The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-07

"A Japanese lieutenant named Hino
has invented a new self-loading pistol,
which fires thirty shots per minute
The inventor claims that his pistol
will cover a distance of $500 feet.
1t is stated that the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Mission is hampered
in its plans for the coming year more
by lack of men than of money. 1t has
appointed forty-seven missionaries and
has as yet work and means for thirty
four more.
The cement foundations Of tele-
graph poles are called cement butts.
There is now a company engaged in
their exclusive manufacture. The butts
are said to make the posts last three
times as long, and in the meantime
the liability from fire and storms is
greatly reduced.
in France an excessive growth Of
women out of each 1000, while only
290 were found in each 1000 in the
general hospitals. 1t was noticed that
the latter very frequently had a per-
sonal or family record of homeopathy
or mental degeneration.
The sixty horsepower traction en-
pull simultaneously seventeen 14-inch
plows blowing twenty feet. The out
fit will plow from forty to sixty acres
per day, or will pillow, drill and harrow,
all at one time, with properly arranged
tools, from thirty-five to fifty acres per
day.
Mime. Mathilde Georgina Roberty
of Rouen has started a campaign
of I'D ffe
millinery purposes. She has inaugural
ed a Ladies' Bird Protection Assocta-
tion the members of which are to defy
the Partisan fashions, and she appeals
to Americans interested in the same
movement to send her statistics dealing
with this Involvement human"
The floral world has been finally
shown to owe its beauty and magnifi-
cence to cross fertilization; the animal
world might likewise be shown to be
indebted for its vigor and variety OF
intercrossing. So might it be proved
that most great advances in civiliza-
ton have been originated by the blend
ing of two stocks, the immigration of
individuals from one society to an
other.
The United States is almost goat
less country compared with others, and
the importations of goatskins, young
and old, aggregate $S,50O,0 900 year
which represents the slaughter of H.
000 900 goats and kids. Germany has
three million head, Spain five, Austria
two and France, Bulgaria and Italy
about one and a half million each. In
Turkey there are six goats for each
person, the goat being the most i'm
portant source of income.
"A Dresden Germany physician
having addressed list of sc questions
to 70 persons who were more than 80
years old, learned, among other things,
that all of them are below the aver
age hight; most of them have light
hair and have retained plenty of it,
and none of them has any teeth re-
manning; all but five are inveterate
jokers and admit being wild" in their
youth. Few of them take kindly to
the bath or to fresh air.
Lake Superior iron ore is taken
from the mines, all of which are on the
surface, by steam shovels, and is ham
died exclusively, in masses of ton
or more, by cranes until 1t reaches
the cupola of the American furnace
or the hold of ship in the foreign
trade Some of the steel tow barges
on the lakes carry 100000 tons of ore,
and cargoes of 100000 bushels Of wheat
have ceased to attract notice.
The new microscope invented by
Signor Pinos, an italian, it is said, en-
ables human eyesight to penetrate the
sea to an incredible depth and for an
enormous radius. A naval official who
witnessed an experiment with this n.y.
| droscope in the Mediterranean says that
the instrument can be operated from
the deck of a ship, making visible ca
bles and torpedoes, and ought to nulli-
| fy the dangerous character of subma-
| rine boats.
The difficulty in damaging a war
balloon in mid-air was recently shown
by tests made in Austria. The expert
| mentors anchored a balloon at a hight
of 1000 feet and had gunners, who had
not been given the distance, to try to
disable it. 1t required twenty-five shots
to find the range, even approximately,
and not until the sixty-fourth round
was the balloon hit. 1t then sustained
but slight tear, which caused it to
descend slowly.
The smallest salary paid by the
government of the United States to any
public servant is received by Charles
Henry Gibbs of Nantucket, R. l.,
keeper of the bug Light" This light
! house has been put out of commission
because the shifting sands outside of
! Nantucket harbor have made 1t use
less, but the government allows Mr..
| Gibbs an ancient mariner, to live in
| the place, to protect the property, and
it pays him 81 a year.
About fortnight ago a German
naval cadet named Won Abel attempted
to interfere with a crowd Of drunken
sailors near Kiel One of the sailors
| hit the cadet on the head and stunned
| him. The latter, on recovering con-
| seriousness, reported the matter to his
| superior officer, who declared that his
| conduct had been perfectly correct
The cadet, however, feeling that his
honor was furnished by the unpunish-
ed attack made on him, committed sui
eide.
The Berlin Vorwaerts reports that
the occasion of the funeral of a Jewish
workman in Bjelostock, in Russian Po-
land, was employed as a demonstration
against 1.-The government by the knout."
| Two thousand Jewish worknen and
women accompanied the funeral, carry
ing banners with Socialistic inscriptions
and singing and shouting: Down
with Absolutism; long live Socialism
and political freedom" The Vor-
waerts adds that Jewish Socialists in
Russia have thus set good example
to the Social Democrats of Germany.
The British House Of Lords has
long since ceased to be a strictly he