The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

that it Is not the intention of the gov
eminent to make May "a, Victorias birth
day, statutory holiday. While the Queen
was alive the celebration of this day was
dear to Canadians. AND much disappoint-
ment is expressed over it's non-perpetua-
ton as holiday.
In connection with the illness and
death of the Queen the Geographic work
at Cowes was extraordinarily heavy, up
ward of 10000 words of press dispatches
and thousands of ordinary kilograms hav-
ing been successfully handled during the
period of pressure. In addition a large
number of foreign official messages were
dealt with, besides considerable amount
of press work for Germany, Holland, Bel
GUM, France and America.
One thing the Pan-American move
ment has done-it has persuaded Buffalo
mans that they have not been forgotten
by outside relatives and friends" SAYS
The Buffalo Commercial. Letters are
being received from those who have not
written for years to their Buffalo connec-
tons. This sudden strengthening of fam
lily ties is one of the results of the
effort Buffalo Is making to bring before
the continent an opportunity for seeing
the resources of this splendid city,"
coming out about the State House." says
the Topeka CKan.) State Journal. 1.-THE
latest complaint is that the custodian
some time ago removed two carloads of
fertilizer from a Kansas City packing
house and stored it in a vacant room in
the basement of the capitol. All the
members of the Legislature and state Of
ficers have been suffering from the I'M
speakabe odor. 1t is also made known
that Topeka thieves have been stripping
the copper from the roof. The other
day some boys were found tearing up the
copper, and it was seen that sheets of
that metal had been carried away. Is
it impossible to take proper care of the
main public building in the state?"
Mrs. Upton, in "Our Early Presidents"
says that 1t was not the original inten-
ton of Thomas Jefferson to inaugurate
the regime of Republican simplicity
without pomp and display. She adds:
''Mr. Jefferson himself, like Washington
was fond of horses, handsome equipages
and handsome dress, despite what had
been said of his Republican simplicity. He
may have ridden horseback up to the
Capitol for his Inauguration, as goes the
myth but he meant to have fine coach
and four for the occasion-only Jacky
Eppes did not get to Washington with
them in season. He may sometimes have
been carelessly attired; but often he fash
ed out in contemporaneous record. in his
white COAT, scarlet breeches and vest and
white silk hose, fit to figure on Wat
teau FAM
A dispatch from st. Petersburg, says;
The streets remain covered with hard,
even white coating of snow. Only few
of the rich use wheeled carriages. One
may see perhaps a dozen in a day. The
20 900 '1zcoshchiki'' long ago abandoned
their odd little four-wheelers for narrow
cutters They are about as wide as the
thug tight" type of American bug
gies, and this name would fit them ex-
actly. 1t is an almost universal custom
for men driving with women by day or
night to place a protecting arm around
their waists, presumably to keep them
from falling out. Two modes of crossing
the Neva lend a characteristic touch TO
this city. Electric street car lines traverse
the ice at three different points. Paral-
lei to many of the boulevards there are
smooth ice paths, at each end of which
one finds a crowd of peasants shod with
skates, who eagerly bid for the privilege
of pushing one across for ten copecks,
about five cents.
of course, it is known that moderate
| changes of pressure, such as occur in
water passing through a pumping en-
CINE, for instance, are survived by bac-
| terra with little or no injury, says the
Engineering News. 1t does not follow,
| however that higher pressure might not
prove fatal to these organisms The hu-
| man body, for example, endureS with lit
| tie difficulty an increase in atmospheric
pressure of ten or twenty pounds. AS
! the pressure increases injury begins, and
I,oll xrhfa ono
| cannot go and survive. Similarly fish and
plants in the ocean are known to be SEN
| sitive to the pressure at great depths. To
| investigate the effect of pressure on bac-
| terra an apparatus was devised which is
| remarkable for having produced what is
| probably the greatest hydraulic pressure
| ever reached, over 10000 pounds to the
square inch. The particular object of
| these experiments was to determine
whether the bacteria in milk might not
be killed by hydrostatic pressure, SO that
| it would keep longer time without sour
ing Moderate pressures were first tried,
| but appea red to have no effect. The
| pressures were then increased and nota-
| Bile results were obtained. Milk subjected
| to pressure of 20 to 100 tons kept from
| twenty-four to sixty hours longer without
souring than untreated milk. The degree
| to which the keeping qualities of milk
|
| much on the time for which the pressure
was maintained as upon the actual pres
sure reached. Pressures of ninety tons
| per square inch maintained for an hour
delayed the souring of milk from four to
| six days. Complete sterilization of the
| milk, however, was in no case affected.
| even at the highest pressure and the
milk in many cases acquired peculiar
| tastes and odors in keeping, indicating
that certain species of bacteria were killed
| while others were not.
| Pain is a great mystery" remarked
a physician of this city who has a fond
ness for the reconcile side of his profess
| sion, says the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat. 1T is claimed by certain theo-
rists that people who are placed under
| the influence of an anaesthetic for surgi-
cal operations really suffer everything
they would otherwise, but forget about
| it when they return to consciousness and
a good many ingenious arguments arc
advanced to support the proposition. 1t
is rather a CHASTITY idea, and am glad
to say that the real evidence is all the
| other way. but it is a pretty well estab-
/ Itch aA AT hot MI