The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-09
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girl. She dominates the savage beasts
by affection, and although she bears
ugly scratches. says that none were
given with malice. This modern Una
is said to sleep with her lions fire.
quently.
The 10, 900, 900 inhabitants of eau
casia are made up of the remnants OF
many ancient nonadic tribes. Accord
ing to Russian statistics, only 2,50O,000
are Russians, 1000, 900 are Armenians,
1,50O, 900 Tartars and Georgians, while
the rest are principally Mohammedan
tribes. 1t is asserted that there are
thirty different languages and dialects
spoken in Caucasia.
-Transcaucasia grows almost every
known grain in the world. The for
ests Of the Caucasian mountain range
produce saffron, madden, oak, walnut
and lockwood lumber. while apples,
pears and grapes grow wild in these
forests to such an extent that tney
are exported in large quantities. Inc
wine of Caucasia is also exported, ana
the cotton of the country is second
only to that of Egypt.
An old black bear kept in a zoo
at Dallas, Tex, became violent few
days ago and tried to tear itself to
pieces and beat its brains out against
the walls and bars of it's den. The AMI
NAL had refused to eat for two months.
Finally it jumped into the water tank
and held it's head under until drowned.
1t was a clear case of suicide. About
two years ago the bear killed its cubs
and devoured them. A year later II
drowned its mate in the tank.
The smallest baby alive in Indiana
is the child of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mitchell of Camden. o. The child Is
now weeks old and measures exactly
ten and one-half inches from the top
of it's head to the tips of its. tiny feet
1t weighs but four ounces over pound.
The mother died. but the child is
healthy and gives promise of living.
Its delicate hands are not any larger
than an ordinary mans thumb, and the
midget could easily be placed in a
sugar bowl.
king Maclean, commander-in-chief
of the Moorish army, formerly an Eng
fish lieutenant, getting $3.50 a year,
draws the comfortable salary of $685.
900 a year. AS the Sultan's right-hand
man, he has conducted many cam
paigns in the Sahara, and is the only
Christian that has openly crossed the
Giania pass and visited the sacred
tomb of Mulai Ali Shereef, in the Ia
filet district. The regular army under
his command numbers about 10000,
with an irregular militia of $4,000.
Russia, hitherto pig iron import
ing country, exported to America this
year over $4,000 tons of pig iron; Ger
many sent her immense quantities of
pig iron and manufactured steel; even
France contributed supplies, and
Cleveland. west coast hematite, and
Scottish pigs owe all their advances
and their present stability entirely to
America. To Germany this unexpected
demand must have proved an unmix-
ed blessing, rescuing her from what
was fast approaching a commercial
crisis, says the Edinburgh Scotsman.
Prof. Hopkins of Amherst is fond
of telling how he was worsted in argu-
ment by his small daughter according
to the New York Times. He had for
hidden her to play with his pocket
knife. but she had kept on just the
same, and finally succeeded In cutting
herself quite badly. The professor call
ed her to his study and said very
gravely: MY little girl, should pun
ish you for your disobedience, but 1
do not need to, for God has punished
you already" Yes replied the child,
"but he let me play with the knife an
awfully long time first"
Commercial schools in Russia are
founded by the state wherever they
are thought to be necessary. The in
itiative is always taken by commercial
organizations-that is, chambers of
commerce and similar bodies-the
members of which have previously ex-
amined the question. Russian COM
mercial schools are state institutions
and are under the control of the Min
lister of Finance. There are forty
three commercial schools in the Rus
sian empire under the control of the
state and twenty private schools, sim
ilarly organized, with state super
vision.
Most people are aware" says the
Scientific American, 'of the power of
egg-shels to resist external pressure
on the ends, but not many would credit
the results of tests recently made
which appear to be genuine. Eight
ordinary hens eggs were submitted to
pressures varied between 400 pounds
and SIS pounds per square inch. With
the stresses applied internally to twelve
eggs, these gave way at pressures va
rying between 80 pounds and SIS pounds
per square inch. The pressure re-
quired to crush the eggs varied be-
tween 40 pounds and IS pounds. The
average thickness of the shells was
49,, 900 inch"
THE making of carbon paper and
typewriter ribbons is a trade secret
known to scarcely two dozen people in
the world says Popular Mechanics.
1T has been handed down from father
to son for probably a century. So
carefully is the secret guarded that the
process has never been patented. The
method is said to be so very simple
and inexpensive that any one could
easily manufacture it if only the Sc
cret of the composition were known.
Much money and time have been spent
in endeavoring to make the valuable
discovery, but all to no avail. The Sc
cret yet remains with the original dis
coverers and certain members of their
families"
The way in which billiard-playing
is simplified by the device of a Munich
professor has astonished those who
have witnessed the test, says The
American Inventor. THE sides of an
ordinary billiard-table are provided
with six mirrors, one or more of which
can be turned down when a play is
made. and the advantage rests in the
fact that any image is reflected in the
same angle in which it falls on the
mirror, just as the billiard-bau re-
bounds from the cushion in the same
angle as that of striking The mirror