The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-20
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a paying business. Five dollars an hour
or $40 day is charged for an up-to-
date rig, with chauffeur. AS much as
SIS a day is charged for special occa-
sions-and no difficulty seems to be had
in securing customers at these rates.
Mount Sangay is the most active
volcano in the world. 1t is in Ecua-
dor, is 17.12O feet in hight and has
been in constant activity since 1928.
The sounds of it's eruption are some
times heard in Quito, $50 miles distant,
and 267 reports were once counted in
one hour.
Several European newspapers have
recently published the statement that
Messrs. Comte and Levrat of Lyons,
France, had succeeded in so affecting
silkworms by coloring their food that
they would make cocoons yielding col
ored silk, thus obviating the necessity
of dyeing the silk in the thread or
piece.
The largest station for wireless
telegraphy is being placed near Pisa,
Italy. On its completion, by the end
of the year, it is expected to afford di-
rect communication with all countries
in Europe, as we'll as the United States
and Canada, and with all vessels on
the Mediterranean, Indian and Allan
tic oceans.
According to the United States CEN
sus in 1890 there were $3.50 members of
the bar in the United States, or one
to every 69S of the populate Accord
ing to the census of 1900 the total num-
Der was 114,703, or one to every $50 of
the population. Since 1900 there has
been very considerable addition to
the number of lawyers.
The custom of marrying girls when
they are mere children of or 10 years
is increasing rather than decreasing in
Bengal and other parts of India. The
resulting racial degeneration is becom-
ing so obvious that laws have been
passed in several regions forbidding
the marriage of girls under IA.
The steam turbine principle has
been adapted to a centrifugal high
pressure pump. The action is reversed,
however, the water entering at what
would be the exhaust end, gradually
accelerating as it. passes through the
several fixed and movable vanes, I'M
til it acquires a high velocity at what
would ordinarily be the outlet end.
"A white brakeman refused to ac-
cept a package from a colored postal
clerk on the Southern Railroad, near
Richmond, Va, and the train was de-.
loyed an hour while messages were
sent to the superintendent of the road.
AS result of the stoppage several
employees of the road were discharged.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
introduction of electric traction into
Germany will soon be celebrated in
Berlin. On Oct. /, 1908, there were no
fewer than $500 kilometers of rails
used for electric traffic, and STOP cleo
trio motor cars, with $50 ordinary
cars attached to them, in use in Ger
many.
The largest Polar expedition curio
is a gigantic air bag, in which Peter
Nissen of Chicago intends to roll to
the Pole, being blown by the wind
over water and ice, rough travelling
and smooth, as a thistle is blown
across. a field. Nissen says he was
driven to adopt this device by his en-
deavor to plan pneumatic tires for an
Arctic automobile.
The existence of tin-ore mines in
Abyssinia is not known, although some
of the conquered tribes-particularly
the Gallas, Arroussis, Karayous and
Danakils-frequently wear bracelets
and earrings of this metal. It is diff
cult to say whence the tin from which
these ornaments are made comes, but
it is probable that prospectors will
some day undertake to find out.
Birmingham (England) authorities
are alarmed over the spread of con-
sumption among the factory employees
of the city. Eleven hundred deaths
occurred last year. The City Council
has issued a circular to physicians
of the city offering a reward of two
and half shillings for every case of
consumption reported, that the health
department may take preventive steps.
"A movement is on foot in Russia
to diminish the excessive number of
holidays for students. During a four
years course at a Russian university,
the work done covers only one year
and 295 days. In France the time COW
cred is two years, "A days; in England,
two years, 1853 days; in the United
States, two years. 30 days; in Ger
many, two years, 2S0 days. Denmark
stands at the head of the list, with
two years, 364 days.
The foreign fish oils used for adul-
teration by some dealers are mostly
those from coalflsh, cusk, ling and
paddock. 1t is claimed that no adul-
teration is practiced by the manufac-
turers in Lofoden during the winter
fisheries, and that the oil made there
at that time is exclusively extracted
from the livers of cod, for the reason
that no other fish is caught there after
those fisheries begin, it appearing that
the cod drives all other species away
from the banks.
The English newspapers report a.
new application in Australia of the
principle of the coin-in-the-slo ma
chine, stating that If a stamp cannot
be purchased conveniently it will be
possible i'm the future to drop a letter
into one oritice of a postal box and
penny into second orifice, and the
words "one penny paid" will be found
impressed on the envelope when the
box is opened by the postoffice au-
liberties, thereby securing the trans
mission of the letter.
There has Just died in Stockerau.
Bavaria, at the age Of 2s years. a
dwarf, Maria Schumann, who passed
her whole life in the cradle where she
slept her first sleep twenty -eig ht years
ago. Up TO the day of her death this
strange creature preserved the hight
and general appearance of an infant
of few months, but her intellect was
| normally developed, and nothing could
have been odder than to hear this
tiny baby in the cradle talk like an
adult, with much vivacity and intelli-
gence