The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

sung by the sailors, the profession OF
musician has been considered unworthy
of any man. and has been exclusively
left with the women. it being largely
for the purpose of clearly characteriz-
ing and accentuating her inferierity
that she has been allowed to exercise
her aptitudes and tastes in musical
compositions.
Among distinguished users of to-
bacco, says the United States Tobacco
Journal, there are few more promi-
nent than j. Pierpont Morgan. Mr..
Morgan is a heavy cigar smoker and
he is particular about what he smokes
He has his cigars made for him espe-
cially in Havana. Each has a red
band with gold lettering and the in
itials y. p. M. Sometimes after
board meetings in various enterprises
these labels are found on the floor, and
there is a great scramble for them, as
they are regarded as mascots, eSpe-
cially in the different Wall street Of
fec. Mr.. Morgan's cigars are very
large and the label is wide enough to
make, if it were metal instead of pa
per, ring for the finger of any Ord-
nary mana little loose for the fourth
finger and a little tight for the thumb
The usual price he pays is S450 a thou
sand, which is less extravagant than
one of his partners, whose smokes cost
him $3.50 thousand.
-Radium appears to produce in pa
per in a short time the same deter
iorating effect as age, says the Elec-
trical Review. Probably it is an Joni
cation in both cases. The only papers
now known or believed to be durable
are the handmade pure-rag papers.
These are expensive and cannot be
used for printing half-tones. on ac-
count of their rough surfaces. The
problem is to find durable machine
made paper and then have the surface
made suitable for half-tones. During
an attempt to solve this problem the
samples from different American mills
we're placed on the surface of a con-
stantly revolving disk with samples OF
the best foreign handmade papers
and subjected to the radations of pure
radium bromide. The results cannot
be given lest they should be considered
as an advertisement of one mill and a
condemnation of others, but the
method is interesting and new. How
useful it may be can be told only
after many years.
In India, according to an English
man who lived there many years, the
more educated class reduce perjury to
a fine art, says the Chicago Record
Herald. If case is to come before the
court they are not content with coach
ing their witnesses beforehand. but
they take them to the very spot where
the deed was committed and go
through all the Incidents of the assault
or tragedy to be sworn to, so that the
various subpoenaed witnesses are lit
Tie likPlV fn he Oh, hxr
examination no matter how severe it
may be. He cited an instance of the
methods of the ordinary Hindu lawyer.
A British officer had made a number
OF purchases of Parasee merchant.
who charged him such unreasonable
prices that he refused to pay the bill
The merchant brought suit, and the
oIhcer consulted lawyer, who agreed
TO take the case and win it if he were
not interfered with This was prom
ised. When the trial came off the de-
tense promptly Acknowledged the pur-
chase of the articles at the prices
named, but produced half a dozen wit
nesses who swore that they had seen
the bill paid.
We are apt to think of reptiles as
creeping and crawling things, forget
ting that there was a time when flying
says st. Nicholas. These reptiles, the
pterodactyls, or. flying dragons, not
only flew, but some of them reached
size much greater than that of any
bird. for the largest birds do not fly.
The South American condor sometimes
measures as much as 10h feet from
tip to tip of outstretched wings, and 1t
IS quite possible that the finest exam
pies of the albatross may measure
little more. But the great pterodactyls
which flew about the sea that in the
days OF old reached from the Gulf OF
Mexico to the Rocky Mountains meas
ured as much as twenty feet, the width
of an average city lot, across thei:
wings Most of us have seen an eagle
lying, and we can appreciate the size
of this ancient dragon by remembering
that II was nearly three times the size
OF an eagle. 1t was not, however, three
times as heavy. for the body of this
strange reptile was so small and its
skeleton so wonderfully light that the
entire animal is thought to have weigh
ed not more than twenty-five POUNDS
or only about as much as a large con
dor. One of the largest bones of the
wing, two feet long and two inches
through. was, as Prof. Williston tells
us. no thicker than a sheet of plotting
paper, and the great head, with beak
over three feet long, was equally lght.
This great toothless beak Is believed
TO have been used for swapping up
fishes: and we can imagine this hug
creature sailing swiftly over the sea,
now and then swooping down to PICK
up fish as deity, for all its size ~
real swalla