Smyrna times., 1902-04-30
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPpy
Pilhy Sayings From Our Popular Wash
ingtOn Correspondent

Pilhy Sayings From Our Popular Wash
ingtOn Correspondent.
Strada, the Jesuit historian. related
an imaginary telegraphic system that
had its real counterpart in the Morse
telegraph 200 years later.
NJ. Santos Dumont had talk with
Thomas A. Edison last week and both
decided that the gasoline motor for
irships supplies the most power for
given weight of anything now avail
able
Birth notices do not often Get in the
editorial column but the addition Of
five girl babies at one time to family
in New York last week deserves com
ment as a rare and interesting biolog.
ical phenomenon.
The Harvard Agassiz Museum has
sent special expedition all the way to
the Maldive Islands in the South In
dian Ocean to secure one rare specimen
of coral formation to complete tbe
Harvard collection.
In spite of all promises. claims
assurances, reassurances, etc, issued
by the st. Louis Fair manapement
that the exposition announced for
next year would not be postponed. if
is now believed that postponemen+
till 1904 is inevitable.
Prior to the imposition of the war
tax on tea, the per capita consumption
in this country was II pounds. which
the tax reduced to one pound. The
higher price of tea increased the use of |
coffee, the annual per capita eonsump-
ton rising from O. 8 to 1914 pounds
The latest roller coaster" to provide
new nervous sensation is a cbute
from which a car plunges under water
and comes up again without wettinc
the occupants. It is peculiarly con
structed and the velocity of the boat
exceeds the velocity of the faliing
water it displaces, which literally does
not have time to come in.
A Norwegian inventor has perfected
acannon in which the projectile re-
celyes its impulse from magnetism.
the gun being surrounded by a mag
netle coil which draws the proiectile
cut with constantly increasing We
loclty until it reaches the muzzle.
Ezperlmentally the gun is a success
though there have been similar de-
vices before which have proved fail
ures.
Farestehagin, the painter of horrors.
mas returned to Washington, d. c..
nom trip to Cuba where he studied
the lay of the land for a series of Cuban
battle pictures, He has erected an
open-air studio at Fort Myers near
Washington, where he can use the
eayalrymer at the barracks as models
and still be where he can verify de-
tails by competent authorities.
In the contested election of Lentz
vs.. Tompkins in the Nationsl House P
o. Representatives, republicans and
democrats alike united in rebuking
The contestants for making the fight
vehicle for dragging into the records s.
'lnrs and scurrilous blackguardism
mat had nothing to do with the case. E,
Contracts for the paper to be used Fl
tr bank notes and other currency " "
nave been awarded to the Crane Com F.
lany OF Massachusetts, who have held v
hem for a number of years. There Il,
vas no other bidder. Silk fibre is W
.ofked into this paper and the mate f'
ials and manufacture is expensive.
Governor Dole of Hawaii, has been -
Washington in conference with the
resident as to affairs on the islands.
i was expected that Dole might be
.aperseded, but he has explained the
, 'uatlon so satisfactorily that the :
resident will stand by him against Z
uoSe who attempted to have him de- 2
'osed
~ Berlin, a city Of 1,SOO, 600 inhabi- q
nus there are only fifty churches II
lu alarm Is felt at the lack of growth
church attendance. The socialist