The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

commences to attract the attention of
Europe. A Rotterdam ship broker firm
advertises in the local papers, for the
first time in maritime history, that it
will accept freight to go through with
bulk unbroken TO Chicago.
There is rumor, says writer in
the Onlooker. which I give for what
it is worth, that when the King look
ed over the regalia, which was espe-
cially brought for his inspection from
the tower to Marlborough House, It
was decided the unlucky opal should
not appear in the crown, or indeed IN
any other of the royal jewels connect
ed with the coronation Of the seventh
Edward.
Cash registers and adding machines
are practically unknown in the section
of Brazil about Santos. Consul Girl
mondi of that port thinks they would
meet with ready sale If introduced
by agents speaking the language. He
also believes there is a good opening In
his district for Photographic apparatus
and supplies, and suggests the intro
duction of up-to-date postal scales to
replace the crude articles in use at the
present time.
Hungary, which has a f1ourishing
milling industry. would now be a good
market, IT is said, for American -four
bags and sacks, as the Austrian jute-
spinning and weaving trust has raised
the prices of these articles, so that.
in spite Of the important duty on the
foreign bags, 100000 sacks have come
in from Germany. Agricultural asso-
Citations exist in all districts in Hun
gary, and purchase sacks, implements,
ETC., for their members.
The Italian steamship Regina. Mar
gherita, lately arrived at Buenos Ayres
from Italy. has brought one of the
most extraordinary parcels that has
ever appeared in the manifest of any
vessel, i. e., a holy brick. We do not
mean a jolly friar in holy orders. He
would not be manifested. We mean a
real brick, a squared mass of burned
clay, declared to be holy because it
was taken from the Holy Gate in the
vatican. The parcel is forwarded by
the Pope to Argentina as mark of
special distinction.
The English war Offices new
scheme for the training of Tommy At
kins in maneuvers embraces many
novelties, which will in due course see
the light of practical demonstration,
says the London Express Among these
none is more interesting or fraught
with greater possibilities than the de-
vice for training soldiers to locate guns
firing smokeless powder. Arrange
ments are being made TO carry out ex-
periments in this direction at Alder
shot, and the sappers have already
constructed an ingenious battlefield up
on Ash Ranges, which will make field
tlring very realistic. In the trial to
come an infantry force will approach
the ranges, and will Immediately be
fired upon by distant guns Endeavor
Will be made to locate the field pieces
and the infantry will move forward in
cover AS they advance surprise tar
gets representing cavalry and mounted
infantry will spring up on flank and
front, an armored train will run out
and all the features of a modern bat
tleneld will be represented against the
advancing force. This method will call
for great initiative from commanders,
and the targets will be so. made that
good shooting will be recorded by the
targets being knocked over. AS an
inducement to make infantry take COW
err a new device has been adopted Ar
tillerymen are to accompany the ad-
vancing columns, and when a distant
gun fires its dummy shell they will
produce a corresponding explosion
among the attackers by means of
small mortar, thus teaching the lesson
OF cover and caution as no other means
short of live shell could do.
-Wordsworth's lines regarding the
faith that believes in the enjoyment
by the plant of the air it breathes may
find, perchance, some far-off justifca-
tion--one dare not say confirmation as
yet-in the researches of DR.. B. Nemec,
who has published a learned treatise
on the manner in which plants are
capable of transmitting impulses or
stimuli through their bodies from one
part of the organ to another. says the
London Chronicle. DR. Nemec ahinks
he has discovered certain special fea-
lures in the living matter of cells
which appear to warrant the conclu-
sion that plants possess structures cor
responding to the nerve fibers of ami
mails. The researches of Sir J. Burden
Sanderson long ago proved that the
movements of the Venus fly traps
leaves gave much the same electrical
reactions as do muscular movements
in the animal. There is no doubt that
whatever be the exact source of the
movements, it is to the living matter
LOT protoplasm) OF the plant that We
must look for the discovery of the real
seat of the action. In old days it was
believed that each cell of a plant was
completely shut off from all it's neighbor
cells. Now we know that, so far from
this being the case, the living matter
of the plant is continuous in it's ma
ture. Fine threads of protoplasm pass
through the cell walls, and bring the
various series of cells into close con-
nection. There is nothing inconceiva-
BILE, therefore, in the notion that GER
tain threads of living matter may de-
velop the function performed by
nerves in animals, that of conveying
stimuli. When, too. we learn that a
sensitive plant can be rendered insen-
sible by making it respire ether, the
argument can be drawn closer for the
Identity Of animal and plant sensation.
Only ten miles from London lies
lavenderlan6, says the London Express
Glorious patches OF purple flowers
bathing in bright Surrey sunshine seem
to make the air heavy with their sweet,
old-fashioned scent for miles around
Just now they are busy in lavender
land gathering in the seasons harvest.
The inhabitants of the little village of
Wallington-upon which the mantle of
Mitcham, formerly the center of the in
dustry. has fallen--are cutting the pur-
pie blossoms and making them into
sheaves. From the fields the sheaves
OF lavender are taken to the great dis