The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

warning signal Wild rabbits strike the
ground the same way just before they en-
ter their burrows. An interesting point is
that rabbits give this warning stamp with
their hind feet, while sheep, deer and ante
lopes use their fore feet. This is because
the action of striking was in former times
a method Of defense or attack and in rab-
bits the hind legs are more powerful in
the other animals mentioned, the fore legs.
The use of crude oil on bad roadways
has resulted wen in Iowa Mai. AIeigs of
Keokuk was led to try it by reading that
a bad piece of road in a Pennsylvania
town. impossible during spring and fall
rams, became hard and dry after the Leak
age OF an oil pipe near by. Sending to the
STANDARD Oil Company, he was given
tank of 100 gallons of crude oil, eight of
which were tried on a very bad piece of
road near Keokuk with satisfactory re-
suits. He found a barrel OF crude oil.
costing 80 cents at the wells, was sufficient
for strip of road 100 feet long and 70
feet wide. 1t forms a hard crust, which
sheds water.
The Kansas City Journal says: "BnP'
Speer wanted to go into Blancos palace
at Havana, but he found himself unable
to get pass. He was standing at the
gate talking to the lieutenant in charge
OF the guard, when major Of the regular
army stepped up, and. taking hold of
'Bilrs" Scottish Rite watch charm. said:
You're pretty well along, aren't you?'
BIZ said he was, and then the major,
VINO was a thirty-third degree Mason.
told the lieutenant to send "Bnl'' with a
guide all over the palace. "Bnl' got into
the throne room and sat on the throne
and put gold crown on his head. He
wanted to steal the crown, but the guide
said it really wouldn't do
A Rome cable dated Jan. 80 says: The
celebration of a universal Jubilee for 1900
has been decreed by the Pope to mark
the coming of the sacred year. Great plans
are being made for wonderful ceremony
in the vatican, to begin on Christmas day
OF 1899. On that day stately procession
viii leave the vatican and march to the
Vestibule of ST. Peters Church. There
the procession will pause and the Pope.
descending from the sedia gestatoria, will
strike the sacred door of the Bascilica
thrice with hammer. The door will open
to the knocks and the procession will en-
ter the church with the Pope at its head
holding cross in his right hand and a
candle in his left hand. From Christmas
day until New Years day the door will re-
main open. The vatican authorities are
preparing a programme to make the cele-
bration the grandest religious ceremony of
the century.
An aluminium boat, called Doctor Karl
Peters," after the name of the German
explorer which some time ago had its
first trial trip on the Lake of Zurich,
Switzerland, has been accepted by the Ger
man navy experts, and entered into com
mission for colonial service in Africa. The
cohtract prescribing that no single part
of the boat should weigh over $50 pounds
no other metal but aluminium was availa-
bic. The vessel is forty-three feet long
nine wide and five deep. Destined for
service on the Lake Victoria Nyanza, it
may be detached into nine separate sec
tons. It's two boilers are for wood only,
and the boat can carry fifty persons.
Taken apart and packed into cases, it is
now on its way to the east coast of Africa.
caravan of negroes escorted by Ger
man troops will transport it into the in
terror and 1t will probably take four
months TO reach Victoria Nyanza. DR..
Karl Peters is expected to make ten miles
an hour. 1t cost about $1,000.
There is now pending before the In
diana legislature a bill which should in
terest the whole country. It is a law
which provides for nothing less than the
adjustment of the free lunch on the
high ground that this Donyslan institu-
ton is immoral. The author of this in
novation-himself a native of the state
no less famed for free lunch materials
than for natural gas-is man of rooted
convictions among which the most prom
inent is that he has now laid before his
brother lawmakers, says the Philadelphia.
Press He believes that the free lunch is
undermining our republican institutions
and demands that it, therefore. be placed
in the same category as petty larceny. Is
he right? To answer that we must first
decide these questions: Does the free lunch
induce or superinduce indigestion? Does it
cause nightmare? Does it spread dys-
pepsia? If the answer is affirmative and
the result affect liberty only as it affects
morals, there is but one thing to be done
by the legislature of Indiana.
The spotted tobacco of sumatra, imi-
tations of which are so diligently sought
by our local growers, has been the sub
ject of investigation by Prof Beyerinck
of the Amsterdam Academy of Science.
This learned man presented TO the acad-
envy a few weeks ago a paper, in which
he set forth the results of his inquiry. He
described a diving, fluid contagion,"
which he declares is the cause of the dis
ease. This disorder, also known as the
mosaic disease of tobacco leaves, may be
inoculated into healthy plants by injecting
INTO the stem, near d qua, sap pressed
from infected plants. The active virus
passes completely through the pores of
very dense porcelain, and can even pene-
trate into agar by diffusion; therefore, it
cannot be a "contagium fiXum'' in the
usual sense, but it must be fluid Out
of the tobacco plant it cannot be made
to multiply; but in the dividing tissues
of the leaf-rudiments and the metistems
of the buds it multiplies freely and over a
great extent. A very small drop of the
porcelain filtrate can render all the leaves
of the infected plant entirely covered
with spots. and the sap of these leaves
would be sufficient for the contagion Of an
unlimited number of healthy plants.
The refining influence of captivity is
manifest in the manner in which the fero-
cious King of Dahomey, Bedoazin Boaid-
jere Hossu Bowele, otherwise called Be
hanzin, whom Gen. Doods, with a little
body of French troops defeated and made
prisoner five years or more ago, passes
his time. This egg of the world" the
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