The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


the Snow Company, Of Buffalo, for the
Indianapolis Qnd) water works. The en-
gine is not entirely finished or assembled
yet 1t is the vertical type, triple ex-
pansion. with crank and fiywieel and sin
gle-acting pumps. II has a capacity of
z5,09oOD gallons in twenty-four hours
square inch, with a guaranteed duty of
100000 foot-pounds per coo pounds Of
dry steam furnished the engine. The
weight is nearly 900 tons and il will soon
be installed for regular duty.
There are forty state colleges in the
United States. some states having more
than one. and the number of students in
1885 was 1900, which is about one-aifth
OF the total number of students in all the
colleges in the country, says the New
York Tribune. Minnesota educateS the
largest number 3,0l4. at state expense,
Michigan being next with 2,575, then Cal
fornia with 2,40O followed by Wisconsin
with LOCO, Nebraska with 1,5)6 Iowa with
100, and Illinois with 1, 100. Tuition fees
are charged in only six states, the fee in
North Carolina being $50, in South Caro-
lima so, in Iowa SIS, in Missouri $40, in
Oregon so, and in South Dakota So
-Perched high among the Swiss Alps is
the abode of a small and interesting COM
munity, the name of the place being Abb
land Schenen, which, being Interpreted,
signifies an out-of-the-Way locality, says
the New York Tribune. Its people have
no standing army, and therefore never go
TO w1+. They have no fleet, being hum
ton. They have no political bosses or
wire-pullerS and consequently such cleo
tons as they have are pure. They have
no doctors. and, as a rule. only die of
old age. There is no news and no need of
newspaper; the post comes only once a
week; there are no trades and there is
little industry. There is no shopkeeper,
blacksmith, wheelright or public baker no
notary, advocate or policeman. Once
week a Cheap Jack comes. bringing them
all the goods they want and their herds
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the rest. Having little money, they re-
! quire no bank, but they have a church,
with a bell. which, besides its Sabbath
summons, rings for births and funerals
and festivals. 1t is, or was. a New-An-
DORA in its primitiveness. but with run
or tourists thither its Arcadian simplici-
ties would vanish in a season.
Two Swiss tourists were recently lost
| while endeavoring to explore the volcano
of Pinchincha, near Quito, which has
sometimes been yelled for days in thick
darkness by its falling ashes, says an eX-
change. Humboldt assembled it, and de-
| scribes it as forming a wall more than
| eight geographical miles long upheaVed
| over insure in the westernmost Cordil-
| lera nearest to the Pacific ocean. 1t is
surmounted, castle-like, by three success
/ sve submits from southwest to north
1 east, called Cuntur-Guachana Guaga Pr
] chincha and Pichaco de los LadrilloS the
! proper volcano being termed the Fatn-
| err or Old Man" Rucu Pichincha. This
| IS the only part which enters the region
/ It in 1902 Sebastian WISE in 1915, spend
! ing several days and nights in a part of
It's crater, and the English mountaineer
| Whymper in 1876. It's activities are in
| termittent, occurring in general several
/ times IN each century, but it has now for
long time been reasonably quiescent. 1t
/ IS one OF the most interesting volcanoes in
south America or the world. but, as the
| tate OF the Swiss tourists attests, il dis
coufages familiar approach, and there is
good deal yet to learn about it.
mil ..,91 i
in Paris, and is winning lot of more or
less serious attention from the people and
| papers of that novelty-loving city saws
| the New York Times. He is an old man.
named Jourdain, who, before he discov-
! cred that he could heal the sick was a
| farm la bOrer at Chelles in the department
| OF Seine-et-Marne. Jourdain's method is
| highly original, and, thanks to the limit
/ less power of the human imagination il
! seems TO be not less highly successful,
/ and his operating room is constantly filled
with clients. Like other "healers," he
cred1tS his power to the presence in his
body of a mysterious something which ne
calls fluid, but, unlike his predecessors,
/ ne does not communicate this fluid to his
patients by the laying on of hands but to
! Jumps OF sugar, which are afterward APP
j pled TO the aching or diseased believer in
/ occuitlsm. Around the walls of Jour
| dams room are long benches, upon which
| ms patients, often to the number of fifty.
] take their places. In the center is a
stove, near which are two other wooden
/
/ place their paper bags of sugar While
| Jourdaln is operating, perfect silence pre-
| vans among the patients, who watch him
! lntently as he fumbleS about with the
Jumps of sugar. After that ceremony.
Pere Jourdain takes the bags and returns
| them, one by one to their owners, who.
on receiving them, place a few coins con-
/ per OF SILVER, IN proportion to their means,
IN his hand. The miracle man drives such
lucrative trade that he has enlisted the
! services of his nephew. who is Droba blv
| destined to be his successor. as he already
Iumoles the sugar in mastery manner.
-Ihe Agassiz Museum connected with
Harvard University. as the result of a
| special expedition sent to Australia for the
and most extensive coral collections in the
world. 1t is believed that at least twelve
new species have been found. Prof.
Henry Ward, of Rochester, ". Y.
was in charge of the expedition, which
| worked particularly along the reefs of the
| Australian coast. The method of proceed
ure was to sail along the coast at high
tide until reef appeared indicated by a
! greenlSh streak in the water and then 10
wait for the tide to fall. When the top
| of the reef projected above the water the
| men of the expedition rowed to the reef
| in dingies, and landed. after wading in
| the water W to the waist. Here corals
/ OF the most striking and varied forms were
| 20 De found. some composed of clusters of
| branches, reaching up like gigantic stag
horns, others like pinnacles. others dome
| shaped, others with leafy foliage similar
| TO cabbages or lettuce, others with hand
| like projections and all growing together
| in the greatest profusion. Among these
are found many allied forms of fleshy CO.
| rails, gorgOnas or sea whips, and sea
fans, all intermingied with sea anemones
and other zooDhytes of bright colors red,
purple, crimson and yellow. The richness
! of the specimens made selection extremely
! difficult. Some large coral heads dome
/ shaped, and three or four feet in diameter.
were secured. One of the big fellows
weighed two tons, which is unusually
| heavy for a single coral. In this manner
over a thousand miles of coral reef was
| explored. Deep-water specimens were Sc
| cured by divers sent down for the purpose.
/ Prof. Ward returned by way of New Gale
/ donia, the Fiji Islands, the Somoa group
| and the Tongu Islands, all of which were
/ placed under contribution for additions "a
| his collections. A diversion of 1000 miles
/ to New Zealand was made.
Foreign photographers are still exam
lining and discussing with extreme interest
the colored pictures produced by NJ. Ville-
! dieu- Chassagne, says the New York
/ Times. They cannot understand how the
| results they see can possibly be attained
\ in the way the inventor says, and yet, as
! they have been allowed 20 watch the de-
! velopment of plates by the new process,
! they are equally unwilling to admit that
| there is any trickery in the matter. The
/ latest description Of how the work is done
! SAYS that silver print is made from an
/ in tho t1gfIal on