The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05


to their pursuit of the herring shoals
on the west coast of Norway.
"A circular barn has been completed
by James Sears, whose farm is near
Lapel, Ind. The walls. or rather wall.
OF the barn are twenty-five feet high
ana sixty-five feet in diameter, the
| roof running to cone. There is no
such thing as a post or pillar in the
barn. In order to prevent the weight
or the roof from spreading the wall,
sears, who is a practical blacksmith,
| Forged three heavy steel hoops, and
with these he encircled the structure
as band would be put around a big
water tank. The barn is cyclone
proof. for Boreas has no chance to
| get hold on the structure. Inside
driveway runs clear around. The
| stalls for horses and cattle are ar
ranged in circle, there is a big feed
| ing room in the center and a silo ex-
tends from the ground to the roofs
cone. Mr.. Sears claims that he can
shelter more stock and stow away
more feed in the barn than in the
ordinary farm structure.
Very little of the world remains
unknown, says the London Telegraph.
Tibet will soon be as we'll known as
China, the sacred city of Lhassa as
little of a mystery as Peking. A Rus
sian traveller, M. Tsybikoff, has COM
| municated to the Geographical Society
OF st. Petersburg pretty full account
OF Lhassa, where he stayed for over
twelve months-being an Oriental
scholar and professedly a Lamaite by
| religion. He found the land far less
populous than is commonly supposed.
and a most intolerable proportion of
7 L
mas no more than 10000 inhabitants
and two-thirds of these are women.
NJ Isyolkon made a great number
| or observations in the climate of I'll
pei, ana has brought away several
Iloetan books on philosophy, medi-
cine astronomy and history, besides
corrections of prayers and incantations.
written by renowned lamas. The lat
| Ter departments are much more in
the way of Tibetans than philosophv
| and science.
The telephone girls fire drill has
become quite a fad with Assistant
Manager Lawton, of the Central Union
Telephone Exchange at Jndianapolis
and his systematic way to avoid con-
fuslon in case of fire is certainly COM
mendable, says the Western Electri-
| clan. Sixty or more operators are in
the switchboard room at all times dur-
ing the day. AT the sound of the first
Dell all the operators disconnect their
transmltters and take their positions
penlnd their chairs, facing the exit. In
-FOUR seconds all are ready to march
| downstairs in double columns. At the
SOUND OF the second bell it takes but
nIty-seVen seconds for all to get down.
| stairs to the retiring room, and at the
SOUND OF the third bell, just fifty-four
seconds to march back to their places at
the switchboard. In nine more seconds
the operators were again at work. Dur
ing recent fire drill eighty-seven calls
came IN and all operators were in
structed TO report any complaint or
the slightest comment on the deIav in
the service to the chief operator. who
explained to the several patrons whv
| they were delayed. All subscribers
commended the plan.
- Doctors are fairly we'll agraed
that cats can carry diphtheria. and
now number of residents of German
town, in the vicinity of Wayne and
Seymour avenues, would like very
| much 10 know If smallpox can be car
rled through the same agency. On a
lot extending along Wayne avenue he
| low seymour avenue stands a tumble
| down shanty inhabited by a number of
| Italans-fourteen, the neighbors think
! they have counted. Here recently
| tnere was merrymaking and ceisSrs
| ton that lasted far into the night and
to which a number of friends of the
| dWellers in the shanty were invited.
| Immediately afterWard smallpox was
discovered there and now the place is
| quarantlned. A big policeman stands
| at the front door of the shantv and
another one at the back, and thew
! warn all deStrians-principally chill
dren-that the use of the lot as a short
cut is no longer safe. Besides the
human occupants of the shanty, how
ever, are number of cats-not vet
successfully counted by the neighbors
that roam in and out and around the
nelghporhood in way which the DO
| ncemen are powerless to prevent
which fact causes nervousness and
anxiety to the heads of families
throughout the vicinity.
An account of one of the most mar
velous inventions of the age-the hy-
droscope-appears in Pearsons Mag
azine for January, Mention of this
| device has already been made in these
columns. The instrument invented by
| Cavaliere Pine of Genoa enables him
| to look down through the water and
| examine the seas bed as easily as an
| ordinary landscape can be examined
through a telescope; for use in connec-
| tion with this he has invented an "ele-
vator" for raising from the bottom of
the sea any desired object. The con-
| struction of this instrument the tests
already made of it and its future DOS
! sibilitieS are most Interestingly de-
| scribed by DIR. g. Libertacrio, who. as
a personal friend of the inventor, is
in close sympathy with his work. The
field for the use of the hydroscope in
| the recovery of sunken treasure alone
is almost unlimited, and quite out
distance the widest flights of fancy in
which even Jules Verne ever INDUCED.
The figures with regard to shipwrecks
prove what a vast fortune awaits Cav
| aliere Pino," asserts DIR. c. Iibertacrio
is his inventions can be used but for
no purpose other than to raise the
vessels that sink month by month. On
an average $50 vessels. of more than
500 tons, sink every month. Last
| February no fewer than 563 ships went
down, and only one has been recov-
| cred. The value of each ships lost of
above 500 tons, including cargo.
amounts to hundreds of thousands of
dollars, the cargoes, of course, often
being of greater value than the ships.
So there can never be lack of work for
the MICROSCOPE in locating sunken
ships, or for his elevator in raising
| them. This elevator takes the form
! of an entirely new species Of subma-
rine craft, but at present no more may