The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-05

bustion gas engine has reached an eff
cheney of one-third.
The coal from the Glamorganshire
field i'll South Wales is regarded as su-
perior to all other steam coal by the
navies of the world. It's rival from
the United States is the Pocahoftas
coal from West Virginia.
Last year, if an average were
made, every man, woman and child in
the United States received sixty-one
letters, thirty-one newspapers or peri
odicals, and fourteen packages; and
every sixth person registered a letter.
1t is said that 100000 men were
employed in harvesting the wheat
crop in this country this year, that
they used $4,000 teams three months
and that 10000 women at least were
necessary to prepare food for the
| harVesters.
The town of Greenland, N. H., with
the large population of COG, boasts
that 10 per cent of it's inhabitants are
over 70 years of age and two are over
&c. six between so and IS and 43 be-
tween 70 and 80. And most of these
people are in good health.
President Loubet sent many toys
from Paris to the little Italian prin-
cesses after the visit of their mother and
father to the French city. Among the
toys was rabbit which plays the
violin. France hopes the princessas
will dance while the rabbit plays.
The Desert of Cobb occupies a con-
siderable portion of central Mongolia,
but it is not a true desert, supporting
as it does nearly all kinds of animal
and vegetable life and forming 10
small part of the pasturage of that
greatest grazing country of the old
world.
1t is expressly provided in the con-
stitutiOn of Colombia that when one
state of the Union shall be at war
with another or the citizens of one
state shall be at war among them
| selves, the government of the Union is
required to preserve the strictest neu-
trality."
Emperor William has taken to
smoking a pipe, not in the slang sense
of the term, but in the most approved
| German style, and Germany is glad
He had meerschaum made for him
after his own design, and is going to
color it or have another operation on
his throat
A Lynn shoe factory recently made
pair of woman's shoes to see how
rapidly it could be done. The making
required five operations, the use of
forty-two machines and of 100 pieces
and the shoes were ready to wear in
| thirteen minutes after the first machine
was started.
The word has gone out from Paris
according to the New York Herald,
that light-colored cravats are to be
the thing this winter. CharVet has
said the word and what goes out from
the Rue de la Paix must be followed
by the rest of the world, even if some
months later.
Representative Nehemiah D. Sperry
of Connecticut is the father of the
House this session, and is 79. He was
one Of the founders of the Republ-
can party, secretary of the National
Committee during Lincoln's admins
tration, and went on the bond of the
man who built the famous cheese box
on a raft, the Monitor
"A Buffalo man was arraigned the
other day in court and told the Judge
that he could see no reason why he
should be arrested. The judge asked
him If he knew why he had been
brought before him and the man an
swered that it was probably because
he had $240,000,000,00 900 worth of radium
in his pocket. The judge said that
If this was the case the man should
be locked up to be safe from robbers
and the man thought this best, too.
"A church service in the hollow of
a tree was recently held in Gippsland,
the eastern province of Victoria. A
giant gum tree had been cut through
at distance of twenty feet from the
ground. The remaining part of the
trunk was then followed out and roof
ed overhead, thus forming a room
twenty-five in breadth, which was
capable of accommodating a congrega-
ton of fifty. But the owner did not
intend 1t to be permanently used as
church. and afterWard turned it in
to creamery.
Apparently there were schools of
shorthand as early as the third GEN.
fury, and in Egypt. A recently dis
covered papyrus, according to the
London Chronicle, was a contract be-
tween shorthand teacher and a man
who wished one of his slaves to ac-
quire the art. The fee was 100
drachmae, 40 to be paid on apprentice
ship, 40 at the end of a year, and the
balance when the slave was proficient
Shorthand writing was then presum-
ably not so easy of attainment as it is
now. Among the other documents of
the Oxrhynchus Papyri is the account
of fatal accident, and of the body
OF the victim being examined by the
coroner of the day, in company with
a public physician. That dates back
to the second century of our era, in
which, judging by other discoveries, the
formal invitations to dinner might be
literal renderings of ours at the pres
ent time.
"A perfectly absurd and reprehensi-
bly, destructive practice is the building
of fires beneath a tree lin order to
get the draught," says the Springfield
Republican. The fools that do this kill
great trees for nothing but camp fire.
There is no sort of sense in that
wretched practice. A fire for camp
cooking should be built in the open, and
nothing is easier. A bare rock is the
best place, and If you are to cook by
it, put up a barrier of loose stones
just extensive enough to make a fire
as large as kitchen stove would hold.
put q fiat stone over these walls. and
your have all you want. You can frv
your bacon and your corn cakes and
boil your coffee on that stone. This is
as good for winter as for summer. And
If you want hot old camp fire clear
a place of all combustibles and begin
small, gradually adding a stick or two.
and the heat beneath viii soon grow 80
strong. that you can keep it up for as