The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ent on device TO De used as an AID
to the rite of the blessing of the throat
This ceremony occurs annually in all
Catholic churches on the third Sunday
in February, its object being to secure
the person blessed protection from dis
eases of the throat. In administering
this office the priest holds two lighted
candles against the throat of the petit
toner. The flames from the candles
often SINCE the hair and, in some cases
set fire to the veil or hat of women
receiving the blessing. The grease from
the candles falls upon Yestment or
clothing. Father Nagengast's device
is a combined shield for the candles
and drip pan to catch the grease.
1t eliminates the element of danger
and discomfort to the ceremony. Car
dlnal Gibbons has sanctioned the use
of the little invention in the churches
of this diocese.
-Metallurgists have long been aware
that the addition of certain percent
age of nickel to steel makes an alloy
OF especial hardness, says the New
York Tribune. Advantage is taken of
that discovery in the manufacture of
armor plate for war vessels. Nickel
steel possesses other we'll known vir-.
tues, such as susceptibility to high
polish and a loss of corroSibility. A
Frenchman named Guillaumy now de-
clares that he has found a new trait
of much importance. He says that he
gets rid of expansion with tempera-
ture, thus adapting his alloy to many
useful purposes, such as the construc-
ton of boiler tubes, whose varying
length tends to impair their connec-
lions and create leaks. Presumably,
the proportions in which the iron and
nickel sare combined in this product
are different from those commonly OBJ
served Otherwise, it is likely that the
disappearance of the usual effect of
heat on solids would have been noticed
before. 1t is to be hoped that M. GULL
aumy's announcement is fully justified.
AT the time of the death of Mr.. Jo-
seph Brown, K. c., it was so generally
stated that Mr.. Brown was almost, if
not quite, the senior barrister at the
bar, that it may be interesting to state
the facts, says the London Law Times.
Mr.. Brown was called to the bar on
Nov. Z, 1S45, (f1fty- seven years ago.,
and it is certainly somewhat surpris-
ing to find that the names of ct least
forty persons are entered in the Law
List of 1902 who were called before him.
AS far as can be discovered, Mr.. F. C.
Balfour, who was called to the bar
at the Inner Temple on June Z, 1888, is
entitled to be called Father of the Bar,
though it is believed that he has not
practiced for half a century or more'
In the list of aged barristers may be
mentioned Mr.. Arthur Burrows of Lin
coins Inn, Mr.. H. Griffith, bencher of
Gray's Inn, donor of the portrait Of
Queen Elizabeth in the hall, and who
still dimes at the High Table, Earl
Cranbrook and two barristers who
have occupied in succession the chief
justiceship of Madras: Sir Colley Scot
land, and Sr. Walter Morgan.
while M. Santos Dumont was in
fiating the balloon of his No air-ship
at Monaco" says the Scientific Amer
lean, "he was commanded by the au-
thorities to cease Immediately the pro-
cess of hydrogen making, on account
OF the extraordinary effect that the
drainage of refuse acids and chemicals
into the bay was having on the water.
which had turned a brilliant orange,
and which it was feared might have
an injurious effect on residents near
the sea front, besides poisoning the
fish. Subsequent Investigations of the
curious phenomenon, however, proved
that the refuse sulfates running from
the Dumont gashouse into the sea had.
on contact with the chloride of sodium
or common salt of the ocean, precipi-
tated enormous quantities of oxid of
tiers and the shore a most brilliant
orange carmine, but except for this no
harm was done. Beyond acting as a
tonic tor the fish. the rust was abso-
lutely innocuous, and the work of in
hation was forthwith resumed"
A curious an interesting expert
ment was conducted recently by Prof
McWeeney on the premises of a Dub
lin manufacturer, who was anxious to
ascertain whether he ran any risk to
health from the presence on a neigh
bor's premises of a refuse heap. the
intervening distance being 800 feet,
says Chambr's Journal. Prof Nc
Weeney took number of easily recog-
nized microbes, which were not com
mon to the neighborhood and sprayed
them into the atmosphere over that
near OF refuse, taking care that the
wind was in the right direction. On
the premises of the manufacturer Gull
lure dishes We're exposed for three
hours and at the end of that time ex-
animation showed that colonies of the
newly introduced microbes were de-
veloped. 1t is noteworthy that rain
was falling heavily during the progress
of the experiment. We thus learn
that even under untoward conditions
germs can be conveyed through the air
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quite as necessary to see that the sur
roundings of a house are clean as to
attend to its interior sanitary condi-
ton.
Some of the Berlin newspapers are
bemoaning the fact that the large
German population of London and 9TH
er large English cities is a distinctly
unpatriotic aggregation. There are
at present something like 1901 900 Ger
mans in London alone These. 1t is
claimed, instead of clinging to their
nationality, their national language.
religion and customs, have become so
thoroughly Anglicised that it is hard
to distinguish them from the ''blawsted
Brttishers themselves. There NAV he
some ground for the lament of the Ber
I'm papers. Ten years ago there were
six f1ourishing German schools in Lon
don and a training establishment for
teachers; only four of the schools re-
main, and the training establishment
has vanished. The Post the principal
of the mourners at this recalcitrance
on the part of the Teutons, claims that
If the London Germans had a daily pa-
per they would remain true. AS ii is.
they marry English men and women,
and too readily change the honorable
name of Schmidt into Smith, Baumann
into Bowman and Birnbaum into Pear.
tree.
A correspondent of Nature sends
the following interesting story: About
May 1 one of our hens, which was
known to be laying, totally disap-