The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

century OF mOre-the craterS become
filled with fish-stocked lakes, and the
next eruption blows out the water
and its contents.
The Oldest engine in active service
on the Northern Pacific Railroad
reached the west coast ahead of the
road bed, being shipped around Cape
Horn, and did service in construction
work. 1t does duty now in the humble
capacity of weed burner" In the
fertile sections along the division this
locomotive pushes a fiatcar arrange
ment, equipped with an oil contriv-
ance used to burn the weeds that grow
rank along the right of way, thus
threatening, when left, to catch fire
from passing trains, the destruction of
meadows or crops.
A dog ambulance is likely to be es-
tablished shortly in connection with
the British military service. The dogs
of the war ambulance are intended,
when trained, to find the casualties on
widely scattered battlefield, and so
shorten delays in search work. The
trials recently made of dogs trained by
Maj. Richardson showed how certain
breeds can be trained to find the
wounded when hidden in rocks, wood,
or grass, even where the scent was
crossed by water, and to guide the
bearers by continuous barking. In
South Africa there was often difficulty
in recovering wounded owing to the
wide extent of front, and when night
fell before the work could be accom-
plished, as in the case of big actions
some wounded were not recovered be-
fore dawn. The best dogs for the pur-
pose are st. Demands, cross-bred set
tiers and collies, especially those of
deer-tracking stock.
Cooking meat by cold instead of
by heat" said a wholesale butcher to
the Philadelphia Record, lis the odd
experiment that my firm has recently
been trying. l suppose you are aware
that the effect of intense cold is much
like that of fire. You know that, if
your finger is frozen, the injured It's
sues take on precisely the same condi-
ton that they would if the finger had
been roasted. Well, that is the basis
we went to work on, our motive being
the idea that with our ice-making
plant it would be cheaper, in our can
ming department, to freeze our meat
than to cook it. So far, in our expert
ments, we have had good success. We
have submitted the meat to a temper
allure of minus SO degrees Fahrenheit,
and then have packed it in cans. 1t
has shown all the appearance of half
cooked meat; it has been impossible to
tell the frozen and the haIf-cooked
brands apart So far, too, it has kept
well. But whether it will keep as we'll
and as long as the meat treated with
fire we do not yet know as our expert
ments have not continued a sufficient
length of time. We will save about an
eighth of cent a pound on timed
meats if we succeed in substituting
cold for heat in their preparation"
Uncle Sam, says the Baltimore
American. is trying to tame the fero-
cious bee now. He is breeding bees
that it is hoped will prove more gentle
than the busy but irritable bee that
is native to America. He has been
importing some fine breeding queen bees
from Italy and Cypria and Austria, and
has sent them to the growers, or api-
culturists, as they call themselves,
throughout the country. The Cyprian
queen bees have already done much
to make the common black bee asham-
ed of itself, if that buzzing busybody
can feel shame. For last n year in
Southern California the Cyprian bees
gathered fine crop of flower nectar
and produced very good amount of
honey, while the black bees did moth
ing at all. Cross breeding between
the imported and the domestic bee has
developed the fact that the foreign bees
are much more gentle than the domes-
tic. Although Uncle Sam does not car
fy his fatherly care for his people so
far as to study how to protect them
against bee stings, he is very glad in
deed to discover a way to breed an
amiable and sweet tempered bee, for
some of the best American honey
gathererS are so vindictive and sour in
temper that they often spoil their honey
entirely, and many times go on strike
until their anger cools off.
During the year just ended the ton
mage of warships built for the British
navy was 90,760, against IA, 100 in the
preceding year. The latter year was
abnormal, containing arrears of pre-
vious years, says the Baltimore Sun.
The vessels launched in 1902 were
battleshipS, each of $4,000 tons;
arnored cruisers, each of $500 tons;
protected cruisers, 5 submarines and 4
torpedo boats. At present there are
under construction "a vessels, includ-
ing battleshipS of 5000 tons,
armored cruisers, third class cruisers,
sloops, scouts" 10 torpedo boat
destroyers, torpedo boats and sub
marines. The vessels under construc-
ton aggregate 204,S90 tons. OF special
interest are the scouts" a new class
of warship. designed to be very swift
1t is noticeable that the new battle
ships and armored cruisers have speeds
of from 10 to % knots. There are two
"destroyers" being fitted with the Par
sons turbine engines ard one cruiser.
One of the destroyers, the Velox, made
but 1854 knots during her recent trials,
against the 81 knots made by the vi
per. Besides the above six battleships,
thirteen armored cruisers and two sec
ond-claSs cruisers were about complet-
ed for service. There were four new
battleships commissioned in 1902, with
i've afmored cruisers and three minor
vessels. The number of men in the
navy exceeds 10000.
The tendency among the ship-own-
ers as present is toward increased ca
pacity, with less regard to speed, on
the ground that the more. cargo a YES
sci carries the better she is likely to
pay, provided she is kept busy, says
the Baltimore Sun. Hence the Cedric,
of 2O9S4 tons, built at Belfast, Ire
land, and the Kaiser Wilhelm II. of
2O,100 tons, built at Stettin, Germany.
The United Kingdom has at present "a
vessels of over 10000 tons, SO of over
1000 tons and 271 of over 5000 tons.
as compared with Germany's 26 of the
first class, II of the second and 80 of
the third. The United States is in
creasing her fleet of leviathans, hav-
ing vessels of over 10000 tons, OF
over 1000 tons and 81 of over 5000 tons.
The British lead in carrying capacity
and when the new Cunarders are built.
with a speed of 26 knots, they will. The
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