The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Agricultural College, has been appointed
by the British government to go to India
to establish an agricultural college.
Sarah Grand, the novelist was born
in Ireland. Her father was Edward j.
her mother the granddaughter of Robert
Bell Of Humbleton House, Yorkshire.
"A London electrician. Mr. W. Duddell.
recently exhibited a novel musical instru-
ment, composed of a series of electric arc
lights, which played a popular air. When
the current is passing through solid car
bons they give off musical sound, and
by placing a shunt across the carbons,
connected with a keyboard, Mr.. Duddell
was able to vary the sounds through the
scale of two octaves. The keyboard serv-
ed to vary the self-induction and capacity
in the shunt circuit and by employing
four arcs IN series the integrity of the
sounds was made sufficiently great
A little Russian girl named Tyna Hell
man became a pupil in the Wells Gram
mar School of Boston last autumn. She
did not know a word of English. but she
could speak a little French and Spanish
and her native tongue fiuently. She was
placed in the lowest grade in the school.
but in very few weeks her teacher
thought that she would probably gain
more in the next higher grade. This was
repeated until the principal advanced her
to the highest class in the school When
it came time for the last examination
and the diploma list was made out, the
name of this little girl who entered the
Wells School in the fan in the lowest
grade. was among the list of graduates
and with honors, too. Thus she made
the four years course in one.
I'm Science ]. B. Dandeno finds that
at the maximum density of water the
water in the cell of plant begins to 'ex-
pand while the cell wall continues to
contract as cooling goes on. This con-
traction will extrude water into the in
tercellular spaces. When the freezing
spaces freezes first because less dense
than the contents of the cell. The crys-
utilization outside the cell gives off latent
heat which tends to keep the cell con-
tents from freezing for considerable
time. Finally also the cell contents may
be frozen, but only after nearly all the
water has been expressed into the inter-
cellular spaces. If now the temperature
be raised the ice melts first in the inter
cellular spaces and gives the familiar
wilted appearance of a frozen plant when
suddenly warmed. If, however, the tenn
perature is very gradually raised the cell
will reabsorb the water as fast as formed
and no injury result. If the eel contents
be completely sohdifed permanent injury
results.
Most celebrated of Russian fairs Is
that held each summer at Mini Novg1-
rod Literally THE new lower city'O, which
attracts buyers and sellers from Occident
and Orient. and is a favorite resort for
the globe-trotting sight-seer says a writ
er in Iippincott's. A low ISL
and at the confluence of the
Okla and Volga is reserved for the site
of this annual gathering, which has an
enormous effect upon Russian trade In
winter the frozen waters quite overflow
the fair grounds, and every spring extern
slVe repairs are necessary in order to
make the buildings fit for use. AS for
the bridge that connects the island with
the mainland, it is laid on boats and re-
moved before the ice has a chance to
damage it. Mini Novgorod is distinctive
ly a wholesale fair, and at it are deter
mined the prices of many commodities,
including cotton and wooden goods, the
entire iron product of the Ural district
tea, furs, leather and leather goods, hides,
drugs and chemicals, linens, silks etc
Here too are credits established. Every
participant is known by his neighbor, and
the financial standing of a newcomer is
readily deterrninable by questioning his
fellow-townsmen. During the progress of
the fair the state of the Russian harvest
becomes known, a fact in itself of SUI
preme national Importance.
The Liverpool Post says: Admirers
of Sir Walker Scott will be interested to
know that the famous trysting oak in
Harthill-walk. in this country, mentioned
in 1vanhoe, and beneath the bows of
which so many stirring scenes were en-
acted, has at last come to the ground
Scott himself refers to the tree as ven
cradle, and, as we may suppose that this
eplthet was appropriate in the DAYS of
Occur de Leon, ii would be difficult to
md in England more antiquated trunk
than that which now lies near the scene
of its youthful glory. The Duke of Leeds
is the owner of the land about Harthfll.
and we are informed that it is the inten-
ton of his agent-Mr. W. Mosey-to pre-
serve the relic. have it suitably inscribed,
and, with no little ceremony, plant a
young tree on the spot. 1t Is very prob
able that the Duchess of Leeds, who. az
the authoress of 'Capricios' has become
known in the literary world, will interest
herself in the matter. The old tree. by
the way, was the headquarters of Wam-
pcf SAO SCStCt, thC sui vi w AlGSS. lTurtn.
the thrall of Cedric the Saxon; Locksley
the wonderful archer, and other charac-
tiers in the immortal romance From it
the letter of defiance was indited to
Front de Boeuf, signed by us upon the
eve of st. Withold's Day under the great
trysting oak in Harthill-walk. The
above, written by a holy man, Clerk 10
God, Our Lady and st. Dunssan, in the
Chapel of Copma nhurst' According to
Scott, the tree was but three arrowfiights
from Torquilstone Castle, a place which
figures largely in Ivanhoe,' but of which
no traces now exist"
Almost all the great founders of reIig-
ions have deemed 1t salutary to prescribe
a certain amount of fasting for their dis
ciples. The reason for this. says a writer
In the Batter fur Volksgesundheits pfiege.
according to a translation for the Liter
airy Digest is not only the knowledge that
It is well for man to conquer his bodily
desires, but also the experience that most
persons eat too much. To overload the
stomach with food Is not less unhealthy
than TO deluge 1t with beverages: the
more nutritious the food the more hazard
Gus are ex~ consequences when excess is
habitual GS all the sins of nutrition the
immoderats Use of meat is certainly the
most grievotrs. 1t gives to the body in a
form that lie %,