The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-04

OClOll6CQ " tie 1uhC Vi Argyll II
was printed in Edinburgh by Robert
Leprevik, April, 1867, duodecimo, and
appears to be the copy referred to by
Lowndes as being lin the possession of
the Duke of Argyll" 1t wants the
signature. but is otherwise perfect.
Records of ten years experience
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton are summarized as follows: These
experiments show that varieties of the
Welcome type of oats have given the
largest average yield, per acre and
heaviest weight per measured bushel;
American Banner, Improved American,
Colonel. and Clydesdale taking the
lead"
The floating gardens in the lakes
near the City of Mexico were recently
visited by an English naturalist, who
reports them paradise and accounts
for their existence. Floating tangles
of peat moss, rushes and grass are
caught by stakes driven into the soft
lake bottom, and upon this mass rich
mud from the bottom is thrown. The
surface is then transferred into a mar
ket garden.
The immense steel plates, some of
WAllCl Weight DIS dS Twelve IOIlS,
are now handled by electromagnetic
The form of the magnet is usually rec
tangular, and it presents a fiat surface
to the plates to be lifted. A magnet
weighing 300 pounds will lift four and
half tons. The magnet is operated
by current from a dynamo. For the
heaviest plates several of them are
used simultaneously.
up to now Britain retains from 20
TO 25 per cent. of the total trade of the
universe. No other nation has yet
come within half of this remarkable
percentage. Nearest is Germany, with
nearly IL per cent; France claims
about 9 per cent; the United States
secures rather more than per cent. If
we add the output of the colonies the
British empire shows a record of about
one-third of the trade of the whole
world.
According to Prof Migulin's bro
chure, Our Newest Railway Policy
published in st. Petersburg, the total
outlay of Russia's Far Eastern Rail
way system was 1929 200, 900 rubles, or
about $414, 100000. The cost of the main
line was $4,000 rubles a verst, and of
the Manchurian system, 900 rubles
verst. Prof. Migulin points out that
the latter should have cost about two
thirds a verst of the main line, and
advises the government to make a rigid
investigation.
1t is seldom that anything but
mulberry leaves are employed to feed
silkworms in France. Very rarely the
worms hatch before the mulberry
leaves are out, and on such occasions
they are fed young rose leaves for a
few days. About $4,000 acres of land
in France are planted in mulberries;
40,S10 pounds of leaves are necessary
to produce % pounds of cocoons. The
production of fresh cocoons from one
ounce of eggs in France varies from
IS to lat pounds.
The Congo Free State government
is constructing a road in the north
ern part of the state for the trans
port of passengers and goods by means
of motor cars. The new route, of
which nearly $50 miles have been COM
pleted, will join the important trad
ing centers of Dongu and Lado. While
making the road a local engineer hit
upon the happy idea of driving forty
elephants up and down the projected
highway until the thick underground
was trampled down. allowing the
natives to complete the task.
The Lokalanzeiger of Berlin, in
commenting on the naval debates in
the British House OF Commons, says
that the speeches INDUCED in supply
the most interesting proof that the
British are becoming frightened by
their endeavors to construct as many
new ships as the other Powers together.
Neither the Russians nor the Ameri-
cans will permit their building pro-
grammes to be thrown into confusion
by international agreements, and Ger
many, for obvious reasons, will not
delay for moment in the execution
of her naval act"
Should the experiments in prog
ress in the neighborhood of Berne
prove as successful as is anticipated
travellers to Switzerland in the sum-
mer of this year will be able to cross
the mountains by motor car instead
of the usual post diligence. The act
ual trials will be made in the spring,
and the result, if successful, will be
not only to allow travellers to make the
| different journeys in half the time, but
to open to motorists the chances of
driving over the mountain roads,
which are at present closed to them
on account of the horses.
Lord Cromer, speaking at Khar-
toum of the needs of the country, re-
Gently said: Except sand, crocodiles
and hippopotami, of all of which there
appears to be a somewhat super
abundant supply, there is not enough
of anything in the Soudan." If the
region could exchange it's hippopot-
ami, crocodiles and sand for railways,
educated natives and "dust'-to use
eolloquialism for money-it would be
reasonably happy and prosperous.
This is the problem of commerce the
world over-to exchange what one
does not want for what one needs.
Congressman Tawney of Minnesota
is the son of one blacksmith, grandson
of another and learned the same trade
himself in Mount Pleasant township
near Gettysburg, where he was born
in 1855. At the age of % he went by
boat to Winona, his present home
where he landed with just rs cents in
his pocket. Two hours later he was
at work as blacksmith and machinist
He remained in the same shop four
years, meantime studying law. He
practiced for some time after being
admitted to the bar and was then elect
ed to Congress, where he has been for
nearly twelve years.
Although C. H. McKim, architect
of the so-called "rejuvenated White
House" spent much time and trouble
to obtain from Holland the fine green
bay trees and box trees that ornament
the terraces on each side of the White
House they will never be known TO the