The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-21

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

During 1899 the Court of Sessions OF
Scotland granted IT'S divorces as compar-
ed with but 1873 in 1898. The annual aver
age of the past ten years was only ia.
Two-thirds of the actions were brought
by wives.
The Burns Kan) Citizen says of it.
self: "Our paper is not the best in the
world, but if you can show US that it is
not worth two cents we will eat the next
Issue. First you read it, then you will
spread it over some hing, then clean your
lamp with it, and then use it to start the
fire; and if that doesn't make it worth
two cents, at the present price of lumber,
why, don't take it
"A correspondent of the Hartford Cour-
ant in Manila writes as follows: Mail is
held, often ten days, to be shipped by
transport instead of mail steamer, and as
there is no proper place for the slowing
of mail on transports, much has been
lost and damaged. Once several hundred
sacks were put off the mail steamer at
Honolulu to wait for transport-and
did wait three weeks. 1t seems to me that
the least the government can do for the
exiles who are fighting for their country
is to see that they get their home letters
promptly"
The London correspondent of the Man
| chester Guardian writes: 1 am tod that
a compromise has been arrived at be-
tween the Bishop of London and the high
church clergy in his diocese as to the
ritual questions which were the subject
of the recent inquiry at Lambeth palace.
In obedience to the Bishops diocesan cir
| cular, there was a suspension, partial
probably, of the disputed practices until
the clergy should have had an oppor-
tunity of discussing the matters with the
diocesan. This discussion has now taken
place. 1t revealed what was hardly
known before, that the number of incum-
bents in the diocese who subscribe to the
high ritual as practiced at St Andrews,
Hilborn, and other typical churches,
reaches forty. This is an important ele-
ment to be reckoned with, and its size
| may account for the concessions which
the Bishop has been led to make to bring
about compromise. l hear the ritual
lists have given up only one important
manual act-the cenSing of persons and
things. They are to retain the carrying
of incense In procession, the professional
and the introit, and they have thus Sc
cured most of what they desired to re-
tain. This compromise settles matters so
far as the ritualsts and the Bishop are
concerned, but it may not satisfy low
churchmen, and if it does not the forty
incumbents are prepared TO do battle for
what they assert to be their rights
With the Improvement of machinery
which will produce ozone on large scale,
there has been considerable increase in
its application to water publication, and
some important experiments have recent
" been performed in this field. In one
series the water of the River Spree at
Charlottenburg after it had passed
through the city of Berlin was treated
and considerable success attained in the
fx-ira UTatn &c GRO f1Xr
polluted and contains from $1,000 to 100000
bacteria per cubic centmetre. The raw
water is first forced by means of a CEN
trifugal pump into a rough filter filled
with large stones, where the rubbish and
larger impurities are caught; then it flows
to an iron tank and is raised into a stand
pipe about 10 feet in hight which is filled
with large field stones. The water perco-
lates through this pipe in fine streams
and at the outlet II comes into contact
with the ozone and then flows into a sec
ond tank, from which 1t wastes into the
Spree river. The plant delivers from 3.5 to
4 cubic metres per hour of water that has
been treated, and as 1t is located on the
grounds of the Siemens e. Halske Com
pany, an the machinery is operated by
electricity. Running twenty hours out of
twenty-four, a daily supply of $4,000 litres
is furnished, which affords a per-capita
supply of 80 litres for a population of L.
bUD people. III lHb course Oh tue expert
ments it was found that water containing
from 5000 to 4,0CO bacteria per cubic CEN
timetre was purified so as to contain less
than 100 bacteria per cubic centimetre.
The water of the Spree when introduced
into the apparatus was found to be pol
luted far in excess of what would be con-
sidered available for a drinking water
supply, so the water was mixed with an
equal amount of water from the city
mains. The ozone was found to lower the
percentage of organic matter and in the
case of water with a yellowish color it
was made perfectly clear. There is no
ozone in the water after 1t leaves the
standpipe, and consequently no danger of
correcting the pipes. To sterllize one cubic
meter of water requires the use Of from
to grams of ozone, and the total cost
If treatment, including first cost, etc, is
stated at between Y and / cent per cubic
metre. The advantages claimed for the
ozone system are its low initial cost and
the small amount of room occupied by the
apparatus In comparison with sand filters
There is also to be considered the cheaper
cost of maintenance. particularly II To-
Gated in the vicinity of an electric-power
station. 1t is possible in this way to util
lie surface and other convenient water
supplies that in their original condition
might not be considered safe.