The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-08
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regular duty.
The systems of lines on the finger
tips remain unchanged through life,
and so characteristic of the individual
is each set that no duplicates have
yet been found. although the police of
Paris alone have preserved over 100000
imprints.
When Chinese workmen apply for
jobs to the Russians in Manchuria,
they are informed that heathers can
not be engaged, and that they must
first become Christians. This makes
them desist invariably.
On the Island of Trinidad oil is
found amid a huge tropical vegetation,
and is said to be of first-class illumi-
mating power A Canadian company
is exploiting the field. 1t is intended
to build pipeline, by means of which
the Oil will be conveyed to the harbor
of Port of Spain.
Approaching the great centers of
population the quantity of dust held
In suspension by the air increases
enormously. According to Sir James
contains 100000 proportional parts of
dust OF Paris 100000, while in Argyll
shlre, scotland, there are only 200.
There has just died at Spennymoor
in Durham, Mr.. T. Marshall, said to
have been the stoker on it's initial trim
OF the first engine built by George
stephenson for the Stockton and OAR
Hngton Railway, says the London
chronicle. The journey took place on
Sept. u, 1925, and it is on record that
the fire was so we'll fed that the Chin
ney of the locomotive became nearly
red hot, but though the engine was
most boisterously skittish the journey
was safely accomplished, the engineer
being Stephenson himself. The train
consisted OF six loaded wagons, a pas
senger carriage, twenty-one trucks
fitted with seats, and six wagons filled
with Goals. The number of passen-
gers was 450: on the return journey
they increased to over 600, many of
them hanging to the wagons, in a
state OF delight, suspense, and even
fear"
They have in London an 'Inspec-
tor-General in Companies Liquida-
tion," whose report on stock company
insolvency for 1902, just issued, is not
without interest on this side of the
Atlantic. The total number of cases
in which winding-up proceedings were
commenced during the year was 1929,
of which 1901 was voluntary liquida-
tons, sixteen voluntary liquidations
subject to supervision of the court and
112 compulsory liquidations by order
of the court. The total number of new
companies registered in England and
Wales was 1886. The total number of
liquidating companies during the year
was, in proportion to the new COM
panies registered, 95 per cent, as
against Sc per cent. during the previous
year. In ten years the amount in
volved in liquidations was about ST.
S00,000,000, of which the total loss to
the investors was approximately ST.
00000O,000, a total respectable by COM
parison with American figures.
America leads the way in the appli-
cations of electricity, says the London
Telegraph. In his presidential address
to the Institution of Electrical Engi-
neers, Mr.. Kaye Gray mentioned a
plate glass works in which there were
four generating sets of 1000 kilowatts
each and one of $50 lxilowatts; there
were also twenty motors of 450 horse
power each and twenty of 200 horse
power. Another concern using cleo
tricity on a large scale was a colliery,
which possessed a plant of 1900 kilo-
watts capacity and comprises forty
four mining locomotives and seventy
five miles of underground trolley wire.
The dominating factor in regard to the
employment of electric power is, of
course, that of efficiency compared with
cost. Mr.. Gray made comparison
between the Carnegie works and
Krupp's at Essen. "At the Carnegie
works." he said, electricity is used for
almost everything requiring power. 1t
IS stated that in the Homestead steel
works of Pennsylvania, by the aid of
electricity, 1900 men make as much
steel as is made at Krupps with $4,000
men,"
Missouri is nothing, if not up-to-
date in these days, says the New York
Commercial The latest down there is
a 'chair of poultry in one of her lead
ing colleges. How to raise chickens
will be taught at the University of
Missouri The curators have decided
to offer full course in poultry raising.
A short course was offered last year,
but this year the study Is to be put on
an equal plane with the studies in
other departments, and full instruc-
lions in the breeding and handling of
domestic fowls and the production of
eggs will be given. The reasons for
extending the course is due to the in
creasing importance of the poultry in
dustry, and the remarkable interest
manifested at the university last year,
when the study was first introduced.
The records show that it proved to be
the most popular course ever offered at
Missouri University. 1t proved so in
teresting that number of the pro-
fessors enrolled themselves as stu
dents, and entered the poultry depart
ment The highest grades in the class
were made by two members of the
faculty. Another reason for the extern
sion of the course is that the poultry
business has become one of the leading
industries in Missouri, the annual in
come from the same now being esti-
mated at over 100000.
The car and locomotive output for
the year 1908, as indicated by esti-
mates prepared by the Railroad Ga
zette, shows a falling off in the num-
Der of cars built, as compared with
1902, and a considerable increase in
the number of locomotives turned out.
From official figures received from all
but two carbuilding concerns in the
United States the Gazette estimates
the number of cars built in 1903 at
154, 80S. These figures include all freight
and passenger cars built for elevated
and steam railroads and are exclusive
of those built by railroads in their
own shops and those built for street
and other electric service. OF this num-
Der approximately 152,0S1 were freight