The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09
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York and Brooklyn bridge he renamed the
Roebling bridge, in honor of the late John
A. Roebhng, the pioneer successful sus-
pension bridge builder.
During the holiday seasons, says the
Philadelphia Record. when the department
stores are crowded with shoppers, the
force of detectives employed in these es-
adjustments is greatly increased. One Of
the largest stores employing this season
several men entirely new a the business,
and, as they were unknown TO each other,
a laughable mistake was the result. one
of these amateur sleuths. who prides HIM
self on his Watchfuiness, was standing in
the pocketbook department when he no.
ticed a man acting suspiciously. Wishing
to be certain, he drew off, and, sure
enough, he saw the man transfer hand
some pocketbook from the counter 10 his
pocket He was just about to place the
thief under arrest, when the idea struck
him that it would be a feather in his cap
TO capture him with a lot of booty on his
person Accordingly the shoplifter was
logged throughout the store, the shad-
over having to act very cautiously, as
he was afraid the crook would suspect
that he was being followed. While this
was going on, amateur detective No.
came along and saw the first sleuth dodg-
ing around and acting in a very sus-
unknown to each other, No. 2 at once
jumped to the conclusion that No. 1 was
crooked, and decided to arrest him be-
fore he left the place. By this time the
real thief had loaded uD with various
articles and started to edge out of the
store. Detective No. hurried after him,
and, just as the door was reached, pre-
pared to grab his man, when he felt
clutch at his arm. 1t was detective NO.
2, and, although his colleague tried to
explain, he laughed at what he thought
an ingenious story. The true facts came
out later, but the real crook has not been
caught
The canning industry has made such
vast strides all over the world, and notably
IN America. that this method of preserv-
| ing foods has formed the subject of in
uuiry at the hands of the bacteriologist
AS in Baltimore alone 100000 bushels Of
oysters are annually canned and the
United States is responsible for 120,000000
cans of tomatoes, and of other articles,
such as fish, of various kinds, fruits, etc.
| in similarly large numbers it is remarka-
! BILE that Messrs. Prescott and Underwood's
| paper "Micro-organisms and Sterilizng
| Processes in the Canning Industry" pub
| lished in the Technology Quarterly, should
| be the grst contribution to so important
a subject These gentlemen have special
| ly studied the bacterial flora of canned
! clans and Holsters which have broken
| down, or, in other words, been imperfectly
! preserved. In every case where spelling
| had occurred, bacteria were present in
| large numbers while in no instance were
! any discovered in sound cans. Sometimes
only single variety, or pure culture of
| q particular microbe, was found in I'M
| sound cans, but usually the latter con-
| tanned a mixture of several species. Nine
different bacteria were selected and iso-
! lated for subsequent study, both as re-
| CARDS their microscopic and microscopic
| appearances; two of these were cocci, the
remainder bacili forms. These bacteria
were afterward inoculated into the con-
! tents of sound cans, with the result that
| the latter invariably decomposed. Expert
| mentS were also made to test the method
! of applying heat to canned articles which
| would most effectually destroy the chances
| of these micro-oganisms surviving and
| spelling the contents. Their investiga-
| tons go to show that, given a proper con-
| troll of the temperature, 1t is possible to
| preserve CLAIMS and Holsters with absolute
| certainty, and in a more perfect condition
that has hitherto been possible.
The triangular bridge at Croyland, in
Lincolnshire, says Lloyd's Newspaper. is
probably not only the most ancient bridge
| in England, but on account of it's pecu-
| liar construction one of the greatest curl
osities in Europe. 1t is built in the mid
| die of the town at the confluence of the
Welland and the Meme. The plan of the
| bridge is formed by three squares and an
| equilateral triangle, about which they are
| placed. 1t has three fronts, three thor
| oughfares over and three under it, There
| are the same number of abutments at
| equal distances, from which rise three half
| arches each composed of three ribs meet
| ing in the center at the top Seen from
inf Of vic a rch afse
| in front. Antiquaries-often fanciful writ
| ers-have suggested that the piece of ma
| sonry was built as an emblem of the holy
| Trinity; for, though the bridge possesses
! three arches, it yet properly has but one
| groined arch. More matter-Of-fact archa-
| Biological authors hold the structure to
have been designed as starting place for
| measuring ecclesiastical boundaries, with
| the additional utility of forming a sup
| port for a market cross. An exceptionally
| interesting feature of the bridge is a much
! weather-worn effigy, traditionaly said to
| be q representation of King Ethelbald
| The rudeness of the design, the uucouth-
! ness of the headdress and drapery, lead
| to the conclusion of the effigy being a
| genuine Saxon sculpture. Placed in sit
| ting posture at the end of the southwest
wall, the figure is embellished with a
| crown. In one of Eidred's charters the
| triangular bridge a Croylaud was men
| toned, but that now existing is supposed
to be, from it's style of architecture of
| the time of Edward 1. The statue must
be of much greater antiquity Croyland
ten miles south of Spalding and eight and
a half north of Peterborough, should
| greatly interest artists and lovers of an
tique associations.
During the fall of 1874 rats became a
serious menace to the farmers of Jackson
county, Kansas, and one night at a meet
| ing of the literary society in the Coleman
| school house it was proposed to organize
hunt says the Hamilton CKan) Signal
| Sides were chosen, and it was agreed that
the losers were to pay for a supper and
a dance. Three weeks were fixed as the
| limit of the hunt, but this was reduced to
| 10 days when it was discovered that warm
weather was making it impossible to pre-
serve the tails, which were to be used in
making the count. At the end of the ten
days both hunting teams assembled at the
| school house with their tails and a count
was made, with the result of showing $3.50
| dead rats in total. More than LOCO Of
| these had been killed on the farm of G.
! w. Reynolds alone After the count sup
per was served and a dance followed I'M
ill daylight. The affair is still known in