The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-14
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museum at Constantinople any precious
antiquities they may discover. The fact
is that, unlike the conquering Moslem of
Central Asia who, under Mahmoud of
Ghazni, destroyed the Buddhist antiqui-
ties, the sultans of Turkey have all been
Psychologists in a way Mohammed 1.-The
Conquerer" slew a priest whom he saw
defacing the Cathedral Of St. Sophia. The
present Sultan Abdul Hamid has already
equipped the national museum at Constan-
tinople with some of the greatest of the
worlds archaeological treasures. 1t must
be remembered that even the Acropolis
came to grief chiefly through Athenian
neglect and not from Turkish vandalism.
Little girls who play with their dolls
may be interested to know what sets the
fashion in dolls eyes, says the Philadel-
phia Record. When Queen Victoria as
cended the throne sixty years ago, she
was fair and had very blue eyes, where
upon blue eyes became all the. fashion,
ana all the loyal dollmakers of her king
dom began sending blue-eyed dolls from
their factories. In Italy and Spain, where
all the great beauties have olive skins and
dark, handsome eyes a blonde doll is
quite uncommon. japanese dolls have
twinkling. beady eyes, set in their heads
aslant' while the gayly-dressed dolly from
singapore looks from her copper-colo red
black eyes, quite different in expression
from either the Spanish or Chinese beau
mes. Thus every country has it's national
doll standard of beauty
Miss Edith Bartlett of 80 Wooster
street has talking robin that is the won
der of the neighborhood, says an Albany
On. " dispatch to the New York Sun.
Miss Bartlett found the robin on the side
walk in front of her home a year ago
The bird had toppled out of it's nest, and.
being too young to fly, was in great dam
ger of being killed by cats She rescued
the bird and took it into her house pro-
vided it with cage, and soon became ten
DERBY attached to it. The robin thrived
wonderfully, was as happy as the day is
long, and watched with eager interest all
the actions of the family, Early this
spring the robin surprised its mistress by
initiating speech. Under Miss Bartletts
careful training, it is now able to saw a
NUMBER or words intelligently. The words
Hurry up! Hurry up" it utters with
startling distinctness. The robin also sue
cessfully initiates the whistles of a va
riety of birds. Thus far, however it has
not been able to learn any tunes, although
IL pays the closest attention to the music
of the piano.
The woodpecker, bird as common in
Northern Europe as In North America.
mas a peculiar method of providing food
for the long winter months, says the Phil
adelphia Record. During the summer It
prepares storage magazine in which no
lay up provisions and in the fall it collects
acorns in numbers. which it deposits in
the places provided for their reception.
Inc knocking sound of the woodpecker
hammering against the tree is quite famil-
lar' even in our Cline 1t was not known.
however, that these birds also select tele
graph poles in which they bore holes to
serve as receptables for their stores. and
the rather unusual spectacle of a wood
peckers magazine at the top of a tall tel
egrapn pole was seen recently in a Ger
man city, when that pole was replaced by
d new log. The top was perforated on all
sides with holes large enough to hold IN
acorn ana the presence of some of these
nuts, together with the shells of broken
ones, showed that the bird was still using
TINS pole for storage house. Even while
the work of removing the pole was going
on the woodpecker came to save his
acorns, hylng to a little grove of trees
nearby and returning every few minutes
Tor more. huttering around the pole with
an evident sense of despair at being
robbed of his convenient magazine, which
was inaccessible to other birds as thew
could get no foothold on the pole, and
serves.
In an editorisS notice of the new tuber-
culin the Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal says that lin Koch's article. as
originally published in a British journal.
mention is made of the commercial house
charged with preparing and selling the
new products. In short the new tubercu-
lin has become a proprietary preparation
with exclusive rights conferred on a GER
tam nrm. Koch's article, in a true COM
merclal spirit, was withheld from publica-
ton five months. till this pharmaceuti-
cal house was ready to supply the market;
then the new discovery was trumpeted
through the secular press some time be-
fore the publication of the article and tele-
graphed abroad with the name of the firm
favored with the sale of the new product
The Berlin medical press and some of the
Paris medical journals have very proper
~ denounced the whole transaction as
unworthy of a man of Koch's scientific
eminence." But this is apparently not
the worst of the business, IL the charge
made by Dr. Hans Buchner is true, as
serts the New York Medical Record He
asserts that the commercial house which
is making koch's remedy was told by Ed
ward Buchner all about a similar process
for extracting the active principe from
yeast He says also that he published an
article in the Munchener Medicinsche
Wochenschirft March q in which he spoke
of Edward Buchner's dicovery, and that
Immediately the daily press announced
Koch's alleged discovery and the article
in the Deutsche Medcinische Wochen-
schrift came out the following week, but
dated back four and one-half months.
Koch has gone to Bombay to study the
plague, but when he returns he may proba-
bly, spend a day or two in clearing him
self of these ugly charges. If perchance he
can.
Far up on the left shoulder of Bald
mountain is the old Higgenbottom mine.
says the Denver Times. 1t is an old mine,
SO old and so long abandoned that even To-
cal tradition concerning ii is very hazy.
There is an old trail leading down from Il.
dim and hardly traceable, bearing easter
~ and north around Black Top. and out
over nj Wot hill over this trail IL is
said, ore came down, hundreds Of tons
OF It, and by OK teams was dragged over
the rough country thirty miles TO the
smelter at Central City. In those DAYS il
cost $50 ton to smelt ore, $50 more 10
freight IL In, so to pack it down the trail