The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-12


climate of Greenland is improving.
The ice there is melting more rapidly
than 1t is formed. Comparison OF the
descriptions of the Jacobshaven glacier
shows that it's edge has received eight
miles since 1850. and it has lost twenty
to thirty feet in depth.
A German paper, the Frankish
Courier, in giving an account of the
wedding of Joseph Pfeffer to Frau
Josepha Haushofer, says that about
260 persons sat down to dinner after
the ceremony. The guests were served
with $500 pounds of meat, $50 pud-
dings and no gallons of beer. That
is about 25 pounds of meat, one pud-
ding and two and a half gallons OF
beer per head-a very fair allowance,
says the London Sketch, even for peo-
pie with such good appetites as the
Germans.
The Miller Brothers, of the 101
ranch, near Neodesha, Okla, are ar
ranging a big treat for the Indians in
the northern part of the territory, in
the shape of a buffalo hunt, to take
place on the ranch the last week IN
August. The Millers have arranged
for at least three buffaloes, and VIII
have a great number of steers and lat
cattle. 1t is expected that at least
200 Indians, including the squaws and
children. will be in attendance and
take part in the hunt. There Will be
a big war dance on the last day.
Chicago is making stand for an
advance in housekeeping by the in
PRODUCTION of the vacuum cleaner" as
a substitute for brooms and dust
brushes for the removal of dust and
the accompanying microbes from the
residence. The broom and dust brush
stir the dust up spread it through
the atmosphere for easier inhalation.
The vacuum cleaner" is a method of
sucking the dust out of carpets, cur
tains, ETC., as they lie or hang, and con-
veying it through rubber tubes to an
exhaust cylinder, and thence to the
furnace for incineration.
THAT human beings are born with
out instincts is a belief held by many
people," said a physician, according to
the Philadelphia Record, but, as a
matter of fact, human beings have
more and stronger instincts than any
of the lower animals. Take the ma
ternal instinct for instance; it is moth
ing like so durable in a lioness, say, as
in woman. Another human instinct
is that of acquisition-the desire to
own everything seen or heard of. This
begins in babies a few weeks after
stretches it's hands toward anything
bright, showing thus it's acquisitive in
stinct. Boys make collections-collec-
tons of postage stamps, birds eggs,
tobacco tags, pigeons, white mice, mar
bles, all manner of things-for boys
have the instinct of acquisition very
strong"
1t may not be generally known that
the starfish is the greatest enemy the
oystergrower has to deal with. A
writer in the current Royal Magazine
asserts that owing to its tnfatuation
for natives" the starfish is respon-
sible for an annual loss amounting to
several thousand pounds sterling. The
fishermen, enraged at their depreda-
lions, used to tear them limb from
limb and fling them back into the sea.
But this, instead of diminishing their
number, seemed to increase it. Scien-
tific aid was invoked, and it was then
made plain that instead of the star
fishes being killed when they were
torn in half the mutilations settled
down comfortably on the floor of the
ocean and started to grow into new
starfishes. 1t is from this wonderful
power of reproducing lost parts that
the starfish has acquired such noble
appetite.
1t will be we'll if the wide tire ord
NANCE says the Chicago News, is re-
garded as but one of several impor-
tant measures to be taken with a view
to keeping the city's streets well paved
and in proper condition. Chicago needs
better pavements and to that end
street protection is as important as
street improvement. The new ordinance
requiring the use of wide tires is an
important step in the right direction.
1t will not only insure the protection
of the paVements, but will encourage
property owners to favor more lib
eral expenditure for street improve
ment when needed. Directly in line
with this improvement will be the in
stallation of grooved rails on paved
streets in place of the present girder
rails that are an innovation to the de-
structive practice of tracking" With
these provisions secured newly laid
pavements will endure for longer
periods, and this fact in turn will make
it easier to secure other needed meas
ures for proper maintenance of the
streets.
The home of the dripper dredge is
on the Great Lakes, There it flourish
ed and in the smaller sizes and in nom
tidal fresh water az twenty feet depth
was marvellous efficient. A good
wooden dredge of ten years ago which
cost, say, 100000, would do 1900 or 1000
cubic yards per ten hours with a crew
of six men on three tons of COAL says
A. w. Robinson in the Engineering
Magazine. 1t could lift it's spuds,
move UP and reset again in ninety
seconds. 1t stands alone like a table
on its legs, with no mornings to OBJ
Struct navigation. BY means of it's
dipper on the bottom it can move it
self about erab-fashion in any direc-
ton, and by the same means can push
the bargeS about which it is loading.
1t can maneuver itself in any direc-
ton, load scows, dig foundations, pull
piles, lay concrete blocks, deposit back
filling, lift boulders, raise wrecks,
dredge hard or soft material, and do
nearly everything but vote. Its great
simplicity made it light in repairs.
With tools like tehse, and suitable for
their work. the marvel is not that
American contractors do not use the
big and costly European ladder
dredges, but that these useful Ameri-
can tools do not find a wider recogni-
ton i'll Europe and abroad.
After passing another town of three
or four mud huts, says writer in Har-
per's Weekly, we enter the famous
desert of Islay. on which are what I
consider the most remarkable natural
cUriOSitieS tO he Seen IN tbjS oIoIo Co.,