The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tating to a stenographer has ruined his
spelling. He cannot write an ordinary let
ter now, he says, without making gross
errors in photography.
A Bulgarian journalist named Sangoff
| recently wrote an article in a Sofia paper
on the subject of the relation of the nose
to character After discussing the va
rtous shapes he came to the conclusion
that persons with long noses are often bad
characters. The public prosecutor regard
ed this as a case lese majestic, because
Prince Ferdinand has long nose Sangoff
was arrested. tried, and sentenced to three
days imprisonment.
Trolley lines are likely to be prominent
as freight carriers in a short time. In
addition to the large company that has
been formed to take freight and express
packages in Brooklyn, some have been
formed in other states. In Michigan a
road is to be built between Saginaw St.
Charles and Durand, to convey fuel and
the sugar-bee,s which are grown in i'm
mense numbers in that section of the
state. A similar road has been projected
in the northern part of Illinois. 1t Is
more than likely that the express COM
panies will suffer, but, on the other hand
the dwellers in suburban districts will be
the gamers, and any large movement
in the direction of companies to carry
packages in this way will lead the express
companies to adopt the system, and thus
benefit all concerned
Consul General Lay, at Barcelona,
Spain, writes to the state department in
regard 10 the electric tramway system.
He says that line four miles long is TO
be built in that city by Belgium com
pany. He reports his inability 10 find cut
a nf IL
gests that those interested write to the
Societe Anonyme d Enterprise Generate de
Travaux, Liege, Belgium. The company is
now engaged in building the four-mile
ROAD, and has built many other lines in
Europe. The consul is also informed that
American agents in Barcelona have lost
sales because they do not keep a large
enough stock on hand buyers preferring
to take the English or German goods rath-
er than wait for the better American
made articles. which take so long to get
there from the United States
Various theories are advanced to ac-
count for the deposit of carbon on the in
ner walls of incandescent lamps in the
course OF time. J. Stark, in. a German pa
per, doubts Moissan's hypothesis of a slow
evaporation of the carbon of the filament
because the deposit does not depend upon
the degree of exhaustion. The idea adj
vanced by Berliner is also opposed. on
the ground that the deposit is the same in
continually glowing lamps and those which
are often relighted, which disposes of the
idea that gases are occluded in the fila
nent and escape with explosive rapidity
When 1ncandescence sets in. To meet the
occasion Herr Stark says the disintegra-
ton of the carbon is due to vagrant cur
rents between various parts of the carbon
flament which traverse the intervening
gas, as in a Crookes tube. He gives. as a
proof OF this an 'aureole'' between the
arms of the hlament which he declares is
nothing but the positive glow of a gaseous
discharge.
Talk about watchdogsn' said man
who lives at Clifton Heights, according to
the Philadelphia Record. Dogs are not in
1t with guinea fowl. l ought 10 know for
nave a flock of them at my country
place. All day they wander about but at
sunset they go to roost in a pine tree at
one side of the house. There is no danger
from burglars with these birds around.
They sleep up in that tree summer ana
winter and they sleep with one eye open
They hear every little sound all over the
place. The family can talk and laugh and
walk about in the evening without dis
turbing their peace of mind in the least,
put stranger they detect at once, if it's
only stray cat or dog. We've had peo-
pie walk quietly over the lawn just to test
the birds and they never once failed to
raise an alarm. They use judgment too
When were all about they content them
selves with a subdued cackle, enough to
attract attention; but later, after things
have settled down for the night, noise
makes them break out in shrill cries suffi-
Gent to wake the dead. It's rather annoy
ing at times, when one gets home from
the city late and doesn't care to have the
whole family aroused by his arrival for
instance. But consider the comfort with
which one can go to sleep at nights! Give
me guinea fowl for watchdogs every
time"
Few vessels have had more narrow es-
capes in as short space of time as the
United states transport Grant says the
San Francisco Call The last round trim
to the Philippines has been a succession
or narrow escapes, and it is only due to
the vigilance of the officers that the trans
port finally reached port. Soon after leav-
ing san Francisco one of her inlet valves;
became clogged and the water rushing in
hled the engine room until the fires un-
der the lower boiler were drowned out and
the engineers and firemen were working
up 10 their waists in water. While the
run to San Francisco was under Wav the
man on the lookout ran up against mi
rage. He thought land was straight
ahead and so reported it to the bridge
The officer on watch saw an outline loom
ing up and, as it was apparently capped
by a light, he gave the signal to stop the
snip and sent for the captain. The Grant
was in the vicinity of Reed Rocks, the
position of which is doubtful their place
on the chart of the globe being followed
by query mark When, therefore the
fog bank took on the appearance of the
Farallone Islands and the morning star
showed up like a beacon on it's peak the
lookout thought the land was dead ahead
so the engines were stopped and reversed
and the ship was going full speed astern
when Capt. Buford reached the bridge
1t did not take long to discover the mis-
take, and in half an hour the Grant was
once more on her course. Reed Rocks
have not been seen since 1868, when the
ship Yankee nearly ran them down They
had always been clessed as doubtful
and the chances are that the old Yankee
skipper was fooled by the morning star
and cloud, as was the lookout of the
Grant.
Opinions of many scientific men and of
imaginative writers as to how the world
will end are gathered together in Pear
sons. Lord Kelvin predicts that the world
was doomed to die of suffocation; Nikola
Tesla thinks that. we may set fire to the