The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-13


oxen from China and Java into the
Philippines and to furnish them to the
farmers at reasonable prices, but did
not secure favorable results, as most
of the animals died en- route. The ma
tive OK is a very peculiar and suscep-
tible animal, suffering even from trans
portation from one islana to another.
The skull of a gigantic mammal,
hitherto unknown to science, has been
unearthed from the sands of Fayum.
Egypt. The head is nearly a yard
long. On the nasal region is found
double bony horn of enormous size.
Near the eyes is also found a pair
of smaller horns. At first sight the
entire skull recalls that of the rhinoce-
ros.
Some years ago law was passed
in England requiring imported goods
to be marked Made in France"
Made in Germany" etc. AS many of
these goods are of excellent quality, it
has been found that the law actually
benefits the foreign makers, and an
effort is accordingly being made to
have it changed so that goods from
the continent shall have merely d Ia
bel marking them as Imported"
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map of the earth has been carved in
stone to decorate the estate of an &C.
centric Englishman at Swanage. 1t
stands overlooking the sea, and is Wis
ible for quite a distance. One may
walk about it and study it in detail.
The plain surfaces, such as the oceans,
lakes and deserts, are decorated with
Scriptural texts, which are supposed
to apply especially to the locality they
occupy.
The man who is kept awake by
pain, or who suffers in any other way
from lack of sleep, can usually obtain
it by the use of a drug. Such sleep,
however, is generally regarded as I'M
natural, and hypnotic drugs are avoid
ed when possible. But now comes Mr..
Raphael Dubois, a French physiolo-
gst, who tells us that all sleep is the
result of 'drugging, the sleep producer
being carbonic-acld formed within the
system.
The great cutoff on the Southern
Pacific Railway crossing Great Salt
Lake, Utah, has given much trouble
by portions of the embankment sink
ing out of sight. The bottom is COW
cred with a thick and hard crust of
salt, though at some points exceeding
ly soft and treacherous bottom was
encountered. The first engine to be
run over the completed line was thrown
into the lake by the sinking Of the
track at the worst section.
The rise of the Easter lily is one of
the most sensational features of green
house Horticulture in America during
the last quarter of a century. Ameri-
can florists raise about 5000, 900 Easter
lilies a year. Assuming that only half
of these plants are sold, that each bears
only two flowers Ga good plant should
have six to eight and that the public
pays so per cent bud, it would seem
that the American people spend at least
81, 100000 for Easter lilies every year.
When the Senate convenes again
there will be five former cabinet Off
GERS on it's floor. They are Senator
Teller of Colorado who was Secretary
of the Interior under President Ar
thur; Senator Alger, Secretary of War
in the Mckinley cabinet; Senator Proc
tor, who had the Secretaryship of War
under President Harrison. Senator Ell
kins, who also had the same portfolio
at another time under the same admin
istration, and Senator Knox, the late
Attorney General.
English historic oaks are, with ev-
cry great storm, diminishing in num-
ber Dumorey's Oak, in Dorsetshire,
1000 years old, disappeared from this
cause in 1903. Wallace's Oak, at Ell
lerslie, was 700 years old when it was
blown down some fifty year ago. They
still have, however, the Crowthorpe
Oak, near Wetherby, in Yorkshire, es-
timated to be over 1000 years old; and
William the Conqueror's Oak, in Wind
sor Great Park, has attained the ripe
age of 1900 years.
The Russian population is perhaps
the most mixed of all nations, and is
| made up in large measure of conquered
people who still remember their over
| throw with bitterness. Probably not
| far from one-third of the whole-from
10000, 900 to 50,0O0000-are true Musco-
| vites. Around the central Muscovites
are grouped Lapps, Firms, Germans,
Lithuanians. Poles, Little Russians,
| Ruthenians, Rumanians, Greeks, Geor-
| CLANS and Tartars, with Jews and gyp-
sizes scattered through the south and
west. These are all in European Rus
sia, and this is nothing to the medley
in Asiatic Russia.
"A peculiar accident happened re-
Gently at a bull fight in Bordeaux. The
matador stabbed the bull with a sword
| that did not penetrate, whereupon the
| infuriated animal tossed the weapon
| in the air and attacked toreador. The
| sword fell among the spectators, injur-
! ing Commander Calderon, an officer of
| the Spanish navy, who was present at
| the fight as a guest of the Bordeaux
| organizers of the spectacle. The wound
was serious and the seaman had to be
carried off to the hospital. After this
| the onlookers became exasperated and
! began to throw chairs, benches and
! stools into the ring, haunting the bull
| fighters with being cheats and know
ing nothing about their business.
Charles Kratz has brought Worlds
Fair idea from the tropics, and Mex
lean submarine garden is to be erected
on De Balivere avenue, north of De
Giverville. The exhibit will take the
form of a huge tank, upon which Will
float boats with glass bottoms. through
which the occupants can look down
upon a genuine sea garden, trans
| planted from the warm waters of the
Mexican coast. Nature will be i'm
| proved upon, il is stated. by having
| mermaids, sea serpents and other le-
gendary beings half-hidden among the
waving sea grasses. Application for
the permit was made over a month
ago, but Mayor Wells withheld his
approval of the bond till yesterday.
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