The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-11

Itself. Although introduced only year
or two ago. it has increased considerably
in numbers, and is many of the uptown
streets its musical piping can be heard
this spring.
Our Consul at Singapore says that
hams are generally sent to that city pack
ed in bran or oats, then sewed in canvas,
and afterward packed in salt. This pro-
cess preserves the flavor of the hams bet
ter than any other method, besides keep
ing them moist.
Spain has only 1850 kilometers of
railway, while France. of about the same
area, has 5000. The railways of Spain
transport annually 100000 passengers
and 100000 tons of freight; those of
France carry 4O0,OO0.00O passengers asd
100000 tons of freight every year.
The Ontario government has complet-
ed arrangements for the formation of a
forest of almost three thousand square
miles in extent. embracing the district in
which Lakes Temagami and Lady Evelyn
are situated. The bulk of the reserve is
virgin forest, with the finest white pine in
Canada upon it.
"A Toronto rubber manufacturing
plant recently turned out the largest ma
chinery belt ever made. The belt is of
long-to be exact 1929 feet. 1t weighs nine
tons, and is now being used for the trans
portation of grain al the elevator Of the
Intercoonial Railway at St. John, New
Brunswick.
There has just disappeared the last
remaining relic of the first railway in
London In 1901 an act was passed au-
thorizing the construction of a railway
from Wandsworth to Croydon, the Sleep
erS being of stone. Motor power was pro-
vided by horses. The scheme included
a dock at Wandsworth and it is the an
cient wooden crane connected Herewith
which has just fallen into the waters of
the Wande.
The British war office has been test
ing a new electrical range finder for the
last two years. 1t was invented by an
Australian, who says that it will give the
range and bearing of a fixed or moving
object, and at the same time will give in
formation to any number of fortress guns
attached by wire to the instrument, thus
ena bling 100 guns, for instance to concen-
trate their fire simultaneously on a single
ship.
An interesting paper has recently been
published on the local color-p phases of the
weasel. In the extreme North this animal
turns white in winter, while in the north
temperate regions the reddish-brown of
the upper parts remains and the under
surface is pure white. Further south the
under parts become yellow, while in the
Mediterranean area the color is buff or
orange. This change of color with the
habitat is also paralleled among many
birds. There are quite a few other ami
mails that turn white in winter, among
them the Arctic hare, who casts off his
w n hail
with a darker coat each summer.
There is movement on foot for the es-
adjustment of farm school for the poor
boys Of Dallas, Tex. It is proposed to
teach the boys TO treat the SOIL to plant
seed, take care of the crop from sprout to
market to care for farm animals, tools
and implements, and to learn that the SUE
cesful farmer is not the one who owns
the most land but the one who obtains
the best results from his lands The prin-
cip.e value of such a school. though if it
be established and conducted successfully,
will lie in its bility to teach boys who are
obliged to work for living that the coun-
try is a better place for them than the
city. That fact cannot be emphasized too
strongly, says an exchange.
-Pyrrol-aldehyde, the analogue of ben
zalhehyde and furfuraldehyde, has re-
Gently been successfully prepared by BAN
berger and Djierdjian, who made use of
Reimer's reaction with chloroform and
potash. Interest attaches TO the syn
these of derivatives Of pyrrol because the
common alkaloids, cocaine, atropine and
nicotine are derivatives of this substance
The aldehyde forms well crystalzed hy-
drazone. oxime and also an insoluble So
dunn sulphate compound. 1t differs from
it's analogues in readily crystallizing,
since it is possible TO secure crystals sew
erals centimeters in length. 1t also has
no odor. Pyrrol-aldehyde, it is believed,
will be a starting point for a number of
important synthetical products.
in France meat unfit for food and
bodies of animals that died of disease are
exclusively used for the manufacture Of
superphosphates, says the Sanitariu n.
The meat is placed in a vat containing
sulphuric acid which separates the result
ing heterogeneous product from the fat The
dead animals are thrown whole into the
covered lead-lined watts full OF sulphuric
acid. If they have died of anthrax or
CHAMBERS they are cut up before being
thrown in In forty-eight hours the fat
alone remains and the animalized sui
phurc acid, which is now so rich in nitro
genious substances, is drawn off and sent
through an underground conduit 10 the
y
unsantary method of burying such putrld
substances directly in the ground they
are effectually disposed of by the complete
destruction of the injurious germs, and the
product is available for the manufacture
of valuable fertilizer.
The idea of firing a cannon to prevent
damage by hail is said to be quite old, but
some extensive experiments were made
last year in several Ital an provinces, and
a lecture on the subject was delivered by
Dr. j. NJ. Pernter before the Austrian
Meteorological Society. The expert
ments in question, according to
Nature, were witnessed by DIR.
Trabert of the Vienna Meteoro-
logical office, and the apparatus used
consisted of a morter provided with an
iron funnel about six feet in length. 1t
was found that where the firing was be-
gun in time, the fall of hail was prevented,
though in neighboring districts much
damage was done by the hail-storm. An
explanation of this immunity from dam
age is advanced in that 1t was due to the
force of the air-whrls, the sound of which
could be heard for twenty or thirty sec