The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-09

weights and measures by pharmacists in
the United States is increasing. and it
was found recently that of Loo, 800 pre-
scriptions examined 6 per cent. employed
these measures. The prescriptions so con-
sidered formed the returns from apOtheca-
ries in forty-two different states, and it is
stated by the Pharmaceutical Era that the
system is taught in all the American col
leses of pharmacy, but in only a few of
the medical schools
Maj Ronald Res, who has been study
ing the causes of malaria in Sierra Leone,
has an but completed his investigations,
AMI has come 10 the conclusion that the
malaTial fever in that locality could be
gol rid of by little activity on the part
of the authorities. The researches that
have been made prove that the local spe-
cies of Anopheles (mosquitoes) carry ma
faria. and that these insects breed in a
few stagnant puddles. The truly malarial
fever, according 10 Maj. Ross, is caused
in this place solely by the mosquito.
-Arcoia. Ill. with a population Of $500
is priding itself on The fact that within
twenty-one days, ending Oct q, its two
banks handled a business amounting in
the aggregate 10 s9,054,OO0. OF this total
the sum of 81, 10000 in cash was paid out
by broomcorn buyers. The price of the
AOlH at Tire DtSliIltS OF the season was
$50 ton. Later il rose until 500 a ton
was paid, and in a few instances even
larger prices were secured. With land
renting at $ an acre, the average cost
of raising a ton of broomcorn is said to
be S2S.
A new material for electrical resistance
has recently been devised, which is be-
ieved to he superior to the platinum al
Toys SO extensively used which are not al
together satisfactory, owing to their ac-
tual low resistance. The new resistance
material is made by moulding clay con-
tanning 10 per cent. to Is per cent. of plat
mum into pencils and then heating to
about 1850 degrees in a reducing atmos-
phere. In this way platinum silicon al
10y is formed which serves as a conduct
or. The material can be used up to red
heat, and as the temperature rises the re-
sistance increases until a certain point is
reached, when il begins to fall owing,
it is suggested. TO the formation of more
of the platinum silicon alloy.
The following objections to the Nernst
lamp are made by a correspondent of In
dustries and Iron, and are worthy of con-
sheraton: There is no automatic heating
arrangement to the small-power lamps, and
they each require about eight seconds of
artificial heating before they can be
brought to incandescences there are as
yet no lamps of small candle-poweT; as
each lamp has three wires, their connec-
ton to existing standards is not conven-
lent; there have been no practical tests of
the life of the damp outside of the labora-
tory; there are as yet no lamps of this
design in commercial use; there is danger
that the Nernst patent cannot he held val
i'll, owing 10 the same principle being in
VOWED in the Jablochkoff candle.
On the Trans-siberian Railway a trans
fer steamer will be employed at Lake
Bakal, and is being completed so that il
may be used next summer. In order to
overcome difficulties occasioned by ice
in the lake. a bow propeller operated by
an Independent engine, has been provided,
which agitates the water so as to allow
the heavy bow 10 break the ice away from
the vessel. The steamer was built by Sir
w. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. of
England and then taken to pieces and
shipped to Listvenichraid on the shore OF
the lake, and distant some 5000 miles
from St. Petersburg. The steamer is 290
feet in length and of 81 feet BEAM being
driven by three triple-eXpansion engines,
one of which operates the bow propeller
mentioned, while the others are connected
with twin propelers at the stern.
The most recent proposal in the deveI-
opment of Africa is a railway across the
desert of Sahara extending from Algiers
to the Niger river The plan Is under dis
cussion by engineers of the French govern
ment, who have in their possession data
obtained on preliminary surveys. The pro-
jected route of the railway Is from Biskara
in Algeria to Tugurt and Wargla, and then
running due south over the desert and the
Timmo mountains to the group of GASES at
Air or Agades. The line here would divide
one branch extending to Lake Tschad in
a southeasterly direction, while the other
would run southwest to the Upper Niger
valley, which is French territory. There
would be about ,2jO miles of railway TO
be constructed in the desert, and the ex-
pense Is estimated at 10000, 600 as there
are neither trees nor water on the arid
plains. There is already in the Upper Niger
region a railway, which extends from
Hayes, at the head of navigation to
Dineba, thirty miles beyond the mouth of
the Being river
The Scotch Canadians of the present
day" says a Montreal correspondent of
the Catholic Standard and Times. belong
to Can Prosperous. In actual numbers
they form but one-tWentieth of the popula-
ton of Montreal, yer they own one fourth
of the wealth of the city Their castles
on the mountain and their mansions on the
Rue Sherbrooke are sights to see. Judging
from the business signs one might fancy
that the city Is within mile o Edinboro
town. The deadly practical branch of the
Gaelic race certainly has leonine share of
the prosperity to which it has contributed
its quota The long headed, far-sighted
Scotch make solid citizens wherever they
so, and they have helped to make Montreal
a solid commercial city. The business re
lations of Scotsmen and Frenchmen are
wonderfully amicable; the French have
forgiven and the Scotch have forgotten the
sins of other days. Outside of CONNER
cial partnerships racial lines are clearly
defined, and, oddly enough. il is the French
who are socially clannish. Intermarri-
ages as ! remarked in a previous letter.
simply add to the strength Of the French
Canadian family"
There is in Berlin a man who is the
proud possessor of a timepiece which is
considered to be the most marvellous piece
of mechanism that human skill ever put
together, says the New York Herald In
genuity and human skin have been
brought into operation, with the result