The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-08

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ed by experts, and they are loud in
their praise of them. Let no one
assume, they say, that these stockings,
because they are made of paper, will
only last few days, for they viii
last almost as long as ordinary stock
| ings. The reason is because the paper
OF which they are made was, during
the process of manufacture, rendered
into substance CLOSELY resembling
wool, and was then. woven and treated
as ordinary wool.
The Belgian postof1ce authorities
have hit upon novel idea. Every
postage stamp has a slip attached to
1t which may or may not be used, at
the option of the person who posts
the letter. This slip is worded to the
effect that the communication to which
1t Is attached is not to be delivered
on Sunday. On all stamps of every
denomination this notification is to be
found, and the consequence is that
there is growing up in Belgium a ten
dency in the direction of having no
letters or newspapers-for newspapers
are mostly delivered by post--on Sun
day.
While carrying on series of ex-
periments in his laboratory with chick
DR.. Counter, a, young dentist of To-
ledo. o., succeeded lin Matching a
chicken my means of an ordinary steam
radiator. The egg was placed in a
small paper box and hung from the
radiator during the period of incu-
baton. At the end of the twenty-one
days the chick was Matched and has
since been kept in a paper suit box,
about three by one and a half feet,
ynrif s-l,A
it. The box is hung near the radiator.
and it's inmate, now three weeks old, is
as strong and vigorous as one could
expect chicken to be raised under
natural conditions.
1t grows more and more doubtful
whether the Venetians will ever see a
new Campanile standing on the site
of that whose fall shook Europe 1t is
now stated that. as Signor Beltrami
had expected, the foundations are not
sufficiently firm, and that grave doubts
are entertained whether any useful
purpose will be served by further eff
forts to strengthen them. Should-as
seems to be the generally accepted
lternative-another site be chosen,
there will at least be the con-
ISOLATION that a much better view is
said to be obtainable from the Piazza
San Marco than was formerly the
case. In a letter from Venice a sad
picture is drawn of the present state
of thingS-the site of the CampaniIe
disfigured by a boarding, while crowds
of idlers are attracted nightly by the
strains of a 'gramophone concert" is
suing from one of the windows over
looking the piazza!
Mrs. J. R. Gallemore, of Fayette
g he
circumstances, of highly priced pump
KIN, Mrs. Gallemore's appetite for
pumpkin pie becoming somewhat acute
she put a large representative of that
species of vegetable into the oven of
her kitchen stove to thaw out, says
the Kansas City Journal mot only"
says The Fayette Advertiser" did
the pumpkin thaw out, but it came out
i'll most unexpected manner After
putting the pumpkin in the oven, Mrs
Gallemore placed enough fuel in the
stove TO soon give a very hot fire.
In short time the family was start
led at hearing an explosion sounding
like the report of a small cannon.
On entering the kitchen the doors were
found to have blown off the stove and
soft pumpkin and pumpkin seed were
scattered all over the kitchen The
family at first were scared pretty near
out of their wits. But of course, aft
er finding out the cause of the ex-
plosion, thought it a great joke-all
but Mrs. Gallemore. who mours the
loss of her pumpkin
The Dutch and the leading natives
in Java are of the opinion that the
population is increasing too rapidly for
the good of the island, says the New
York Sun. The census. taken every
five years, has long shown an increase
of over 100000 for each census period,
and the rate of growth has constantly
accelerated. The increase of population
from the census of 1895 to that of 1900
was over 100000. Java is only a lit
tie larger than New York State, and
the central regions are too mountain
GUS for a very dense population. The
fact that the last census showed a
total population of 23,745639 indicates
a frightful congestion of humanity over
all the coastal and interior plains and
valleys. The density of population is
5eS persons for every square mile of
surface, which is greater than in
any province of China, excepting in
Shantung. If France had the same
density of population its inhabitants
would number 120,000,0 900: the United
States, at the same rate, would have
1888, 000. 600 inhabitants, which is about
100, 900 more than the estimated pop
ulation of the world.
Along the sacred road of Nikko,
in Japan, is an idol about which CEN
tiers one of the most curious worships
in the world, says the New York Times.
Upon the surface of the statue are
seen little pieces of what appears to
be dried paper. If you stand by the
idol for while and wait for a wor-
shipper to come along, you will see
what these bits of paper are. The de-
voice halts in front of the image, then
scrfbbles a prayer on a bit of the
paper. The wad he then chews UP in
to a ball and hurls at the god 1t IL
hits the face and sticks, the prayer is
sure to be granted, and the pious pill
grim goes away happy. If the ball
sticks to some portion of the body, the
omen is not quite so propitious, and
If it falls to the ground there is ab-
solutely no hope. Such mode of pray
er is even more curious than the pray
ing wheels of the Buddhists, who set
the wheel revolving and reel off pray
ers by machinery. AS John L. Stod
dard, the lecturer, says: "One sees
OF course, numberless strange rites con-
nected with religion in travelling about
the world, but Japan is the only land
l have ever visited where deities serve
as targets for masticated prayers!"
The French journals have recentIv
given publicity to a scientific discov-
cry which may have a considerable in
fiuence upon one of the most ordinary
usages of social intercourse. saws the
London graphic One NJ. Crouzel, a