The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

forty-five scholarships out of a total
OF seventy and compete on equal terms
for the remaining twenty-five and for
twenty fellowships. Nearly 200 former
students of the university are now
teaching in the South, distributed
among sixty-five institutions of learn
ing.
--One of the methods of protecting
broad grass lands from fire is to burn
a swath called a fire guard" around
the area to be protected. A Montana
stockman suggests that this offers a
good opportunity for inventors to de-
wise machine which, passing over the
! ground like a horse rake, shall burn
the grass clean from a space about 8
o. 10 feet in width. Already an apparat-
us of this kind has been invented, US
ing gasoline to set the grass on fire,
and a train of steel brushes to extin-
! guish it before it has spread beyond
the proper limits, but the stockman
thinks that a cheaper machine can be
made. Fire guards" fifty miles or more
in length are desirable:
Many secrets in metallurgy have
been lost. Nobody has yet found out
how the old brass of the ancents was
made, that brass which does not tarn-
ish with exposure to the weather, and
which can only be distinguished from
gold by the application of acids or by
testing its specific gravity, says a
London newspaper. Hard copper-as
hard as steel-has also been made, yet
analysis shows it to be practically pure
metal, the impurities being exactly the
same as those found in ordinary cop
per. 1t was that wonderful people, the
AZtecs, exterminated, or nearly so, by
Cortez, which possessed this art. Elec-
tricians feel themselves at liberty to
curse Cortez for being the probable
cause of this process being lost to the
world. To them copper as hard as
steel would mean almost as much as
a perfect insulator capable of standing
heat for an indefinite period and i'm
permeable to moisture.
A gold minted slab in bass relief
is to be presented next month to M.
Berthelot to commemorate his en-
trance, fifty years ago to the labora-
tory of Prof. Ballard, at the College of
France. He entered it as laboratory
assistant The sculptor charged to de-
sign and execute the bass relief is NJ
Chaplain, who takes for his inspiring
text a sentence of NJ. Jules Lemaitre's
| speech at the reception of Berthelot at
the Academy Whoever knows you
knows how little you care for aught
else but the truth and motherland."
M. Berthelot belongs to a very old jan
senist Partisan family, and was up in
the austere principles and practices
of his forefathers. He was the con-
slant friend of Renan. From the time
the latter threw aside his deacon's
frock and quilted the Seminary of st.
Sulpice they lived so far as their diff
ferent avocations allowed, in each 9TH
er's society, and each owed much to
the other. NJ. Berthelot has rooms at
the Institute, where he lives in a plain,
old fashioned French manner, and in
winter economies fuel by receiving
visitors in his very plainly furnished
bedroom, where a cheerful fire burns in
cold weather.
Among some amusing college
scrapes told in The Ladies Home Jour
nal is the story of a certain professor
not much liked by his pupils, who was
to be married. His fiancee lived in
Cleveland. The students that loved
MIN were not, of course, invited; but
they determined that in some way he
should hear from them. And he did
On the day appointed the professor
took the train at 10 a. M, due to ar
rive at Cleveland at 1890 o. m. About
II O'Clock one of the tormentors rush.
ed to the telegraph Office and sent off
this dispatch: Chief of Police, Cleve-
o,
we'll dressed, frock coat silk hat, side
whiskers. Escaped lunatic. Hold
Shrewd, therefore beware. Strange
case. VIII say name Finalli Mistake
Thinks he is a professor in a college.
Delusion Escort to home of friends at
No. -, Euclid avenue This mes
sage reached it's destination long before
train No. reached Cleveland, so that
when Prof. Finalli alighted it was to
walk straight into the custody of three
detectives. They would listen to no
word of reason but escorted him out
to the house in Euclid avenue, the home
of his intended bride.
To see all classes Of Swiss people.
says Leslie's Weekly, especially the wo.
men, and many other nationalities as
well, one does we'll to go to the mar
ket on Saturday Very early in the
morning the Swiss peasant comes from
ms mountain or country home bring
ing his vegetables, fruits, flowers.
cheese, etc. There is a large square
devoted to that purpose, but the streets
extending in every direction from the
square are lined with women and lit
tie girls sitting on boxes, overturned
tubs, or even on the sidewalk with
their baskets of produce before them.
1t is the most beautiful sight 1 ever
saw, in the way of display of vegeta-
oles, fruits and flowers. The peasant
women have good, wholesome faces. us
ually wearing thick wooden skirts.
blouse waists, with long blue Bingham
or coarse. but spotlessly clean, white |
aprons. The young girls of twelve, the
boys, both younger and older have
thick, wide shoes, coarse socks of blue.
gray, or bright red color, which reach
but two or three inches above their
shoes, and bare legs above. The women
and girls usually attend to the mar
keting of vegetables, fruits and flow
ers, while the men assist the women in
the stalls. where baskets, woodenware |
and cheese are sold.
Mr.. Commissioner Kerr, who now |
ceases to be the judge of the CITY of !
London Court, has had forty-two years |
of judicial duty, and has attained The
age OF eighty-one says the London E,x- |
press. His father was a Scotch LAWYER
he was educated at Glasgow University
and called to the English bar in lS43
AS an expeditions judge Commissioner
Kerr soon became famous At his court
the laws delays were less in evidence
than in any other, and his scathfne
trenchant, inspiring criticisms of mem
bers of the legal professional who of
fended against his ideas of good pro-
fessional conduct are likely to live long
in many momeries. Some of his saw.
ings are worth preserving. He was
once protesting against the triyjalitv
OF a claim for compensation for a. dog
bite. "But, your lordship" pleaded
the counsel for the plaintiff. What
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