The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Signor Guarini of Brussels has patent
ed an apparatus which is said to be an
Improvement upon Signor Marconi's meth
cd of wireless Biography. 1t will be test
ed between Brussels and London. He
talks of wireless communication between
London and New York, as well within
the range of proba biity."
Recent experiments in New York city
have shown the possibility of conveying
medicines through the skin. and into any
portion of the human body by placing
them in the path of an electric current
Govt rheumatism and consumption are
now being treated by utilizing electricity
to convey drugs to the affected parts. and,
while no positive cures have been wrought.
results have been attained that seem 10
demonstrate the value of the new treat
ment
Something new and interesting about
ants was learned by a Mount Airy florist
yesterday. For a week or so he had been
bothered by ants that got into boxes of
seeds which rested on shelf. To get rid
of the ants he put into execution an old
plan, which was 60 place a meaty bone
close by, which the ants soon covered,
every one deserving the boxes of seeds
As soon as the bone would become thick
ly inhabited by the little creepers the flor
list tossed it into a tub Of water. The ants
having been washed off. the bone was pu+
in use as a trap again Yesterday the
florist bethOught himself that he would
save trouble by placing the bone in the
center of a sheet of fly paper, believing
that the ants would never get 20 the bone,
but would get caught on the sticky fly
paper while trying to reach the food But
the florist was surprised to find that che
ants, upon discovering the nature of the
paper trap formed a working force and
built path on The paper clear TO the bone.
The material for the walk was sand Sc
cured from a little pile near by. For hours
the ants worked, and when the path was
completed they made their way over its
dry surface in couples, as in a march,
to the bone.
The question of considerable import
ance 10 the English financial and DOM
merclal world grew out of the recent rob
berry of Bank of England notes from
PARIS Bank in London. The directors of
the robbed institution requested the di-
rectors of the Bank of England to stop
the payment of notes, and The latter, af-
ter taking legal advice, consented to do
So Their action excited the apprehension
in some quarters that it would affect the
convertibility of the Bank of England
note aud a test case was brought in the
courts to settle their authority in the mat
ter. The first decision was against them
and an appeal was taken. Meanwhile all,
or very nearly all the stolen notes, which
had become practically useless to the
thieves, being of high denominations, were
returned to PARIS Bank and il is un-
derstood that the directors of the Bank
of England will not now persist in the
appeal Whether in the event of another
similar robbery, they would De willing 30
stop payment again, remains 20 be prov
ed. But it seems clear thai in this par
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were for FOO or more the course which
they adopted effectually prevented the
thieves from making any use of their
plumber. If the notes had been for small
amounts there would have been no diff
Guilty. of course, in getting them into cir
culation.
The sound of an earthquake is de-
scribed as generally deep and rumbing.
like a heavy wagon, or it may resemble
thunder, wind, the fan of "A mass Of
heavy stones, or the report of a distant
cannon. At or near the epicentre of the
earthquake some observers state that
loud crashes are heard when the shock
is strongest, while a a distance il is at
this time rougher and more grinding, and
stu farther away the sound is smooth
throughout and sounds like distant thun-
der. The sound is very near the lower
limits of audbility as some observers
y
equally trustworthy are unable to hear
the sound at all. 1t is for this reason that
The sound both in its duration and char
acter appears so different to different OBJ
servers In Europe, il is stated that prac-
tically every earthquake is accompanied
by sound which precedes and follows the
shock, but in Japan it is the execution
and in the case Of the most violent earth
quakes 1t is frequently absent. and when
II is heard It is usually only few miles
from the origin and rarely follows the
shock, This is explained possibly bv tbo
hypothesis that the Japanese cannot nor
ceive low sounds well as the Euro
peans. The sound area in strong earth
quakes Is about the epicentre but In
weak ones the sound area and tho ais
turbed area are approximately connectod
or the former one may overlap the lat
ter In some instances sounds have been
heard without any other Manifestations
of the earthquake being experienced ana
in such cases 1t is believed that thev
proceeded from very weak earthquakes
DR.. G. DAWSON who is the author OF This
Investigation. believes that earthouakes
are caused by fault-slips. and that the
sound vibrations come chiefly from IA
margins' Of the area OF disbursement He
believes that such a theory will account
for all the known phenomena Of earth
dualra sounds ~N'N'A