The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-27

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by thte Bank of England officials to
! be about S65 tons.
The English postoffice gives 20 per
cent. better speed in delivering par
cells than the private carriers, and at
a cost of 6 cents for one pound, 8 cents
| for two pounds and "a cents for IL
! pounds.
The United States imported last
year 5.217,077, O65 pounds of sugar and
produced 100000 pounds, making the
! total consumption per capita, ~
pounds, these figures being for the
fiscal year just ended.
"A second edition of the Guide to
the Search Department of the Patent
ONCE Library" has been published at
| the English patent office. The first ap-
pendix is a descriptive list of unos-
| fetal class-lists, and digests of Eng
| lish and foreign patent specifications,
| and the second contains a select die
| tionary of words and phrases associated
with inventions. introduced under let
| ters patent.
The correct way to pronounce the
name of Maeterlinck, the author and
| dramatist, is as though it were spelled
'Mahterlink," not Mayterlink, or Me-
| terlink because the sound of ae in
| French is "a but in Belgian French
| the ae is pronounced "ah." Maeter-
| linck is a Belgian, having been born at
Client in 1864. He has been styled
the Belgian Shakespeare" 1t was in
1890 that he first became famous upon
the production in Paris of his play, La
| Princesse Maleine,"
Victor Emmanuel will pay his post
eli 10 ric haf ,
and IL next. Great preparations are
being made for his coming As he is
we'll known to be an enthusiast in
numismatics, fifty fine medals will be
presented to him. Some of these are of
great historic value, ranging from the
days of Richelieu to those of Car
not, Faure and Loubet. A few of them
commemorate happenings in Italy, such
as the restoration of Venice. A special
medal will be struck in his honor.
Race suicide does not prevail to any
extent in Webster county, West Vir-
ginia, for it is said that Currency Greg
ory, an asSemblyman of the state, has
thirteen sons, all over feet tall, all
weighing more than $50 pounds, and
that each boy owns a farm. Mr.. Greg
Dry is still young at r. and his wife
does all the homework at IS years.
Benjamin Hamrick, a near neighbor of
the Gregorys, is feet inches tall
and has nine sons, all over feet tall,
who weigh from 125 to 226 pounds each.
Father Chadwick, probably the best
known chaplain the navy has, will re-
tire as soon as the necessary form can
be observed. Secretary Moody has re-
ceived a letter from him tending his
resignation. 1t is the understanding
that when the chaplain puts off the I'M
g.. H. .rr,1g ~ wfrrAra a. 1T17rN a -
charge in New York city. Father
Chadwick was chaplain of the battle
ship Maine, which was blown up in Ha-
Vana harbor Feb. 10, 1898. 1t fell to his
lot to say the funeral service over as
many of the bodies of the 266 dead as
were found.
"A practical man is Rev. DR.. Frod-
sham, Anglican bishop of Northern
Queensland, Australia. He was in
Geelong when the recent railway
strike in Victoria was declared, and
had an engagement to make an ad-
dress that evening in Ballarat. There
was a motor car loaded with newspa-
pers going there but no room for a
passenger. Bishop Frodsham solved
the difficulty by volunteering as driv-
er's assistant, and then, dirty and
dusty, having paid his passage by
solid work he got to Ballarat in time
to fulfill his engagement.
There is trouble at the Vatican
about the Pope's first legacy. A priest
of Naples named Miloni left his whole
fortune, $4,000, to "the reigning Pope,
and died during the interregnum. In
consequence Mgr. Rampolla has in
structed the papal procurator in legal
matters Signor Galdo, to claim the
legacy, but the relatives of Able Mi
loni contest his right and say, with
some appearance of justice upon their
side, that, as no Pope was living when
the able died, the $4,000 belongs to his
natural heirs. The suit is likely to be
| long and to afford scope for much intri-
cate discussion.
Perhaps the phenomenon of mirage
is not sufficiently rare in England to
make it's occurrence noteworthy, says a.
writer in Nature. but l should like to
mention a singularly beautiful example
| that 1 noticed on Sunday last Aug.
| 16). / was riding on my bicycle along
| the Upper Richmond Road toward the
west, and against a fairly steady
breeze, and had arrived at that part
of the road lying between the railway
| bridge and the Putney High Street.
about opposite house No. 110-when 1
noticed that the road beyond, some
! fifty yards in front of me. was some
! what disconnected at the prospect of
riding through such a quantity of
water but 1 found to my astonishment
| that when l arrived at the supposed
| lake the road was perfectly dry. l
| thereupon turned and rode back to my
previous station, and, dismounting
watched the phenomenon for some
while. To assure myself that it was
no personal illusion upon my part, l
| directed the attention of a passing
stranger to the scene, and he was
| impressed as 1 had been. / should men,
ton that the road sloped slightly
downhill from me, and the sun was
! high 02;50 p. No. above on my left
| The line of sight must, therefore have
met the dividing surface between the
| layers of hot and cold air lying above
! the wooden paving almost at grazing
J incidence. The surface of the water"
was still. and the reflection of the gay
! dresses and sunshades of the ladies
| just from church was remarkably and
beautifully clear.
There has recently been exploited
a new substance designated by the
name of 'kapok," which is much light
er than cork, is a hydrofuge, is not
subject to decay, and is capable of
sustaining thirty times its own weight
while cork is capable of sustaining
only five times its weight This sub
stance has been used to some extent
| to r1,r,.