The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-17


tersburg has been filed by the appoint
ment of M. Poppy. late consul general
and first drag oman of the Russian Mis-
sion at Pekin. The chair has been
long vacant, as Russia, in spite of her
long commercial connection with Chi
ma, extending over centuries, was unS
able TO supply single savant who was
sufficiently acquainted with the Chi
nese language, and for some time tbs
few students who took any interest in
the subject had to rely on the occa
sional services of a subordinate men,
Der of the Chinese Embassy in Russia.
The newest idea for mitigating hay
fever-a disease which seems to
claim more victims every years in
proportion to the population--is embod-
led in a small disk covered with wire
gauze. which is inserted in the nos
fril, says the Saturday Evening Post.
OF course, one must have a pair or
them, and the gauze has to be exceed
ingly fine, so as to exclude dust ana
more particularly the pollen OF plants,
which is believed to be the CHIEF cause
of the complaint. patent for this
continuance was recently granted.
There are a number of other kinds of
pollen excluders. all of which have
the same idea in view, but most OF
them contain raw cotton, which is in
tended to be saturated with some vol
atile medicinal oil, soothing to the IN
famed membranes, such as eucaiyptol-
AS the oil evaporateS its fumes are
inhaled. Reports have been publish
ed recently to the effect that many
cures of hay fever have been accom-
plished by hypodermic injections OF
fluid extract of ragweed--a plant
whose pollen is particularly bad for
hay fever sufferers. BY this means. II
| the statements made are true, large
| numbers of patients have been render
| ed immune. the doses having been ad-
| ministered few weeks before the an
nual. attack was due.
The deepest note which can actu-
ally be heard by human ears is pro-
duced by an organ pipe thirty-two feet
| long, says London Answers. II you
| throw a stone into pool, you VIII
see a number of ripples spreading al
ter the splash in circles. If you blow
| a whistle or beat a drum, you make
a splash Of the same kind in the air.
and the ripples spread out all round.
| When they break against the drum or
| the human ear the brain is conscious
| of a sound. II the little waves or rip
| pies in the air are quite regular in the
| proportion of s, 16, 80 ripples per sec
ond the results are perfect musical
notes. Now, the thirty two-foot organ
/ pipe produces exactly sixteen waves
or vibrations every second. When the
dead march in Saul is played, for in
stance, on the great organ of St.
| Peters Cathedral, that note may be
\ distinctly heard, like the boom of artil
| lery, shaking the whole building to its
| foundations. But deeper notes than
! that can be felt. though they make no
sound. In the thunder of Niagara-a
cataract which is roughly 167 feet high
"a note is produced exactly the same
as that from a 160-foot organ pipe.
Listening intently you can feel the
shocks and actually count them as
they beat upon the eardrum at the
| rate of eight vibrat lions a second. Yet
even that is not the deepest note, for
when the volcano of Krakatoa blew up
| in Sunda Strait every observatory in
the world very shortly recorded the
! explosion. The delicate meteorological
instruments actually recorded a note of
| four vibrations a second, which could
not possibly have been heard by NOR
tai ears.
1t is common enough, says the New
York Press, to hear all about the
royal purple but as a matter of fact,
a dealer in fine dress fabrics informs
me, there is so little of it in use even
among the richest folk that the world
| in general may be said to be wholly
unacquainted with it. From the earli-
est ages purple has been honored above
all other colors. Moses, under the Di-
vine instructions, used purple stuffs
for the furniture of the Tabernacle and
| for the dress of the High Priest. Pa
/ gans believed the color appeased the
wrath of their gods. By Roman i'm
perial decree purple robes were re-
stricted to the use of the Emperor,
| with death as the penalty for any one
who dared transgress. Tyrian purple
was the most precious. The making
of it was discovered about fifteen CEN
turtles before Christ lost as an art
about the eleventh century A. D., and
rediscovered in 1888 There will be
plenty of Tyrian purple at the corona
| ton of King Edward, as all the crown
ed heads will wear it. The dye comes
from small fish, and only single
| drop of it is obtained from each ami
NAL. In the reign of Augustus pound
of wool subjected to the dyeing process
| sold for about $3.50 in our money. A
Mr.. Cole of Bristol. England, heard
| from two ladies residing at Minehead
| that man living on the coast of Ire
/ land made his living by marking in a
| brilliant purple the fine linen which
ladies and gentlemen of the court sent
him for the purpose, the dye being a
| substance taken from a shell fish. He
went Immediately to the place, obtain
\ ed some of the fish from the seaman,
| and after many unsuccessful attempts
| finally succeeded in reproducing the
| imperial purple. The fluid was extract
| ed from a white vein lying in a little
! furrow near the head of the fish, the
vein being laid open with a needle.
| The stain given by this animal fluid
is said to be indelible, bidding defiance
| to every chemical process for rernov-
| ing stains. Ordinary purple is obtain
| ed from vegetable and mineral sources.
We told. the other day, says the
New York Times, how the managers
of the Methodist Episcopal Home for
the Aged, over in Brooklyn. had been
much amazed, and apparently no less
| Mortified, by requests for permission to
! get married that have come to them OF
late from several properly assorted
pairs among the ancient inmates. Not
! only were the requests refused, but the
| board of managers met in solemn coun-
| ell and adopted regulations of a ma
ture to take away from the aged in
mates the opportunities of falling in
| love with each other which they have
| hitherto had--and utilized. One of our
! readers, who says she has been a wife
for fifty years, and has outlived all
! her family except her husband found
nothing amusing in this story Instead,
I her sympathy went out to those old