The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-06
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| citation in England he said no one
| ought to be educated beyond his nat
ural work. On the other hand, no one
should fail to receive that education,
| however costly, which his talents de-
| serve.
| arrangements are in progress in
| Concord, Mass, for the observance of
the centennial of the birth of Ralph
/ Waldo Emerson, May 25. The Social
| Circle, of which Mr.. Emerson was a
| member for forty-three years prior to
| his death in 1881, has appointed a COM
mittee TO prepare the programme. In
the morning there will be exercises
in the town hall for the children. and
in the afternoon the exercises will be
in the Unitarian Church.
President woodrow Wilson of
Princeton, who has taken a stand
against the shortening of college
| courses, made an interesting address
before the Twentieth Century Club of
! Boston, in which he commented on the
| characteristics of the sophomore as
| follows: Il can't for the life of me see
how a man can expect to graduate
| sophomore who ever saw sophomore.
! They are lovable fellows. The sap of
manhood is flowing in them, but it
| hasn't reached their heads"
Senator Vest has begun to arrange
| his affairs preliminary to retirement
from public life. The senator has de-
cided to make his residence in st.
| Louis after he leaves the Senate so
| that he and Mrs. Vest may be with
| their son and daughter. He tells his
| friends that his health is fairly good
and that his eyesight has been improv-
| ed by the treatment he has received
from the specialists who took charge
of his case last fall. He will make ar
| engagements to continue the treatment
when he goes to st. Louis.
Andrew Carnegie heads the list of
personal property taxpayers in New
York with $1,000, 900. John D. Rookie
Teller is put down for half that amount,
John Jacob Astor, Clarence H. Mackay,
| Russell Sage and Frederick w. Van
derbilt, $1,050000; Edwin Gould. The
resa R. Oelrichs, Alice G. Vanderbilt,
! George w Vanderbilt, Virginia Van
derbilt and William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.,
$1,000, 900 each. ]. Pierpont Morgan has
only $4,000 of taxable personal prop
erty. Many of the richest people of
New York are non-residents.
The cause of death by lightning is
the sudden absorption of the electric
current. When a thundercloud which
| tricity hangs over any certain place,
the earth beneath it becomes abnor-
mally charged with the negative cleo
| trio current, and a man, animal or
| other object standing or lying directly
beneath also partakes of the last men,
| toned influence. If, while the man,
animal or other object is in this con-
| dition, a discharge takes place from
the cloud above, the restoration of the
ihYiYs will he ct111 Nd vic
lent, or, in language that we can all
| understand, the negative current from
the earth will rush up to join the pos
| tive cloud current, and in passing
through the object which separates the
| two currents, if it be an animate
thing, will do so with such force as
to almost invariably produce instant
death. A person is really struck by
the ground current, and not by the
forked fury from above.
The habit among vegetarians of ac-
cusng Adam and Eve of being parents
of the cult is unwise, says the New
| York Press. 1t may be reasonably
doubted if Adam had anything strong
er than milk teeth, which wGdld indi-
| cate an indolent, lazy, idle, worthless
| existence. All that he did was to lie
around on the grass and bask in the
| sunshine. When he wanted a bath the
| elephant Squirted water on him from
the Euphrates. When he was hungry
an ape, his brother-in-law, flung him
cocoanut, or the giraffe handed down
a bunch of grapes. If vegetarians rely
| upon Adam as their high priest, why
| should they not wear the meager rail-
ment of the keeper of the Garden? Too
cold? Why cold is only a matter of
| comparison and contrast There are
splendid men in New York who wear
| neither underclotheS nor overcoatS in
the most frigid weather, yet are as
warm as a bug in a rug. The sooner
| vegetarians learn that vegetarianism is
fanaticism, pure and simple, the bet
ter. And there is no harm in a harm
less fanaticism.
One of the features of the new
building of the Chamber of Commerce
that has attracted much attention is
the enormous rug upon the marble floor
of the large assembly ROOM says the
New York Tribune. This zig is
hand-tufted Berlin, SO feet inches by
81 feet 8 inches, and weighs 1850
pounds The rug is the largest and
| handSomest carpet woven in one piece
which has ever been brought to this
country, and it is so heavy that it took
fifty men to carry it into the Chamber
! of Commerce building. 1t was hand
|
one of the most handsome pieces of
carpet weaving ever produced. The
size of the rug precluded it's being ship
! ped in the hold of the steamer which
! brought it to this country and it was,
| therefore, placed on the deck, packed
| in a specially-made zinc-lined case. The
| total weight of the package was more
! than three tons. When the work of
| weaving this rug was in progress it
was necessary to strengthen the looms
| several times, as the heavy beams
| nearly broke under the weight and
| tension of the rug, but the main diff
| Guilty arose when the workmen had to
| take the rug from the loom to finish
! and shear it, and it was finally neces-
| sary to take d portion of the outside
wall of the building away in order to
| remove the rug, as the other openings
| proved too narrow. A noteworthy fea-
| ture of this rug is it's great depth of
| pile and beautiful even texture.
An amusing example of wasted en-
ergy is generally exhibited when the
man-of-all work beats the rugs at
| house-cleaning time, says Country Life
| in America. The rug is hung over a
! clothesline, with both ends hanging in
| such manner that most of the dust
! beaten out of one part enters the other.
| When the opposite side receives it's
! quota of strokes the dust is beaten
back again to its original quarters. In
| this shuttlecock proceedings the wind
carries off more or less, according to
| its velocity. The work is hard on the