The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-18
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in countries now densely inhabited. Re-
cent investigation has shown that one
lies beneath the region in England
known as CharnwoOd forest. The rocky
projections seen there are the peaks
and aretes of a buried mountain chain
belonging to the old red sandstone
period.
in India only about per cent. of
the girls attend public school, but the
government of India in it's education
al resolution states that in trying to
promote the education of girls a far
greater proportional impulse is impart-
ed to the educational and moral tone
of the people than by the education of
the men.
The Canadian government has I'M
dertaken the development of the At
lantic fisheries on an extensive scale.
1t is proposed to establish an expert
mental station at CansO, where the
Nova Scotia fishermen will learn how
to catch and cure herrings under the
direction of a staff of fishery experts,
and a number of Scotch fishermen are
to be brought over and established in
Nova Scotia.
In connection with the naval con-
fiicts now proceeding in the Far East,
it is interesting to recall that certain
islands off the Japanese coast are ira
ditionally haunted by the ghosts of
Japanese slain in naval battles. Even
to-day the Chousen peasant fancies he
sees ghostly armies bailing out the sea
with bottomless dippers, condemned
thus to cleanse the ocean of the slain
of centuries ago.
In those lands where horses are
the food of men, all manner of flesh
goes the way of the sausage ma
chine, says the New York Tribune.
Recently there had to be slaughter
ed at Client an elephant well known
in Belgium by the name of Jack, the
last inhabitants of the geological gar
den, and his flesh, which is stated to
have weighed $500 pounds, or nearly
two tons. all went to the sausage
makers. In addition. there were LOO
pounds of bone; head, $50 pounds
heart, so pounds; liver. 100 pounds
tongue, 80 pounds; skin, 1000 pounds,
and viscera, 800 pounds.
"A French statistician, DIR. Charles
| Richet, has arrived at the following
estimate of the number of men who
died in the wars carried on by the
various Christian nations during the
last century. The total reaches to the
| respectable figure of $4,000, 000 It is
| made up as follows: Napoleonic wars,
S,O0000 Crimean War, 100000; Italian
War, 100000; American Civil War,
100000; Franco-German War, 100000;
Russo-Turkish War, 400, 900; civil wars
in South America, 100000; various
| colonial expeditions INCLUDING, one sup
poses, peaceful missions'O in India,
Algeria, Mexico, Tonquin, Abyssina,
South Africa, and Madagascar, 3,0O0,-
900.
The scenic tunnel, under the Horse
shoe Falls of the Niagara, which has
just been completed was undertaken
for the Niagara Falls Queen Victoria
Park Commission in order to provide
a perfectly safe view of the cataract
from below. A shaft was sunk 127 feet
| and from this tunnel was construct
ed, curving out under the Horseshoe
Falls 800 feet. From this laterals
were run into the gorge. where large
| observation rooms will be constructed
| of glass, where tourists can sit in easy
chairs and look out. A large electric
| elevator has been put into the shaft,
| and from the bottom a large board
walk has been constructed to
the mouth of the various tun-
| nels.
there was a great city in Central
Africa which was the capital of the
empire of the Songhais in the Nigerian
Sudan. The empire of the Songhais
| was the largest and most powerful
black empire which ever existed. Even
after the fall of the empire Kouklya
was prominent city, but about $50
years ago it was utterly destroyed by
the Touaregs and it's very site was
| forgotten. The Academy of Paris re-
Gently sent out a mission to discov-
er the ruins and they have just been
found by Lieut.. Despagnes, about 100
miles south of GOgo, ON the banks of
the Niger.
Among the officers of the German
navy are five admirals, seven vice
admirals, seventeen rear admirals, six
ty-two captains of ship, twenty-five of
| frigate and Ill of corvette. The ships
| of the navy consist of nineteen battle
| ships, eight coast defense ships, twelve
armored gunboats, ten armored cruis-
ers. Twenty-Five protected cruisers,
seven ordinary gunboats, fifteen train
ing ships, nine special service YES
sells and nine harbor ships. OF these
| there are in commission nine battle
! ships, four coast defense ships, one
| armored gunboat, seven armored cruis-
ers, nineteen protected cruisers, six
| ordinary gunboats. eleven training
ships and eight special service vessels.
Not less than ninety-three fortified
places of modern type, some of them
being nearly impregnable, guard at
present the French frontier from
Dunkirk to Nice. Most of them
have been built since the Fran
| co-Prussian War, at cost of
$500, 100000. France has to ap-
| propriate annually about $1,000, 900 for
the maintenance of these fortresses
Recently not a few military men, and
among them Gen. Pierron, the former
commander of the Fifth Army Corps,
have expressed grave doubts as to the
value of this chain of fortifications in
time of war. They point to the fact
that it would take about 600, 900 men to
| garrison all the fortresses, including
Paris and Lyons, an army which would
| undoubtedly be of more value i'm the
field. Gen. Pierron predicts a total
| collapse" in case Of a new war with
Germany II the numerous Notifications
are to be retained.
Since the earthquake in Palestine
last April, says the London Graphic,
some one circulated the story that the
mouth of the river Jordan has been so
affected by the shock that the level Of
the river had been altered to such an
extent that at the place where the his
toric river goes into the Dead sea,
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