The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-15

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vides that the street car companies
of the District of Columbia shall
maintain a temperature of not less
than so degrees in all cars operated
by them from November l to March
81.
Throw physic to the dogs!" Mac
beth might not have given vent to this
disdainfuI exclamation if he had re-
ceived a certain circular which had
fallen into the hands of a French gen.
tleman. as he would have perceived
that the canine species is not consid-
cred unworthy of the dignity of mas
| sage, says the New York Tribune. Ac-
cording to the Paris correspondent the
| scrap of paper in question contains a
little tariff with regard to what can be
done for the improvement of the ap-
pearance of the friend of man. Thus
40 francs is charged for 1.-THE change
of the shape of the muzzle," 80 francs
for putting wrinkles into the face of
a bulldog" 20 francs for "transforma-
ton of a hanging ear into straight
one, and vice versa" and upward Of
100 francs for the arrangement of the
forepaws of a bulldog. For the change
of the size of a tall 20 francs are ask
ed, the color being altered for 80 francs.
The author of the circular also under
takes to pull out super1uous hairs at
the rate of 5 francs an hour. So, at
least, the French gentleman declares,
and at any rate the story is creating
a good deal of merriment.
"A dispatch from Los Angeles, says:
California has a creeping mountain
and it has cost something like $1,O00,000
to find it out. Santa susanna Mountain
has been tunnelled by the Southern Pa
cific Railway for a cutoff line between
this city and San Francisco. and traf-
fic was expected to open Jan. l, but
the opening is indefinitely postponed.
Several weeks ago the engineers in
charge of the work announced that the
tunnel was completed so far as their
work was concerned. 1t remained for
the railway company to lay and bal
last it's tracks, light the tunnel and
complete the work of that character.
Then it was discovered that the sides
of the tunnel were bullying, and the en-
gineers were recalled. Concrete
braces, huge timbers, IA by 16, well
braced were set, but the creeping mon
ster crumbled the concrete and snap
ped the timbers and continued to thrust
it's bulky sides into the opening. A
portion of the mountain is composed
of shale, and it is this portion that is
causing the trouble. 1t has been dis
covered by careful observation that this
shale section is slowly but steadily
moving westward. 1t is, in fact,
mighty stone river moving toward the
Pacific. The strata dips oceanWard,
and the movement is, doubtlessly, what
is known as a slide" caused by dis
placement somewhere in the depths of
the earth. Whether or no the engin-
GERS will devise d way to stay its prog
ress and make the tunnel disable re-
mains to be seen.
Some of the Indian tribes of the
West have strange preferences in the
matter of food. Nearly all regard dog
meat as a delicacy and serve it at
their feasts to guests of honor. Matt
Duhr, an Oklahoma Indian authority,
visited the Otoe tribe near Red Fork
recently and these are some of his
comments: "The Otoe dancing hall is
a fit place for heather to worship in.
1t is horribly decorated round house.
The orchestra consisted of one thlng,
by them called drum. Pounding with
a sledge hammer on the bottom or an
empty pork barrel would make just as
doleful noises. The pagan religious
services last week were suddenly and
roughly disturbed by a redskin espy1ng
a jack ribbit in the distance. Most of
the Indians forgot their worship and
chased the long-eared scamp. They
the cunning animal took refuge in
the thickets on the margins of Red
Fork creek. Lots of the Otoe squaws
are now gathering seeds of pond lilies
and dig the nicely tasting roots of the
famous plants. Large quantities or the
tender pond lily pods are gathered
when green and are boiled and greatly
relished Polecat venison appears to
be one of the favorite meats eaten by
the Otoes. They never eat opossum or
cells and give pretty good heather rea-
sons for their repugnance to or veneer
alton of these creatures. F'aW-Faw,
chief of the Otoes, dresses in costly
civilized apparel, huge turkey feather
adorns his enormous slouched hat and
each of his cheeks has a large blue
star tattooed therein"
Scientists have recently been
measuring the dimensions of the clouds
and have arrived at some rather start
ling. conclusions. The dimensions of
single clouds, as far as the area COW
cred by their base is concerned vary,
as any one can see, from the cloud the
size of a mans hand to that which
covers the entire visible heavens; but
the hight of clouds can be observed
more definitely and can be estimated
with convincing accuracy, and 1t is
this hight that largely determines their
contents and characteristics. A great,
cumulous thunderhead, towering up on
the horizon like a huge, f1amboyant
iceberg. is often higher than the high
est Alps would be if they were piled
on top of the Himalayas. 1t is not un-
usual for these clouds to measure five,
six or even eight miles from their fiat,
dark base lowering a mile or two
above the world, to their rounded,
glistening summit, splendid in the sun
light. And in these eight miles the
changes of temperature are as great as
those over many thousand miles of the
earth's surface. These clouds contain
strata of temperature, narrow belts of
freezing cold alternating with large
distances of rainy mist and frozen
snow and ice particles Hailstones,
which are formed from a snow parti-
Gle that falls from the upper strata
and is frozen hard in the freezing belt
and coated with added ice in the wet
belt, are often found with a series of
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