The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

sworn mas Deen IN use Tor ntty years,
but public spirited citizen has now
presented the court with an ivory
backed Bible that can be washed every
day.
Land owners in California expect
to irrigate sections along the Rio
Grande by a novel and inexpensive
| method. A wheel placed between two
| boats that rise and fall with the waves
will, it is expected, operate a series
Of pumps.
The mean proportion of unemploy-
ed trade union members in England
during 1908 was 81 per cent, COM
pared with "A in 1902, 3.S in 1901 and
20 in 1900. The average proportion
during the ten years from 1S94-1903
was Al per cent, the excess in 1903
being just 1 per cent.
Lieut.. Col. Newman Davis went
to Khartoum expecting to see a bar
barrie city, but found promenade laid
out along the river bank and lighted
by gas lamps; snug, respectable little
red brick villas, a new and quite COM
Portable hotel, and all the usual build
ings of an English cantonment.
M. Dubois, in a paper before the
| Academy of Sciences, Paris, shows that
it is possible, by means of the Roent-
gen rays, to examine the living oys-
ter without in any way injuring it,
and to ascertain whether or not it
contains a pearl. If it contains only
tiny pearl the oyster is returned, and
is allowed to live until the disease has
developed large pearl.
An English vicar writes in his
parish magazine: 1.-THE present fash
ion of ladies' hats as regards circum-
ference, renders it somewhat difficult
to administer the chalice to them in
holy communion. The head is bent
low, and thus the whole face being
hidden by the hat it is beyond the
power of possibility for the priest to
know whether the sacred element is
| received or not.
The average house in England is
dependent for it's heat upon CRATE fires
in parlor, dining room and bedrooms.
The halls and bathrooms are cold and
| uncomfortable. 1t is true the tempera-
ture rarely falls below 80 degrees in
the middle and southern portions of the
| kingdom, yet the houses are the re-
verse of comfortable. Many of the
| large office buildings have no system
of heating installed, and the occu-
pants must rely on small CRATE fire
| and gas stove.
The skin of the largest grizzly
bear ever bagged in Colorado will be
an exhibit at the Worlds Fair in St
Louis. The animal was a local char
acter'' in the neighborhood of Delta,
| Col, where he was killed on the Grand
Mesa" and was known as "Old Two
Toes" from the circumstance of hav-
| ing lost all but two of the useful APP
pendages referred to from one of his
feet in a conveniently placal steel
| trap in cub days. He weighed at his
death 1900 pounds and measured four
| teen feet from the tip of his nose to
that of his stub of TAIL and twenty
| two inches across his head.
An experiment for the purpose of
testing the durability of liquid air has
! been made between Berlin and Geneva.
| One morning two quarts of liquid air
were delivered to the railroad at Ber-
lin, packed in a manner specially
adapted for this purpose, for trans
! portation to Geneva. The shipment
| arrived in Geneva in five. days, and
after an additional delay of half a
day 1t was delivered to the chemical
laboratory of the University of &C.
neva. The glass vessel in which the
liquid air was sent still contained one
fourth of a quart thereof, which was
at once experimental with.
M. Pelletan, the French Minister of
Marine, is said to have been sadly vic
timized by plausible Belgian, who
claimed to be a civil engineer. The
| supposed engineer, who was a citizen
of Liege, professed to have discovered
a means of renewing the vitiated air
| in submarines without raising the boat
to the surface. After an interview with
| M. Pelletan at Paris, during which he
induced the minister to sign a con-
tract for 100000 francs, the inventor
and his assistant were installed on
board the submarine Triton, which at
| the time was in Oberbourg harbor
Twelve days were passed in putting
| the apparatus in place, and as the
process did not seem likely to come to
an end, Lieut.. Boulain, who command
ed the Triton, made an inspection and
found the whole thing to be fraud
The self-styled civil engineer then dis
appeared, and it is feared that he used
the facilities afforded him by his work
| to become fully acquainted with the
| secrets of the submarine.
Hugo Myths, who has made pre-
vious ascents of high mountains in
winter, and is regarded as an expert
on skis, created something more than
! a local sensation by climbing Mont
Blanc on Feb. a. The account of the
ascent is inspiring, but there will prob
ably be no rush of tourists to repeat so
dangerous a feat. Myths, who is ma
tive of Frankfort, q years of age, was
accompanied on his perilous journey
by three Berner-Oberland guides, es-
specially selected as being expert ski
ers. The start was made at a. ln.,
and they reached the top late the
next afternoon. During the last stage
the air became very rarefied, with a
strong, cold wind blowing, and so
great was the strain on heart and
lungs that at distances of not more
than six feet they had to rest, oc-
casionally lying down TO recover from
the exertion. The cold was now so
intense that their stockings were froz-
en- in their lined boots with a thin
coating of ice. Myths and one of the
guides had each foot frozen, and the
leader a finger as well. Owing to the
danger from crevasses the men were
roped when Skiing, but this safeguard
was not resorted to until one of the
guides had fallen into a crevasse. The
guide was easily rescued, as he had
the presence of mind to extend his
arms and legs, and thus support him
self by the walls of the narrow crevice
in the ice. The rOping added greatly
to the difficulty of Skiing, and was
practicable only because the whole