The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-24

have been spurred to the greatest activ-
ity The cause and effect are so widely
separated in point of time, however. that
many thousands Will undoubtedly perish
before the relief measures will prove ade-
quate. The spread Of the plague also con-
tlnues without serious cheek.
There have been some hopeful reports
this week in regard to the discovery OF
means of fighting the dreadful infection.
1t is announced that DIR. Yersin, the dis
coverer of the plague balicis and of the
serum for use against the plague, has
ready for immediate use only a quantity
of the serum taken from a single horse.
With this he has already lnoculated twen-
ty-seven persons, of whom twenty-three
were saved. He will have I'm a month a
supply of serum from a hundred small
Tonkinese horses. This viii be sufficient
TO inocuate $4,000 persons, and he can
reckon on obtaining as much every month.
He left for Nyah Thran, In AMMAN, on
Dec. 21, and while passing through India
was invited to stay in Bombay. He de-
clined. as he had no serum, but he will
return after he has obtained some In Nyah
Thran.
Ambassador and Mrs Bayard drove to
st. Pancras whence they took a train for
visit to the Prince and Princess of
Wales. at Sandringham. Mr. Bayard is
naturally much pleased with this mark
of distinction at the hands of the prince,
for II has never happened before, so 1t Is
said, that an American minister has been
entertained as a personal guest by the
heir to the throne. IL is, indeed, another
compensation in addition TO those he re-
Gently mentioned, which more than offset
the criticisms OF those of his countrymen
who do not fully approve of his attitude
as the representative in Great Britain of
the American people.
Preparations, social and otherwise, are
now In full swing for the celebration of
the queens "sexagesimal." That Is the
designation which noble peer writes TO
the Times should be the proper term in
which to describe next Junes jubilee
Hotel quarters are being already en-
gagged, and spectators are buying up
rights TO windows on the probable routes
of the procession. Several big hotels have
already received intimation that their best
quarters will be required for the use of
such OF the queens guests as will not be
! accommodated in Buckingham palace and
the other royal establishments Inquiries
were never before so numerous at the
United States embassy i'm behalf OF Amer
| lean women who desire to be presented at
what is generally believed will be the last
| drawing rooms the queen will ever hold.
There has been quite a budget OF dis
| coveries in connection with the Roentgen
| ray Investigations reported from the con-
| tinent within few days. That reported
| by Prof. Friedrich to the Vienna Academy
! of Sciences is the most important. The
| professor discovered black rays that issue
| from the vacuum tube and pass through
the human body Photographs produced
| by means of these rays which the profess
sor calls critical rays, are not the same
! when taken of a living body as of dead
one. Photographs of living hands show
| the skeleton as in the Roentgen photo
| graphs, while in photographs of the hanC
of dead person, the hand appears in full
showing all the neshy intigument, the
bones remaining invisible 1t is thought
that by means of these rays it can be as
certained whether a person Is really dead
The use of the Roentgen rays as a haiI
| exterminator is also revived. DR. Freund
also of Vienna, tried them upon a boy
whose spine was hidden by an abundant
| crop of hair. DIR. Freund turned the rays
upon the boys back and the superfluous
hair vanished roots and all The boy, no
| longer an infant phenomenon, has been
shown to the medical fraternity of Vienna
and photographs OF his condition before
and after the experiment are circulating in
the city. The Prussian government has
| appropriated $4,000 for Roentgen ray ex-
periments during the current years