The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-07


German iron and steel manufacture
ers recently met, and, although no
final agreement has been reached. the
organization of the steel syndicate is
now practically assured.
Representative Webb. of North
Carolina, has introduced in Congress a
bill to appropriate $4,000 for United
States representation at the exposition
to be held in Cape Town, South At
RIGA, in December, 1904, and January,
1905.
The board of control of the Naval
Institute has awarded the annual prize
for the best prize essay to Lieut.. s.
+. Fullenwider, United States Navy.
The subject was THE Fleet and It's
Personnel" The prize was 5000 and
life membership in the institute.
The Graeco-Roman chariot in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. New
York, one of the new exhibits. has
excited great interest among artists
and archaeologists. Its preservation
was due to the fact that it was buried
by the ashes of Vesuvius. Many other
treasures were found in the same neigh
borhood, some of which Baron loths-
child bought and presented to the
Louvre. The chariot in question is
two-wheeled and is perhaps the rarest
in the world
Hudson Bay is the third largest in
closed marine area in the world, be-
ing next in size to the Mediterranean
Sea and the Caribbean Sea, and bill
is now before the Ottawa Parliament
to change it's name to the Canadian
Sea, for good political and national
reasons, and to assert Canadian SUI
premacy over the waters of the bay
and the adjoining territory" Ameri-
can whalerS from New Bedford, Mass,
are practically the only people who
have frequented the bay for the last
thirty years.
The public debt of Russia is 3,300,-
100000; her gold reserve is about $780,
100000, and there is perhaps $40, O00,-
900 in gold in circulation in the EN-
pire. M. de White said recently in d
meeting of the Council of State: 1.-THE
imposition of direct and indirect taxes
upon population has reached the last
possible limit. To lay any further
burden upon the tax-paying power will
not only be fruitless of results, but
can hardly be regarded as. permissible
in the present economic condition of
the country
Things matrimonial being trifle
dull in Hamilton county, Mo-, Probate
Judge Martin has undertaken to start
a little boom by publishing adNer-
tisements which descant on the joys
of welded life. Among the ads is this:
zone fire will do for two. Matri-
mony, like Bethlehen's star, is guild
ing the wise men and maidens of the
East and of the West to the only con-
dition under which human existence
is complete and complacent. 1 have
tried it for more than fifty years and
have never found marriage failure
yet"
-Flogging is still allowed in English
prisons as a punishment for mutiny
or violence, but recently published
statistics make it doubtful whether
even in these extreme cases corporal
punishment serves. the purpose for
which it is intended. 1t is shown
that since the number of prison Of
lenses for which fiogging was allowed
was reduced in 1885, the number of
offenses against prison discipline has
decreased from lat to 131 per 1000
prisoners, while there has been an in
crease in the number of those offenses
for which the "cat' is still the PEN
atty.
Campaign buttons were never be-
fore so widely used as in the canvass
of Joe" Folk for Governor Of Mis-
souri,. At the St. Louis Folk head
quarters alone the first order filled
was for 100000, and nearly 100000 have
been distributed throughout the state.
The official button for the general pub
lie to wear is plain erlameled disk,
an inch in diameter. bearing an ex
cellent likeness of the candidate, and
the inscription. Folk and Good Gov
eminent" A finer button for officers
and members of campaign clubs is sew
en-eighths of an inch in diameter, with
the name of the club thereon.
The Boston Herald gives this sketch
of some of the signs of an unusually
severe winter in Vermont: Mrs. James
Atwood, living about three miles from
her nearest neighbor, in West Dover,
VT, was taken i'll last week and re-
quired a physician, who was obliged
to walk four miles through the drifted
roads, otherwise impossible. Mrs.
Atwood died before she could get re-
lief. At her funeral this week eight
men and several teams Shoveled and
plowed for hours trying to open a
way for the hearse to pass to the near
est tomb or cemetery, but they were
obliged to give it up and the remains
were conveyed to the grave on a hand
sled, drawn by the pallbearers."
AT the big winery and dstillery of
the Italian-Swiss agricultural colony
at Asst, Cal, the greater portion of the
cooperage is being changed from wood
to cement lined with glass. An expert
from Italy has arrived to do the work.
and it is now being conducted with
rapidity Eight of the largest tanks
are being lined with plate glass about
half an inch in thickness. The tanks
are square, with rounded corners and
oval tops. Cement will be employed
outside the glass interior instead of
wood. The glass, to fit the curvatures,
has to be blown to order, and is very
expensive. The total storage capacity |
at the ASti warehouse and winery is
l3,250,000 gallons, and the improve
ment contemplated will materially in
crease it.
"A large masonry dam recently COM
rleted for the waterworks of Birming-
ham, England, is described in the En-
cheering Record. The Craig Goch dam
is the highest of several now under
construction to form a system of reser- |
voirs, and the first to be completed.
sufi1clently, to permit its reservoir to !
be filled. The reservoir is in the Elan
valley Radnorshire, Wales; is two and
half miles long and has a depth of
water 1876 feet below the crest of the !
dam. The treatment of the super-
StruC tllra Of the dam poryxyivr g.