The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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of the Embryological Institute for TWEEN
| ty-six years, first came before the notice
of the general public some two years ago,
| when he published work on the determ-
| nation of sex. This book was censured a
| year later by the disciplinary council OF
| the College of Professors of the univer-
| sity, who petitioned the Ministry of Pub
| lie instruction asking that the professor be
| removed form his chair. This has been
| done and Prof Schenk has been invited
| to apply officially for a pension, as he
| has been given an indefinite leave of alb
sence.
There are several chemical manufac-
| turers in Japan, and the Nippon Yuso
Kwaisha sulphuric acid plant has even ex-
ported acid far as India. The acid is
concentrated in Kioto porcelain vessels.
and Wakayama and Okayama py-
rites which contain from AZ to
so per cent of sulphur, are used.
| The acid is packed in earthenware car
boys, and the factory has been in steady
operation for several years. Near Osaka,
there is an alkali plant which is we'll
| equipped, and is managed by the Japan
| ese. In Toxic there is a pharmaceutical
factory, and in other cities numerous soap
and perfumery works, but as yet their
| product is of low quality Iodine is also
| manufactured from seaweed in Japan, but
| only in a very small way.
Under a plan prepared i'm 1898 by the
international Geodetic Association, which
went into effect on Jan. l of the current
| year, systematic study is to be made of
the variation of latitude. This phenome-
non was first discovered by Dr. Kustner
| of Berlin, and has since been investigated
| with much care by Prof. Chandler, and
| observations to obtain data for its study
| have been made at a number of obserVa-
| tories. The plan proposed involves the
| maintenance of four stations or obserVa-
tories on the parallel of latitude 80 de-
| grees minutes and 10 seconds, and the
| places chosen for observations are all
within 800 feet of this line. They are as
| follows: MiZusawa, Japan; Carloforte,
| Italy; Garthersburg, Maryland; and
Ukiah, California. Prof Porter at Cincin-
natl will also make voluntary observa-
TONS and the Russian government is ex-
| pected to establish a station near Tchar-
| jim, whose longitude is "a degrees east, and
affords a station between Mizusawa and
Carloforte, as well as a point 1877 degrees
from Ukiah. The plan involves the max
| ing of observations on the same stars at
| each of the stations, and thus reducing
the errors to a minimum. The stations will
| be kept in operation by the German Geo
detic Service the Russian government
the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur
| vey, and a long series of observations
| made, as it is the hope that it will be
| possible to ascertain the real value of the
variation of latitude.
What farmers can do by cooperation
in the matter of road-making is interest
ingly told by a Michigan correspondent
of the Orange Judd Farmer. 1t is a sandy
country where the correspondent lives,
and the roads were generally poor
! throughout the year. The town was poor
also, and refused to improve the high
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! themselves. About five years ago twenty
| five of them came together and offered TO
J haul mari one day free if the township
would allow them to take the mari from
| its bed. The township was willing, and
| about twenty men volunteered to shovel
and level the mari, and so the first half
mile was laid. That road proved such
success, that the next year another half
mile was put down. This mari packed
| down so hard and made such excellent
bed for gravel that the farmers donated
1925 and labor for about one-quarter mile
of gravel. This being put on in what was
always a wet place, it was spread about
8 inches thick Next year $3.50 was collect
ed and about one-half mile was put down
Spreading this only about four inches.
This year only 800 was collected but a
quarter-mile strip was put down. finish
ing the mile started five years before Be
| sides this about a half-mile of mari was
| PNt NONi lSdiy AOi SfdNel next Tdli. 1h1S
| action of the farmers stirred up the towns
people at large, and now. the town has
| offered to raise 5000 for gravel if the far
mers will furnish the labor to spread it,
That they will do willingly
-England's losses in South Africa are
large compared with recent wars, because
there has been no great struggle between
| two civilized nations since the Franco
German war, and in lighting with half
| civilized peoples the percentages of loss
| have invariably been all one way-in IA
| vor OF the modern equipped armies. Even
in our short war with Spain, which was
not stubbornly contested conflict the i'm
| portance of modern military tactics and
scientific inventions could not be fairly
estimated, says the Scientific American
Risks of war have never been so great as
the inventors of the weapons would lead
| us TO believe. The climate in many
wars has been a far greater enemy than
the bullets and cold steel of the soldiers
| Recent statistics show that the number
of our soldiers killed in battle in the Phil
| ippines in the last four month of the old
year was only 361. and the number who
died from wounds and accidents 200. while
| those who died of disease were 1862 In the
| Cuban campaign the deadly work of The
| climate was even more effective in its re-
! suits. The large life-insurance companies
| recognize the risks of the climate as equal
to those of exposure to the bullets of the
enemy, and special clauses are attached
to many policies which specify that off,
GERS sent to Cuba or the Philippine Islands
must have their policies reconsidered and
! an extra fee paid. An Interesting item
of fact is CLEANED from the Crimean War
literature, that is further verified by some
of the naval battles of our recent war.
| The Russian forces fired 100000 rounds
of shots and killed $4,000 men, or one SOL
der to every $40 shots fired 1t was es-
timated that only a few shots in every
hundred of our naval guns hit the mark
and this fact was used as an argument in
favor of discarding the heavier guns and
substituting smaller and rapid-fire guns
In the Cuban War about ninety-nine out
of every 11S American soldiers shot made
complete recoveries. The employment of
the modern high-power rifles with their
small bullets tends to put more soldiers out
of the fight temporarily, but actually de-
| creases the mortality. A queer aspect of
the investigation was that a majority of
the bullets found Judgment, not in the
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