The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-09

The total value of the exports OF
animal products in 1902 was about 49,
900, 900 greater than the like exports
of the previous year, but there was a
decrease of nearly $4,000, 900 in the value
the sharp demand for beef cattle IN
this country.
-Four great coal stations are about
to be exploited in South Africa. The
most southerly field lies between Lady
smith and the northern boundary OF
Natal. These regions will in the near
future supply a large part of the
worlds demand for coal. Natal ex-
ported 100000 tons in 1901.
The Journal official of Paris says
in report of the proceedings of the
National Agricultural Society, that a
new means has been discovered of pro-
ducing alcohol. AS a result of expert
ments made many years ago by Mr..
Barthe1ot, in the chemical analysis OF
alcohol efforts have been made to per-
feet and simplify the proceedings that
he had indicated, and 1T now appears
that chemical alcohol Gamble made from
carbure of calcium and it's product ace
tylene ats cents a gallon, the alcohol
10 De Oh IUU degrees.
The use of cigars or cigarettes is
all but universal in Germany. The
manufacture of both has become an
important industry, the number of
those engaged in cigar making in 1902
being 175,000. This work is largely car
ried on in villages instead of in cities.
Those who till the soil live for the most
part in villages during the winter and
make cigars at exceedingly low wages.
Thus it happens that the city of Mann
helm, which is an important center of
the trade, has not single cigar fac
tory. Nearly half the raw tobacco i'm
ported is from Holland.
H. o. Havemeyer, who, it is re-
ported, will retire from the presidency
of the sugar trust soon, on account of
his poor health, is at times extremely
nervous, SO that the least noise jars
him. Mr.. Havemeyer's butler, while
serving dinner one evening not long
ago, let fall a tray of crockery. A
tremendous crash, of course, ensued.
Il suppose you have broken all the
plates" said Mr.. Havemeyr. mo, sir;
not one, SIR" replied the butler. "Then
you have made all that noise for moth
ing, eh?" said the sugar magnate test
lily.
AN interesting story is told in con-
nection with the new Chartrain por-
trait of Secretary Shaw. Chartran al
ways charges $4,000 for his pictures.
but Mr.. Shaw beat him down to S2 500
while the picture was being painted.
When it was nearly completed the art
list turned to the Secretary and asked
him who was to pay the $500. he or
the government. The Secretary said
that the government was. Quick as
a flash Chartran said it was worth So
900, and swept his brush across one
of the eyes of the portrait. Secretary
Shaw looked at it aghast. He was
winking at himself from the canvas,
but he had to pay the $4,000.
"A county boniface prints this de-
lightful card" in a weekly newspaper
published at Hayden, KY; "A few kind
words to the people who stayed at my
hotel during the Circuit Court; I can
say that there have been fewer board
bills jumped than ever before. I wish
to extend my best regards to all of
you people who live at the head of
the rivers for your kindness and your
good behavior what time you stayed at
my hotel. Always before there was
more or less shooting done around nv
place by drunken people, but this time
there wasn't any of that So all sober
minded people come and stay with me.
and we will treat you the best we know
how"
The Oldest family in the world. not
in point of pedigree, but of longevity,
is said to live in Nell county, XIV.
Lewis Green is SO years old; his wife,
Virginia Green, is 92 years old. They
were married seventy-three years ago
and went to live on a farm at The
mouth of Bingham's Greek, in a bend
at the Cumberland river. They are
still living in the same house to which
they went as bridegroom and bride
three-quarters of century ago. They
have ten children, the youngest OF
whom is now %, and there has never
been a death in the family.
Prof. Curie has announced to the
French Academy of Science that rad
ium possesses the extraordinary prop
erty of continuously emitting heat
without combustion, without chemical
charge OF any kind, and without any
change in its molecular structure.
Radium, he states, maintains it's own
temperature at a point 1.5 degrees
centigrade above the surrounding at
mosphere. The quantity of heat evol-
we'd Is such that a pure radium salt
Will melt more than its own weight of
ice every hour, and half a pound of
salt radium will evolve in one hour
heat equal to that geasSstsd by burn