The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-30
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-oolHe curious experiments nave
been made at one of the royal philan-
thropic institutions in Copenhagen.
For some years back the seventy boys
and girls in the place have been care
fully weighed every day in groups of
fifteen and under. Thereby it is proved
that the children gain weight mostly
in autumn and in the early part of De-
cember. From that time till the end
of April there is scarcely any increase
in weight. More remarkable still,
there is diminution till the end of
summer.-Chicago Tribune.
of the Topeka agency is the name of
a man who has served in three wars
and is 100 years old. He is Thomas e.
Sauls of Webb City, Mo-, where he
conducts a little shoe shop and makes
living in spite of his hundred years.
He was born in Tennessee in 1903. He
was soldier in the Seminole, the Mex
lean and the Civil wars. In the Civil
War he was d sergeant of the Sixth
Kansas Cavalry. That was after he
had passed so. After the Mexican War
he represented the county of his ma
tivity in the Tennessee Legislature
While he lived in Tennessee he was a
lawyer. His pension is $50 a month
and was granted by special act of
Congress.
Though Japan be the latest coun-
try to enter the circle of world pow
ers, her Emperor surpasses all SOW
ereigns in the length of his pedigree,
according to the London Chronicle.
He is the 1920 member in direct. I'M
broken descent of his family who has
sat on the throne of Japan. The found
er of his house was, in Japanese le-
gend a goddess of the sun, and con-
temporary with Nebuchadnezzar, 666
years before the Christian era. On the
other hand the Romanoffs have been
royal only since 1901, when they sue
ceeded to the sovereignty of the then
extinct house of Rurik. AS for other
European rulers, King Edward can go
back to Cerdic, 495 A. D., the Haps-
burgs to 1926 A. D., and the Hohenzol-
Terms to the eighth century, but as
kings only to 1701.
The Egyptian Pantheon was most
rich in animal symbolism, not aadeity
but had some bird or beast consecra-
ted to it's service and in some way
participant of the formers divine at
tributes. There was the hawk, sacred
to Ra, the all-seeing Sun; there was
the null, sacred to the beneficent Osi-
ris, and tina COW, consecrated to his
sister and Consort, Isis, the mysterious
All-mother. The crocodile was the
symbol of the terrible Typhon, god of
Death. The gentle goddess of Night
had her sacred cats: Thoth, the wise
had his ibises and cynochephalous
apes. The ram was devoted to the
worship of Chnuphis, and also to KEN,
the goat-headed god of Generation;
and lastly we find the iackal, belong
ing to the weird mummy god Annubis.
All these creatures except the croco-
ollie, says a writer in Outing, were
recipients of divine honors in the tenn
Piles of their patron deities during life,
and at death they were buried with
their images made in countless statues,
amulets. carvings, papyri and mural
ferscoes.
The greatness of little things finds
frequent illustration in railroad oper-
alton. A case has just been discovered
where, nine years ago, an error of 5
cents was made in the computation of
a rate sheet between two given points,
says the Railway and Engineering Re-
view. 1t was found upon investigation
that as a result of this error the two
railroads operating between the two
points have lost upward of ST., 900 dur
ing that time. This shows why rail-
roads are so strenuously opposed to
what are considered inconseauenti1l
reductions in rates. The business in
question was simply the passenger
traffic between Dallas, Tex, and a
small town located a few miles away.
1t is the multiplication of the little
things that so seriously affects rail-
way revenues. The loss of a fraction
of cent per hundred pounds on some
commodities means thousands, if not
millions of dollars, to the railroads,
and makes the difference between
profit and loss. 1t is only by the most
jealous care that railroads are en-
abled to maintain their revenues on a
paying basis, and it is for this reason
that the value of little things is so well
understood by railway officials gener
ally.
old refinery men like to tell of the
days before the discovery of petroleum
by-products, when crude oil was refined
principally for illuminating oil, and