The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-15

20 years. To settle the interesting
question of extreme vitality is the
purpose of the experiments begun by
the United States Department of Az
riculture. Seeds of 109 species, in
Guiding common garden and field
plants, as we'll as many grasses and
weeds, have been carefully placed in
dry clay soil in pots and buried, eight
complete sets being covered to
depth is to be tested at the end OF
1, 2, g. 5, Z, 10, and 20 years, and
from deeper lots at the end Of 25, &c.
40 and SO years.
Though practically unknown to the
world at largo the falls of Iguazu stand
second only to Niagara. The Iguazu
river forms the boundary between Ar
gentina and Brazil. Twelve miles above
its junction with the Parana the river
bed bends almost at right angles. The
main volume of water, moving with
great velocity round the inner or Bra
lillian bank, rushes into a long, mar
row gorge, at one point in which the
waters make a clear leap of 21O feet.
This gorge does not intercept the whole
volume of the river water, and the
surplus currents rush out past it into
the wide elbow formed by the bend,
descending in two leaps of 100 feet each
in the horseshoe called the Argentine
Falls. The distance from where the
waters enter the Brazilian pit to their
last cascade on the Argentine side is
5000 feet.
Mountaineering records have re-
Gently been broken in two respects
in the Hunza Negar peaks of the
Himalayas, on the Northwest frontier
of India. For four years past Mr..
and Mrs. Bullock Workman have
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in those parts with the aid of Swiss
guides, and Aug. II, last DR.. Work
man and two guides climbed an I'M
named peak near the Chogo Loongma
glacier to a hight of 1884 feet. They
did not quite reach the top, but this
is higher than the previous worlds rec
ord. which is the summit of Aconcagua,
in the Andes, 23,0S9 feet. Mount Ever
est, however the highest peak in the
world still remains unconquered. On
the same day Mrs. Workman reached
a hight of 1858 feet, which breaks the
previous record for women-held by
herself-by 1868 feet. Mrs. Workman
is mild looking and middle aged, with
gray hair and a by no means athletic
figure.
The Terra Nova" in which the
second antarctic relief expedition sail
ed from Portland on Aug &c, will
leave Hobart early in December in
company with the Morning" The
two ships will make their way south
as swiftly as possible, and as soon
as the Discovery is reached, active
efforts will be made to blast her free
of the ice, so that she can get away
before the next cold season sets in.
In case it is impossible to free the Dis
covery, Capt. Scott and his men will
be transferred to the Terra Nova, and
his ship left to be ground to pieces
in the clutches of the Antarctic ice,
a lonely monument to the last great
Antarctic expedition. The Terra Nova
is the largest whaler afioat, and has
been especially modified for ice work.
She is built of oak strengthened with
greenheart and her bow is almost
solid timber. Her total length is 1877
feet. with 81 feet beam. She was built
eighteen years ago, and has engines of
120 horsepower.
Municipal automobiles seem destin-
ed to find favor in Great Britain, where
few of them are already in regu-
lar service for collecting rubbish or
carting away the clinker produced in
the Instructor plants. In Chelsea, Mr..
7. W. E. Higgins uses three of these
vehicles in his work as borough sur
veyor. One of them has a detachable
dumping body which can be replaced
by tank. and while thus arranged
it is used to haul street-sweeping
machine. In this way the automobile
both spdinkles and sweeps the street.
Most of them are stream vehicles, of
which several types are in use. Mr..
Higgins is convinced that in a large
district or where the dumping boards
are some distance from the place
where the refuse is collected, motor
cars may be used with economy. But
when employed for general carriage or
springling, where it is possible to get
eighteen hours work out of each cart
daily, they will be found a distinctly
valuable addition to the usual plant.
king Edward enjoys the distinction
unique among reigning sovereigns of
being member OF the bar, and would,
in the event of his losing his crown.
have perfect right to don the white
horsehair wig and gown of an English
barrister and practice law for a living,
says a writer in the New York Trib-
une. This fact, generally ignored, is
recalled by his attendance the other
night at one of the dinners at the Mid
die Temple, in London, not as a guest,
but as one of the benchers-that is
to say, as one of the governing body
Vi lne lHl OL court III question. lne
last King who visited the Middle Tenn
pie was that King of Denmark who
married the sister of George III, sub
sequently divorcing his wife and dying
insane and under restraint. Queen
Elizabeth used frequently to dine at
the Middle Temple, and is on record as
having been there on Feb. 2, 1902, to
witness the performance of Shake
speare's Twelfth Night" while on an
other occasion she attended a ball
there. dancing with her Lord Chancel-
Tor, Sir Christopher Hatton. King Will
liam III-he of Orange-was likewise
present at a ball at the Middle Tenn
pie. 1t was under the management of
Beau" Nash. and the monarch was
so pleased with it that he announced
his intention of comforting knighthood
on the famous master of the ceremo-
MES. Nash, however. adroitly escaped
this honor by remarking ANT please
your majesty, let me be one of your
poor knights of Windsor" the Poor
Knights of Windsor" being a body of
some forty or fifty old army officers of
more rank than means. who are pro-
vided with comfortable apartments in
the precincts of Windsor Castle, as well
as liberal annuity in recognition of
their services, and who are known as
the Poor Knights of Windsor" al
though they have never been knighted
and do not enjoy the title of Sir
prefixed to their Christian names,
which distinguishes the ordinary
knight. All these soveregns who at
tended banquets, balls and theatrical
entertainments at the various inns of