The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-17

several months ago the Berlin CORE
spondent of the Leipsic journal pub
hshed in what purported to be a re-
port on the De Beers Company, evil
dence of the alleged existence of a
secret fund for purposes of agitation in
which Cologne was credited with 1900
900 marks. The Cologne Gazette de-
cided that the article brought into
question its honor and replied by saw
agely attacking the correspondent,
whose name is DR.. Liman. This at
tack formed the subject of the libel
suit instituted by DR.. Liman against
the former editor of the Cologne Ga
zette, DR.. Angus Schmits, and the sub
editor, DIR. Won Loock.
The verdict of the court was that
the articles in the Cologne Gazette
were insulting to DR.. Liman, but on
the other hand, it could not be proved
that DR.. Liman's general charges of
corruption were specifically leveled at
the Cologne Gazette in a way to JUS
tify retaliation. The court expressly
declared that there was no evidence
that the Cologne Gazette had been
bribed or that it had adopted an atti-
tude of hostility to the Beers in con-
sequence of the receipt of money" DR..
Schmits was sentenced to a fine of 100
DR.. Won Loock to a fine of 20 sharks,
or twenty days Imprisonment. The
affair has created no little amusement
among the European press of pro-
British proclivities, as from the first
the Cologne Gazette has been the most
pronounced anglophobic sheet in Ger
many.
An annual plant growing in tropical
Africa belonging to the leguminous class
is largely cultivated by the negroes as
a food article. 1t has also been intro
duced to some extent in Southern Asia
and in Brazil. 1t is called woandsu by
the African negroes; the botanical name
is Glycine subterranca. A French ex-
pert chemist of ailments has recently
analyzed the fruit of the woandsu with
reference to its chemical composition and
its value as food. The fruit, like the
peanut. natures under ground. The eat
able kernel has the shape of an egg and
is dark red, with black stripes and a
white hilum, like most beans. 1t fur
nishes a very white flour, whose flavor
after cooking much resembles that of
chestnuts. The chemical composition is
IS per cent. of starchy substance, 10 per
cent, heterogeneous. 10 per ent. water, per
cent, oily, 4 per cent. cellulose substance
and per cent. ashes. 1t will be seen
that two pounds of these beans would
supply the daily requirements Of the hu-
man system. 1t is an excellent food
stuff.
Scientific men seem to agree that
without particles of dust I'm the atmos-
phere' for moisture to deposit itself upon
we should have no rain drops and no
rain all precipitation being after the
manner of dew. The abundance of dust
particles is therefore useful. At the Roy
al Institution 1t was recently stated that
in a London suburb 10000 dust particles
had been found in every cubic centimeter
of air. and in the heart of the city 10000
particles in every cubic centimeter. In
the open air of the city was found an
average of one micro-organism to every
1874 900 PARTICLES These facts show
that the air has very few microbes. even
when It Is very dusty. They do not live
long because they cannot Withstand the
influence of dessication and sunlight.
Dessication, or drying up, is one r. ma
lures favorite methods Of getting rid
of bacteria.