The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-30
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erick's, theory is sound. the essay
would of course be simply a funeral
Grafton for steam.
The town of Moulins-sur- Orne has
the distinction, says the Gaulois, of
having had one Mayor for half a CEN
fury in the person OF M. Germain-La-
cour. Moulins-sur-O rne is in the ar
reimbursement of Argentan, and the peo-
pie have just celebrated this unique
event by holding fete in honor OF
their Mayor. Long tenure seems the
rule in the district. for the journal ob-
serves that Argentan has been repre-
scented in Parliament by the same dep
uty fer forty Years.
The Manchurian Railway. it is re-
ported from st. Petersburg, have COM
pleted arrangements for through rail
way reorganization from Moscow to
Port Arthur. The services by sea and
by rail, it is stated, will work in CO.
operation. 1t is believed that it is the
intention of the Russians to exploit the
mineral resources of Manchuria. Ac-
cording ~ a recent agreement TIE
.Ianchurian Railway has the right TO
work all the coal mines thirty miles to
the right and left of the line through
out it's entire length.
A monster nugget of silver, weigh
irg more than 6, ton, the largest sin
gle piece of silver ore ever taken from
tie ground. viii be one of the features
that the state of Idaho will display IN
the Mines and Metallury Palace at the
world fair in st. Louis. This great
state OF the Northwest, rich in many
minerals, producing more than % per
ceat of the nations lead output, ana
possessing a sol. that will grow al
most ANYTHING that can be raised in
the north temperate latitude, will con-
centrate her Efforts in making a great
exhibit of Idahc's richness in minerals,
agriculture and horticulture.
"A library of works in magic col
lected by DR.. Saram B. Ellison of New
York city, is destined to form part
of the library of Columbia University
on the death of the collector. DR.. Ell
lison refused $4,000 offered by noted
magician, none other than kellar, d
year ago; since then he has greatly
increased it, and it now numbers l.
200 volumes, among them many of the
oldest books on the subject and in very
many languages. There is a series
of scrap books of magazine and news
paper articles, bound in fifteen vol
umes, in which are all the parlor tricks
and most of the stage tricks of the
dag.
Particulars have just been published
of a wonderful series Of underground
caves in the Stalden district of Canton
Schwytz. The existence of these places
had before been vaguely known, but
they have now for the first time been
1io11 ant
down provided with 5000 yards of rope
ladders, acetylene lamps, rugs and pro-
visions for eight days. They were
underground for two full days, pene-
trating for a distance of $500 yards
through vast halls brilliant with stalac-
tite and other crystals, and with other
great recesses branching from them.
There We're also found swift subser-
ranean torrents, powerful enough to
work great industrial undertakings.
in China, about twelve miles from
the village of Lion Chick, there is ,ac-
cordfng to writer in the Liverpool
Post, mountain of alum, which, in
addition to being a natural curiosity,
is a source of wealth for the inhabi-
tants of the country, who dig from it
yearly tons of alum. The mountain
is not less than ten miles in circum-
ference at its base, and has hight of
nearly 1000 feet The. alum is obtain
ed by quarrying large blocks of stone,
which are first heated in great fur
naces and then in watts filled with boil
ing water. The alum cryStallizes and
forms a layer about six inches in thick
ness. This layer is subsequently brok-
en- up into blocks weighing about ten
pounds each.
The wonderful antediluvian mann
moth discovered eighteen months ago
in Siberia has at last after twelve
months of labor and great expenditure,
been safely secured in the museum of
the imperial academy of st. Peters
burg. 1t was discovered on the left
bank of the river Beresovka, in re-
gion that for ages has been the scene
of gerat landslips at the melting of
the SHOWS in spring. The discovery
was made by a Siberian hunter, who
secured one of the tusks for sale. 1t
was of almost incredible size. Scientists
estimate that the beast, entombed by
a landslip, has been laid up for quite
200 centuries in the ice which has so
preserved it that the hair and hide are
still intact.
The long spell of fine weather which
England has recently been enjoying
means money in the pockets of the
farmer who has a large amount of hay
to gather. The continues sunshine has
brought the crop to a high state OF per-
lection, and thousands OF farm handS
are working hard to get in the luxurl-
ant crops. This year the yield of hay
may reach two tons per acre. Last
year the yield throughout Great Brit
ain exceeded the enormous total OF
10000, 900, and this year promises, so far,
to give even finer results. Reckoning
that so per cent. of the crop Is con-
sumed on the farm, and taking hay
at 500 per ton, the commercial value OF
the proportion sold works out at the
colossal figure of $S0,OOO,oO0.
DIR. w. P. Wilson has gone to st.
Louis with the ground plan of the
houses that are to be built on the
thirty acres allotted to the Philippine
exhibit at the st. Louis Exposition
He has recently visited Manila in the
interest of the exhibit. and came here
this week to consult with Col Clar-
ence r. Edwards, chief of the Beureau
of Insular Affairs. before commencing
to build the various native houses that
are to be erected on the Philippine
reservation. This is situated on AR
rowhead Lake, a part of which will be
utilized in finding site for some OF
the tribal houses OF the Filipinos. The
chief agent in charge of the exhibit in
the Philippines is Mr.. Gustav Nieder-
lein of Manila, who reports to Col
Edwards that rapid and satisfactory
progress is being made IN the collec-
ton of the remainder of the exhibit
A large quantity of material and a