The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

10 cents on the new one-dollar silver certTh-
cate. Series A, and that for some I'M
known reason the government had calied
in the entire issue As a result creduious
people gathered together all the new one
dollar bills they could get and 50 rapidly
did the circulation OF the issue decrease
that the officials at the sub-treasury felt
called upon to announce not only that the
premium story was untrue but that the
government had no intention of withdraw
ing the certificates.
In the BibHotheque Universelle Prof.
Spring comments upon the absence OF
coloration in certain limpd natural wa
ters. Pure water is quite blue, and the
green color so often noticed is due to the
presence of muddiness which acts in COM
binatiOn with the blue color TO give the
greenish appearance. The absence OF col
or the investigator attributes TO the sus-
pension of minute particles of anhydrous
ferric oxide or hematite which, having
red color would neutralize the blue COM
pletely. In support of this hypothesis, II
Is stated that microscopic grains OF he
Matte are almost always present in the
soil. and that terrestrial waters rarely
have the blue color The water from
glaciers or snow at high elevations, where
no hematite would be found is on the
other hand, intensely blue.
The hundredth anniversary of the first
vaccination in Vienna has just been cele-
brated in that city. DR. Johannes Chev-
aller re Caro-, a native of Geneva VINO
studied medicine in Edinburgh, made Jen-
ners acquaintance. and, on settling down
in Vienna. received from him in May, 1893,
the first COW virus, with which, on May 10,
he vaccinated his two elder sons. who SUD
sequently helped him 10 promote the use
of the new preventative. The Archduke
Charles in 1903 recommended to the Hof-
kriekssrath or war office, the Introduction
of vaccinat lion in the army, but in the
mean while DR. De Caro- had sent COW
lymph. which was by THAI time being pro-
duced in Vienna itself, to Greece, Turkey.
and even TO Bombay, Ceylon and Sumatra,
the invention of an ingenious method of
packing Walls of liquid lymph being at
tributed to him by his contemporaries.
Charles T. Broadhead has introduced
at his handsome country seat at Nyack-
on-the-Hudson a surprisingly interesting
breed Of ducks. says the New York letter
of the Pittsburg Dispatch. He did is I'M
consciously. There is a beautiful pond up
there. and Mr. Broadhead, in seeking for
ducks with which to enliven il, was ad-
vised to get a beautiful variety from Mas
sacbusetts known as the Pekin duck. The
order was given and the birds arrived the
other day. Later Mr.. Broadhead was call
ed to the pond, where he found all the
mae servants trying to "shoo" them into
the water The ducks quacked and flap
ped about and made fuss, but refused to
take to water. Finally one was caught
and thrown into the water. The duck
f1uttered and splashed, sank, rose again,
sank once more, yelled for help as il came
up, and finally hoated about on its side
like a disabled side-wheel steamer. Mr.
Broadhead telegraphed 20 the Massachu-
setts man and received the reply that this
particularly breed of ducks doesn't know
how to swim. They are land ducks.
A dispatch from Seattle. Wash, says:
An officer of the Fourth United States
Infantry writes from De Iona Church,
near Manila as follows: I'VE have been
visited by several hundred insurgents,
armed with nothing but white flags. They
are anxious to qu.t fighting. Mai. Bubb
| told them he could not accept their sur
render unless they brought in their wea-
pons. One of them confessed they had
| sent their rifles and ammunition to an in
| terror stronghold when they tired of fight
| ing and decided to be fed as prisoner OF
war. They were very much disappointed
when sent back. and will make a wild
! hunt for the arms. Many a soldier boy
| will take home a small fortune as the re-
| suit of plumber captured in the Filipino
| towns. OF course. the officers take the
money away from the troopers whenever
| they are found out, but much of it is be-
| ing hidden away. When in town last Sat =
| urday | saw two natives staggering along
with a heavy sack. They were guarded
! by two soldiers. The sack dropped to the
ground and $50 pounds of Mexican dollars
tumbled out. The soldiers gathered up
the plumber and disappeared with it"
The Koreans invented the first bomb
and mortar, says Harper's Magazine. The
lust for revenge had taken such a grin
| upon them that nothing sufficed to nold
| them in check when once they had The en-
envy on the run. Before the first year
of the war had expired the Koreans had
| Initiated the firearms of their enemies
| though pebbles were at first the only mis-
siles used. They even surpassed fhe in
vaders in the use of gunpowder. for the
! records tell US that certain general in
! vented piece of ordnance which when
discharged, would throw itself bodily over
| the walls of the besieged fortress. and
| when it exploded, the Japanese. who had
| crowded around to examine it. were either
torn 70 pieces by the flying debris or chok-
! ed by the sutphurous fumes of the burn-
| ing powder. The. startling statement mat
the mortar threw itself over Inc wall is
merely the work of an excited imagination
! whereby the projecule became confused
| with the machine used in its projection
We are told that the secret of The inven-
ton persisted with its inventor, but that
! the mortar then used stin lies in ono Of
the government storehouses in the fort
ress OF Han-ham which guards The
southern approach of the capital.
"A few days before leaving Spain the
Duchess of ARGOS kissed the hands of the
Queen and took the pillow" as they can
IT, with twenty-five other grandees. writes
the washington correspondent of the chi
caso Record This is a ceremony of CON
siderable Importance at The Spanish court
ana II means that by the condescension of
| her royal mistress the Duchess of ARGOS
was permitted 10 be seated in the presence
OF her sovereign. The Duchess d'Arcos was
| the ilrst OF the distinguished women to he
received and was presented by the Duchess
| of Osuna, kinswoman of her husband
Inc ceremony, as described in a letter re-
| Gently received, took place in a FARCE ban
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