The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ETC., of Prince Henry's visit to that
city, which he will place in the archives
of the Missouri Historical Society.
On the Northern Railway of
France a steam motor car is used n
the postal service, with room in the
back Of the coach for IL passengers.
This road and the Italian Mediterran-
can Railway have storage battery cleo.
trio cars also. In the former case the
cars weigh 20 tons. The service on the
Italian road is between Milan AMI
Monza, the cars carrying 80 passengers
and making a speed of about q miles
Per hour, reeharging after runs of
about 80 miles. Self-contained motor
car service on the steam roads has
only lately assumed the importance
above noted. Among the schemes in
contemplation is to have cars of this
class attached to the express trains
for certain distances, to be detached at
junction points with branch lines.
Numerous are the queer beliefs
concerning the number Z, says the st.
James Gazette. From the very earliest
ages the seven great planets were
known and ruled this world, and the
jewellers in it, and their number en-
tered into every conceivable matter
that concerned man. There are seven
days in the week, seven holes in the
head, for the master stars are seven,"
seven ages both for man and the world
in which he lives. There are seven
material heavens. There are seven
colors in the spectrum and seven notes
in the diatonic octave, and the lead
ing'' note of the scale is the seventh.
Be it noted that the seventh son is
not always gifted with beneficent pow
ers. In Portugal he is believed to be
subject to the powers of darkness, and
to be compelled every Saturday even
ing to assume the likeness of an ass.
There is a certain little fly that
was observed to run three inches and
make in doing it 440 steps-all in one
half second of time, says the Cincin-
| natl Commercial Tribune. To equal
this, in proportion to his size, man
would have to run at the rate of 20
miles q. minute. The common flea
leaps 200 times it's own length. To show
like agility a man six feet tall would
have to leap a distance of 1900 feet.
The cheese mite is about one-quarter
of an inch in length, yet it has been
seen to take the tip of it's tail in it's
mouth and then, letting go with a jerk,
to leap out of vessel six inches in
depth. To equal this a man would
have to jump out of a well from
depth of 144 feet A well-known stu
dent of nature once tried the growing
force of a squash. When it was eigh-
teen days old and measured twenty
seven inches in circumference he fixed
sort of harness around it, with a
long lever attached. The power of the
squash was measured by the weight it
lifted, the weight being fixed to the
lever When it was twenty days old,
two days after the harness was fired
on it, it lifted sixty pounds. On the
nineteenth day it lifted 5000 pounds.
"A dispatch from Washington says:
In a synopsis of the precious stone in
dustry of the United States for 1901
by the Division of Mining and Mineral
Resources of the United States Geo
logical Survey it is shown that the
yield of sapphires in Fergus county,
Montana, was greater in 1901 than in
1900. Several new turquoise compa-
MES have been formed, so that seven
companies now are actively engaged in
mining that material. New Mexico
is the chief source of the turquoise
supply. The finding of one diamond
in Lee county, Georgia, is of interest
as coming from a new region. Elmer
aids have increased greatly in public
favor. The diamond importation was
greater than in any previous year, and
at no period have finer or larger stones
been imported Whereas ten years
ago scarcely any other forms than
the brilliant and the rose in dia-
monds were used. during the last year
there has been great demand for
stones that are pear shaped, mar
uuse" and "briolette. The produce
ton of precious stones in the United
States in 1901 amounted to S2S9,OJO.
Nearly one-half of this amount is cred
anxxfl
coming sapphires with 100000, then at
a long distance rhodolite with $21, 900,
diamonds being next to the last with
800.
In 1895 and 1899 NJ. Bordet showed
that by injecting the defibrinated
blood of any animal into the blood of
animals of different species the serum
of the latter acquired, after a time,
the property of agglutinating and of
dissolving the corpuscles of the blood
of the former Moreover, he showed
that the serum mixed with the defbri-
mated blood of any other species form
ed after a few minutes, clear, linn
pid, red liquid, while if it were mixed
with the blood of the animal from
which the blood had first to he inject
ed, it formed an opaque liquid from
which a flocculent mass was quickly
precipitated. His experiments,
which gave a test for blood
stains, have been repeated
and extended. Mr.. Uhlenhutn has APP
piled it to blood from oxen and rah-
bits. Every week he injected 10 cubic
centimeters of deibrinated OK blood
into rabbits and after i've such inJec-
tions he obtained serum that dis
solved all blood except that from oxen.
Analogous experiments with human
blood gave like results. 1t was
possible to discriminate between drops
of human and of OK blood that had
been left TO dry for month on
wooden plank. Messrs. Wassermann
and Schultze have carried such pro-
cesses further and have experimental
on the blood of twenty-three species
of animals, and confirmed the former
conclusions. The serums were a per-
feet test. 1t is noteworthy that the
blood of monkeys and of men were
somewhat similar in action. Spots of
blood three months old could be dis
eliminated. The Importance Of this dis
covery to medical jurisprudence is
very great.
-Four singing dogs are the property
of Mr.. Stewart, who lives at Sixteenth
street and Girard avenue, Philadelphia,
says the Baltimore Sun. They are
beagles and all of the same family
and besides their peculiar talent, they
claim distinction on the score of their