The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-29
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high speed will be over sixty miles an
! hour and the twenty-second limit to
| stops will give him a. New York educa-
| ton in movement.
"A historical paper in Lord Mon
tagus collection in London tells of a
! strange tragedy done in Holborn, a
little before Christmas" several centu-
| ries ago, says the Chicago News. "A
| boy of 7 years old came up into a gem
| tleman's chamber and prattled to him
| and drew his sword and 1ourished with
! 1t. The gentleman, being in bed, won
dered to see the boy toss his blade so
and said: so, good boy, thou hast done
well; put in the sword The boy per-
sisting, the gentleman rose and held
| him the scabbard and the rude handed
lad, thinking to sheath the sword lus-
tily chopt it into his belly. Company
were called One offered to strike the
child. Let him alone,' quoth the gem
tleman; God is just; this boys father
did 1 kill five years since and none
| knew; now he hath revenged it, And
| the gentleman died the second dress
| ing
Two French officers, Capt. Truffert
! and Naval Ensign L'Haurd, have COM
pleted an exhaustive exploration of
Lake Chad, in Africa, and its numer-
| Gus islands, hitherto very imperfectly
known. According to these two explor-
ers the lake is 1856 miles in length by
| eighty-nine miles in width, says the
| Chicago News. Curiously enough, 1t is,
on the whole, extremely shallow, the
| deepest part being the western side,
where the water is twenty-five feet in
depth, while on the eastern shores it
| is only five feet in depth. The lake is
| interspersed with eighty islands divid-
! ed into three groups-the first void of
vegetation; the second, covered only
with grass and herbs, but used by the
natives for pasturing cattle, and the
third, inhabited islands, which are
| thickly and well forested and contain
extensive millet plantations. Altogeth-
er $4,000 people dwell on these islands.
| One of the most notable achievements
| of this expedition was the discovery
| of a hitherto unknown tree, the wood
| of which is lighter than cork.
A recent census bulletin says the
amount of power employed in manu-
| featuring establishments in the United
| States in the year 1900 was IL, 3000 900
horsepower. The increase from the
census of 1890 was 80 per cent. This is
| only the power used in manufacturing.
| If we take the number of locomotives
! in the United States as $4,000 and the
| average horsepower as 1000 we get an
| aggregate of 38,OO0,0 900 horsepower. Re-
| turning to the power used in manufac-
| turing, it is found that of the total
| S742,0 600 horsepower is from steam en-
| gines, or a 4 per cent. of all the power.
Gas engines furnish 143S50 horsepower,
or 1.3 per cent. and electric motors
| furnish 311,016 horsepower, or 81 per
cent. The horsepower of gas engines
| increased in the decade by over 1900
| per cent. from 5000 to $4,000 horse
| power. The horsepower of electric mo-
tors increased nearly 1900 per cent,
from $500 to 81 900. In the use of
water power the increase was 37.6 per
cent, and the aggregate was 1,727,000
| horsepower, as compared with IL, 742 900
| from steam engines.
| The sculpture representing Kansas
in group at the st. Louis Exposition
| is a half nude woman with one arm
| thrown over the neck of a bull. THE
woman" comments that high art critic.
| the Atchison Globe, has no clothes on
| except drapery across her knees and
| a handkerchief wound around her fore-
head. The former might be a bath
| robe, but the latter looks as though
| she had just finished busting and sat
down to rest. But she has a sickle in
one hand, and Kansas women don't use
| them to dust with. And there is the
| bull. A bull doesn't belong to a parlor
| scene. We never yet saw a half naked
| woman sitting with one arm over a
| bull crouched beside her, and we have
| lived in the state twenty-five years.
Bulls are not that tame. II it had
| been a COW, on her feet, with a milking
7 bucket under her, it would have been
more like. The woman's feet are bare,
| except for a pair of sandals. Our
don't hui
in such attire, but, on the contrary,
run from them. If the artist insists
| upon d bull, then he should have a
full dressed woman holding up her
skirts and running for dear life for a
| fence. We don't understand Art; we
are glad, when we see what is to repre-
| sent Kansas, that we don't"
The total number of Jews in the
world is estimated by the American
| Jewish year book at about 10,000, 000
of whom more than one-half are in
| Russia. OF the remainder about two
| thirds are in the United States and
Austria-HungaFy. In all Germany, in
| spite of its anti-Semitic agitation, there
are not so many Jews as there are in
the city of New York alone. In the
whole British Empire there are not
one-half as many. In the period since
ed States, and of New York more par
ticularly, says the New York Sun, has
been more than doubled by imnigra-
ton, chiefly from Russia, because of
the policy of prescription against the
Jews then introduced in that coun-
try. Another very great source of this
| immigration has been Austria Hun
gary, and from both it is now coming
in larger volume than ever. Undoubt-
eddy, too the Kichinev outrages will
tend to increase this flood both from
Russia and from Eastern Europe gem
orally, so that the United States al
ready second only to that empire in
the number of its Jewish population,
promises rapidly to attain to the first
place. Already the greatest Jewish
community in the world the greatest
ever gathered together since the dis
persion, is now in New York-more
than 100000.
THE frogs skin is so important as
breathing apparatus that the crea-
ture would die at once of suffocation if
the pores were closed by a coat of
sticky varnish, by dust, or in any 9TH
er way, says Ernest Harold Baynes in
the May Woman's Home Companion.
while we are speaking of his breath
ing you will notice that his sides do not
heave as ours do at each breath we
take. A frog has no ribs and cannot
tnhale and exhale as we do but is
obliged to swallow his air in gulps. and
If YOU will watch this Nftle faIIou,.a