The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST
of the whole number of strikes, 1879,
in Massachusetts last year, 10 We're &C.
casioned by questions relating to hours
of labor alone; % to hours of labor and
wages taken together; 80 related to
wages alone, the remaining 81 being oc-
casioned by a variety of causes; So sue
ceeded; 10 partially succeeded; 20 were
compromised; IA satisfactorily adjust
ed; "a failed, and 4 were pending at the
close of the year; while with reference
to 8 the result of the contest was not
stated. Expressed in percentage, 2S.O4
per cent. of the contests terminated
successfully for the employees; 5.29 per
cent. succeeded partially; 1928 per cent.
were compromised; TAI per cent. were
satisfactorily adjusted; 3915 per cent.
failed; 2.12 per cent. were pending at
the close of the year, and in 4.76 per
cent of the cases the result was not
stated. There was more trouble in the
boot and shoe industry than in any
other trade, the number of strikes being
40.
A burglar who is about ending
two-year sentence in a California Jail
has written a novel while imprisoned
dealing with criminology, and the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union OF
the vicinity, together with other help
full influences, have given the book their
Endorsement, says the Philadelphia
Times With the lessons it is sup
posed it's reading will teach, and a pro-
posed series of lectures, at which the
author will officiate, they expect to do
a great deal of good. There is nothing
incompatible with this expectation in
fz,. Of he
great literary productions have been
written inside Jail. To mention few,
John Bunyan wrote Pilgrims Pro-
gress" while in Bedford Jail, and Saw
onarola, who made old Florence FAM
Gus; James Montgomery, Francis Ba-
ker, author of Jerusalem, My Happy
Home" George Wither, the Puritan
poet, and William Tyndal are all writ
ers whose pens taught the world les
sons of faith and conduct from the con-
fines of prison cell.
"A Monon, Ind. dispatch says: BIZ
jou is a pet pigeon belonging to Miss
Minnie Tull, and lately has been in
dulging in a quasr freak. Several
months ago he attracted attention by
developing strange antipathy toward
cats, exhibiting no fear in their pres
ence and fighting them on every occa-
sion. He would strut up to them and
peck and flop them viciously until they,
daunted by his audacity, would turn
tail and run. Very seldom would they
strike back. Lately Bijou has con-
ceived an ardent liking for little de-
serted kitten, following it about wher-
ever it goes and staying near when it
takes a nap He seems TO consider him
self its natural protector, and when
milk is placed out for the little feline
Bijou keeps other cats from drinking
it, pecking them when they come too
near. The kitten and pigeon are fed
together and sleep in the same loft. The
greatest difficulty Bijou encounters is
at his roosting time, for the kitten is
not retire at such an early hour as he,
but he refuses to go to roost until his
partner is placed in the loft.
i remember four or five years ago
says a writer in the Pail Mall Gazette,
hearing NJ. Camille Flammarion, at his
charming observatory at Juvisy, ex-
plain the wonderful properties of color
ed glass in differentiating growth. The
results of his subsequent studies in
this field of research have Just been
given by him to the Academy of
Sciences. He claims, in brief, that sex
can be predetermined by the amount
of color of the light to which the fe-
male may be subjected. Experiments
with silk worms showed him that VIC
let rays resulted in a great predomi-
nance of male progeny. He attributes
this to the bad effect of sombre light
upon the nutritive faculties. 1t will be
remembered that Prof. Schenck also
based his sex theory upon nutrition
claiming that poor nourishment of the
mother favored
opponent has arisen in the Academy of
Sciences to combat NJ. Flammarion' S
theory. NJ. Girard refuses to believe
that the sex of the infant silk worm
can be affected by colored light The
sex, he declares, exists and persists in
the ova, as may be easily perceived
through the mi-transparent body of
the mother insect But it is probable
that in NJ. Flammarion's experiments
the proportion between the male and
female offspring was due to the fact
that the latter succumb more easily
under the influence of insufficient nour-
iShment.
The Boston Board of Health has
been considering for some time the
question whether typhoid fever turks in
ice, and is prepared to report that
there is little danger. In natural ice
the bacteria are thrown out by freeZ-
ing, and in artificial ice they are kill
ed by sterilizing. DR.. H. Winslow
Hill, director of the departments bac-
THEOLOGICAL laboratory, reports: IF ice
be formed by the ordinary process of
freezing downward toward the bottom.
the mere act of freezing itself results
in diminution, by physically throw
ing out the bacteria to the extent of
20 per cent, the remaining 10 per cent.
oelng reduced in proportion to the con-
tanlnation already given, and in two
weeks the percentage remaining in the
Ice, as compared with the number in
the water originally, would give near
~ the same publication as that of
uttered water. In three weeks the
purihcatlon would be much greater
rms SHOWS that ice more than three
weeks old is as sanitarily safe as n
well-flltered water supply" Then fol-
lows this warning: Notwithstanding
oil the factors of safety inherent In
the ice itself. there can be no oues-
ton that the safety is not absolute
IL is possible for ice to convey typhoid
lever If it should be polluted with tv-
phoid discharges. A water SUNNY
must, ther efore, be infected within AZ
most, a month previous to the forma :
ton of ice IN order that the ice then
FORMED may contain any living organ
ISM"
The blood fluid of animals is known