The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-11
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rachs has long had a standing order from
Mr.. Rhodes that any animal that will in
the estimation OF the head of that firm,
tend TO render the Grooteschuur collection
more complete is to be at once shipped to
South Africa.
Nine. Jindriska Peslova, of Prague,
in whose honor the Bohemian women Of
Chicago recently held a celebration, is
the most distinguished woman in the Aus
trian empire. Her chief work has been
the building in Prague of q magnificent
woman's building, which cost 500, 900, and
which is the center of woman's activities
IN that empire. Every year 1000 Bohemian
young women are here prepared for the
University of Prague.
"A man named Cooper, of Newark-on-
Trent, asserts that he is the first person
that ever voted for Mr.. Gladstone as a
parliamentary candidate. He was an en-
thusiastic Conservative at the 1892 cleo
ton, and presented himself at the polls
long before they We're opened. By a blum
der the booth in front of which he stood
was opened four minutes before the legal
time, so that Mr.. Cooper's vote was taken
before the other booths had opened.
"A new method of preserving wood from
decay, known as the Haskin process, is
being tried on large scale in England.
lilSledu OL NltuuIdWlnS the sap ana IN
jecting croosote or some other antiseptic
substance as is usually done, Mr.. Haskin
submits the wood to superheated air, under
a pressure of fourteen atmospheres. By
this process, it is averred the cap is chemi-
caly changed into a powerful antiseptic
mixture, which, by consolidating with the
fiber, strengthens as well as preserves the
wood.
W. H. Wheeler draws attention in Ma
ture to the effect of gales on tldeless lakes
and seas, which, he says, is al times so
marked as to cause considerable inconVen-
fence and anxiety 10 mariners Thus in the
Caspian sea a gale will raise the water Oh
one side six feet and depress it on the
other as much, making total difference
of level of twelve feet. In the Baltic east
erly gales will alter the level upward OF
eight feet. In Lake Erie depressions and
elevations of from two TO four feet are
common, while occasionally heavy gales
have produced a difference of level of up
ward of fifteen feet.
r. Brudenell Carter in a lecture before
the London Society of Arts, directs atten-
! ton, says the Medical Times. to the fact
| that acuteness of vision may be increased
| by training. He suggests that the aver
| age acuter vision of country over town
children is due to the fact that the latter
| see chiefly large objects, under large visual
angles, while the former are habitually at
| tending to smaller and more distinct OBJ
| jects, seen at smaller angles. He suggests,
| therefore, that school teachers should be
| instructed to test the vision of new pupils
| and record the same in a register inform
| ing the parents of any defects observed.
Recent experiments with improved in
struments for measuring the velocity of
projectiles have shown that the speed
| goes on increasing after the missile has
| left the mouth of the cannon. Leaving the
| muzzle with a velocity of about 1.474 feet
| in a second, a prOjectile has been observed
TO increase its speed by about ,6S9 feet
| PER second within the first six feet It is
| only after having Travelled about twenty
| five yards that the proiecties velocity
| becomes reduced to the speed that it had
| on leaving the muzZle. This is ascribed
! TO the impulse of the expanding gas be-
/ ing felt for some distance beyond the cam
mons mouth.
The collection of old boots and shoes
of celebrated people is now pursued by
numbers of royal and noble European per-
| sonages, who are ready to pay almost any
! price for the coveted objects. saws an ex-
| change. The Queen of Italy is an en-
! thusiast in this pursuit. She possesses
| the shoes of Marie Antoinette, of Mary
| Stuart, the Empress Josephine, Queen
1 Anne and the Empress Catherine Of Rus
| sia. Lady Ermyntrude Malet, wife of the
! British ambassador at Berlin has a choice
| and rare collection, including an embroid-
| cred slipper of Lucreza Borgia. Carmen
| Sylvia makes a speciality of the boots of
1 celebrated soldiers, and has a pair which
! once belonged to Peter the Great. and an
| other said to have been worn by Ivan the
1 Terrible.
The American Cultivator says that the
original Greening apple tree is still stand
ing on the farm of Solomon browne. at
! Mount Hygeia, in North Foster, r. l. The
| tree was a very old one when the farm
| was sold in 1901. The seller informed the
| purchaser that 1t was a pity the old tree
! was going into decay, as it produced the
| best truit of any tree in the orchard The
| purchaser determined to see how long he
| could keep it alive, and it still survives
after almost another century has been
| added to its venerable years But It shows
| signs OF hnal decay, and the parent of all
| the famous Rhode Island greetings, which
! has set its CRAFTS on the orchards of al
most all the world will soon be but a
| neighborhood memory. 1t is doubtful II
| there is more famous apple tree to he
| found in all Pomonas groves from end To
end Of the earth.
In a communication in the current num-
| 30 u ZIG A1NACLtAlC american, RTOI. Holm
w. Mallet of the University of Virginia
presents some interesting facts about ciga
rettes. He says, among other things: ''Ig-
| norance of easily ascer1ainable scientific
facts is however. common enough. as is
| often illustrated by the brown, oilv mate
rlai formed In the nicotine, though in real
! ity this is merely the tar produced bv the
| actlon OF heat on the woody fiber OF the
leaf Nicotine when pure is a colorIess
fluid Of somewhat oily consistence ans
! strong, peculiar, penetra ting odor. but i,
| darkens on exposure to air and light he
| coming first yellow and then brown sn
! that u looks, in this darkened condition
| something like the tarry matter which
| soils a smokers fingers or handkerchief
4 through which tobacco smoke is exhaled
l or is often noticed as deposited in me
stem of pipe. This tarry deposit has
| nothing essential in common with nicotine
| and contains but traces of this alka1oid
when any at all A part, but only a small
| part (about one-seventh in the experiments
| of Meisens), of the real nicotine of TO-
! bacco Is volatized without accommodation.
| the remainder is burned and DESTROYED an
| the process of smoking. The seneationel
| statements