The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

locomotives, was blown from the bridge
into the stream below.
Miss Victoria Tulis, nurse in one Of
the Manila hospitals, writes thus 20
friends in Kansas: Il am in love with
Manila. We are living in the late Admiral
Montojo's residence. 1t is simply grant
The nurses have fixed up this place beau
tifully. Some of the fine mahogany fur
niture is still in the house and used in
our living rooms and reception hall III
is all inlaid with pearl and the carving is
beautiful We have a Roman bathtub; il
is big enough for four or five to battle IN
at once, and we sometimes do; at least
two of us did last night There are over
100 nurses here, and you can imagine how
we must double up at time
An Austrian savant has declared that
the human brain contains a name cen
ter" He says that it is the office of this
cell to retain names A striking case
which would seem to confirm this theory
recently occurred a Cleveland. A brake
man was shot by a conductor and the
former could not remember the names of
persons or things, although he could per
fectly well describe the functions of an
articles exhibited to him. The surgeon
probed for the bullet and found it in the
exact spot necessary TO affect the remem-
brance of names, according to the Aus
TRANS theory. When the pressure on the
brain had been relieved the patient re
membered names as well as he had done
before his injury, and told the name OF
his assa1ant.
Amateur photographers will receive
excellent treatment at Paris. The French
commissioners have made a ruling con-
corning the taking Of pictures at the ex-
position. Cameras will be allowed on the
exposition grounds after a permit shall
hoo rod frnT1 he
authorities. A charge of 10 cents will he
made for this, and the applicant will be
required to furnish his name, age and
other personal data, together with his res
idence in Paris. Only the buildings and
general groups can be taken. Photo
graphing individual exhibits wih not be
allowed, as the patent laws of France
guarantee the patentee against photo
graphs of articles exhibited. A charge
of 81 was made for similar privileges at
The Worlds Fair in Chicago, and photo
graphs were even then taken with diff
Guilty.
"A New York dispatch says: Tom
Moore's harp has come to America. It
passed the custom house this afternoon,
and is now III among the treasures of Mrs.
Marie Glover Miller of 157 West One Hun
bred and Nineteenth street The harp is
about three feet high and weighs about
Ten POUNDS. us compass comprises tnlI-
ty notes, tuned diatonically in the key of
G. 1t has no pedals, Mrs. Marie Glover
Miller is the granddaughter of Prof.
Glover, editor of popular editions of the
Irish poets melodies, and the harp passes
to her by inheritance 1t was given 10
the professor by the Messrs. Power, who
first published Moore's melodies. Moore
gave the harp to the Messrs. Power when
he left Dublin, in 1910. mrs. Miller, who
inherits the harp, is a well known con-
cert singer.
One of the most striking and romantic
figures in England to-day is Prince Peter
Kropotkin. The scion of a princely fam
lily older than that of the Gar himself,
he renounced his wealth and position in
order that he might devote his life to the
cause of the poor and downrodden.
Brought up in an atmosphere intensely
conservative he is to-day a radical Of
radicals, openly espousing and constantly
preaching the doctrines of Anarchist COM
munism. He is much more than a rev
olutionist however. He is universally
recognized as one of the foremost living
scientists. and is the regular scientific
correspondent of the Nineteenth Century.
His recent articles in the Atlantic Month
" have been issued in book form under
the title THE Memoirs of a Revolution
ist' and are attracting wide attention
-INNttutly d paper AGel bClOiC an i@th51
fish society dealt with chemical effect of
high tide on 10000 acres of Essex soil. The
salt water injury lasts, according to va
rioIfs authorities, from five to twenty
years After the water had run off it was
found that there was per cent. of the
salt in the soil, twenty times the normal
amount, but not directly injurious The
damage seems to be chiefly due to the
entire destruction of the earth worms.
h -FnTI0
the state of the soil was also unsatis-
factory, still earth worms began to APP
pear, and nine-tenths of the salt has been
washed out by rain. Apparently the clay
has become gelatinous. owing to the ac-
ton of the ChOrideS on the silicates the
silicate of alumina remaining behind
while the other silicates are greatly re-
duced in percentages. The proper treat
ment seems to be to plow in green crops,
dressing with lime and potash.
in 1898 the total production of tin has
been estimated at 1890 tons; in 1890 1t
was but 5000 tons. The greater part of
the tin comes from the Malay peninsula
which furnishes sos per cent, not count
ing the Dutch East Indies, which give 10
per cent Following this come Australia,
with 10 per cent; Cornwall, 81, and Boz
livia 10 per cent. Forty years ago Corn
wall furn shed so per cent of the total
The most productive region is that part
of the Malay peninsula extending from
Burma and Siam to Suma ira says the
Scientific American. considera bic pro-
portion of the tin which is taken from this
region is carried into China, and thus es-
capes the control of statistics. In the
Australian region the chief center of pro-
duction is Tasmania The principal CON
sumers for 1898 were the United States
$1,000 tons; Great Britain, 13.000i Ger
many. 1880, and France $500 tons. The
expectation of lin plate from Great Brit
ain has been 251,769 tons, and that coun-
try consumes 10000 tons. The tin plate
production of America for the year is es-
timated at 327 900 tons. The total produc-
ton is estimated at 10000 tons, and the
tin required for its manufacture reaches
10000 TO $4,000 tons
"A systematic foreigner recently writ
ing to an American newspaper, bewalet