The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
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employees for each 100 miles. The cost
of operating these roads with steam
power is $500, 500, 900 a year; but to car
~ on the same amount of work with
men and horses would cost the coun-
try S11 ,9OS, 100000.
According to the Railroad Gazette
6,026 miles of new steam railroad were
built in the United States during 1902.
The figures are exclusive of second
track, sidings and all electric lines.
Rebuilt mileage is also excluded, ex-
cept where the work involved such eX-
tensive changes in alignment that a
new route was established.
Some procastinating customers of
a London merchant at Christmas re-
ceived cards with the usual words:
wishing you a happy Christmas"
printed thereon, to which the merchant
had added, land that you will settle
my little account before the first of
January, so as to prevent legal pro-
ceedings!" The result was very sat
isfactory.
During a recent case in the Paris
courts between the partners Of cor
set firm the defense revealed that one
of the branches of their manufacture
was mems corsets. 1t was shown that
more than $4,000 corsets were made
yearly for Frenchmen and 5000 were
shipped to England, principally for
army officers. German officers also
created quite a demand till a rival
Berlin firm offered a cheaper article.
Mrs. Mary McClintock of Clare
mont, N. H, in sorting paper stock at
a paper mill the other day found two
letters containing bank bills issued by
state banks more than forty years ago,
before the days of the national bank.
The three bills found were: A $40 bill.
issued by the Commercial Bank of
Whitehall, N. Y, in 1859, and two 81
bills, one issued by the Union Bank
of Troy, N. Y, in 1861, and the other
by the Stark Bank of Bennington, Mt,
in 1862.
The Australian eucalyptus tree has
been naturalized in California. and
there are now towering groves of euca-
lyptus in Arizona and parts of Mex
leo as well. The great value of the eu-
calyptus lies in it's remarkably quick
growth from the seed to the full-sized
tree. Travellers in Australia have
brought back accounts of enormous ma
tive eucalyptus. There was a record of
one PROSTATE ancient forest giant of
the blue gum variety measuring, with
allowances for the lost top. $50 feet.
Such a giant would have overtopped
the tallest of CALIFORNIA; living sequo-
las. There are more than $50 kinds of
eucalyptus which resemble each other,
though differing widely in size, hight,
general outline and in appearance of
leaf and bark. This tree is planted for
forest cover for naked hillsides, as
windbreaks and hedges; the timber is
valuable, the wood and leaves make ex-
cellent fuel, and from the latter is made
drug extensively employed in medi-
cine and surgery. The blossoms sup
ply honey, supposed to possess specially
hygienic properties.
Fake jewelry is so cheap, now, and
so closely initiative of the real thing
that I have formed quite a habit for
it." said the leading man of one Of the
local stock companies. "I have lost a
| great deal of expensive stuff in the
various theaters in which I have ap-
peared in the past. You know in the
hurried dressing between the acts, eS-
pecially when a lot of supers are en-
| ployed, ones valuables are apt to mys-
| teriouSly disappear. Since I have been
in Philadelphia 1 have been regular
patron of store on Market street,
where you can get a beautiful opal
| scarf pin, set with diamonds. for Is
cents. When it's fresh and new would
| defy anyone but an expert to detect
| it, even at close range, unless I re-
moved it from my tie. There are rings
that would grace a princess-on the
| stage-and the audience would be
| charmed; and they cost anywhere from
| rs cents to 81 apiece. Imitation pearls
may be had at the same low rate.
pearls that seem of great price, but
which are really made of chemicals. 1t
seems waste of money to buy the real
| stuff. and I've about determined to cut
it out"
M. A. De Wolfe Howe writes In
the February Atlantic Monthly as fol-
| lows: Boston harbor froze over in
| January Of 1874, and the advertised
sailing of the Britannia, then in dock,
seemed surely to be impossible. But
! the merchants of Boston would not
have it so. They met and voted to cut
| way at their own expense, through
| the ice, that the steamer might sail
! practically on time. The contract for
cutting the necessary channels was
given to merchants engaged, like
| Frederick Tudor, in the export of ice
not from the harbor. Their task was
| to cut, within the space of three days.
a channel about ten miles long. For
tools they had the best machinery
| used in cutting fresh water ice, and
horse power was employed. The ice
was from six to twelve inches in thick
| ness. AS the Advertiser of Feb. O.,
1874, described the scene: "A great
many persons have been attracted to
| our wharves to witness the operations
and the curious spectacle of the whole
harbor frozen over, and the ice has
| been covered by skaters, sleds and
| even sleighs. Tents and booths were
erected upon the ice, and some parts
| of the harbor bore the appearance of
| a Russian holiday scene On Feb. 8,
the work was done, and the Britain
MIA, steaming slowly through the
| lane of open water, lined on either
side by thousands of cheering specta-
tors, New York critics may have
| thought, the English managers of the
company must have felt that the peo-
| pie of Boston were good friends to
have"
DIR. F. M. Crandall writes in the
Worlds Work: 1.-THE subject of to-
bacco is necessarily included in this
chapter. Like all elements which
| have an effect upon the nerves. it
differs widely in it's action upon diff
ferent individuals and no sweeping
constitutions it's action is deleterious.
1t is always injurious before the pc
Rod of complete development, and can
not be used before the age of % with
out harm. DR.. Seaver, director of the