The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A committee of prominent physicians
in this country has been organized for
the purpose of collecting money to add to
the Virchow fund. This fund was estab-
lished in honor of DR.. Rudolf VirchoW,
the famous pathoogist, who since 1856 has
been the director of the pathological In
stitute of Berlin. The fund was founded
in 1891, when he completed his seventeen
year, TO enable him to facilitate scientific
research by establishing scholarships and
by encouraging special medical and bio
logical investigations.
This" says the Atchison (Kan)
Globe, lis the marvellous age of North
ern Kansas. The farmers are raising
more wheat every year. more corn every
year, more alfalfa every year, fattening
more hogs and cattle every year, the
price of land is increasing every year, and
the farmers are getting better prices for
everything ALI the time. They are get
ting more for eggs and butter than ever
before; the price of land is rapily increas-
ing. Thousands upon thousands of dollars
worth of implements are being sold to the
farmers every season. Farmers are get
ting rich. All values are on the increase,
and the banks are full of money. The
most shiftess are living web and the in
dustrious getting rich. No such plenty
was ever known before, and it seems like
a healthy condition. Some say the end
is not yet, that manufactures will be the
next step"
The Chicago Tribune makes the sur
prising statement that 1.-The Breadwin-
ners," novel which was published
anonymously in 1888, and has generally
been attributed to John Hay, was really
the work of Miss Ida Harris of Cham
paign, Ill. The authorship of the book
was holly discussed, and MIR. Hay has
never acknowledged that he wrote 1t, but
on internal evidence this theory has been
widely accepted. The novel, it will be
remembered. is a bitter satire on popular
education and social ambitions among
the masses" and the scene is laid in
Cleveland. Miss Harris died about 10
days ago, and the Tribune says that doc
uments found among her papers prove
that she was the author. She was only
% at the time the book appeared. and
apparently wrote nothing else. She was
the daughter of the president of the First
National Bang of Champaign, but for a
score of years she had been a reeluse,
living apart from her family.
1t is a popular error to suppose that
the dwelling rooms at Windsor are very
sumptuous, says the London Chronicle.
The private apartments are scarcely
worthy of an ordinary country gentle
mans seat. Queen Elizabeth is response
BILE for a great number of them and they
were built rather hurriedly by her or
ders She had taken refuge at Windsor
from the plague which was raging in
London, and her maids of honor and at
tendants revolted at the uncomfortable
condition of their rooms, which were low,
dark and cold. The Queen herself was flu
rious because her dinner was invariably
served up stone cold, but being of an in
quiring mind she discovered that the
kitchen was nearly half mile from the
dining room, and straightway built the
present kitchen, which is very large and
commodious. Elizabeth built the Octagon
Library. which she is still said to haunt,
and where she was frequently seen, it is
said, last year
After Rudyard Kipling had spent day
or two in Buffalo in the eighties he thus
described it: Buffalo is a large village
of a quarter of a million inha bitants, sit
uated on the seashore which is falsely
called Lake Erie. Once clear of
the main business streets, you launch
upon miles and miles of asphalted roads
running between cottages and cut stone
residences of those who have money and
peace When you have seen the
outside of few hundred thousand of
these homes and the insides of a few
score, you begin TO understand why the
American does not take deep interest
in what they call politics. and why he is
so vaguely and generally proud of the
country that enables him to be so COM
Portable. How can the owner of a dainty
chalet with smoked oak furniture imi-
tation Venetian tapestry curtains, hot and
cold water laid on, a bed of geraniums
and hollyhocks. a baby crawling down the
veranda, and a self-acting, twirly-whirly
hose gently Kissing over the grass in the
baln1y dusk of an August evening-how
can such man despair of the repubhc?'
The late Gen. George B. Mcclellan,
u. S. A., is credited with having made
the statement many years ago that the
sinking of clans into the send along the
ocean shore by closing their shells and
ejecting the water from them in a thin
stream. first suggested to him the use of
the water jet an aid in sinking piles in
sand, says Casters Magazine. At any
rate, as long ago as 1852 a water jet was
so used, by Gen MdClellan's advice, in
putting down the piles for a wharf and
warehouse. Water was forced through
an ordinary rubber hose, with a piece of
gas pipe on the end of the nozzle. This
was placed close TO the point OF the pie
on the bottom, the jet of water scoring
the sand away from the pile and making
a hole, in which the pile sunk rapidly.
From that time on, as recently recorded
in a paper by l.. Y. Schermerhorn before
the Engineers Club of Philadelphia the
water Jet method has been similarly en-
ployed in many different places by diff
ferent persons. In the United States, in
the improvement of the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers, large numbers of piles
have been driven for the construction of
the brush and pile bikes and in the sink
ing of these piles the water jet has been
in use since 1881.
When John d. Rockefeller modestly
and for the purpose of illustrating his
point told his sons Bible class that the
corporation of which he is the head had
paid out 500 900 in wages, he did no
more than echo what Abram s. Hewitt
once told an audience of workingmen,
writes Holland in the Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Hewitt's theme was that no man
can amass great wealth by the aid Of
any industry or any invention without
Increasing the wealth of the world In far
greater proportion than his own was in
creased lie illustrated that by speaking
of Sir Henry Bessemer as one OF the
greatest Of philanthropists. For Besse-
mer's process brought him about $4,000
coo, but 1t Increased the wealth of the
world, according to Mr. Hewitt's esti-
mate, by as much as $1,000 0O00O, and