The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-30

poems, and in consequence his taking
up of a small piece Of property three
years ago with the intention of sink
ing shaft was a standing Joke in the
neighborhood. He borrowed money to
work his property in a small way, but
his credit did not hold for very long.
and 1t was on the last day before the
mortgage would have been foreclosed
that he made a strike that turned him
In day from peon to a millionaire
many times over. The wealth of his
mine, with its present development, is
fabulous, the average ore taken out
assaying in the neighborhood of $4,000
ton, although one shipment of three
carloads was made some time ago that
brought him a profit of 100000 a car.
this ore being so rich that the native
silver could be cut from it with a
pocketknife,
The long pipes that carry crude
petroleum from the oil wells to the
refineries many miles distant are clean
ed by an ingenious device. which is
described by a writer in The Omoha
Bee. AS the oil flows through these
underground conduits some of the
paraffine in the fluid incrusts the sides
of the pipe and proves a serious hin
derance to the free passage of the cur
rent Of oil The device that is used to
remedy this evil is a knife about two
feet in length, with a sharp edge, con-
structed like the thread of a screw:
indeed, the knife resembles a huge
headless screw. 1t is, of course, slight
ly smaller than the pipe through which
1t is to pass. When the thickness of
the crust of parafine renders a cleans
ing necessary this instrument is in
serted in the pipe at the oil fields.
The pressure of the stream of oil drives
I'd -
ries along, and scrapes the channel
clean. 1t turns and twists and cleanses
IN this manner throughout it's whole
Journey, and finally drops from the
pipes in the midst of the vast stream
of petroleum that empties into the re-
ceiving tanks. Its edges are duller than
when it set out on it's Journey, but
otherwise it is in perfect condition.
1t is at once shipped back to the oil
wells, where it is sharpened and laid
away until its services are again need
ed.
-One of the more recent instances
OF bad elephants. says a writer in Nc
Clure's, was Barnum g. Baileys IA
nous clown Mandarin" who killed
three men and manned a fourth, and
was finally strangled by a steam
winch on board the steamship Mime
apolis, just before the menagerie
reached New York harbor from It's
tour abroad. AS a tall, gaunt, hun
cry, 5-year-old, Mandarin had Joined
the show thirty years ago, had grown
into splendid, intelligent, gray noun
tain OF good nature, and never showed
even trace of ugliness until the cir
Gus was doing. France. Flap ears
cooked forward, trunk swinging rest
lessly and little eyes growing more
and more bloodshot, the fine fellow
stood, ceaselessly swaying his six tons
from side to side. The animal, how
ever, showed no inclination toward ug-
lines until a substitute trainer was
duped into putting the tricky old ras-
cal through his PAGES. The man laid
himself fiat on the ground to have the
elephant walk over him, exactly as the
big clown had walked over men thou
sands of times before. AS usual, the
beast advanced, head bobbing with ev-
cry step; he lifted his ponderous foot,
let 1T hover over the man, then, with
shrill trumpeting of fury, planted 1t
squarely on the unfortunate's chest
with all the pressure of his 1900
pounds. Blasting madly, the animal
started on run, picked UP llyena
cage and smashed it, with one blow Of
his trunk broke the back of a mule,
and would have cleared out the show
were 1t not for pair of equally huge
tuskers that were brought in on a run
TO butt and prod the crazy one back
to his senses.