness which
| seems to speak in the very nature Of
the animal. / mention the beggar's dog
| because it is a familiar example The
! beggar's dog never looks cheerful nev-
er smiles, never frolics, but simply sits
| by his master and broods and begs for
| whatever charity may give. l have
seen the dog character nodded under
happier influences, and the dog be-
| come more cheerful. He was a light
! hearted, free-and-easy- of creature
| and seemed to get something of the
| SUMMER side of things. / am almost
tempted to saw that If Won will shouy