The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-09


Colorado Springs, Col, has the
finest system of public parks in the
West. They include Acacia Square,
Dorchester Park, Almo Place and Ant
lers Park and eight smaller parks; all
in the central part of the city; STRAIT
ton Park and North Cheyenne Canyon,
at the base of Cheyenne mountain;
Palmer Park, picturesque tract of
rugged bluffs north of the city, and
Monument Park on the west of the
city, now being improved at a cost of
100000, through the generosity of Gen.
William ]. Palmer, founder of the
city.
"A company has been formed to ex-
plot Victoria Falls, in the Zambesi,
and will build a hydro electric general
ing station. with the expectation of
supplying power to the Waukie coal
fields, BuluwayO, the Gwelo, Sebakive
and Hartley gold fields, all of which
are within 300 miles. The falls are
over 400 feet high and, while the total
amount of energy running to waste at
Niagara is 100000 horsepower, the
corresponding figure for the Victoria
Falls in the wet season is 35, 900 900.
The railway has now been completed
to within seventy miles of the falls,
and will reach them before the end of
March.
For risky and exciting and prof
tablet you survive-mode of earning
livelihood, a new Australian indus
try can be confidently recommended,
says the New York Tribune. 1t is
the collection of snake venom, a sub
stance that, like radiunl, is valued by
the grain. A pound of it is said to be
worth $4,000. 1t is in active demand
by chemists. 1t is obtained from three
Species--the death adder, the brown
adder and the tiger snake. The rep
tile must be caught uninjured, and it
goes without saying that the industry
demands considerable knowledge and
skill in capture Tiger snakes are
the best for they carry most venom.
Snakes are still numerous in the Aus
tralian bush.
The standing of the three leading
japanese journals according to the
London Chronicle, is as follows: The
| Jiji-S himbun, which means literally
Timely Incident New hearing, is a
semi-ofticial paper, and may be re-
garded as the Times of Japan. The
staff is composed of well-to-do men,
| from whom appointments are often
made to the chief posts in government
departments. Rumors are never adj
mitted to the pages of the Jill Shin
bun, and 1t has a great reputation for
truthfulness and sincerity. The Nichi-
Nichi Shimbun-i. e., Day and Day
New-hearipg, or, as we should say,
Daily Chronicles the organ of the
Progressive party in Japan. While
the Koku-Min ,Shimbun- j. e., Coun-
trypeopleS News-which has been
calling for fearful musters and pre-
pared Defense" in its character of the
nations journal is regarded as a less
responsible paper; It is none the less
| interesting.
Two interesting exhibits of the
force of dynamite are shown in the
museum of the Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken, says the New
York Press. They are steel blocks, six
inches in diameter and four inches
thick, showing respectively the inn
preston of an oak leaf and the inn
print of the headline of a Western
newspaper. 1t was during a test of
high explosives that a cartridge of
dynamite was placed on a newspapers
covering the block of steel, the object
being to see how much dynamite would
be required to split the metal. The
dynamite was fired without injury to
the steel: but to the surprise of the
experimenter the print of the newspa-
per was deeply pressed into the metal
The experiment was repeated, with the
same result. and then was elaborated
by trying the charge on an oak leaf
placed between the block and the dy-
Mantle. This time the stem and the
ribs of the leaf were deeply impressed
in the metal. What happens is this"
said the expert in charge. Unlike
most other explosives dynamite exerts
practically all it's crushing force down
ward. and not in q general direction.
So inconceivably quick and forceful is
the discharge of this powder that the
| imprint of the ribs of an. oak leaf are
made before the leaf has had time to
be blown to atoms. In the case of the
newspaper it appears that where print
ers' ink touches the paper. the paper
is hardened and more capable of re-
sistance than in other places, and so
1t is that before the paper is destroyed
the printing on it is forced deep into
the metal"
I'm the nature of things, Russia's
present condition would subject her
naval concerns to critical attention the
world over, says the New York Trib-
| une. While her sea power was not
brought to trial, it might pass for
what it pretended to be: not so when
weighed i'm the balance and found
wanting. A writer in a London Jour-
nal points out that the Russian fleet
| has seen no fighting with an equal
| foe for two centuries past-not since
| the days of Peter the Great. Her nav
al officers up to recent years put in
| their service comfortably on shore
making only little trips about the
| coast, with an occasional voyage to
the Far East, In order to qualify for
the pension and steps in rank given
/ for sea service. In spite of all efforts
to revive something like naval past
/ Russia can point to only two ocea-
/ sions in modern history when her
struction Of the Turkish squadron at
Sinope. when the number of vessels
was equal. though the latter were
4 greatly inferior In size and armament
| The other occasion was IN the Grim
can War, when the Black sea feet
/ did Russia excellent service, but
/ hardly OF the kind usually dema nded
OF the ships OF an imperial navy, when
she sank her finest chips like coal
bargeg 70 block the entrance 10 Sebas-
! tOpol The writer goes on 20 say that
/ OF the use OF that extremely nice
complication OF scientific mechanism.
I the modern bsttleship. the Russians
/ have absolutely no experience in a.
ton" They have had some u late
IN Eastern waters. an going 10 oon-
] firm the yalidity u the criticism.