The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sewage. Heretofore attempts have been
made TO destroy bacteria, but with indiffer-
ent success, as when in its flow large wa
tercourse is reached the chemicals intro
ducad are 50 diluted chat they are prac-
tically useless and the stream is contain
mated. The new method utilities the mi
cro-organisms to purify the sewage, which
is first retained in a tank from which air
and light are excluded. After the bacilli
which thrive under these conditions have
done their work the liquid is passed into
areating troughs, where a different kind
OF organism works upon il. The effluent
from these troughs, after being filtered
through coke, escapes, Clarified, the i'm
purities having been rendered innocuOus
through the agency of bacterial growth.
Quite rivalry exists in different corpor-
ations as to the best microbe to be en-
ployed
just now three nations are each claim
ing the discovery of liquefyfng air Dr.
Dewar, an Englshman, has succeeded
in the experiment several times during
the last year. Prof Linde of Munich
has just announced his success; but DR..
Berthelot of the Academy of Sciences,
Paris, quotes authorities claiming the
monor for France as far back as 17T7.
Prof. Linde is said to have obtained sue
cess at tempera ture of 1871 degrees below
zero This liquid air is milky in appear
a beautiful blue tint NJ. Bertrand states
that the Societe des Amies des Sciences,
at its yearly meeting, in 1896, discussed
Roentgen rays. This year Mr.. Lippman
will show that liquid air was discovered
in England more year ago. The Eng
fish papers state that Prof. Dewar recent
" announced to the Royal Institute that
the temperature of liquid oxygen is con-
slant at 1872 degrees Centigrade below zero.
He showed by experiment and calcula-
ton that when the earth freezes and
all forms of life disappear there will float
above the present ocean of water, long
since changed to ice, and ocean of liquid
air, thirty-three feet deep on the aver
age" word by Lavoisier contains the
| following declaration: IF the earth
should suddenly be placed in regions of
extreme cold there would result new liq-
uids of whose existence we have no idea"
When they cry wolf in the government
of Saratoff, Russia, it means something.
During the last two years the wolves there
have devoured, according to the official re-
turns, 11,CG0 horses, 10000 horned cattle,
$1,000 sheep, 5000 swine, 1000 dogs and 49,
900 fowl. They have also during the same
period attacked sixty-eight persons, de-
vouring two on the spot and infiictng fatal
wounds on twelve others. In France it is
/ estimated that 100000 of these animals ex-
! list and the damage inflicted by them is set
down at about $1,000 COO francs annually
A regular body of men, numbering over
| LOCO, called the Louseterie, is maintained
| to keep down wild beasts, and the force
/ has a certain efficiency, but is unequal to
/ keeping the country clear of them. From
| time TO time high bounties for wolf scalps
/ have been paid, as much as 200 francs in
| the case of a known man-eater, dreaded
| there as the man-eating tiger is in the
| Hindoo villages; but the animal is never
/ 1X tod In hi ses
greater and in others less, but ne is always
| in evidence. In this country he has been
| pretty well put down in the inhibated
parts. A few days ago a prodigious wolf
| drive was set on foot in Atchison county,
! Kansas, five square miles being covered
and 700 persons participating. They round
ed up 200 jack rabbits, but not single
wof Considering his fierce and preda-
tory character abroad and his resistance
to all efforts to destroy him, the Ameri-
can animal must be set down as rather a
meritorious creature, easily amenable to
/ extinction and not so desperately destruc-
tice, even where it continues to maintain
a foothold.-New York Tribune.
The finest and largest collection Of
bibles in the world is said to be that at
the bible house of the British and For
eign Bible Society, in Queen Victoria
| street. London. A writer in a current
and describes some of the famous and Gu
rious bibles he saw there were sixteenth
century bibles with columns and pages
daubed out with red Ochre by the hand
| of the censor; bibles of dead kings and
| queens containing the signatures of their
owners; the wicked Bible" issued in 1922,
which said Thou shalt commit adultery"
and brought a fine of 1000 marks to its
unhappy publisher for Internationally
leading a weak world astray; and the
"Breeches Bible" of 1900, which said that
| Adam and Eve "sewed leaves together
and made themselves brooches" One of
the best manuscript bibles which have
come down from ancient times is a copy
made by Thecla, a noble Christian lady
of Alexandria in the fifth century. 1t was
brought from Alexandria to CONSTANT
nople and given by the patriarch to the
English ambassador for presentation to
his sovereign, James I, and remained in
the possession of the English kings until
the royal library was presented to the ma
ton by George II. Bible printing in Eng
land is done "by privilege of the queen"
| a privilege held by only three establish
| ments, the oxford press, the Cambridge
| press and Messrs. Sottiswoode & Eyre,
| the queens printers. India paper, which
| has revolutionized ALTERNATING, is said
| to be a mechanical mystery and a trade
secret, known to only three men. 1t is
| made at the WolVercote mills of the OK
secret no employe is allowed to be in
| touch with more than one stage of the
| process. The use of this paper has reduc-
| ed the thickness of the bible by one-half.
Mr.. R. Maitland of Westwood, Queens
land, relates the following remarkable
| duel between two kangaroos, witnessed
| in the bush of Australia. 1t was a stand
| up fight as he calls it, of two old men
kangaroos, who took this method in set
| Ting their differences, which it not I'M
common among these animals. Riding
along one evening near shutdown. he
writes, the black boy suddenly pulled up
his horse just as he topped the crest of a
ridge, held up his hand in warning, and
then beckoned to me to join him. When I
| had come alongside him and could look
down into the gully below. 1 stared in
amazement at the scene before me, for
! there, grouped in a circle Of about a hun>
| dred yards or so across, stood some fifty
| or sixty forest kangaroos. every one of
| them erect and looking on with evident in
| terest al the spectacle Of two immense
| "old men," who, In the middle of the ring