The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-03

his New York house. 1t is TO cost
something less than $4,000 and will be
located opposite the Presbyterian
church in Seventy-f1rst street.
Cider is the only a1coholic beverage
that is not taxed. When sold ferment-
ed in bottles it contains ordinarily
to 5 per cent. of alcohol, but this
amount may be increased largely by
adding sugar-sufficiently, indeed, to
render the beverage quite intoxicating.
This makes it popular in prohibition
communities.
Frederick w. Vanderbilt has adopt
ed a new idea in the construction of
private houses. He is having fire
proof staircase of steel and concrete
built in his Fifth avenue residence
Nearly all the big houses along t11th
avenue have rather too much WOOD In
them for safety and it is likely that
Mr.. Vanderbilt's plan will be adopted
by others.
Admiral Schley has been attending
the yacht races as guest of the New
York Yacht Club, but managed to
keep himself in the background IN
spite of efforts to lionize him. While
on board the club steamer Monmouth
he carefully avoided sailor talk and
made landlubbers happy by saying
Lets go downstairs instead of Let's
go below" He even wore a derby hat
instead of the yachting cap affected
by most of the other men on board.
Prof. William Henry Brown of Yale
is being congratulated on the accuracy
of a prophecy he made years ago re-
garding trotting horses. In looking
over records he found a certain
rate of reduction in time for the mile,
and by mathematical calculation came
to the conclusion that the two-mlnute
horse would arrive about the beginning
of the twentieth century. His predlc-
ton was verified when Lou Dillon COW
cred the distance in two minutes few
days ago.
Two Coney Island life-guards, Ed
ward Fuller and Philip Fay, last week
swan the distance between the bat
terv seawall and the beach front at
Coney Island, feat which has not
been attempted in more than ten years.
The men finished close, Fuller winning
by six yards, after swimming with the
tide five hours and fifty minutes. II
was the first completed race over the
course since johnson, the famous Eng
Tsh swimmer and wrestler, made the
Shippers on the pilot boats in New
York harbor have been getting even
money on the races. although taking
rather low-down advantage OF the
British crews of the numerous tramp
steamers which reach port daily. Be-
fore the English sailors hear the news
the pilots come aboard and pretend to
be much depressed at the showing
T 1IaaV~n
British hackers become "cocky' and
want to make bets. The pilot accom-
modates them at even money Win
much apparent reluctance.
The other day Richard Harding
Davis was reading a new play to a
goodly company of actors and news
paper men in a Broadway manager
office. Among these was Wilton Lack
aye. After Mr.. Davis had concluded
a particularly effective third act he
paused and turned expectantly to the
little group of listeners. The applause
from MI Lackaye's corner was tumult-
uous. Bravo! Bravo!' he exclaimed,
enthusiastically looking at the man
whom Artist Gibson loves to draw,
Davis, you ought to be writer"
Lord Rayleigh has for some time
past been carrying out experiments
relative to the surface tension of liq-
uids, says an exchange. This tension
is at the maximum in pure water, but
by the application of a small drop of
oil or grease the tension is considerably
reduced. This fact may easily be DEM
onstrated by dropping a snr4h piece Of
camphor into pure water. when it viii
rotate rapidly. If a drop of oil be now
applied to the water the rotary motion
no 9y71r1o Ia fel Annnrdfrcr 70 vi
Rayleigh, a film of oil on water may
be so thin that it's thickness is no more
than the twenty-fifth millionth part of
an inch, which is computed to be in all
probability the diameter of a molecule
of the oil.
The latest statistics show a marked
diminution in the death rate and in
the number of emigrants from Ireland
during the past year, says an exchange.
All other statistics, however, show the
great decrease which has been continu-
ing for years in the population of Ire
land. In 1924 there were over 1000, 900
inhabitants in Ireland. in 1S45 over g.
000,0 900, while in 1901 the population was
little over 100000 In 1902 the pop
ulation was decreased by 1856, show
ing a diminution in fifty-six years of
almost 100000 persons. Among the
Other StaIlSucS noted during the past
year were the excess of births over
deaths, 21,S57; the loss by emigration,
99613; the number of Legitimate births,
1888, only 21a per cent. of the total for
Great Britain. Out of a total of 49,
119 deaths only 1858 were attributed to
insanity.
That we have not entirely lost this
animal basis of Judgment (the sense of
smelD, is proved by the fact we do
tell ourselves very much of other peo-
pie by the nose, often unconsciously
says the Open Court. The blind distin-
guish their friends by the smell of
handkerchiefs or coats. Unconscious
sensations and unconscious judgments
have their field. We know far more
by smell than is supposed. Some
classes have, apparently become de-
graded in senses as we'll as habits. for
their basis of social judgment is below
that of the animals. Those who have
had their senses keen1y educated are
accustomed to judge of persons by
odors. Australian children possess the
doglike sense of trailing people by
scent, and experiment reveals that this
is to some degree present in everyone.
Strong attachments are not so rigidly
ideal as we like to suppose. There is
a physical basis to all our likes and
dislikes. 1t is this which underlies the
demand of refined people that their