The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-02

900; Moscow, 1,173, 900; Warsaw, $4,000;
Odessa, $4,000; Lodz, S51, 600; Kieff,
$4,000; Riga. 100000; Charkow, 1877, 900;
Baku, 10000; wilma, 10000; Tifiis,
100, 900; Tashkent, $4,000; Jekaterinow-
slaw, $4,000; Kishineff, 125,000 Ros-
tow, 100000.
MT. Mckinley is known to be the
steepest of all the great mountains of
the world, and it is unlike most other
great peaks from the fact that arctic
conditions begin at it's very base. The
prospective conqueror of this immense
uplift must pick his path over broken
stones, icy slopes, sharp cliffs and an
average slope of As degrees for at
least $4,000 feet.
in 1903 New Orleans exceeded New
York by more than 100000 bushels in
the expectation of corn and wheat.
New Orleans is now the second of the
country's cities in aggregate exports.
ranking next to New York. Galveston
was the fourth city in exports in 1908,
exceeding all the country's Atlantic
ports except New York and Boston.
In 1904 it, has passed Boston.
The people of Korea are neither
japanese nor Chinese. They are Mon
golian and have polysyllabic lam
guage, with phonetic alphabet. They
nave a recorded history, of disputed
authenticity, which claims for them a
continuous existence as a Korean peo-
pie of about 5000 years, the earlier
part of which, of course, is shrouded
in the mists of tradition and fable.
Since the death of Sir Harry KEEP
pei, my beloved little admiral"
Queen Alexandra called him, Admiral
Sir Norvell Salmon, V. c., G. c. B.,
has become father of the British fleet.
He was born in 1885 and entered the
navy twelve years later. While in
command of the Icarus he captured
the filibuster Walker, a feat for which
he received a gold medal from the
Central American States.
The source of the limited scientific
supply of radium, for it can hardly be
said to have reached a commercial ba-
sis, is in pitch blende, and the uranium
ores of Bohemia. A German investi-
gator, Prof. Himstedt of the Universe
ty of F'reiburg, has arrived at the con-
clusion that radium is much more
widely distributed than has heretofore
been suspected. He makes the asser-
ton that all natural springs of water
and petroleum wells possess a heavy
gas, whose radiations are similar to,
and probably identical with, radium.
Rev. Howard Fugate, the fighting
parson of Harveytown, near Hunting
ton, w. Va, has served practical notice
on his community that those who at
tend services in his United Baptist
Church must behave themselves. He
was preaching there the other evening,
whom fNKO in oIy a
whispered argument regarding politics.
The talk disturbed other persons near
by and they protested. This precipi-
tated fistic row, which had been in
progress but a few moments when the
preacher rushed forward and took a
hand. He weighs 100 pounds and at
every swing of his massive fist COM
Blatant went down and out. In less
than two minutes he had quelled the
fuss. Then he put half a dozen rioters
out of the church and resumed his dis
course, after saying that though he is
a man of peace there are circumstances
under which a show of muscular Chris
tianity becomes necessary.
What makes the Dead Sea salt is a
question that has been discussed for
centuries. and the most recent expla-
nation is that advanced by William
@ANhAOJ0g WIZ doSl5 lis DIS the IllOSL I'M
portant cause the atmospheric trans
portation of salt from the Mediterran-
can Sea- Previously it has been as
sumed, says Harper's Weekly, that the
sadness of this historic body of water
was due to the soil and rocks, whiEl, it
is now thought, would not be able to
furnish the amount required, and that
the Dead Sea was once a part of the
Red Sea, which had been cut off by the
rising of Palestine and concentrated by
evaporation, a hypothesis which is not
supported by facts. According to Ack-
royd's theory the winds blowing from
the Mediterranean would bring rain
charged with salt. In proof of this it
is stated that the proportion of chlorin
to bromin is the same in the Dead Sea
that it is in the Mediterranean.
A dispatch from Trenton, N. j..
says: The physicians of the city are
puzzling their heads over the queer
case of Albert Herpin, who declares
that he has not slept a wink in ten
years. Herpin is AZ years old and a
Frenchman. He is apparently in per-
feet health, and says he suffers no
inconvenience on account of his lack
of sleep. He is employed as delivery
wagon driver at the grocery store of
F'feeholder Phares. Herpin says that
he began to lie awake nights sixteen
years ago, when his last son was born.
II was nervous, / suppose" says he.
-Four years afterward my wife died
and the shock must have affected my
nerves, because l have not been able
to sleep since. I have been treated in
hospitals and privately, but to no pur-
pose. AT bedtime 1 go to bed like any
body else, but not to sleep. l simply
lie down to rest. 1 get up about 5
o'clock in the morning and go to my
work. l feel just as l did when 1 slept
every night"
Asbestos is one of the most re-
markable substances found in nature.
and is classified by biologists as a. Pc
culiar species of the hornblende fam
lily of minerals. says the Scientific
American. It's composition is chiefly
silica, magnesia, alumina and ferrous
oxide, and consequently understandable.
hence its name. The fibers formed by
the chemical combination above given
are perfectly smooth and in this re-
spect are different from all other
known fibers. Periodically, it is the
link which completes the chain be-
tween the vegetable and mineral king
doms, and is in fact a mineralogical
vegetable possessing the curious prop
critics found in both, for it is at once
hbrous and crystalline, elastic and brit
tie, heavy as a rock in it's crude state
yet as light as thistledown when treat
ed mechanically. Added to this, it's
fibers, soft, white and delicate, have
by their inherent quality of indestruc-
tibility,withstood the action Of the ele-
ments since the world began; and
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