The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Princess Waldemar of Denmark
was recently photographed in the uniform
of the fire brigade of Copenhagen, IN
which her royal highness takes a very
practical interest. The Princess is en-
thusiastic amateur. fire-woman. and the
members of the fire brigade are said to
adore her. Her highness, who was Prin-
cess Marie d'Orleans, was married to
Prince. Waldemar. youngest brother or
Queen Alexander, in October, 1885, at the
/ Chateau d'Eu.
-One difficult item which King Edward
now has to deal with is the huge quantl-
ty of souvenirs and mementoes of every
description which had accumulated dur
ing the lifetime of the late Queen, most
of them interesting in themselves and
possessing some sentimental associations,
but otherwise of no intrinsic value. Some
sort of classification has already been
made of these mementoes and it is prob
able. that rooms viii be set apart In which
ali the personal souvenirs dear to the late
Queen viii be carefully preserved.
There are certain prawns along the
coasts of England that change their color
at least twice every "a hours, in order to
harmonic with the stronger or the weak
err light near the surface or in deep wa
ter. AS night comes on they lose their
distinctive day color and take on a trans
parent azure hue. The change is an inter
esting and beautiful process. First there
is q reddish glow, followed by a green
tinge, which melts gradually into blue.
1t is said that the change has become SO
habitual that specimens kept wholly in
the light or wholly in the dark undergo it
regularly.
AT a time when the Kings civil list
is 50 much discussed in England it is in
teresting to get an idea of the civil lists
of other reigning sovereigns. The Car
of Russia is said to be the richest SOW
ereign in the world, owning vast estates
and forests and much cultivated land. 1t
is computed his civil list is over $15,000,-
0O0. The Sultan of Turkey has $4,000, 600;
the Kaiser has So, SOC, 900; Austria Hungary
runs to 81, 100000; Italy, 81, 900; Belgium,
$4,000. The Queen Regent of Spain re-
ceived on behalf of the child king, civil
list of 81, 100000. King Oscar of Sweden
gets $575, 900, while the shah of Persia has
an allowance of $2,40oOOO.
An ingenious mechanism has been de-
vised by an Englishman, by means of
which submarine torpedo can be steer
ed by ether waves transmitted as in wire
less biography. The torpedo, in addition
to the usual explosive apparatus, carries
a Marconi eoherer, in circuit with re-
lay and battery, and this is so arranged
that it governs the movement of the rud-
der. A fine wire attached to a metal float
keeps the torpedo in communication with
the air, and, consequently, with the ether
waves. BY means of a wireless transmit
ter the apparatus in the torpedo is act
uated from the shore or from a ship, and
the torpedo's movements are thus con-
trolled.
"A London scientist recently gave to
the Royal institution the results of an in
vestigation to determine the comparative
number of dust particles, and bacteria in
the abr. He used Athens dust counter.
and found in an open suburb of London
10000 dust particles in every cubic cent?
meter of air, and in the heart of the city
5G0,0 coo particles in every cubic centimeter.
In the open air of the city he found an
average of one micro-organism to every
80 200, coo dust particles, and in the air of
a room one micro-organism to every 1884,,
100000 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. in
fuence of dessication and sunlight. Dessi-
cation, or drying up, he says, is one of
natures favorite methods of getting rid
of bacteria.
james A. Hamilton of Chambersburg,
Penn, told this story at the meeting in
Philadelphia on Wednesday of the officials
of sixty-five Pennsylvania towns to dis
cuss the tramp question: Three years
ago we thought we had the tramp ques-
ton in Franklin county settled for all
time. We started out to make them work
We bought several hundred carloads of
stone and had it hauled to the yard of the
county Jail. We invested in q good many
suits of blue jeans, and laid in a stock of
hammers, and ran quite bill for pro-
visions. Then we sent out after the
tramps. We didn't have to send far; the
woods were full of 'em-sent down, 1 sup
pose, from Scranton and Allentown. The
whole county was interested in the pro-
ject, and the first day of the experiment
we had 600 to 500 people turn out to see
the tramps work. We had a band of mu-
sic, too, and altogether it was great
day We had corraled thirty or forty
tramps, and in the forenoon they worked
first rate, but after the midday meal they
complained of the food. In the afternoon
they gathered in little groups of three
and four and did a good deal of talking.
Next morning after breakfast there was
a strike They wouldn't work, and we've
never been able to make them work
SINCE"
A curious natural phenomenon was OBJ
served in st. Gallen Switzerland, on the
morning of March II, says the Philadel
phia Record. In the yelled and clouded
sky the sun shone dimly. over it was
a half halo in faint rainbow colors To
the left and to the right and over were
somewhat colored halos, and on both sides
were seen two long streaks, cone-shaped
in form. drawing upward somewhat. A
short curve in rainbow colors was closed
with the upper mock sun and the ends
of the curve going upward. A little dis
lance over the curve was another half
halo in faint colors, and over this another
curve, the most rich-colored of all, with
its ends drawn upward. The spectacle re-
manned unchanged for a half hour. The
formation of these encircling halos is due
to the refraction and reflection of the
rays of light by the presence of minute
snow crystals in the upper strata of the
air. and they usually occur where cirrus
or crro-stratus clouds exist. The ice or
snow crystals being hexagonal in form,
sometimes produce double refraction,
and then the large and small halos are
seen at the same time; and, reflection
taking place from the surfaces of the
crystals additional halos, OF parts of
halos. are formed. At the points of In