The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-23

6y 4 majority e o1e vote TIE cleo
ten was contested and the contest has
been go.ng O. ever since. having cost up
10 this time some sl0.sao which vii have
70 he paid BY the contestant unless he
finally wins his case
A hil has been introduced in the
Texas legislature to prohibIt railroad
companies from removing the ofioss,
shops. etc. fron any county where they
have been located for the past ten years,
O. from Their location in any county when
has aided such railroad companies by a
donation Of its bonds. except by consent
Of the Legislature. The measure provides
for injunctions to prevent such removal.
The smallest man IN this years batch
Of conscripts in France comes from Gu
mel. rear Montfaucon, IN the Department
OF the Meuse- He is named Emile Mayot.
stands only three feet nine and three
quarters inches in hight. end weighs for
zy-two pounds in his clothes. He is. how
ever, declared to be cons titutionalIy quite
sound, and has never had a days illness
in his life The biggest man comes from
the Department Of the Herault. He stands
six feet six inches. and is named Eugene
CasenaA. AS usual, a girl has been by
some accident inscribed on the lists.
1t appears from President Eliors re-
port of last years work at Harvard that
boys enter college trife younger than
they did a generation ago, and few of
them proportIonally are now prepared by
private tutors. The number entering
from public schools is steadily Increasing
DR.. Eliot thinks that the excellence Of
the preparatory schools ought TO still
further reduce the average age Of en-
trance. There is no good reason why
nlne-tenths of all the boys who mean to
go to Harvard College should not be full
ly prepared for admission at Is years of
age" he says.
Women are addicted to many perni-
cious habits" said cynical Philadelphia
doctor the other day, but I can't con-
ceive of one more idiotic than the plac-
ing Of coins in the mouth while the purse
is being opened. Most women do this, es-
pecially in street cars. have often
watched them and have been very
strongly tempted to utter an adnonish-
ing word. But 1 dare say I would only
be frowned upon for my pains and would
probably be told to mind my own bust
ness 1 saw a beautiful girl the other day
give the conductor dime. Sitting oppo-
site her was a dirty-looking laborer,
whose hands looked as though they
hadn't been washed for a year. he gave
the conductor nickel and the conductor
banded it over TO the young woman in
change for her dime. She placed it be-
tween her lips while she took her purse
from her muff and opened it. Il was as
much as 1 could do to refrain from speak
ing TO her about it."
Much interest has been awakened In
ENGLAND 70 h.
Of the Bishop of Chester for dealing with
the evil of excessive drinking. The bishop
thinks that prohibition does not prohibit
and that regulation is much better AS
regulation has in view the evil done by
drinking, special pains are taken to sup
ply only the purest drinks. The houses
under the bishops scheme are to have,
according TO the Manchester Guardian,
"a uniform external appearance, dis
tinguishing them from ordinary licensed
houses; notices to be prominently dis
played that food and nonintoxicants are
supplied at popular prices; the intoxi-
cants to be placed at one end of the bar
and the nonintoxicants at the other, on
the plan of the railway refreshment
rooms, with tables at which buns, sand
witches, tea, coffee, ETC.. can be served;
in villages the houses to have club, tenn
perance and recreation rooms and where
space is available a billiard-room and IL
brary, with backgammon, draughts and
similar games; to have also a bowling
green and other counter attrac tions to
the bar and taproom." The idea is that
it is hopeless to try to extinguish thirst
for stimulants, but wise to reduce the
danger arising from excess or from bad
whisky and beer to the minimum. The
good of the drinker, not the promotion
of a theory, Is the main object.
The chemical composition of the at
mosphere differs little, If at ell, wherever
the sample be taken; whether It be on
the high Alps or at the surface of the
sea the relation Of oxygen to nitrogen
and other constituents is the same The
favorable effects, therefore, of change
of air are not to he explained by any
difference in the proportion of it's gaseous
constituents. One important difference,
however, is the archaeological one. The
air of high attitudes contains no mi
crobes, ard Is. in fact, sterile, while near
the ground and some 100 feet above it
microbes are abundant. In the air OF
towns and crowded places not only does
the microbic impurity increase, but 9TH
er impurities, such as the products of
combustion of coal, accrue also Several
Investigators have found traces of HYDRO
gen ana certain hydrocarbons in the air
and especially in the air of pine. oak and
birch forests 1t is to these bodies. doubt
less, consisting of traces of essential oils
to which the curative properties of GER
tain health resorts are ascribed Thus
the locality Of a fir forest is said to give
relief in diseases of the respiratory tract
But, oil the same these traces of essen
tial oil and aromatic products must be
counted, strictly speaking, as impurities
since they are not necessary constituents
of the air. AS recent analyses have shown
these bodies tend to disappear in the air
as higher altitude is reached, until they
disappear altogether. 1t would seem, there
FORE that microbe, hydrocarbons and en-
titles other than oxygen and nitrogen
and, perhaps, we should add argon. are
only incidental to the neighborhood of
human industry, animal life, damp and
vegetation.
AT the Albany meeting Of the Geolog-
ical Society of America a somewhat i'm
portant paper was presented by Prof.
D. Adams on THE Flow of Rocks saws
the New York Evening Post This study
was undertaken with view to ascertain
ing how the gigantic movements observed
in the strata of the earths crust have
taken place. In order to accomplish this
small polished blocks of marble an inch
in diameter, were fitted into heavy
wrought-iron tubes, constructed on the
plan of heavy ordnance, by welding
wrought-iron strips around a core of soft