The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Microbes of typhoid, cholera, diphthe-
ria and other diseases of similar nature
survive the temperature of liquid air and
come out lively and clipper after twenty
hours freezing, according to a paper re-
Gently read before the Royal Society in
London.
"A singular and interesting discovery
has been made al Borbolya, in Hungary.
where the remains of an unusually large
antediluvian animal have been unearthed,
which Hungarian savant pronounces to
be larger than anything of the kind pre-
viously found in Europe. According to this
authority the animal is a whale.
The demand for Missouri mules for
the British army in South Africa con-
tinues undated according to the Kansas
City Journal. In the small town of Gal
latin in the PAST two weeks the sales
have averaged nearly $1,000 a day. and
similar activity in the market is re-
ported from every quarter of the state.
The merchant tailors of Denver, in the
belief that their profession does not oc-
cupy the position in public estimation to
which it is entitled, have formed an
VI dillZdilOn u IdlSe II " tHdl DDSltlOil
The formal statement of the purpose of
the organization is as follows: ITO ele-
Vate and ennoble our profession, and to
raise it to that mechanical, moral and
Intellectual position in our great city
which its Importance as an ancient and
honorable art entities it to occupy"
These figures, relating to the expau-
sion and contraction of railway rails thir-
ty feet long but of different weights, have
been obtained by actual experiment in
America: Contraction caused by change
of tempera ture from degrees above zero
to 20 degrees below zero 56-pound rail cou-
tracted 3-16 inch, 75-pound rail, PIG inch;
S5-pouud rail-, 2-20 inch; expansion caused
by change of temperature from 5 degrees
above zero to 70 degrees above zero, IS
pound rail, LIP inch; 75-pound rail- lie
inch, and S5-pound rail, LII inch.
The Waterbury American notes a new
profession for women, that of 'profes-
sional scoid.' Women" it says who
are too timid to face the tradesmen who
charge eXorb.tant prices, who furnish in
ferior goods who do poor work, or the
landlords who will not attend to making
needed repairs, or servants who are i'm
pertinent or incompetent, can have their
scolding done for them for a consideration,
and if the professional scOld knows just
HOW 10 LAX 10 THESE uelIHuu6IllS Sne cal
accomplish what any amount of reasoning
and mild remonStrance have failed to do
The annual meeting of the New York
Botanical Garden has been held. The an
nual report shows that 165 new members
have been added to the roll and that the
progress at the garden under the direc-
ton of DR.. Britton has been most salts
factory. The number of species and varie-
ties of plants under cultivation and those
native to the grounds aggregate collect
| lively over 1900. The museum building is
now essentially completed and needs only
final clearing. out, when specimens can
be installed. TNe number of new speci-
mems received through gifts and purchase
in the year aggregated 65,S37.
There has been appointed a special
commission to report on the ruins of the
cliff jewellers in the vicinity of Mancos. and
| Cortes, Col, and also near Aztec, Mexico
| with the idea of reserving the lands as
! national park. This action has been
| taken as a result of an agitation in Colo
| RADIO for the protection of these ruins
| against vandal relic hunters. Some of the
| best preserved ruins have been ruthlessly
entered by curio hunters, who have brok-
| en- through walls and roofs and carried
| away the relics. 1t would be wise to have
! these ruins guarded by the government
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| experts. Fortunately some of the best of
! them have not been tempered with as yet.
The Queen of Roumania, known in
literature under the nom de plume of
Carmen SYLVIA" is so passionately fond
| of flowers that she seems unable to resi-
| happily in a room where there are no
blossoms. AS TO writing without the
neighborhood of flowers, that she has de-
clared to be quite out of the ques tion.
| Nearly all her literary works have been
| composed out of doors, in a rOOfless room,
| built of reeds and surrounded by a hedge
| of rose bushes, in the hollows of which
are cunningly concealed cages full OF
! birds. The floor is of messy turf. In one
| corner a tiny fountain pours forth per-
| fumed waters; in another swings a lux
urious silken hammock, in which the
| Queen can rest and dream. Her seat Is a
| messy bank, her desk a lichened stone
| carved into the shape of a writing able
A Rational Danish Rat DISCRIMINATING
Society has been organized in Copenhagen,
which has built crema tory for the rats
| it kills, il being found unhealthy to bury
| them. This activity has extended to the
Danish provinces, and the Norwegian gov
eminent has asked the determination So
| ciety for information and aid. In Paris
| the plague is traced to the sewers, whence
| the Vermin have been driven by recent
improvements into the central market and
the houses near the Seine. Armies of rats
so great as 10 defy attack are ravaging
| the food depots. The suburbs, too, are
| threatened, and at Acheres Plain over TO-
600 rats were at one time engaged in de-
vouring two acres of beet roots. The
Danes have thus far been the most sue
cessful in meeting the danger, and Paris
| has also consulted them. The Pied Piper
of the modern rat will probably hail from
| Copenhagen.
The Monte Carlo correspondent of a
Paris exchange writes that there arrived
at the famous watering place and gam
! bling resort party of young American
| ladies' having no gentlemen with them.
| They We're chaperoned by somewhat ell
derby lady and had disembarked at Ge-
noa. They were all good-lookng, lady
| like girls, and evidently had a pleasant
time of it. They stopped al the Hotel de
Paris and attracted much attention, es-