The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-28

dlCOllOl G4AOl 10 nave DCCn lIldQG W per
feet and simplify the proceedings that
he had indicated, and it now appears
that chemical alcohol can be made
from carbure of calcium and it's pro-
ducts acetylene at cents a gallon, the
alcohol to be of 100 degrees.
in one sense at least the most re-
tocracy is the Duchess of Abercorn.
Not long ago she celebrated her ninety
first birthday. and in the celebration
of it $50 of her descendants gathered
at Montague House in London to do her
honor. A picture was taken of the
group. Even this 100 did not represent
the total, for a few of her great-grand-
children were kept away-awful to re-
lately the German measles. Among
her descendants she counts a duke
her son-two duohesses-a daughter
and granddaughter-two countesses
and an earl. r
The Canadian government has is
sued a census bulletin, which gives
statistics as to agriculture in Alberta,
Assinboia and Saskatchewan, which
united compose the Northwest terri
tories. The total area of these terri
tories is 190,962,1 III acres. OF this area
1899 per cent. is unimproved. Field
crops, exclusive of hay, occupy SO per
cent. Of the improved land, but only a
fair beginning has been made with
fruit trees and vegetables. The area
of land in wheat, oats, barley, rye,
corn, peas, potatoes and other field
roots in 1891 was 194,773 acres, an In
crease in a decade of 1913 per cent.
Paris is wrought UP over the Ave
nue. de F'riedland scandals as no city
has been since London was Mortified by
the Pail Mall Gazette revelations. The
further the police probe the greater the
horrors that are revealed. The inter-
esting thing about it is that these reve-
lations have given increased impetus
to the campaign against salacious lit
erature, and especially against the
many pictorial prints that overstep all
bounds of decency. The reaction against
the modern" spirit in French fiction
and poetry has become very strong dur
ing the last few months, and the pres
ent scandal will serve only to increase
its strength.
"A curious race, arranged at Vichy
between two well-known Paris sports
men, the Count d'Havrincourt and NJ.
du Part. has resulted in a victory for
the latter. The prize was 800, and
the conditions of the race were as fol-
lows: The Count dHavrincourt, on
horseback, and NJ. du Part, on foot,
were to run a steeplechase, consisting
of twenty-five obstacles, each 8 feet 8
inches high, and placed rs yards apart.
The prize was to go to the one who
scored the smaller number of touches.
M. du Part scored two touches, and
NJ. Wignolle, who at the last moment
rode Count 'Harvincourt's horse,
scored eight.
The moat which so often surround
ed halls and castles in the old days
is now generally dry and filled up, but
some remarkable specimens still re-
main, says a London paper. Perhaps
the finest example of a moated house
is Helmingham Hall, the seat of Lord
Tollemache, in Suffolk, about eight
miles from Ipswich. The drawbridge
still remains, and it has been raised
every night for more than 300 years,
the ancient precaution being observed
even though the need for it has long
passed by. The moat which surrounds
Leeds castle, near Maidstone, is so
wide that it may almost be called a
lake. The ancient episcopal palace at
Wells is surrounded by walls which
inclose nearly seven acres of ground,
and by a moat which is supplied with
water from st. Andrews we'll. A ven
cradle bridge spans the moat, CIV
ing access through a tower gateway to
the other court.
wall papers are unhealthy" said
a physician, according to the Phila-
delphia Record. They destroy the
porousness of walls. If 1 had my way
nothing but whitewash would be used
all over the world. Wall paper closes
our walls pores, and thus, to a GER
tain extent, does us harm. Walls, you
see, should be porous, like our clothes,
like our skin. Clog up the pores of
our skin and we die. Close up the
pores of our clothes and we would
sood discard them, for they would be
insufferable. But we are used to the
clogging of our walls pores, and there
fore we no longer notice the inconven-
fence of it. Some people argue that
wall papers are porous. NY answer
is that they may be porous when they
are new, but as soon as they get damn
the pores fill up, and once filled there
is no way to open them again. Have
porous walls, l say, and, to have them
substitute for wall paper whitewash."
The domestication of the zebra is
no longer regarded as hopeless. A Sc
rious attempt is being made to utilize
the herds which range in the East Az
rican Protectorate. A stockade was
erected In a favorable spot on the
Morendat river, enclosing an area of
about forty-eight acres. Out of this
projected an arm, into which the herds
were to be headed. Four or Ave hun
dred natives were collected. and on
an October morning the Gordon of
beaters surrounded the ground on
which the zebra had been seen to
Craze. But on this occasion the zebra
went the wrong way, the whole 800 of
them charging through the Gordon and
escaping. Later on the Gordon was
strengthened, and European riders
were added. 1t was a most exciting
struggle. A dozen or so were got in
TO the arm, and the rest charged the
beaters. Headed back, the large herd
got the wind of the smaller herd, and
entered the arm at full gallop. Suisse
quent counts showed the number of an
imals to be eighty-five; two foals have
since been born in the bona, and the
old and young are becoming wonder
fully tame. They now frequently Craze
within few feet of the tents in which
the men are encamped, which have
been pitched within the bona, The
tanning of the zebra will mean a great
deal to East Africa.
Modern tendencies in yacht design
Ing are strikingly illustrated in the
Scientific American, in a series of
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