The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28

discussing the project to build union
station in Chicago for the use of all
lines the claim is made that such a
station must necessarily be larger than
the Grand Central Station in this city
and the two great Boston stations
combined.
A man at Guelma, in Algeria, has
taken out patent for the manufac-
ture of casks in corkwood An interior
coating iselates the contents from con-
tact with the cork. A barrel of eleven
gallons weighs thirty pounds in stead
of eighty pounds, the weight of a
wooden cask of the same capacity
Cork being a bad conductor of heat
and cold, the necessity of adding alco-
hol for the preservation of wine will
be unnecessary, and the liquid will no
longer be subject to the f1uctuation of
temperature. In warm climates these
casks might be useful for conveying
ice, meat, fish or fruits. There will be
a great saving on freightage, heat will
not warp the slaves and the hoops
will not slip out of place.
Steps have been taken to save 10000
starving elk on the Jetson- Yellowstone
reserve in Wyoming. Snow seven feet
deep covers their feeding ground and
temperatures as low as 40 below zero
have added to their sufferings News
of the critical condition of the elk
herds reached A. A. Anderson, special
superintendent of the Jetson- Yellow
stone reserve, who spends his winters
in New York, from the chief of the
United States Rangers Mr.. Anderson
at once ordered, at his own expense, a
temporary supply of wild hay to be dis
tributed as soon as possible and at con-
venient points by the force of thirty
rangers. He then proposed that 81 500
to s., 900 be raised in New York by SUBJ
scription to purchase more wild hay.
Interest has been awakened by the
alleged discovery of small squids, min
iature representatives of the terrible
devil-fish of the ocean, in Onondaga
lake, near Syracuse, N. Y. Prof. John
d. Wilson and others have pronounced
the specimens to be genuine squids, and
the discovery has brought out accounts
of previous finds of the same kind in
the lake. Prof. John NJ. Clarke sue-
gests that the animals may be descend
ed from ancestors which entered the
lake when 1t was in communication with
the sea by way of the st. Lawrence
valley, and that their kind has been
enabled to survive amid such strange
surroundings on account of the salinity
of the bottom waters of the lake, which
are in contact with the rocks from
which the Syracuse salt works derive
their supply.
Recently arrived copies of Scandi-
navian newspapers contain detailed ac-
counts of a sensational meeting be-
tween President Kruger and the elop-
ing Crown Princess of Saxony and her
lover which is alleged to have taken
place at Mentone the latter part of
January says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. A Danish reporter was
sitting outside a cafe at Mentone when
| ne caught sight of the Crown Princess
leaning on the arm of Giron. Sudden
ly they were confronted by the former
Boer President. Raising his right
hand toward the sky the old Boer
cried, in deep, tremulous voice: do
We not know that the friendship of this
world is the hostility of the Lord?'
With sob and a groan the Crown
Princess sprang from her chair and
tore splendid bracelet set with dia-
monds from her wrist 1t fell to the
ground and rolled to the feet of Dom
Paul. moment later Giron was shak-
ing his fist in the old chiefs face. A
powerful blow with the fiat of his hand
on the side OF, the head sent Giron reel
ing TO one side and nearly knocked him
down. Then the old man turned his
back on the pair and walked slowly to-
wards his villa.
The Japan Weekly Advertiser has
few words to say about the aping of
Western customs by the japanese, and
takes for its text the foreign clothes
seen on citizens of the Flowery En-
pire. 1t says: Men of fair status are
frequently to be seen wearing silk
hats of antediluvian pattern, with or
binary native costume down to geta
and zori. AS for the hats where the
blocks come from is a mystery, but the
fact remains that a Bowery or White
chapel tough would be ashamed to go
abroad in some of the abortions mas
querading as 'bowlers' and 'toppers,'
which are as common as persimmons
in Japan. Here is a case where. the
natives cannot excuse themselves on
the ground that they have no model to
go by. A glance at the first foreigner
should be sufficient to teach them that
hard hat worn over the ears and
measuring scarcely more than two
inches in hight from the brim to the
crown, is not a fashiona BILE adjunct of
European costume in the twentieth
century, though il might have been so
thirty years ago" The wearing of a
silk hat with a kimono is says the
Advertiser, the outward and visibs
sign of a certain intellectual inapt-
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