The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

1T ships, with a tonnage of $4,000, en-
ter Niuchang alone.
Fifty years ago the population OF
England and Wales was divided equal
ly between city and country; now n
per cent. of it is urban.
The neutrality-suspicious. steamship
line owns 11s vessels, valued at $4S.15s.-
900; the North German Lloyd, LOT yes
sells, valued at $33.74s, 400.
Prof. Pickering, the noted Harvard
astronomer, has been given the honor
airy degree of doctor Of sciences by the
University Of Heidelberg.
"A circular has been issued by Paris
physicians, taking the radical ground
that alcohol is never, and can never be,
of any use whatever to the organism.
Locomotive rides by royal person
ages have been officially forbidden on
German railways. because of the dan
ger of distracting the engineers atten-
ton.
A motor fan should be placed near
an open window or other opening where
it can draw fresh air. If in a corner
foul air.
The Yellowstone Park proper is
one-third larger than Delaware and the
adjoining government forest reserves
make an area nearly equal to that of
New Jersey.
Such has been the improvement in
engine boilers and fire boxes that the
power derived from a pound of coal
to-day is nearly three times as great
as it was fifty years ago.
"A British cabinet council has been
convened for the unusually early date
of Oct. S, presumably to decide the
attitude of the government regarding
the fiscal policy.
"A dinner in honor Of the Austrian
Emperor's seventy-sixth birthday was
given recently at the Union Square
Hotel by the Austrian Society of New
York city and the Hungarian Relief
Society. President Won Grulich, Vice
Consul General Won Nuber of Chicago,
DR.. Baumfeld DR.. f. Kaufman of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, and DR.. r. r. Saehers were
the speakers.
The death at Parral, Mexico, Of Pc
dro Alvarado, a silver mine owner, who
was reputed to be worth between $780,
100000 and $S0,000,000 and who six
years ago was a barefooted peon work
ing in a mine OF 30 cents a day, Is re-
ported from chihuahua. He discovered
and developed the famous Palmillo
mine, and while ago attracted 'atten-
ton by offering to pay the Mexican
national debt He was a free giver to
charities and built several churches.
Sir Oliver Lodge protests against
the current idea that the discovery of
radium in any way shakes the long
accepted laws of science. On the con-
trary, it confirms them, as the insta-
bility of matter which radium proves
was theoretically acquired if the cleo
trio theory of it's constitution were
true, and radium completes this the
ory instead of destroying 1t. Radium
gives US, in embryo, a transmutation
of the elements.
"A decree Of very great rigor has
just been issued by the general COM
manding the Italian corps of carbineers
in Rome. This Is nothing less than
an order prohibiting officers from
smoking in any place on duty or while
wearing uniform. They may only use
tobacco in their own homes or quar-
down TO the rank and file of the corps,
to whom smoking in public has been
forbidden since 1922.
"A well-known landscape painter
was busy "dashing in" the colors of a
sunset. The tints were hurriedly con-
veyed from the palette to canvas, for
the artist was anxious to catch the
| effect. A rustic standing by observed
q Ia xxyof1
then remarked: ''Ah, you be a-painting
two pictures at once. That's CLEVER
He paused moment and then blurted
out: Il like that picture best-the
one you've got your thumb through"
-Stuyvesant Fish, president of the
Illinois Central, holds that business
| consultations are helpful to the coun-
try's general prosperity and predicts
more mergers of Importance but the
railroads" he adds, twill never be con-
| trolled by one man; neither will the
| government take control of them There
are at present some 800 railroad CONF
panies and these will sooner or later
be merged into twenty or thirty COR
porations. 1t is the inexorable logic
OF events and the tendency of the
| times"
The production of nitric acid by
electro-chemical methods is a new
| process that promises extensive
changes in our agriculture. The man
| ufacture of nitric acid from the nitro
gen and oxygen of the air in sufficient
quantities for commercial use has been
the dream and hope of scientists for
| years. AT Niagara experiments have
been conducted successfully in pro-
ducing commercial nitric acid by US
| ing high-tension current in an air
chamber. by which a yield of one
pound of nitric acid is obtained for ey-
cry seven horsepower hours.
Until about fifteen years ago life
insurance companies uniformly re-
fused to insure the lives of women on
any terms. Until five years ago such
companies as did write policies on fe-
male lives Disseminated against them
to the extent of SIS in the thousand
Only very few companies even now
and these quite recently-insure wom-
| en- on the same terms as men. And vet
the life tables of rs years show the
average death rate Of all males to be
Els per thousand and of all females to
be 1877 per thousand. Female lives are
therefore 10,6 per cent better risks
than male lives.
Among the great physicists Sir OIL
liver Lodge believes in telepathy and
Sir William Crooks in ghosts. Lord
Kelvin recently said that Science
positively confirmed creative power"
and Sir William Thistleton-Dyer, the
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