The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-23
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pigeon has just returned to its loft at
Herve, in Belgium.
The Thibetan war cry is described
as mot shout of revenge or triumph,
but a kind of shrill chuckle. which
sounds full of deviltry and malice"
An air compressor for busting and
cleaning purposes, shown in operation,
is one of the new mechanical exhibits
of interest to women at the World s
Fair.
The new system of electric illumi-
nation, the Nernst is represented by
in the fine arts museum of the Worlds
Fair.
There is talk of putting up foun-
kains in the New York parks, in
which one can drop a penny in a slot
and be served with a glass of pure ice
water.
The righteousness of the modern
interurban car is indicated by an ex-
hibit at st. Louis of seats upholstered
in leather, with bronzed back bands
and mahogany arm rests and auto
matte adjustable foot rests.
The King of the Belgians not only
does not wear crown. but has not
even got a crown to wear. No coro-
nation ceremony is known to the con-
stitution, the sovereign inaSlgurating his
reign simply by taking an oath to
govern according to the laws.
There is said to be an accumula-
ton of as much. as fifty tons of guano
on the roof of the White Tower of
the Tower of London, deposited there
for considerable number of years by
pigeons and sparrows. The guano is
to be sold and the pigeons have been
killed.
The German occupation of Samoa
does not appear to be a success. The
landed proprietors, unable to make
money out of their estates, are emf
grating to America, and the heavy
freight rates and import duties are
serious matter to the smaller business
people.
To have a notion of the point to
which economy can be pushed one
should learn the currency of Japan.
The yen when not deprecated is worth
81, and now considerably less-perhaps
to 10 rim, equal to 10 sho, equal to 10
kotshu.
of all the movements in the coun-
try since l was an undergraduate"
said John Morley, at Oxford the other
day, that which has raised women in
all the chances of life to something
like an equality with men strikes me
as the most important and the most
tar-reaching.
An ingenious use has been found
for the discarded wood blocks with
which the London streets are paved.
Several toy manufacturers are now
purchasing all these blocks which are
not damaged in the process of being
torn up for the purpose of making
cheap toys out of them.
When illustrated post cards came
into vogue, the German authorities
were inclined to discourage their use
because it was feared that the post
men would waste time looking at
them. To-day they are welcomed as
valuable source of income, the an
nual sale reaching hundreds of mil
lions.
-Culebra, the island twenty-five
miles west of Porto Rico, which has
been strongly fortified by the United
States, commands the Anegada pas
sage, which is used by all European
commerce with the Isthmus of PAN
anna, more effectually than Gibraltar
commands the entrance to the Medi-
terranean.
They had an Excessively hot day.
on May q in London. The Times says
the thermometer rose to rs. It was
followed by an equally warm night,
the temperature at no time falling be-
low so degrees" 1t was the most sui
try night London had had since May
"a 1847, when the thermometer did not
fall below 81.
In France old shoes are bought up
in large quantities by leather dealers
and sold to factories. There they are
taken apart and submitted to long pro-
cesses, which turn them into paste,
from which the material is transform
ed into imitation leather, finally COM
ing out in form which very closely
initiates the finest morocco.
The oldest civil and mechanical en-
gineer in the world who is still ac-
lively engaged in his profession is
Charles Haynes Haswell At the ad-
vanced age of IS years, Mr.. HasweIl
continues regular work, very rarely
missing day from his desk in the
Engineering Bureau of the Board of
Estimate and Apportionment of New
York city.
"A Japanese associates three ideas
in the time a Russian takes clearly
to formulate one. have sat in class
rooms beside BOTH" says a writer in
the Pail Mall Gazette, land the
greater length of the Russian thigh
none, the greater weight of the Rus
sian musculature, go for lust precise
ly nothing at all. Nowadays men hat
tie not with Drawn. but brain"
The Cherokee Advocate is one of
the Oldest and most remarkable news
papers in the United States. II il the
Official organ of the Cherokee Nation.
and is published at Tahlequah al the
nations expense. It is a fve-colurnn
folio weekly, half of which is printed
in the Cherokee language. It is strict
~ non-partisan and is forbidden nv
law to deal in politics. It's purpose is
TO perpetuate the Cherokee language.
The Park Row building in New
York is the tallest inhabited building
in the world. 1t covers $4,000 sous re-
feet of ground and is thirty stories
high. The distance from the curling
to the cornice is 1886 feet, to the ron
of the towers 800 feet. to the ton ~
the Flagstaff Az; the depth Of tho
foundation below the curbing is seven
ty-nVe feet, making a total dista moo