The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-03
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which can, by mailing it to the firm
with his name and address on 1t in
sure his life for $500 for twenty-four
hours against travel accidents.
Heinrich Vogel a well-known Ger
man portrait painter, who, however,
4 has not done any work for three de-
1 cades, has left his whole property, val
| ued at S250,000, for the founding OF a
charitable institution for artists.
One of the greatest ambitions that
| Japan has conceived since the begin
ming of her modern era is to become
| first class commercial power in the
| Pacific, and she has trebled her inter-
| national commerce in ten years.
Eagles have been noticed flying at
a hight of 5000 feet and storks and
buzzards at 1000 feet. A lark will rise
! to the same hight, and so VIII crows
! AS a rule, however, birds do not ny
at a greater hight than 1000 feet.
Gustav Kohn of New Orleans has
presented to Tulane University his
priceless natural history collection,
! which comprises every living creature
native to Louisiana, besides a sc1ent1nc
| library of 1000 valuable volumes.
For sixteen centuries the inhabi-
| tants of Beziers, in South France, have
| held the camel sacred, for in $50 A. D.
! St. Aphrodise, mounted on one of these
animals, evangelical the city. In their
4 museum they preserve a curious pa
pier-mache effigy of camel
1t is predicted that in a generation
or two the japanese will be as tall
as the average European or American.
| The japanese spine is as long as ours
| The shortness of leg is due to the now
| abandoned habit of sitting upon the
| ankles, by which the arteries were
'kinked' and the growing bones there
by deprived of proper nourishment
n. r. H. Prince Unsengangacona
Umhlangan Umbelazi Cetewayo, who
has been living in London lodgings for
| some time, is about to return to Zulu
/ land, where, he says, he will discard
European clothing at once, and resume
skins, beads, feathers and leg bracelets.
| He can speak Zulu, Kaffir English,
| Dutch, French, Portuguese and Span
| ish.
Prof. Friedrich Hirth, of Munich,
has invented an ingenious bedside ap-
| paratus by which a person can tell
In0 CllIl6 with udIuly eAAIy AAAONOiAANAAN'
! The invention consists of a lamp, which
on a button being pressed throws upon
| the ceiling an optical representation
of a small watch lighted by electricity
! The figure is sharp and distinct, and
| is enlarged to the size of church
| clock.
Two physicians of the Hamburg
Institute for Tropical Diseases-Messrs.
| RI
| South America for the purpose of
studying yellow fever. They are sup
| piled with considerable means furnish
| ed by shippers and merchants of Ham
| burg. In addition to scientific studies
they are to collect information with
reference to the new preventive
measures now used in South America
against yellow fever.
The Chicago Board of Education
has condemned the vertical system of
writing. Through it's official bulletin
the board says ''It is an injustice
to the child to impose a system of
| handwriting upon him and force him
to adhere to it through his growing
! years at the cost of not only suppress
ing his individuality in this acquired
mode of expression, but also at the
sacrifice of his time and the mental
HueIlCy that COHlGS With Tie ease
which accompanies a mode of express
sion fitting the individuals charac-
! teriStics."
The Saffron Walden Board of
Guardians in England has adopted a
| novel idea of getting rid of the able
bodied men from the workhouse. One
| day in each week all the able-bodied
men are sent out to seek work
,s-L .,a, l.o1o
| They are each provided with a days
| food and a printed slip of paper for
the employers in the respective par
| ishes to sign If they can not give them
work. By this system many of the
men have found work. If upsuccess-
! full they can return to the workhouse
when their paper is full of signatures.
-Corley Hall farm, a picturesque
English homestead on the main road
between Nuneaton and Corley, is to be
offered at public auction. Within a
| short distance was born the Warwick
shire novelist, George Eliot. and in
| Adam Bede" Corley Hail farm fis ured
| conspicuouSly. Here it was that the
immortal Mrs. Poyser lived, and with
her the unfortunate Hetty Sorrel.
| George Eliot described the place as
| it was in the earlier half of the nine
teenth century. Since then it has
undergone considerable renovation, but
| is still yearly visited by tourists from
| all parts of the world.
A contractor with very large ex-
! perience in Portland cement work, par
ticularly in the making of walks and
floors, asserts that he has never used
any mixture of cement and sand for
such purposes that has not been nota-
| bly, improved in wearing qualities by
| exchange. Nor has he ever taken up
work where black and gray tiles alter
mated in which the gray tiles were not
| inferior When Mr.. j. G. Plant finish
| ed the Phoenix building in Minneapo-
| lis with Portland cement tile floors in
| corridors and offices the idea was so
new as to be classed with the expert
| ments. Red and gray tiles were used,
| and the difference in the two is very
noticeable at present and all in favor
| of the colored tiles. Lampblack is gen.
orally used for coloring these tiles
black, and in the absence of expert
ence one would not predict advantage
to come from its use, but so much evil
| dence in favor of the colored tiles must
| be taken as conclusive.
The voyage of the oil-burning
American steamer Nebraskan from San
Diego, Cal. to this port is remarka-
| BILE for the continuous distance steamed
| and for the good average speed and
| the great economy in fuel consumption
| and in the fixed charges of handling
| the boiler power, says the New York