The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-29

CAPOl VI OOllCA anu ONANA o~AA
products. The province of Victoria
alone exported to. Great Britain in 1889
1900 1000 tors Of butter, representing
a value of 81, 900, 900. The butter ev-
pert of Victoria was 1896 tons in 1889
and 759 tons in 1890. For the last ten
years the export has been not lass
than $4,000 tons.
-Ninety-seven American municipal
tiles report that they have established
cremation or reduction-plants, for sew
age, according to Engineering News.
Pennsylvania and Indiana lead in the
total number of plants, having IA and
II. respectively. and also in the number
of crematories, which is 10 for each.
New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio
each report four reduction-plants."
The recent death of the famous
architect of England. John Francis
Bentley, will not interfere with the
plans for the building of the colossal
Catholic Cathedral at Westminster,
which are in a forward state. The
cathedral is said to be the greatest
times. Like the elder Pugin, the great
architect, Bentley, was a convert to
the Catholic Church.
The aeronautical problem which is
just now receiving most attention in
France is a voyage across the great
desert of Sahara. M. Deburaux con-
siders it absolutely practicable to
travel from Tunis to the Niger by
means of winds travelling in that re-
gion. He declares himself ready to
make the experiment. Up to the pres
ent time his ambition has remained
unrealized, for the reason that the nee
essary funds have not been forthcom-
ing.
"A new species of violet has been
discovered by Miss Lille Angel of
Minton Place, Orange, and Charles
Louis Pollard, curator of plants at the
Smithsonian Institution, has named the
species Viola angelloe, after the dis
coVerer. The leaves are cordate-ova:e
in outline, with broad sinus, irregu-
larly five to seven lobed, or some of
them merely deeply sinuate. The lUbes
are all obtuse, more or less crenate,
and the flowers are violet-purple dark
er at the base. The leaves attain large
dimensions.
Il suppose I will surprise my young
readers" writes T. P. O'Connor, in M.
A. p, when 1 tell them that 1 re-
member the time when a man who
wore a beard was regarded as some
thing of a phenomenon, and, indeed,
as scarcely gentlemanly; but so it was.
At the bar young barrister VINO
wore a beard or mustache would so
outrage the etiquette of the profess
sion that he would be refused hear
ing by some judges, and by others so
.sneered at as to make solicitors I'M
willing to employ him. A judge who
has only just left the bench professed
one day, while he was listening to
junior, not to understand what he was
saying, and When at last the unfOrtu-
nate junior began to shout the judge
sweetly remarked that it was very
difficult to understand any gentleman
who insisted on putting a hair screen
on his upper lip"
A new line of refrigerator steam
ships for service between this country
and Great Britain is to be established,
according to the Scientific American.
The new line will be controlled by
British American syndicate. The
boats will run with weekly sailings
from Bristol One line will travel be-
tween Bristol and New York, a second
between Bristol and Boston; and a
third line between New Orleans and
Bristol. The principal purpose of the
third is to facilitate and expedite the
transit of the Californian produce to
the English markets. The railroad runs
from California to New Orleans will
be two days shorter than to New York.
Fruit will be carried over the Texas
Pacific and New Orleans Railroad. A
great warehouse is being built at Bris-
toll containing 100000 feet of space,
capable of storing $1,000 to $4,000 tons
of general produce. Already an extern
sive cold-storage plant has been erect
ed. New docks are being constructed
and several Improvements with the ex-
listing accommodation are being carried
out, at a cost of over $5,000,000 This
project is the outcome of the recent Wis
it of the British manufacturers to this
country"
THE objection that wireless teleg-
raphy cannot insure secrecy is not of
such great weight" says Capt. Ferrie
of the French military telegraph serv-
ice in an article distracted in the En-
gineering Magazine; S'for this disad-
vantage is more or less common to all
methods of electric communication.
Wires have been tapped, and listening
in is not an unheardof occurrence in
telephony. Code systems can obViate
this objection. But a more serious
ence. If all the small stations have
to shut up when a big one is shout
ing in the neighborhood, the practical
limitations of space telegraphy are APP
parent. But whatever the final out
come of the work to secure perfect
syntony, there will still remain large
and important field which space teleg-
raphy viii have all to itself. For COM
municating with ships at sea, with $50
lated lighthouses and with islands
which cannot be reached by cable its
advantages are unique. 1t seems as If
there were room enough for all our
systems of electric communication, and
it is most probable that the net effect
of wireless biography upon the older
methods will be an all-round improve
ment, such as was experienced by the
gas industry after the introduction of
electric lighting"
The Secretary of Agriculture in
report to the Senate on the extinction
of the American bison says that as far
as the Department is aware only two
small herds of wild buffalo are in ex-
istence in the United States, one of
them being in Yellowstone Park, and
the other in Lost Park, Colo. During
last Fall several of the latter were kill
ed and it is thought that now the
herd does not contain more than eight
or ten individuals, and the Yellowstone
herd twenty-five. In Canada there are
a few wild buffalo in the Peace River
country but they are believed to be of
& different species from those which
roamed the plains of the West. In
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