The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18


ika Kwaisha, which japanese concern
will operate the first street railway in
/ Toxic. placed last week an order in
America for $750,O00 worth of electrical
| appliances.
France has recently experienced an
unusually severe cold snap, and great
suffering and even death is reported.
As result Of a heavy snowstorm at
| Privas two death are reported. A la
borer named Coulomb and his son, who
lived in neighboring village, set out
on a visit in the evening and were over
taken by violent snowstorm. They
/ fought against wind and snow for
! more than an hour and then decided to
I turn back. 1t was too late, however;
| not a road was to be seen and the two
unfortunate men found themselves
alone in the middle of the snow-cov-
cred country. They called for help, but
| their cries remained unheard, and the
| next morning, when a search party
was sent out by their friends, two life
| less bodies were found side by side in
deep drift of snow.
In recent number of the Astro-
nomical Journal Prof. r. S. Woodward
has published a mathematical inVesti-
cation of the effects of secular cooling
and OF accumulations of meteoric dust.
Inc cooling and consequent cubical
contraction of the earth tends to
shorten the day, while the increment
to the earths mass from meteorites,
of which not less than 20000,00 daily
fall into the atmosphere, tends to
lengthen the day He finds that the
cooling, contraction and quicker revo-
| luton of the earth are about coun-
| teracted by the meteoric dust. In fact,
| II the average mass of meteorites is no
greater than one gramme it will re-
quire a million years at the present
rate of influx to lengthen the day by
so much as a quarter of a second. II
the regularity of the earth as a time
| keeper during historic times is to be
questioned one must look to other
causes than secular cooling and me-
teoric dust.
An adult man in idleness requires
to obtain from his food for the sup
port of his body about 21A ounces Of
heterogeneous matter and 1914 ounces Of
non heterogeneous per day, says an ex-
change. IT, however, the same adult is
to work in the ordinary way the guam
tity of heterogeneous matter must be in
creased to Az ounces and the non-ni-
trogenous to 2914 ounces. In the case
of active labor the amount of food
needed must be increased to some 6
ounces of heterogeneous and some So
ounces of non-nitrogenous matter
Water is absolutely essential to health
1t dissolves and conveys other foods
throughout the system; it assists in re-
moving waste products, and it also
takes share in regulating the temper
atrue of the body through it's evapora-
ton upon the skin. 1t is not going too
far to say that most men and women
do not drink enough water to keep the
( L in nd
ton; for an adult eight glasses ttum-
blers) each day is not too much.
Zoology also has its fashions, says
the Popular Science Monthly The pub
LEGATION of the Origin of Species" by
establishing a new standpoint and new
problems, led biologists to an ever mi
nuter study of comparative morphol-
ogy. Cell life was afterward the fash
ion, and the tendency has been ESQ.,
teric. until the laity has lost touch with
the professional and fails to appreci-
ate the results which he Celebrates in
the privacy of his laboratory, sur
rounded by his complicated engines for
cutting sections and his multitudinous
reagent bottles. The latest fashion,
nature study, as 1T is called, it like
wise revival of older methods. 1t is
a rejuveneScence of the natural history
of the ancients, a return to the meth
DDS of Gilbert White, methods which,
while they have never failed to attract
have, unfortunately, been sadly neg
lected of late by the professional 20
ologist. In so far as this new revival
of natural history methods may serve
to bring about again a rapprochement
of the amateur and the professional, it
is to be welcomed, and important aGdi-
tionS to our knowledge of the habits
and instincts of animals and the sig
nificance of these may be expected
when men, specially trained in the
methods of biological investigation and
thought turn their attention to these
phenomena.
The alleged physical degeneration
of the French race has caused numer--
Gus citizens of the Republic a great
deal of concern. One of the men who
wanted to do something to improve his
countrymen's stature was the late M.
de Saint Ouen de Pierrecourt and he
set about doing it in the characteristic
French manner by Offering prize. He
left 100000 francs to the town of Rouen,
the income from which is to constitute
a prize to be given annually to the
couple of the best physical appearance,
who are willing to marry each other.
The winning of this prize means mod
est competence to a frugal couple in
France, and the town of Rouen rose up
and with one acclaim declared that the
donor was a public benefactor of the
first water The municipality claimed
the right to bury the remains of the
deceased and to erect monument over
his grave. His relatives insisted on
their natural rights to perform these
offices and the result was an action at
law, which is still undecided. while the
| remains were committed to earth with
| scant ceremony. When the time for
the first award rolls around the pub
lie will doubtless go into another &C.
| stacy over the benefaction. 1t is to
be hoped that the courts will have set
| tied the question of who is entitled to
build the monument before both rela>
tives and municipality lose interest in
the project.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb.,
says: Il. j. Hoffman, locomotive
engineer, who retired from his voca-
ton because of i'll health, has in
vented in his little hat factory, where
he eSes out a living, a fuel that he
asserts is composed of clay to the
| extent of 80 per cent. He says that
one day while at work in the shop
there was accidentally revealed to him
peculiar action of certain chemicals
| and gasoline. Eagerly he followed up
the clue with numberless experiments,
until finally he is enabled to give to
| the world q fuel, he declares, cheaper