The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-23
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for holders to get them exchanged at the
treasury.
Cigarette smoking is not allowed on
the exposition grounds in Paris. Violators
of the prohibitive order will be arrested
and subjected to heavy fines.
The Supreme Court of North Carolina
in February term, 1900, affirmed the right
of county and municipal authorities to
enforce compulsory vaccination.
A recent test of the salt water fire
service of Boston gave abundant salts
faction. Fitted with the modern access
ores, ii Is no longer an experiment.
-Grasshoppers are beginning work on
the cotton crops in the Southern state.
The Mississippi delta the havoc wrought
by these pests is already extensive.
The collection of fish in the aquariums
of the London geological garden has been
augmented by the addition of several liv-
ing specimens of the curious blind fish
from the Kentucky caves.
The demand for harvest hands in Kan
sas is so great that the section hands on
the Missouri Pacific Railroad are giving
up their jobs at 81 % per day TO get into
the fields and>work for 81 per day.
Antwerp newspapers are freely charg-
ing that the Belgian authorities are prac-
ticing the greatest cruelties upon the ma
tives of the Congo region. Stories of
wholesale massacres are circula ted.
The General Paper Company of Wis
consin, which filed articles of incorpora-
ton in Milwaukee a few days ago, has
enlisted twenty-five paper mills in that
state to fight the Eastern paper trust
An enterprising Englishman is build
ing floating variety theater, which IS
TO be towed from one watering place to
another along the coast. A similar expert
ment was tried last year, but was not
financial success.
-Stausticians will doubtless note the
fact that the trolley death rate has
been increased by the beheading of TWEEN
ty of the ringleaders of the mob which
smashed and burned some trolley cars in
Korea the other day.
The New York Department OF High
ways has purchased four new sand
sprinkling carts, which are to ba used on
the drivewayS of the park and on as
phalted streets. They will sprinkle a fine
layer of sand on the driveways TO make
rough places smooth, and by the same
process it is thought that slippery asphalt
L
cred with ice or rain.
The space allotted for the circulation
of sightseers as compared with that al
lotted to edlfices has decreased with every
exposition in Paris. The International
Exposition in 1889 occupied $4,000 square
meters. of which the ediflces covered &c.,,
0G0. The present exhibition occupies
| space of 100000 square meters, of which
40 COO are occupied by edifices. The num-
Der of exhibitors this years In 10000 as
compared with 5000 in 1889.
Pipes lined with glass were found re-
Gently by workmen repairing the plumb
! ing in handsome old Boston dwelling.
| BY inquiry among the old residents it
was learned that the house was originally
| built about 1910, by a man named Price.
About that time there was panic in
regard to lead poisoning, and pipes were
lined with zinc, brass, etc. Mr.. Price was
wealthy, and decided to have his pipes
! lined with glass. The experiment was not
successful, as it was impossible to make
tight joints, because the heated solder
cracked the glass.
| An observation of a Zurich doctor
forms a curious contribution to medicinal
| geography. He finds that all the engineers
| and workmen in the Jungfrau railway
| who are obliged to remain a considera BILE
| time at attitudes of about 5000 feet above
| the sea level are liable to a disagreed BILE
| complaint. After eight ten days they
| are seized with violent pains in several
| teeth on one side of the jaw, the gums
and cheeks on the same day becoming
| swollen. The teeth are very sensitive to
| pressure, SO that mastication is extreme
ly painful. These symptoms increase in
severity for three days and then gradually
and entirely disappear. 1t seems to be
purely phenomenon of acclimat tia ton,
for all newcomers go through the COM
plant and it appears never 10 recur.
Prof. Metschnikoff, of the Pateur In
stitute, has just made a communication
to the Academy of Medicine which shows
that his discovery of a principle whereby
| the organs of the human body may be re-
| juvenated has taken a step forward A
lymph prepared by Prof. Metschnkoff
has been employed in certain cases of
leprosy treated a t the institute, and so re-
| lieved the patients that they begged for
continuation Of the treatment. Prof. Met
schnikoff does not, however, think his Sc
! rum possesses all the specific qualities
| requisite. AT the same time the expert
| ments proved that the red globules of the
| blood were regenerated, greatly to the id
| vantage of the lepers; and this result In
| the case of an implacable malady author
| ICES the greatest hopes for the future, says
| the Faris Messenger.
! The plan Is the Batavia IN. " High
School of having two teachers in each
room, originated by Superintendent Ken
| nedy. is attracting wide attention, says
| the New York Evening Post. The add-
| tional teacher is present to aid the back
ward pupils, so that they may keep pace
| with the class. Superintendent Skinner
| of the state department heartily com-
mends the system. 1t has been in oper-
alton for two years, and has proved such
a success that instructors from other
! places daily visit Batavia to learn the
method. Prof. II. Thistleton Mark Of
! Owen College Manchester, England, was
sent to Batavia to look into the work as
| a special representative of the educat-in
| department of the British government,
and he will report favorably 10 his gov
eminent concerning it. Superintendent
Kennedy is to deliver an address On his
| plan at the regents convention to be held
in Albany this month.
The catalogue of census interrogat icn
in some of its details is not pleasing to
| the female mind, and il is perhaps rot
| surprising that a few of them endeaVc
! to escape the prying attention of the nu-
| merators, says the New York Tribune
| One of them just arraigned before Com
missioner Shields testified in effect that
| she thought the inquiries were for tn
| purpose of putting her name down in a
| directory of the elite, and she had no de-