The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tic navigation by the Swedish expedition
under DR.. Nathorst, which. after consid-
cradle Nlcissitudes, has succeeded in cir
communicating the Island of Spitzbergen.
The expedition, in It's vessel, the Antarc-
tic, left TrOmso on June S. and has been
engaged ever since in photographic oper-
atoms and in surveying such islands as it
touched at. A rich crop of geological, 70
illogical, and botanical observations mas
been acquired as well, and the whole re-
suits of the trip are such as Sweden may
we'll be proud of
"A patient at the age of 10 years frac-
tured his right index finger, says the Lam
Get 1t happened on Aug &c. When 10
years old he fractured MS left leg below
the knee, through falling from horseback,
also on Aug. 20. When IA years of age he
fractured both bones of the left forearm
by stumbling, his arm striking the edge Of
a brick (Aug. 30. In another year, on
Aug. 70, when Is years of age he had a
compound fracture of the left leg above
the ankle by his foot being caught under
an iron rod and his body falling forward.
Next year, again on the same date, Aug
26, he had compound fracture of both legs
the right being SO severely crushed that
1t had to be amputated al The lower third
of the thigh. After this he did not work
on Aug. 26 for twenty-eight years, but in
tAAC SCetA loJV ne ACISOt ItS ldtGIQI QaY ana
went to work, with The result that he sus-
tanned compound fracture of the left leg.
Now he carefully avoids working on the
disastrous date, though never missing
work at other times.
The use of the diamond saw for cut
ting stone is facilitating the erection of the
buildings for the exhibition of 1900 at Pa
RS. This new circular saw is due to NJ
FellX fromholt a Partisan engineer. The
diamonds which form the cutting teeth
OF the saw are common crystals, worth
about $3.50 a carat, and they are fixed
In steel disk over six feet in diameter.
which is mounted on a spindle and re-
VOWED by steam power. like an ordinary
clrcuiar saw. FoW saving hard stones
there are 200 diamonds in the cutting edge
and the speed is 300 turns a minute II ad-
Fances into the stone about a foot in that
time. For soft stones the teeth are OF
steel, with diamonds at intervals of every
fiVe teeth, and at a speed of twelve turns
a minute the saw advances about a ward
in that time. The new saw has been at
work in the workshops of the Champs
Elysees for several months, and has Civ
en- every satisfaction It cuts and dresses
the stone on all sides and gives it sharp
outlines. Moreover, it does so at one
eighth to one-tenth the cost of hand la
Dor. saw of this kind with an alterna-
tive movement Saving stones -FOUR TO
six feet high, is to be set up.
We hear of strange comp anionships in
nature, of polypes growing near the
mouths of crabs, and subsisting on crumbs
that fall; of birds to which the croco-
die opens its jaws. in order that 1t may
be freed from leeches, says the New York
Times Common interest often Joins the
most oddly assorted couples in an intl-
mate mutual relationship known as sym
biosis," or else in a joint feeding arrange
ment, which is classified under the term
''commensalism." A third state in this CON
ditlon of things is "parasitism, " in which
as a rule, the interest is all on one side
A very interesting case of this latter las
just been decided by some African sports
men. 1t appears that the horns of ante
lopes are occasionally found to have been
pierced by certain larvae or grubs, which
spin their cocoons therein. There has long
been discussion as to how and when this
took place, but it has been made certain
of late that the larvae attack the horns
of living animals, specimens having Jeen
taken from the horns of freshly killed an
telopes, and identified with Tlnea vastel-
la, moth commonly found in Africa and
India. The eggs are presumably laid and
Matched on the horns, without the animal
being conscious of them.
For some weeks past. says the New
York Times, the sea off certain parts of
our coasts has been bright with phos-
phorescence, flashing at night when an
oar or a wave breaks the surface Into
streams of sparkling brllnants At some
places where the phosphorescence is most
noticeable, if hand be dipped into the
water, il comes out covered with minute
cleaning points, making the presence of
animalculae swimming the surface who
possess this power of luminescence. In a
recent number of Nature occur two indie
pendent descriptions of similar but rarer
phenomena-one the observation in the In
dian ocean of a milk-white sea, and The
other an account of some of the wonder
fully beautiful geological organisms
dredged up in the Sound of Skye by Sir
Wyville Thomson; forests of pavonariae
respondent with a pale lilac phosphores-
cence, like the fame of cyanogen gas
ophiacantha, glowing like bright green
stars; pinnatulae, vrgulariae, and gorgoa-
iae, shining with a lambent light strong
enough to tell the time by; even the mud
itself, at $50 fathoms, was fun of luminous
specks The subject of phosphorescence
has lately come to the front in connection
with Rontgen rays and other similar phe-
nomena, but the action of these marine
organisms, which possess it in such a
remarkable degree, would afford a rich
as well as attractive, field for research.
One often observes when reading of the
demise of a celebrity that a mask was
taken by Mr.. So-and-So. the celebrat ted
sculptor, soon after the death, but really
few people know how this is carried out
They might have some idea that plaster
of paris is put over the dead mans face
but there the idea ends, rays writer in
the Standard Magazine. A mask from life
is taken almost precisely in the same way
as after death, save that much greater
care has to be used. as the subiect's life
hangs on a very thin thread, or, TO be
more precise, two small quilts. 1t requires
a great deal of nerve and patience to I'M
dergo, the sensation being most disagree
able. When a mask from life is about 10
be secured the subject reclines on a long
table and towels are placed around his
neck and forehead to prevent the plaster
going where not intended The face is
slightly creased. but not enough to fill
the pores of the skin. Care has to be es-
pecially taken with the eyelashes, as 9TH
erwise, in the subsequent operations, these
are likely to be pulled off, which would not
be exactly pleasant. A small Quill is now
inserted in either nOStrt n low the sinh