The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

rotunda OF the Capitol at Washington.
"A new way of defeating an anti
gambling law has been discovered by
| ingenious lawyears in Arkansas, says
the New York Mail and Express. In
| that state the last Legislature enact
| ed a stringent anti gambling statute,
| intended to be made effective by heavy
| fines. In open defiance, a notorious
gambler, with a political pull on the lit
| tie Tammany of Little Rock opened an
elaborate and expensive-to patrons
establishment The place was as pub
| lie as if in a mining camp, and the
| local newspapers published elaborate
descriptions of its electric lights and
handsome tables. Under pressure, Of
| ficers arrested the proprietor. But he
was acquitted on the plea that the state
| constitution forbids excessive fines
| This means that the local Democratic
| authorities in Arkansas have decreed
that fines for gambling must be small
enough to allow the business to be
| run openly at a profit. 1t does not
| appear how much of this profit goes
to the Arkansas John Doe" or wheth-
er any of it reaches the Golfers of the
| Democratic National Committee, whose
chairman is of Arkansas.
"A good story is told of how San
|
among the DULLES who have lately been
infesting the Bots de Boulogne, in Par
| is, relates London NJ. A. P. Their
method of action is to have one of the
| gang follow the proposed victim. At a
| given signal several others approaches
and close in on him, rob him, some
| times seriously injuring him. An adj
| ditional 300 police now ride about the
Bots on bicycles and keep a sharp
| LII -
| lance, the outrages continue. One day
Sandow, walking in a rather remote
avenue of the Bots, suddenly realized
that he was being followed. He grasp
ed the situation and apparently took
no notice. AS he had expected, a sig
nal called two or three fellows from
the shrubbery. AS they first approach
ed Sandow stopped down as if to tie
his bootlace, grasped the robber by the
| ankle, and used him as a sort of cat
o'nine-tails, lashing his astonished
confreres, first one and then the other,
before they had a chance even to think
of escaping, staving in the ribs of one,
| smashing the arm of another, and leav-
ing the whole gang manned and strewd
upon the ground. Then Sandow leis-
urely went on and remarked to the next
policeman he met: You will find two
or three men up there, more dead than
alive. You'd better go and have a look
at them"
The disinfectants which represent
real germ killers are moist heat, such
as is used in steam disinfectors, and
certain chemical substances found by
| experiments to be germicides, says the
Scotsman. Steam at PIP degrees Fair
enheits will kill germs of high resist
ance in five minutes. Dry hot air at
2S4 degrees, on the other hand, took
four hours to effect the same end. 1t
may be said that If articles of infected
clothing are exposed to steam at 270
degrees for fifteen minutes all germs
| are destroyed. These means, of course,
apply to public disinfectors which mu-
inequalities possess for the disinfection
of clothing, bedding and the like. The
| chemical disinfectants which are the
most powerful are bichloride of mer-
curry "a poison, which in the proper
ton of one part to 1000 of water kills
all germs. Half an ounce to three gall
Ions of water with little aniline blue
added Ito color the solution and pre-
vent mistakes) and one ounce of n.y.
| drochloric acid to assist the action of
the mercury, makes the best disinfect-
ant known. Only the public cannot be
| trusted to use a solution which is poi
sonous. Carbolic acid is not a pow
|
portion of five to 100 of water it will
not kill all germs, and water will not
take up more of the acid. Izal is not
poisonous and is a good disinfectant.
| 1t is used in the proportion of one to
200 of water. Chloride of zinc "a cor
rosive poison) is a disinfectant often
used for disinfecting typhoid excre-
lions.
The great. expectations which were
formed of the prospects of aluminium,
when first it was obtained at a rela-
lively cheap rate, have, unfortunately
not been realized. AS time went on it
was discovered that, contrary to what
was first believed, it was readily acted
upon by solutions of many salts, by
acids, including vinegar, and especially
by alkalies, though it excelled copper
in the resistance which it offered to
nitric acid. Besides, aluminium for
kitchen utensils and the like has the
great objection that it blackens the
hands like lead. To obviate this draw
back 1T is now frequently coated with
layer of silver; but this in itself is no
easy matter, for aluminium is so po-
rous that 1t retains water and impuri-
ties obstinately, with the result that
bubbles are formed in the electro de-
posit, or that this peels off in the pol
ishing process. The chief remedy is to
thoroughly cleanses the aluminium, and
to give it a preliminary coating with
another metal, preferably copper, be-
fore silvering. Several patents have
recently been taken out for processes
on these lines. Another great draw
back to the general use of aluminium
is that it has hitherto been very diff
cult to unite two separate pieces of
the metal. This objection, however,
will be probably met by the welding
process of Heraeus, which has recently
been protected in several countries. In
this the welding is so complete that
the juncture is practically invisible
and the aluminium can be rolled out to
a thin sheet without separating into its
component parts.
Queen Victoria had many remarka-
BILE jewels, says a London letter in the
Chicago Record Herald. The noted
koh-i-noor diamond was her personal
property, but had place in the crown,
from which it was removed some years
ago and paste duplicate substituted.
Queen Victoria had il set as a brooch
and wore II on ceremonial occasions.
1t is in many respects the most re-
markable diamond in the world and
its history can be traced back for sew
eral thousand years A curios Jewel
in the queens collection is known as
IAN eye onyx" presenting a double eye