The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-28

Tyson, VT, is said to have strOttne
doe which he captured last year. He
named her Sally, and, having broke her
to harness. was surprised to find her
speed something more than ordinary
Sally has already stepped a measured
eighth in 25 seconds, and is still on
the gain.
The strange sight of a drowning
moose was seen at whitneyville, Me-.
where a large bull attempted to cross
the Machias river. AS he reached
midstream the floating logs closed in
on him, and but for the aid of river
drivers, who made a channel for him
through the logs. he would have SURELY
been overcome.
w H. Osgood, an assistant biolo-
gist in the Department of Agriculture
at Washington has gone to Alaska in
the interests of the government to in
Vestlgate the game conditions there
Conflicting reports as to the kind and
prevalence of game in the far north
have been made. and Mr.. Osgood ex-
poets to settle the matter.
Great success is being achieved in
the arid sections of Colorado in the
raising of small grains without irri-
cation. BY scientific cultivation of the
soil, the earth is made to conserve
the moisture, and large crops are be-
ing obtained. AS high as forty bushels
of wheat an, acre have been raised
without the aid of irrigation in the
vicinity of Berthoud. Col.
Mrs. Hester Trudow of lie sueur.
Mimi, whose age is 9s years, and who,
until lately had been entirely tooth
less for thirty years. began six months
ago to cut her third set of teeth, and
has now a complete outfit of new.
natural teeth, both uppers and lowers.
She claims that she has acquired her
new teeth by eating each day a tea
spoonful of powdered oyster shells.
There were many forums in Rome.
but the oldest and most famous was
not created like a building, at GER
tain time. The Forum Romanurn"
was originally the lowlands between
the Palatine, Capitoline and QuirinaI
hills, used as a meeting place for bar
ter and politics by the tribes living on
the hills named and on other hills
nearby. The development of this crude
trading place and neutral ground into
the Roman Forum of later times was
very gradual and irregular.
The Mikado of Japan has. or rath-
er had, just one fad. He longed to
create, by means of a more carnivor-
Gus diet, a taller race of soldiers.
Small boys in government schools
were fed for six or SeVee years in the
European way. They never grow any
taller than vegetarian children. The
doctors charged to look after the ex-
perimental diet sent in their report
last year. They could think of no bet
ter way of securing tall soldiers than
lily encouraging Japanese to marry
Europeans.
The city of Manila contains 219. OPS
inhabitants, which includes 1891 who
reside on vessels in the harbor, while
l1,466 live in the limits of the city
walls Gen. Sanger says the aborig-
ines of the Philippines are believed to
be the Negritos, of which $4,000 still
remain. They are very short in stat
ure, the males avera Sing only four
feet ten inches, and the females even
less. Their color is black, their hair
woody and bushy, and their toes are
remarkably prehensile, they using
them almost as we'll as fingers.
"A farmer at North Bransford, CT.
had been missing many eggs from his
henhouse of late, and was at loss to
account for the trouble. Sunday he
took a day off and watched the hen
coop. Late in the afternoon he heard
the hens making a great row and
rushed into the coop in time to see a
big five-fOot black snake. crawling I'M
der the floor. He made a dash for it,
captured it and Killed it, He noticed
that there was something in the snake S
mouth, and stepped on its head, squeez-
ing out a china nest egg which ;he
snake had stolen, installing it for a
hens egg.
Never do six months pass by with
out some attempt being made to do
away with the disadvantages of the
diversity of tongues says the London
Globe, but so far success has not at
tended any one of them. Struggle as
they may, the inventors of universal
languages cannot get away from Latin,
and the latest attempt, that by Prof.
Peano of Turin, resolves itself into
Latin without infections. The pro-
fesser proposes to do away with cases,
numbers, genders, and persons, and
also with lenses and voices, using the
abative in the case of substantives,
and the infinite minus re or ri for
the verbs In fact his system is the
evolution or the ltallan tongue car
rieG to it's logical conclusion. Nearly
every one learns Latin more or less,
and it is difficult to see why the simple
Latin of the Middle Ages, without any
straining after Ciceronian elegancies.
should not suffice for all our interna-
tional needs, during the few years
which must pass before all the world
speaks English.
1t may we'll be doubted. writes
John Burroughs in Harpers Maya
zine, if birds are musical connoisseurs.
or have anything like human appre-
citation of their own or of each others
songs. My reason for thirs-ing so is
this: l have heard a bobolink with
defective instrument so that it's
song was broken and inarticulate in
parts, and yet it sang with as much
apparent joy and abandon as any of
its fellows. l have also heard a ker-
NIT thrush, with a similar defect or
impeachment. and yet it, too. appeared
to sing entirely to its own satisfac-
ton. II would be very Interesting TO
know If these poor singers found mates
as readily as their more gifted broth
ers. If they did, the Darwinian theory
of sexual selection" in such matters.
according to which the finer songst ar
would carry off the female, would fall
to the ground. Yet it is certain that
it is during the mating and breeding
season that these song combats" oc-
cur, and the favor of the female would
seem to be the. matter I'm dispute.
Whether or not 1t be expressive Of
actual Jealousy or rivalry, we have
no other words to amply to if