The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
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workmen are debarred from member
ship because of their inability to secure
this amount of money.
Fifteen thousand cubic feet of sand
from the dunes of Indiana are now
taken into Chicago every day and made
use of in the work of raising the tracks
of the city in order to abolish grade
crossings.
Hungarian peasants have super
stition that fire kindled by lightning
can only be extinguished by milk. and
owing to their refusal to use water a
barn with a farmers whole hay cror
has been burned in one of the prov
inceS.
in an advertisement by a railway
! company of some uncalled for goods
the letter Il" had dropped from the
word lawful and it read: People
to whom the packages are directed are
requested to come forward and pay the
! awful charges on the same"
The price of sugar in France has
recently been reduced by less than half
and the consumption has been nearly
doubled. Formerly sugar was luxury
which rarely reached the homes of
many workingmen, but now its use is
much more common.
The experiment of raising os-
triches in Australia has been success
full. Twenty-Five birds were first
brought from Africa and placed on a
farm near Sydney Those raised in
Australia produced beautiful feathers
twenty-seven inches long and of pure
white.
1T is said that a resolution will
shortly be introduced in the Dominion
House of Commons providing a sub
sidy of $133,333 a year for a direct
steamship line between Canada and
France. The contractors for the pro-
posed line are Colombier Bros. of Bor-
deauX.
Fred Worrell was painting the bel
fry on st. Luke's Church. at Chester,
VT, recently, and slipped and fell six
ty feet. No bones were broken and
his skin was not even scratched. He
was taken home. and slight lame
ness for a few days was the only bad
result of the fall.
1T is stated that nine Of the most
successful of modern novels aggre-
gated a sale of over 100000 copies.
The paper on which these books were
printed was made of wood fibre-cellu-
lose-and the Pawtucket Gazette fig
ures out that it required about 1000
trees to furnish the paper.
Perhaps the Oldest ferry in the
world is the cross-channel service from
Calais to Dover. 1t has been in ex-
istence for more than twenty centuries,
lob hax haor n
gagged in it include every variety of
shipping, from Caesars high peaked
galleys, propelled by banks of oars, to
the new turbine. steamer.
The surgeon of a we'll known At
lantic steamship has crossed the At
lantic S04 times, and is extremely anx-
ious to raise the total of his voyages
to 900. But as he is now seventy
seven years old the chances appear to
be against him. He is so fond of the
ocean that he desires to draw his last
breath above the waves and to be
buried beneath when the end comes.
The English know our clothespin as
a clothespeg, and offer a strong and
serviceable substitute for the familiar
Yankee article, which however, lacks
the spring in it's jaws which is charac-
teristic of the latter pin. The English
peg is a much heavier device, sawn
from single piece of hard wood, in
stead of being turned, like the pin
which the Maine manufacturers turn
out annually by the millions.
ANY number of royalties and other
titled individuals will be invited to at
tend the wedding of the Duke of Rox-
burghe and Miss May Goelet. King
Edward and nIIaan
peror and Empress of Germany, the
Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince
Henry of Prussia and numerous other
exalted personages are on the list
which, so far as this country is con-
cerned, will include all members of the
diplomatic corps and society generally.
The Rev. F. B. Meyer, a London
preacher, who labors among the poor of
Westminster, has received the Ameri-
can degree of D. D. and has accepted,
though he will not use It. This is be-
cause he does not wish to give even the
slightest reason for his people to think
he is better than they. When he as
stunned charge i'll his present pastorate
the poor of the district thought the
church was only for those who are well
OF This is all changed now" says
Mr.. Meyer, "a<ld my many friends in
nor as they happen to choose"
The Dustless Roads Company of
California has been trying to establish
It's right to monopoly of the use of the
process of sprinkling the roads with oil
Ior the purpose of allaying the dust. A
number OF municipalities as we'll as
some railroads have Joined in contest
ing the matter and have carried Il to
the United States Circuit Court. where
the question has just been settled, the
decision being against the Dustless
company. 1t was decided that the pro-
cess was not of such character to
warrant its being patented, as it was a
PUBIC necessity and should be free to
everyone.
"A contract has been closed for a.
new freight steamer for the Wolvin
Syndicate of Duluth, which will be the
biggest boat on the lakes. The vessel
VIII be built at the Lorain yard of the
American Shipbuilding Company, and
Will be able to carry 10000 tons of
freight on % feet draft. She will be
$50 feet long over all, sc beam and go
feet deep. There will be SO matches
and 1t is expected that full cargo of
iron ore can be taken on in one hour
and unloaded in four hours. The hull
and the bulkheads will be so arranged
that the unlOaders can reach every
part and no shoveling will be needed.
Herman Wouters. a citizen of Jer-
sey City, has just returned home from
visit to Germany. his native coun-
try. He had gone to see his parents
at Kempen, and, hearing that he was to
be arrested on the charge OF Sinking