The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-28


here, four at Cairo and thirty-six for
the pastor at Sedalia. 1 assisted in
four meetings-Sedalia, Huntsville,
Waldron, Ark, and Macon-in which
there We're over 100 profeSsed CONVEX
sions. Besides this I conducted meet
ings in Cairo and here"
How many valuable inventions,
says the Boston Globe, are the result of
pure accident, while. in other cases,
men have puzzled their brains with
study for lifetime and brought forth
nothing. 1t happened one night that
a big starch factory on the banks of
the Liffey near Dublin. took fire and
great puddles of starch and water were
left outside. Some calico printers, who
had been out all night and were quite
tipsy, came along toward morning and
one of them stumbled into one of the
puddles, He found it so sticky that
all his clothes stuck to him so fast
that he had to stay in bed next morn
ing till his wife soaked them out. The
man knew. from his trade. that the
starch and water had formed very
powerful and valuable gum. He went
back to the place of the fire and inves-
tigated, and the result was the discov-
cry of the adhesive gum now used.
The well-known thrift of the
French housewife is reflected in the
national finances. 1t is fact that the
distribution of wealth in France is
wider than in an other European
country, although the records are not
available for detailed comparisons in
all cases. However, the records of
the courts of probate in England and
the notarial records in France afford
data for comparison between these two
r.faVa, frsne ". O. Opo
tates administered last year amounted
to $1,44O,000,000, while in France $685.
612 estates only Melted 1854 425, POI. In
other words, while the English for
tunes were much greater individually
than the French estates the number
of property holders in France were
five to one compared to England This
information should be a severe shock
to those of the old school who are
prone to regard all French people as
extravagant and .thoughtless, while as
matter of fact they are a thrifty,
self-denying race.
Some facts about Colombia which
come by way of Washington are in
point just now, says the Harpers
Weekly. Colombia not counting
Panama, is as large as California and
Texas combined and has over ten
L
estimate made in 1881 puts the figures
at 3,600000 exclusive of the people of
Panama. Bogota, its capital, has been
called the Athens of South America"
Its population is 125000; the national
university is located there and the
city has an excellent library of $4,000
volumes, picture gallery, an. observa-
tory and number of learned institu-
tons. Twelve days are required to
90 faefA4r = he. -, =
lands at Barranquilla, at the mouth
of the Magdalena river, goes up the
river by steamer to Honda-5921s miles
from the coaSt-then by rail for TWEEN
tytwo miles to La Dorado, by mule
journey for forty-fiye miles to Facata-
tiva, and from there by rail again to
Bogota, twenty-four miles.
In reference to the supposed curse
pronounced on the descendants of the
first Earl of Stair, unhappily notorious
for his connection with the massacre
of Glencoe. a Scottish correspondent
informs the London Chronicle that the
actual words of the original curse are
still extant. in the words (and terribly
ing words they are), of a Gaelic poem
written by Jean Macdonald the sole
survivor of large family that per-
iShed in the massacre. The last three
ror haunt their pillows May their
wives ever prove barren, and may
thousand curses alone attend them!''
A startling comment on this maledic-
ton is that the second, third, fourth,
sixth, seventh and eighth Earls of
Stair all died without issue, a cir
cumstance probably unique in the an
nails of the peerage. The family of the
first Che Glencoe) Earl became en-
tirely extinct in 1S40 and the success
sion passed to the descendants of his
next brother, Sir James Dalrymple
from whom came down, of course
the much respected peer just deceased.
Upon the question whether life
bearing planets can exist in other So
lar systems than our own the answer
OF science is clear and distinct It is
precisely the same which Prof. New
comb recently gave concerning the
possible inhabitants of Mars: '',The
reader knows just as much of the sub
Ject as l do, and that is nothing ar
ALL" Within our solar system we can
indeed form some crude estimate of
probabilities, beyond it nothing. All
the amazing progress of modern sci
ence, all the revelations made bv the
spectroscope or by photography. all
the advance in biology have not
brought us one step nearer an answer
to the question, rs this the only in
habited world?" We stand essential
ly where Whewell and Brewster did
half a century ago, or we might in
deed say, where Calico and Capoano
We're 300 years ago. We can indeed
spin out the discussion at greater
length than our predecessors and can
introduce a far greater number of
more or less irrelevent facts, but of
serious argument, either for or
against, we are entirely destitute.
The pay of the small papal army
is included in the disbursements for
the keep-up of the Vatican. These
troops consist of the Noble Guard, the
Swiss and the Palace Guard. In adj
diuon. there is a small party of Vati-
can gendarmes. The Swiss Guard is
the heaviest item. The Noble Guard
consists of members of the Roman arts
tocracy and the Palace Guard of citi-
zens of Rome. Belonging to the mobiles
are a commander, a colonel, lieuten-
ant, a sub-lieutenant. eight sergeants,
one sergeant who acts as adjutant,
eight cadets. a cadet who acts as adj
jutant and forty-eight privates. In
addition there is a. master of the horse,
a master of arms, four trumpeters and
a purser. In order to enter this body
a candidate must be between the ages
of p and rs. must show that he has a
title Of nobility, which has been rec
ognized at least sixty years in the Pa
pal states that he is in perfect health
and the owner of at least x, 900 francs
Tbay aar of1Iv mo rrxy With the cOnuarf