The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

direct to the pyramids In a short
time line viii be built equipped with
American cars to run from the ocean
front at Tiraeus to the Parthenon at
Athens.
The city OF Philadelphia has in it's
treasury more than $4,000 belonging to
persons who never called for it when
their bonds, registered and non-regis-
tered, matured and became payable, or
who left uncollected coupons on their
bonds.
Deer forests are much more expen-
sive in Scotland than grouse moors.
They range from fl 900 to $4,000, or
even $1,000, for the season, according to
the sport obtained and whether the
PLACE gives salmon fishing and grouse
shooting as well as deer stalking.
There is a smallpox scare in Eng
land and an ingenious vicar in Kent
has devised vaccination concerts" for
the hop gatherers. A band plays in a
big tent, and in a smaller tent the
vaccination officers, while the vicar and
his assistants go through the audience
urging the desirability of vaccination.
The tobacco sold in France annual
ly aggregates to the state about $79,-
137,1S7. The expense to the state in buy
ing raw material, labor, freight, ETC., is
$14535,324 leaving the very handsome
profit of $64601, S13. The state factories
use 59,O26,325 pounds of domestic tobac-
co and S3,075,000 pounds of imported
leaf.
An effort is to be made to remove
large red oak tree from the widest
section of Arkansas to Forest Park, st.
Louis, without injuring it. The tree is
leo feet high and twenty feet in diam
eter at the base. A double tramway
Will be built from the tree to the river,
where 1T will be fioated and towed to
St. Louis 1t is estimated that this
will occupy six months.
In the lighting of ST. Louis Fair
that have become stereotyped, or that
have midway" effects unworthy the
dignity of a big exposition, says an
exchange. The plan adopted in Chica-
go and Buffalo of festoons of incandes-
cent lights along the cornices of the
buildings will not be followed. In
stead, there will be a number of arcs,
spanning the avenue, making a. trium-
phal way from the entrance to the
crest of the highest hill. The prin-
cipal effect will be on the art building,
The most attractive. use of the lights
will probably be in connection with
the cascades. Here it is expected to
introduce an entirely novel effect and
one which at the same time will be
in conformity to the other features of
the exposition. Back of the cascades
powerful electric lights will be intro
duced, which will illuminate the broad
sheets of water, and make them Wis
of OIL hal he re-
on the grounds. The idea of throw
ing powerful lights on cascades and
fountains from the outside has been
carried into effect before with pleasing
results, but the visibility of the mech
anism destroyed the illusion.
Last March a curious phenomenon
was observed in the eastern Alps. 1t
was called the "blood-rain," because
above the snow levels there were sew
eral falls of a red sleet or snow. The
cause of this has not yet been satisfac-
torily explained, but good use is now
to be made of it. 1t appears that
owing to the fall of this 'blood-rain"
the layer of snow which accumulated
last winter has been defined by red
dish line This will be used as an aid
TO the inquiry into the progress of
glaciers. Scientific men who are inter-
ested in the question have long de-
sired to have a large area of freshly
fallen snow colored, in order that it
may be possible to ascertain the dis
lance which this layer of a glacier in
| motion passes over in year, to OBJ
| serve the reformation and bend which
! it undergoes and to understand what
| happens to 1t in passes, crevasses, ice
| falls and the like. What has to be
| done now during the coming years and
| decades is to keep watch at the Gre
| vases and see where the outcrop of
| the red layer is, and especially in what
relation it stands to the blue coloring
| of the glaciers. One Of the most diff
| cult questions in the theory of glaciers
will, it is hoped, thus be solV ed.
One OF me Oldest of recent inven-
tons is a refrigerating egg as it might
be called, says the Saturday Evening
! Post. 1t is an ovoid capsule of nickel
/ rlated copper, about the size of a hens
| egg, hollow, and nearly filed with wa
ter. For use it is frozen, so that its
contents become ice. If you have a
| glass of milk that is not cold enough,
you do not like to put ice into it, be-
cause dilution with water spoils the
beverage. But, if you have one of these
! eggs handy, you may drop it into the
| glass, and in a few moments the liquid
| is reduced to the desired temperature
| In the same way you may cool your
| cup of coffee, if it is TOO hot, and thu
! idea is equally applicable to any other
! drink Many people nowadays are dis
| inclined to use ice in their drinking
| water, because it may contain germs
! Ali danger is avoided by dropping one
| of these metal eggs into ones tumber
| The refrigerating egg is little less
| than full of water so as to allow for
| the slight expansion of the liquid in
fleeing; otherwise, of course, the cap
sule is sealed so perfectly that no one
| can tell where the opening was, and
thus it is absolutely water tight. Such
an egg, of metal. 1t is said, can hardly
be broken, and ought to last forever.
Over on the Hoboken pier, when
| the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse tied up
there yesterday, says the New York
| Commercial, was a young Baltimore
| an of the smart set who had lots of
| trouble in convincing the customs in
| spectors that few schnurrbartbindes
that he had brought over in his lug
gage from Berlin were not a consign-
ment of dutiable goods designed for
| sale. The inspectors went so far as to
| force him into a private Office of the
| line there to demonstrate that the little
! tricks are toilet articles and right
| fully belong in any gentleman's hand
baggage. With the exception of a few
samples received in Washington last
week these are the first to reach this
country. They are not in common use
| in GERMANY as vet althOugh the vnunp