The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-16
ITEMS of INTEREST.


takes so tons of paint to give it one coat,
and the area dealt with is something like
l20 acres.
A runaway horse in Denver the other
day finished his flight by landing in the
interior of rapidly moving trolley car,
where he rode for nearly a block before
the vehicle could be stopped.
An old dining table at which Prince
Charlie dined when he marched into Eng
land was exposed at sale of household
furniture at Moffat, Dumfriesshire re-
Gently and was knocked down at 80 shill-
ings.
RED rain." which fell between the
18th and 18th of March, 1901. in Sicily, Ma
pies. Leghorn, Venice. Coburg, Hamburg,
Schleswig Holstein and at Malvern, in
Worcestershire, has been a subject OF sci
entific investigation
Two thousand of the $1,000 books on
the French Revolution, which have been
presented to the Bibliotheque NationaIe by
the British Museum will be kept there.
The remaining 2S.OO0 will be sent to the
Bibhotheque Sevigne.
The London Lancet declares that "the
prices asked for wine at big hotels are so
monstrousy high and the wine offered is
so often bad that this fact alone accounts
for the increa sing demand for whisky as
a dinner beverage"
"A veritable quick luncheon" it is
said, is to be had at a restaurant in Par
is. where a dinner of several courses
composed of concentrate food in the for.n
of tablets can be consumed in a few min
utes. The entire meal, indeed, can be car
ried about in the vest pocket or pocket
book.
India has hundreds of dialects, which
may all be classed under three great
heads, the Sanscrit, Pracrit and MagaGhi
The Sanscrit is the Fundamental lam
guage and that of the Vedss; the Pracrit
the vernacular language in many dialects,
and the Magadhi or Misra is that of Cey-
lon and the islands.
1t is said that there were at least
100000 mustangs scattered over the plains
OF Arizona, New Mexico and Texas ten
years ago, and that now nearly all OF
them are gone. A few were caught and
kept by the Indians in their reservations,
but the wild horse, in his natural state is
practically extinct
President Henry G. Weston of Gro
zier Theological Seminary, is more than
50 years old yet he performs all the du-
ties of his Office, and will deliver four
lectures next week at the interdenomina-
tional Bible class, 20 be held at Lake
Orion, Mich. AS long ago as IS49 he was
moderator of the Baptist General Asso-
citation of Illinois, which state was the
scene of his early labors.
M. Jean de Bloch, the man who has
been called 'the grandfather of the Peace
Conference" the Imperial Russian oun-
cillor of State who poured into the ear
of the Car the gospel of the futility, the
madness of the idea of European war
under the altered war conditions is now
in London. He was once a Warsaw ped
dler of the poorest class, earning a scant
crust by hard work. He is now a Russian
nobeman, man of culture. versed in
languages, in men, in statecraft, in
armies, millionaire and a military
prophet.
Within the last two years several re-
nTarkable reefs of fossil coral have been
discovered near Bainbridge, on the Flint
river, in Georgia One reef so found con-
sisted of coral heads, some of them more
Nhoh a AONl III uldLlSlGI. DSIWCGu twenty
five and thirty species have been recog-
nized in these Georgia reefs. Biologists
say that they belong to the tertiary age.
The investigation made by Prof. Boyer
for the American Ornithological Associa-
tion of the Louisiana Gulf Coast for the
purpose of stationing wardens to protect
the sea birds shows that action was not
taken moment too soon. Prof. .Beyer found
that nearly all the breeding places of the
birds had been destroyed by killing the
birds themselves and taking their eggs.
Not trace of birds was found on several
Islands at one time the home of millions
of sea fowl.
To construct a whole animal from
thigh bone or toe joint has been the
achievement of archaeologists in many
cases, says the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
But to learn the food and habits Of stone
age gentlemen from the tartar on their
teeth is comparatively a new feat of sci
ence. An English journal gives an inter-
esting account of the experiments of the
ex-president of the Royal Chronological
Society of Great Britain in this direction.
Upon the teeth of ancient skulls he MOTTO
ed thick coating of tartar, and. dis
solving this in acid, he dis
covered minute cornhusks particles, vege-
table substance, particles of starch, the
point OF FISH tooth, oval cells from fruit
and portions of wool; also mineral frag-
ments probably left by the rough stones
used in grinding the corn. Thus the
mode of life and sustenance of people liv-
ing some 1900 years ago were clearly laid
bare of the investigator and arehaeology
could achieve what not all the printed
records of history could unfold to us
Leaving the doctors 10 make out
among themselves whether a quill or
Turkish bath is the best preventive Of
smallpox, says an exchange. it is notable
that typhoid and scarlet fevers become
more prevalent Immediately after the
weather becomes very warm. Here, again,
there are some controversies. One au-
thority holds that the germs Of these dis
eases become more active in carrying the
infection about. 1T may be that ulti-
mately war will be made on the fly, as it
is now being waged against the mosquito
with petroleum. With a mention of pc
troleum and the mosquito we are carried
back into the country again. The mosqui-
to prefers the swampy valley in the coIn-
try to the smoky town. But the farmer
has found petroleum his best friend in
dealing with other pests than the mos
quito. 1t is the only thing that will xii,
the tree scales. including the famous San
Jose scale, and 1t is the sovereign rem
edy for line Of bacterial Ills IN Vegeta-
tion. Not merely the invisible parasites
are combatted with OIL but the visible
insects as well. Kerosene emulsion goes
Far - - e.