The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cred with a trea eherous crust of clay that
has been spread over them in fine parti-
cles by the wind and baked dry by the
sun.
The park commission of Boston having
adopted a bicycle lamp rule for Franklin
Park the wheelmen of the hub are very
much incensed and have determined to
stay away from the pleasure ground at
nights until the rule shall be rescinded.
-Hveen, a little Danish island in the
sound, half way between Seeland and the
Swedish coast, and only fifteen miles from
Copenh lgen. is being bargained for by a
German syndicate which wishes to turn
the island into a gambling resort like
Monte Carlo
According to the Volkszehung of Ber-
lin the month of July saw in Germany
sixteen prosecutions for lese majestic
Three of the accused persons were ac-
Quilted and the sentences imposed upon
the other thirteen aggregated about six
years and three months.
Agitation against poisonous ingredi-
ents used in pottery has drawn out an
order from the British Office of works
that all articles supplied under contract
to the public departments The houses of
ParIament and the royal palaces shall be
made with leadless glaze.
-Four thousand of the Smith family
held reunion at Peacock, N. j., the 9th
er day. All of them trace their ancestry
to a certain John Smith. who came 10
that part of the country as a boy 100 years
ago Whether he was a relative of John
Smith of the Pocahontas love affair is not
known.
"A New York woman, who is making
a study of flowers and their effects upon
different Compartments claims that yell
low blossoms afford protection from dis
ease germs, that daisies worn by nerv-
Gus women will benefit them, and that
voets act intoxicants or stimulants
upon some people.
Tourists travelling in Italy are warned
against eating small birds served with po-
lenta or otherwise. A number of cases
OF poisoning after eating such birds led
at last to investigations, which showed
that the birds had been handled careless
ly by persons who took off their feathers
for milliners and used arsenic to pre-
serve them.
The cure of Cicognola, Italy, was con-
Quoting mass at Ceraballo, near Genoa.
when Immediately after drinking some OF
the consecrated wine he fell to the floor
in front of the altar and died almost in
stantly. The cures nephew had by mis-
take, filled the CUP from a vessel con-
tanning liquid used for cleaning pur-
poses in the church, and which was
deadly poison.
Many experiments with nickel steel AMI
steel alloyed with manganese have dis
closed the fact that when immersed in
liquid air for several minutes they acquire
magnetic properties if non-magnetic in the
beginning. Steel containing as high as 15
per cent. carbon, when similarly treated.
and then brought back to an ordinary tenn
perature, has its magnetic permeability as
Wen as It's permanent magnetism increas-
ed; while its specific gravity diminishes
from 779S to 1852
An alloy of iron, nickel and aluminium
containing % per cent. of aluminium has
been tried with success as a substitute for
platinum for the leading in wires of mean
descent lamps. The high cost of platinum
has led inventors to experiment with
view to obtaining an alloy having the same
coefficient of expansion as glass The spe-
citic resistance of this alloy is quite high
being ten times that of platinum, but this
slight drawback will be more than offset
by the low cost of the metal.
The question of an antidote for snake
bite poison has received a good deal of at
tention from scientific men, particularly
in India, where the number of deaths from
serpent bites reaches large figure every
year. A case has just been recorded of
the successful use of Calmette's serum. A
man was bitten and would most certainly
nave died, so the report states, had not
the serum been used. He had a well-de-
veloped case of colubrine poisoning, and it
was found necessary to resort to artificial
en- fF.a lion I'll
t9ke effect.
The residents of one of the suburbs
of Paterson, N. j., seem to have been
victimized very adroitly by a Swedish la
borer, who prophesied a caterpillar crop
of unusual dimensions and offered to keep
them away for a consideration. His
prophecies were at first received with in
credulity and his prospects for doing busl-
ness looked bad until the caterpillars be-
gan TO arrive in large numbers, and then
ne rapidly made contracts with many
householders to remove them, and COM
menced to acquire a bank account Now
a boy whom he employed and failed to
pay says the Swede hired him and others
to go into the woods and gather cater
pillars at cents a quart and that at
night these We're sprinkled around where
they would be most effective in terrifying
the inhabitants.
Experiments on the effect of kerosene
for the purpose of diminishing the num-
bers of mosquitoes in places infested by
them have shown that by placing a small
quantity of kerosene on the surface of a
pond pool, or tank of water in which the
female would be likely to deposit her eggs.
a large number may be DESTROYED. The
kerosene, which is fatal to most varieties
OF mosquitoes, Immediately spreads out
into very thin film. so that any of the
insects that hatch out must be DESTROYED
unless, as is claimed by those who con-
slider this of but little avail, the Young
are able 10 thrust the tip of their respi-
ratory organs through the film of oil The
larva of the culex mosquito floats in water
with the head downwards, while that Of
anopheles, another Species and the one
that is believed to be the carrier Of the
malarial parasite floats horizontally. so
that there is every chance that the latter
would be the more easily killed by the
kerosene method.
"A series of trials of automobile wagons