The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-27

Livingstone of Windsor, Ont, at a sal
airy of $4,000 a year and parsonage.
The following primitive cure" for
smallpox has been discovered by the
Leytonstone (England) Guardians in
one of their registers for the year 100:
Take thirty to forty live toads and
burn them to cinders in a new pot;
then crush into a fine black powder.
Dose for smallpox, or"
The library of Congress ranks sixth
among the libraries of the world in
its present contents. France has the
largest, England next, then comes Rus
STA, and Germany follows with her IL
braries in Munich, Berlin and Stras-
burg, the last named holding almost
equal rank with ours in Washington.
Aluminium saw handles are being
introduced which are said to be both
lighter and stronger than those OF
wood. There are several shapes, but
they are all made of thin sheet metal
worked into the desired form and sup
piled with perforations for the purpose
of enabling workmen to get a secure
hold of the tool. One of the designs
offered is adjustable so that the right
hand side of the handle is flush with
the saw, permitting the operator to
work close to the floor or in other in
convenient places.
A London dispatch says: An
ingenious collapsible table has been
specially made for the use of King Ed
ward while attending theaters. The
table and its legs fold up into a small
space and can be carried, with han
die like a satchel, without injuring the
contents of the tray, which consists of
two decanters, three cut-glass tum-
blers and several small bottles of self
ger. One side of the tray contains re-
cesses for three coffee cups, saucers,
silver spoons, cigars and cigarettes,
while on the other side are three liquor
glasses. an ash tray and a match box.
Autumn haze, says the chief of the
United States Weather Bureau, is I'M
doubtedly due to fine particles of dust.
The finest dust is composed Of one or
all of the following substances-name-
ly, fine particles of soil or the dead
leaves of plants, smoke or ashes from
wood fires, salt from ocean spray, the
shells or scales of microscopic silicious
diatoms, germs of fungi, spores of
ferns, pollen of flowers. etc. In the
still air of the damp nights these dust
particles settle slowly down and the
morning air is comparatively clear.
During the daylight the sun warns the
soil, which heats the adjacent air, and
the rising air currents carry up the
dust as high as they go.
The largest electrical transmission
plant in the United States, save that
of Niagara, and capable of generating
upwards of 300,00O horsepower, is now
being projected in Big Meadow sand
Butte Valley Basins, in Northern Plu-
mas County, California, where the
hackers of the enterprise have pur-
chased $4,000 acres of swamp and pas
turage lands for the purpose. The ba-
sins named are to be converted into
great storage reservoirs, and by about
ten miles of canal and tunnel. Plans
are to convey water to the canon of
Mosquito Creek, where, with a vertical
fall of 1000 feet, it will be dropped
again into the Feather. The Big
Meadows Basin of Ii 900 acres will have
the greatest capacity of any artificial
storage reservoir known, and will i'm
pound about so per cent. of the freshet
waters of the north fork of the Feath-,
er emptying into it. In addition to de-
veloping the mining and lumber inter
ests of this mountain region, as we'll
as other industries along the route,
this power will be carried to San Fran
cisco, distance of IT'S miles.
-"Mindana," says a teacher in Sal
vador, on that island, sis a great ISL
and-very rich, and practically unde-
developed. A man could make great
deal more money in business than in
the school department. 1 don't think 1
will 're-enlist' in this department when
my time is up-not that l don't like the
work, for I do, but because can make
more coin in other ways. We are hav-
ing a vacation here for short time
on account of the corn harvest. The
other week 1 made a trip up into the
Moro country in company with Mr.
Haswell, travelling fellow in peogra-
ply of the University of California.
The Visayans here do not dare go far
away from the coast and, as a con-
sequence, we had to paddle our bancos
out of Iligan down the coast to the
Aguz river. From there we hiked back
to the Cascara de Aguz magnificent
waterfall. 1t has a drop of from 400
to 600 feet, and a great volume of wa
ter pours over the falls. l didn't think
there was SO much in all the Philip
pines. 1t is a most beautiful sight
one that l shall never forget
The London Chronicle seems to be
curiously engaged as to words, and
now discovers to US that the pronunci-
alton of clerk" is changing in Eng
land from clark to "clurk," says the
Springfield Republican. A correspon-
dent asks the Chronicle: IF 'parson,'
why not clarke both were originally
spelled with 'er.' Moreover, prefer
ment must have had a similar sound
in the days when Popery no harm
meant 4" Why, of course, Wendell Phil
lips and George William Curtis, to
name only two careful speakers, al
ways pronounced clerk" as clark"
and we believe Clergy as "clargy"
That is the standard English pronun-
citation. But it is Americanism that
changes English usage, for the "ah"
pronunciation Of sc" in such words has
been dying out here, though kept up
in England. AS the Chronicle COM
ments: But if the eye is to rule the
tongue, we must alter the spelling of
Hertfordshire. divert the classic Cher
well, and induce the HerVeys to re-
construct the first syllable of their an
cient name. Those who call a clerk"
a "clurk" have probably been misled
by what DIR. o. W. Holmes called the
accident of spelling" 1t is sad to be-
hold the inroads of American reform
in such matters. BY the way, we be-
lieve "CherwelP' is really pronounced
in England "Char'l."
Lawyers will hardly find wireless
biography so productive of fees as
was the telephone, litigation over
which put millions into their pockets,
says the New York Press. Prof. Bell
had a strenuous time. He took the
first U0rlrit7o model 0f his ipcfY-,,v,apt