The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-28
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dent subject two hours of the day. when
she should be devoted to the affairs of
state, but for the remainder OF the time
she would be his devoted and obedient
wife.
AT Essex. Conn, the other day a
wampum belt owned by descendant of
Herman Garret, who was, appointed gov
ernor over the Pequots in 1855, was sold
for $500 The relic rs composed of a
string of shells formed into belt two
and one-half inches wide and thirty-three
inches long.
Here are two advertisements which re-
Gently appeared in Kansas papers-the
Chapman Standard and Ell Dorado Repub-
hean respectively: II wish to thank those
who assisted me in keeping my roof from
blowing off to-day. c. Russell. 3"
''Wanted-Some farm hands. I win give
a dollar a day, three meals and a custard
pie and milk lunch at bedtime-feather
beds-Sundays off-and permission to kiss
the hired girl, for some farm hands"
Wolves are becoming so numerous In
the woods of the upper peninsular of
Michigan that about as many deer are
killed by them in the closed season as
there are by hunters in the open season.
1t is suggester that the bounty be made
$25 per head, as men would then make it
a business to kill them for the money
there would be in it, and before long the
species would be practically extinct, as
far as Michigan was concerned.
in the district court of Logan county,
Oklahoma, the Guthrie and Western Rail
road Company had a land suit against
George Cooper. The defendant asked rnat
the case be tried by seven members OF
the Masonic order instead of the usual
jury. The railroad attorney, himself a
Mason agreed and the case was so tried,
both parties further agreeing that no APP
peal should be taken from the verdict.
Cooper won.
President Loubet is one of the best
guarded rulers in Europe. A flying brig
ade of police agents, in civilian costume,
has been created to follow the president
step by step wherever he goes When Nj.
Loubet is about to start from the Elsyee
the prefecture of police is apprised by
telephone of the place to which he is
going, as we'll as of the route he is to
take. Before he has crossed the gate of
the palace a carriage is already in the
street, with orders to follow the presi-
Dental conveyance and not to lose sight
of it. This manoeuvre is repeated several
times daily.
The Michigan Central Railroad is pro-
posing during the coming summer to IL
Illuminate Niagara Falls, which will af-
ford a view of the greatest grandeur,
says the Railway and Engineering Re-
view. "A test recently made by officials
of the passenger department with an
electric searohlight convinced them that
marvellous effects could be secured Ac-
cordingly arrangements have been made
for several similar searchhghts to be
erected on the high banks overlooking the
falls from the Canadian side. The cleo
trio power is derived from the rapids,
and the illumination will take place dur
ing the passage of all trains after night
fall. The most superb view will be from
Falls View Station"
"A Wilmington, Del, dispatch says:
officers of the British steamship Saxoline
which came into port this morning from
Cette, France, to load oil, brought two
sea herons, one with broken wing, and
the other, its mate, that refused to desert
the wounded bird. 1t is uncommon for
these birds to get into midocean, yet when
the Saxoline's voyage was but half over
the birds few into the rigging, one break
ing it's wing by striking against yard
arm. 1t fell to the deck, was picked up
by an officer of the steamship and plac-
ed in an improvised cage. Its mate stead
lastly lowered over the ship until finally
the door of the cage was opened Instant
ly the second heron flew from the rigging
and entered the cage, where it remained
with the disabled bird.
The use of formalin for the preserya-
ton of geological specimens is now very
general, says the Pharmaceutical jour
10 fi<s.,
of plants and flowers, however, is quite
new. The most satisfactory results are
obtained with per cent. solution of
formaldehyde, t. e. an eighth of the
strength of the commercial formalin,
which contains 20 per cent. of formalde-
hyde. The flowers and portions of plants
immersed in this and kept in the dark
remain intact, while the tissues become
more or less translucent, showing the
structure. After II months yellow cal
ceolaria flowers lose but little of their
coior. while a tulip and hyacinth lose
about 80 per cent. A white tulip becomes
translucent, but retains its external form
perfectly. The odor of mignonette is stili
perceptible after -four months. notwitb-
standing the penetrating odor of the FORM
ain itself. Unfortunately the solution
soon bleaches blue colors The preserva-
tive action of the formaIin liz due to its
NScAlVSlt AS da4 CAtctbdh ui1CiO-StA aAA1HkAiS
and preventing the inter-acuon of the
plant cells by contracting their protop-
lasm.
1T is well known" says Popular
Science News. April, that celors can be
produced ithout the use of dyes or
paints by means of that peculiar phenom-
enon of light called interference An in
stance is afforded by the rainbow hues of
a soap bubble due to the interference of
the light reflected from the front and back
surfaces of the thin film. The colors of
butterflies are also caused by Interference.
In the soap-bubble and in all cases of
the colors of thin plate as these Pine
nomena are called, the Color depends upon
the thickness of the film. A brilliant play
Of color has been produced by coating
sheets of paper with collodion, but the
color was largely a matter of chance and
the method had no practical application.
Recently, however. Prof. Charles Henry,
of the Sorbonne has succeeded in obtain
ing brilliant interference colors Of any
desired hue. He uses mixtures of turpen-
tine, gum damar, and asphalt with benzin.
The coatings, which are many times
thicker than the film Of soap-bubbae.
are not easily destroyed, and the colors,
which of course are permanent, can be
altered and strengthened at pleasure. An
imitation of the skin of snake with its
brilliant metallic colors attests the per-
lection of the method"