The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

effort is to be made to transplant them
As there are no wagons in Paris big
enough to carry them, the city is going to
build monster cart, to cost not less than
5000 francs. In this forty or fifty vener-
able chestnut trees viii be transferred to
the BOis de Boulogne, in hopes that they
may survive transplantng.
The Society of Arts has on exhibition
specimens of the new Dansac process of
color photography, which is creating deep
interest among both scientists and anna
tours, says the New York Times London
cable. 1t carries the problem up TO the
very threshold of achievement for the
pictures are products of a single negative
and a single printing operation The only
trick is that the negative, before expos
ure, is treated with secret solution, and
the print, after toning and drying, is
dipped into the same solution and then
passed in succession through blue, green,
and red solutions, from each of which it
absorbs all the color it needs of that sort.
In this way the picture automatically
paints itself in the most delicate and nat
ural intermediate unts, all created out
of these primary colors, and the results
shown are certainly marvellous.
For many years ranchmen have been
trying to devise schemes for exterminat-
ing or partially reducing the wolves which
worth of young cattle, particularly sheep,
says Wyoming letter Bounties on scalps
were found to be too slow and many
ranchmen employed regularly force of
men to poison the pests. Emil Stritz has
finally arranged plan of incubation that
he has demonstrated will soon destroy all
the wolves in the west. He has a poison
that produces hydrophobia within ten
days He has captured a number in traps
and experimental with them. The result
is that they have rushed into the hills and
are supposed to spread the plague among
all of their kind. He has released a num-
Der of these victims and they have been
heard from, or at least wolves showing
undeniabie traces of hydrophobia have
been seen in various sections. The lnVen-
tor is young man and is working TO nave
the Stockmen's Association contract with
him for the determination OF all the
wolves in the state. The chief obstacle
to the agreement is his inability to give
the stockmen assurance that the wolves
will not in turn bite the stock and spread
the disease all over the range, with the
most disastrous results to all kinds OF
stock.
A German scientist has tackled the
problem of the stovepipe hat, says the
New York Tribune. His explanation of
the place of that piece of headgear IN
the general scheme of things Will Till
long-felt want. Incidentally it may cause
a social revolution. He says that man
has gone a step further than woman in
the social evolution, and that whereas he
once wore, as women does now, flowers
and feathers on his head, he has now
come to the conclusion that his cranlal
beauty is when unadorned adorned the
most" Hence the shiny stovepipe Alas,
that this explanation, though plausible, IS
not convincing! A German scientist Is, oil
EnnaEinR mere
chine into which you feed facts and get
out theories, but in such a matter as this
he is only frail humanity, and is liable
to have his judgment warped by his pref
udices. What a tale of domestic tragedy
NAV lie wrapped in the pessmism of his
theory! The idealism of the courtship,
the rude shock of the first post-nuptial
milliners bill, the rapid succession of
similar shocks throughout the matrimonial
experience, comparable only to an cleo
trio battery getting in it's fine work, and
then finally utter an ungallant cynicism!
Why does not some woman rise like him
with ponderous scientific verbiage to the
defense of the theater hat? 1t needs it..
There is in Natal-or at least so the
natives say-a kind of snake which, if its
domestication were possible, might make
less important the question of municipal
gas works, says the New York Times. For
this serpent, according to the stories tod
about it, is provided with an Illuminating
apparatus beside which that of other light
bearing creatures. including men with Ian
terms, is hardly worth consideration. The
reptile is supposed to frequent swamps or
| lakes and it is of a size so vast that on
an occasion when one of the species was
attacked and killed by a Boer hunting
party, its carcass filled two wagonsi In
fact the animals proportions are almost
unlimited. The light emitted by this
monster is said to be bright and dazzling
| in the extreme, and easily discerned from
a distance of several miles Some of the
negroes call the snake "umningi," while
| by others 1t is known as the ''ivimbela," a
| name also applied TO a serpent whose
dwelling is in the sea, and whose powers,
though great and marvellous, are not dis
| played in lakes and rivers or fraught with
magic light No European traveller has
ever seen one of these snakes but the
Zulus declare that they are not uncommon
in pools of the Umvoti river, and that they
are white in color, except for few brown
| patches. It is thought by some that these
| tales may have a foundation in fact as
there are great birthstone caves i'm parts
of Natal, and in them there may be a
! phosphorescent fauna not yet studied or
even seen by civilized men. Another pc
culiar inhabitant of the seme region-stil
on native authority-is the "intokoioch."
1t is a species of dwarf or manikin, akin in
| is amphibious like the lamp snake, and
bears a character not unblemished.
"A very readable book has lately been
published dealing with the genesis and
history of popular phrases, many of which
are found to have so lapsed in course of
time from their original meanings that
the work of tracing them has immense
| interest and excitement for the word
hunter. ITO sleep like a top" is one of
the phrases which seem at first consider
alton absolutely unmeanng. 1t is a cor
ruption of the French proverb "dormir
CONNIE une taupe"-to sleep like a mole.
| A "toad-eater' is one who does the most
nauseous things to please his patrons
as in olden times the mountebanks' boys
used to eat toads In order to show the
skin of their masters in expellng poison.
| ITO put i'm apple-pe order" is explained
| by the history of a certain Hepzibah
Merton, who lived in puritan times and
was accustomed every Saturday to bake
two or three dozen apple-pes, which we're
to last her family through the week.
| These she placed carefully on her pantry
| shelves. labeled for each cay of the week
so thatTuesday's pies might not be con-
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