The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

secret of beauty" She declares that she
has, therefore, deliberately banished care
from her life, because care means wrin-
kles.
A Roumanian has discovered a pro-
cess by which photographs can be per-
manentiy printed on the skin, and it is
! becoming quite a fashionable craze TO
have tiny portraits printed on the wrist
or arm. The process sis not in the least
! injurious, and unlike tattooing, is not
| painful. The little pictures are as clear
as those which are seen in photograph
ers' windows The operation takes about
three hours to complete
According to the Electrical World w
S. Burnett and w H Goodhal of Mil
waukee, Wis, are the inventors of a
device which permits the calling of any
subscriber on a party telephone line with
out disturbing the otner subscribers on
| the same line. The apparatus is called
| the multipleX telesig. 1t is said to be
possible by the use of the new device
to maintain on one circuit telephone SER
vice, station signalling on railroads, po-
| lice and fire signalling, messenger SER
vice, etc. number of submarine mines
may be placed in circuit and any of them
exploded without affecting the others.
Plans for the new botanical school
which is to be erected in Schenley Park
Pittsburg, at the expense of Henry Phipps.
| have been completed Work on the insti-
sutton will begin as soon as the weather
| shall be favorable for excavatng for the
foundations This school will be the
only one in the United States devoted ex-
clusively TO the study of botany, and is
to be so located with reference to the
|
! can be made use of for purposes of in
struction. The institution is intended
for the benefit of the pupils of the public
schools as well as for that of private
classes.
"A number of men met in Chicago the
other day and resolved that "the United
States of America, through the State De-
/ partment thereof be requested 10 imme-
diately strive to negotiate a treaty with
Great Britain for the peaceful cession of
beth Ireland and Canada, and that the
| said PROPOSED treaty be in lieu of the Hay
| Pauncefote treaty now pending, and that
| the refusal of Great Britain to respond
| to these just demands be considered as an
unfriendly act on the part of Great Bri-
! tain toward the United States jusrifying
| the immediate recall of the American am
bassador from London and the direct for
|
slVe with France Russia, Holland, Swift.
zerlapd. Orange Free State and the peo-
| pie of Ireland and Canada"
Near the town Of Baku, in the Russian
Caucasus, are several tracts of land
whereon no cattle would feed, although
| they were covered with unusually rich
heritage, says the Chicago Record The
superstitous peasantry declared that an
! aAi beU wit he mo In
i question. BY and by there happened along
| practical, matter-of-fact Englishman,
who started to investigate the phenome-
non. He quickly discovered that although
! The grass was undoubtedly rich and sue
cuent. it tasted strongly of paraffin,
subst ance the favor of which is intense
| ly repugnant to nearly all animals, but
| especially so to cattle Such was the oTi-
GIN of the discovery of the Baku Metro,
leum deposits-deposits which have al
ready yielded millions of pounds worth
| Of oil. and which show no signs of be-
coming exhausted
A Washington dispatch says: "Vice
Consul William H. Hunt at Tamatova,
! Madagascar, in his last letter to the
state department, discusses the staple ar
ticle of commerce of the island rata
fibre The Hovas, he says. use the I'M
der part of the leaf spit very fine as A
warp with a welt of white silk, produc-
ing an article called silk LAMBDA which
brings fancy prices in Europe and Amer
lea. The coast tribes. Mr.. Hunt continues,
use it for clothing but of mediocre fine
ness with dyed stripes of indigo. SAT-
from black. and dirty green 1t is q
cold, comfortless looking material and
refuses to adapt itself to any folds that
sculptor would care to copy, and when
two natives come down the street clad in
brand-new RATA shirts they produce
noise similar to that of two wire meat
covers rubbing together.
The age of trees has been under dis
cussion for some time past in the scien-
tifc journals, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. The giant red woods" of the Pa
cihc slope are often assumed to be at
least FIVE thousand years old One which
was twenty-five feet in diameter and three
! hundred feet in hight was shown by ac-
! tual count to have one thousand one
| hundred and forty-seyeu years of age BY
its rings Historically. the famous 30
| tree of Annradhapura, Ceyon, likely holds
the record. 1t was planted in the year
2SS b. c.. being a slip of the tree under
which Sakya- NUM- became a Buddha. Lit
erary texts numbering twenty-five or
more accurately trace it down to the
| present day. At present the trunk Is
surrounded and supported by masonry
and the branches which extend beyond
the Enclosure are supported bv solid
props. To this tree journey each wear
numerous pilgrims, who deposit offerings
OF fruit and flowers on the affairs under
its mighty branches.
Mr.. II. p, Morton of Manchester. who
was bitten by a mad dog two weeks ,go
returned Wednesday from North Carolira
where he went in search Of maidstone
SAYS the Richmond Times "A week agn
Monday night" Mr. Morgan SAYS 'rhsn
] left here was almost on the verge OF
insanity, whether from the effect of tho
bite or the horrible mental strain / had
been in since the occurrence know not
but ! felt as though l would go mad. on
Thursday. and about noon the stone was
applied. 1t was a smalhat stone red in
appearance and about the size of a half
dollar said Mr. Morgan "and when
placed en- the wound immediately held
fns; there was no shaking J.. off. So n
remained for lSS hours at the expiration
OF which time, having absorbed an the
poison IN the wound II dropped Off q" Mr..
Morgan says he suffered litele or no pain
during the time. He has With him a