The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-05
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Some time ago II was announced that
manuscript of the "AgricOla" Of Tael-
tus had recently been found. The philoio-
gists rejoiced at the new enrichment OF
the critical material at their command.
The possessor of the treasure, however,
the Bishop of Toledo, in SPAIN has given
them pause, for he will not even allow
them to see the manuscript on the ground
that any publication Of its contents would
diminish its value.
Prof. Axenfeld, of Perugia, has dis
covered that three-ffths of all men Of
distinction are frst-born children; the 9th
er two-ffths are either second or third
children, or e.se the youngest Of very
large families. Among the first he points
out Luther, Dante, Raphael Leonardo da
Ninc Confucius, Heine, Schopenhauer,
Goethe. Ariosto, Mahomet, Shelley, Eras-
mus, Milton, Byron, Moere, Carlyle, Ros
sini, Talleyrand and Button; among the
last Loyola and Franklin, both thirteenth
children; Schubert, a fourteenth child, and
Volta, a seventh child. The professor
thinks this arises from physiological rea-
sons and a law of nature.
To London, as to almost every large
city, the question of a water supply has
been a serious problem. LondoGers now
see a way to solve it. The engineer of the
County Council has informed that body,
says the Golden Penny, that underlying
London is an immense lake in a chalk ba-
sin $500 square miles in extent. The an
nual rainfall that sinks to this lake. 100
feet below the surface of the ground,
amounts to 2SO,O00,O0O000 gallons, which
would give a daily yield of 767, 100000 gal
Ions. An artesian well has already tap
ped the lake at Chaplain, and il is pointed
out that all that is necessary to insure
a water supply is to sink sufficient mum.
Der of wells. The wonder is that London
should have existed more than two thou
sand years and never discovered that the
great lake was beneath it.
H. Weinstock. prominent Jew of
Sacramento, has created considerable dis
cussion by reading a paper entitled Jesus.
the jew" in various synagogues on the
Pacific coast. The following passage will
give an idea of his point of view: 4
found that, according to New Testament
traditions, Jesus was born Jew, lived a
Jew, died jew I found that He preach
ed nothing but Judaism in its purest and
simplest form. I found that the thought
of tablishing a new belief or even a new
sect was furthest from His mind; that
His aim was not to follow after the heath
ems, but to seek out the lost sheep of the
house of Israel l found that His mis-
sion seemed to be to uplift the .owly and
to expose wickedness in high places. I
found that He gave His heart His soul
and His very being 10 the poor, to the
sick and to the needy. He said: L am
not come to heal the sound; l have been
sent unto the sick. l found that He was
man of unbounded sympathies and of
great moral courage; that He was sim
ply striving to practice and to preach the
moral code established by Moses and the
prophets, and to literally put into prac-
tice in His daily life the great lawgiver's
preCeDt of love tbV Dpio bhOr tbvsalf
Considering the number of eminent
specialists and scientists who devote their
lives to the study of bacteria and the
most effectual methods OF eXterminating
them, it might strike the observant reader
with some degree of surprise that hitherto
nothing of a fundamental character has
been written upon the dangers that lurk
in the ordinary everyday household arti-
cles. The Scientific American of June "a
has an article entitled THE Broom Or
dinarily Is Fertile Breeding Place for
Bacteria" which says: 1T is not gener-
ally known that the ordinary house broom
| is the habtation or breeding place for
great colonies of bacteria and unsanitarv
germs. La grippe, as we'll as smallpox
and scarlet fever has been directly traced
to the everyday broom. That Home
Bacteriology' may become a study with
the ladies, is a hope expressed by the Brit
1914 A'ICblNdA JOuiIldi, III commenting upon
a course of bacterio.ogy given by a physi-
clan of Konigsberg, in which is recon-
mended the maintenance of the strictest
sanitary and hygenc conditions Bac-
terra, according to the Microscope, may
thrive even in melting ice and putrefac-
tive bacteria once gaining access TO the
household refrigerator breed and contain
mate butter, milk, meat and other foods
kept therein"
The olive is one of the Oldest known
fruits, says the Chicago News. 1t is noted
by Pliny and is frequently mentioned in
the Bible, where it forms the basis for
many parallels and figures of speech In
Grecian mythology the olive tree occupies
an important place and to-day the "ollye
branch" Is the world symbol for peace
says the Scientific American The olive
tree itself is rather melancholy in appear
ance but the eye soon becomes accus-
toned to the tone which the olive tree
gives to the landscape, and in nearly all
of the Mediterranean countries they are
found almost everywhere. The kernel OF
the olive requires about two years TO ger
inmate naturally but it is found by mixing
clay and other ingredients natures pro-
cesses can be FASTENED so that it will ger
inmate the same year The trees attain
great age, and a large olive tree near Nice
is believed to be LOO vars old and is
said to have yielded 500 pounds of oil in
| single year. In general the olive will
| flourish wherever the vine can be Guilt
waited for wine-growing purposes 1t will
not bear a temperature below q or % de-
! Srees Fahrenheit, and in Europe it cannot
! be grown above 46 degrees latitude. The
young plants and fruit are very delicate
| but the tree itself is quite tough Naiu-
| rally, in Italy, where the olive forms one
of the principal agricultural products and
| contributes SO largely to the wealth of
| the country, the trees are cultivated with
| the greatest care.
And the noise of Niagara? Alarming
things have been said about it, but they
are not true. writes a contributor to the
! Century Magazine. 1t is a great and Nigh
| ty noise, but it is not, a. Hennepin thought.
| an Outrageous noise" 1t is not a roar II
| does not drown the voice or strain the ear
| Even at the actual foot of the falls it is
| not oppressive. 1t is much less rough than
the sound of heavy surf-steadier, more
| homogeneous, less metallic, very deep and
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