The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-15


lings and not from those which had
not terminated, while their emission
was stopped entirely on using chloro-
from to suspend the vital activity of
the plant.
The Chinese peasant is no longer
content to burn bean oil; he wants
kerosene, says a writer in the Cen
fury. In scores of humble Laos homes
L saw American lamps costing twenty
rupees apiece, and a magistrate proud
~ showed me a collection of nineteen
of these shining articles. The mar
row streets of Canton are brilliant with
German and American chandeliers, and
myriads of private houses throughout
the empire are lighted by foreign
lamps. The desire of the Asiatic to
possess foreign lamps is equaled only
by his passion for foreign clocks. The
demand for clocks in Unsuitable.
counted twenty-seven in the private
apartments of the Emperor of China,
and my wife nineteen in the bed room
of the Empress Dowager, while cheap
er ones tick to the delighted wonder
of myriads of humbled people. The
ambitious Syrian scorns the mud roof
of his ancestors, and will be satisfied
only with the bright red tiles imported
from France.
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the confidence of their clients-per-
haps in a larger measure even than
clergymen-has always been pretty
generally recognized, says American
Medicine. This confidence is, indeed,
freely bestowed in a good many di-
rections, sometimes, in fact, to an en-
tirely unnecessary extent. The ply
stefan is frequently made acquainted
with internal family matters which
have absolutely no bearing upon the
case for the treatment of which he had
been called in, and which are, there
fore, not of nature to exercise the
slightest influence upon such treat
ment. In this way the physician is
sometimes drawn into the position of
general family father confessor. He
will be made the confidante of the hus-
band in regard to things which should
be kept a secret from the wife; the
wife reveals to him things of which
the husband is to know or suspect
nothing; the daughter pours the little
secrets of her heart into his more or
less unwilling ear on the understand
ing that he must not under any cir
cumstances divulge them to her par
ents; and the young man appeals in
the strictest confidence to the doctor
with regard to his sexual experience,
or, rather. lack of experience. The
picture is complete enough without the
special mention of the cook and the
butler. And as the medical father con-
lessor no more than the clerical one
can betray the confidence reposed in
him, he is in the unenviable position
of having something to conceal prac-
tically from every members of the
household with regard to every other
member.
o. % Tho most rama rlx a HE Y1ihv-
steal features of the globe is the deep
and wide depression in the hollow of
which stands in the Caspian sea, and
near to it the Sea of Aral, says the
London Telegraph. The Caspian Is
nearly as large as France, and its
surface is eighty-four feet below the
level of the Black Sea-. The. Sea of
Aral is nearly as large as Ireland, and
is very little over the sea level. With
in recent geological times the vast eX-
panse in which these lakes are found
was sea. It's floor has been graually
raised and the waters filling the de-
pressions are all that is left of an
ancient Mediterranean. A strange
feature of both bodies of water is that,
although they receive large rivers, es-
pecially the Caspian, into which the
Volga, the Ural river and scores of
streams from the Caucasus flow, both
have for many years been getting shall
lower. Evaporation, for they have no
outlet, exceeds the inflow. But, for
some climatic reason probably, like
Lake Aral and it's neighbor, Lake
Balkhash, have since 1891 been increas-
ing in depth. Nature reports that M.
Berg visited Lake Balkhash last sum-
mer,. and found that the level was ris-
ing with comparative rapidly. Where
as the Caspian, like the Dead sea, is
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grafton, Aral and Balkhash are brack-
ish only. These remnants of what was
once a great sea opening into the
ocean, as the Mediterranean does now,
still contain marine fish and seals
Some of the latter survive in the Aral
and Baikal lakes, having gradually be-
come fitted for their habitat, though
it is no longer salt, but merely brack-
ish. and, in the case of Bafkal, ac-
tually fresh water.
All cities, with few exceptions, trace
the origin of their plan to the incloscd
camp, and many still show marked
features of primitive Notifications, says
Architects and Builders Magazine. In
all early schemes for defense the in
closed square was considered the best
From the time when wagons were
merely parked on the plain to the time
when buildings were constructed with
blank walls to the enemy. and their
facade to the open square, this plan has
been universally adopted; ard many of
the great squares or market places of
famous cities still show undeniable evil
dences of these precautions for defense.
In the old city of Brussels the square
upon which faces its wonderful city
hall is approached by streets so narrow
that they must surely have been con-
structed with the idea Of defense in
mind. Were it possible to forecast the
rapid development of cities or to pre-
dict which of our many cities is to be-
come a metropolis. the problem might
not be such difficult one. but such.
unfortunately, is not the case. Even
the most vivid imagination would
scarcely have been able to predict the
enormous increase OF population and
the consequent architectural develop
ment of modern cities. The rapid
growth OF American cities Is well
known. hut few realize that the older
cities OF Europe have had a similar ex-
perience. The recent increase IN Ber-
lin has exceeded that OF Chicago, ana
what IL true OF Berlin Is true OF many
other European centers. IL n then not
surprising 20 note that IN Hanover.
Hamburg, Neuremberg. Leipaio Leig-
niik, 81, Johann . snar and MadFe-
burg modern municipal buildings or
great Importance have recently been or
aIa nov being constructed