The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-12

the United States is four times that
| in manufactures.
All over the District Of Columbia
are scores of types of volcanic action
and aRrshow traces of electrical en-
ergy.
"A new device to prevent locomotive
wheels from slipping magnetizes the
drivers so that they stick to the rails.
The Homestead mills produce
much steel as the Krupp works pro-
duce with $4,000 men.
The record yield of timber from
one tree is $4,000 feet, from a redwood
twenty feet in diameter, cut last year
in California.
The post mortem inspections of
food animals by the government in
1902 numbered 3S,9O3,625, and 81, $50
craeasses were condemned.
The forests of South Africa are
composed principally of stunted and
gnarled native trees. fit only for wag-
on making and fence building.
Gov. Lanham of Texas has vetoed
bill allowing man to marry his
step-daughter or a woman to wed the
husband of her dead daughter.
kite hawks have become so bold
about the garrison in Burma that they
swoop down on the mess tables and
seize food from the soldiers plates.
The life of modern leather, made
by the use of sulphuric acid. is but
fifteen years. This makes it necessary
for the British Museum to spend $780,
900 year in renewing leather book
bindings.
The French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, M.Delcasse, has laid on the
table of the Chamber of Deputies a bill
ratifying the Commercial Convention
signed Feb. %, 1903, between France
and Great Britain with regard to the
British Protectorates in East Africa,
Central Africa, and Unganda-
With the beginning of the Greek
Lent an end has been put to all the
masquerading that, toward the end of
carnival, kept on continuously day and
night in Constantinople. 1t always be-
gins on a Monday, which is the first
day of fasting, and, to celebrate it,
all the Greek population resorts to a
OIL IGIdt CdllGu 1dLdNldy anu
there the people eat oysters, muSselS,
and other permissible shellfish.
Since it seemed probable that nat
ural diamonds have been formed by
crystalization from silicate magmas, it
occurred to Hasslinger that they might
be prepared artifcially in this way. A
mixture corresponding to the analysis
of a diamond bearing breccia with car
bon added was subjected to intense
heat. When the mass had cooled alb
solutely colorless and transparent &C.
tabedrons were found, having an av-
erage diameter of .05 millimeters. They.
scratched ruby and were combustible
when heated with oxygen. The results
appear TO strengthen the theory that
natural diamonds have been formed by
Capitalization from silicates.
1t is reported from Berlin that some
members of the Reichstag, including
several Deputies belonging to the Free
Conservative Party, have addressed a
petition to Kaiser Wilhelm asking for
an act. of grace by which DIR. Carl
Peters, formerly imperial commits
sioner in East Africa, may be rehabi-
tated. The National Zeitung, however,
points out that by their own admission
the petitioners do not think of ques-
tioning the justice of the decision by
which DIR. Peters was removed from
his post, and it recalls the nature of
charges which led to that step being
taken.
"A successful career is always in
teresting, but that of the chevalier,
Theodore de Taussig of Vienna, has
much of the romantic about it He was
born in the ghetto of Warsaw forty
eight years ago of beggar parentage,
and started life as a beggar. From
peddler he rose to Office boy, from that
to clerk, then to superintendent of a
store, and then, with rush, to a
financial power Now he is president
of about half of the business enter
prises in Austria and a director of the
rest, with a fortune of SIS, 900, 900, and
is earning $1,O00,O00 a year in addition
to his regular income.
A dispatch from Norristown, Pa,
says: That eccentricty is not confined
to human beings is shown by a cow
on the Joel Cook farm in Plymouth
township. The cow is IL years old, but
no one has ever been able to induce
it to drink water from a bucket,
trough or bucket. although many at
tempts have been made to have her
do so. Nothing less than a stream of
water pumped from a cistern for her
individual use answers her vanity.
The COW always grasps the spout of
the pump in her mouth after good
stream flows. Very little water es-
capes while she is drinking.
According to advices from Berlin,
a new paper has been established there
which is named Der Anarchist. The
paper, it is thought, win attract only
the violent section of the Socialists,
because the views promulgated by it
are advanced. Three notices are print
ed at the top of the first page: Neither
God nor master! Neither authority nor
majority!'' Anarchy means order,
freedom, and prosperity for ALL
Neither monarchy nor republicanism.
(VolksstaatD Neither private property
nor wages!" In the first leading arti-
Gle it is stated that Der Anarchist will
use every endeavor to save the way
for a social-revolutionary trade union
movement in Germany.
There is no science more distinctly
popular none that appeals more dis
tinctly to the Imagination, than the
study of the starry heavens. Conse-
quently money is given freely by midi
viduals to this institution and that.
The expenses of conducting the worlds
leading observatories seem considera-
BILE, even in these days of large fig
ures. The annual incomes of the five
richest observatories are as follows:
Naval Observatory, Washington, $685.
900; Paris, S53, 200; Harvard, $50, 900; ).
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