The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sons; Prussia one for 1870; Austria for
220; Russia for s91: Norway for $1,000.
AS consequence of artificial prop
agation, the yield of cod in the coastal
waters between Maine and New Jersey
has in ten years increased to so per
cent.
DR.. Maurice Baumfield, of Vienna,
is in Chicago, endeavoring to interest
capitalists in project to establish
daily newspaper in Vienna and run it
on the American plan. He says there
are no modern progressive newspapers
In the capital or in any city of the
Empire. The morning papers are issued
about or o'clock, and the afternoon
dailies are printed at 2 p. m.
Among the Hottest mountains of
North America, Mount st. Elias is o.
$40 meters in hight. Mount Fairweath-
err is 4,940 and Mount Logan is 5,947
There is higher peak still that has
never yet been climbed. 1t lies in 63k
degrees of north latitude and in 1856 de-
/ grees of west longitude and has been
called Mount Mckinley. It's altitude
is 6,129 meters or 20,226 feet and 1t
will probably remain unclimbed for
many years owing to\its remoteness
and to the inherent difficulties of the
ascent. .
The "Backer and Konditorzeitung"
gives the following method of deter
mining the age of eggs as practised
In the markets of Paris: about six
ounces of common cooking salt it put
into large glass, which is then filled
with water. When the salt is in solu-
ton, an egg is dropped into the glass.
II the egg is only one day old, it i'm
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older, it does not reach the bottom of
the glass. If three days old, it sinks
only just below the surface. From
five days upward, it floats; the older
it is, the more it protrudes out of the
water
In late number of the Scientific
American is described a simple and
inexpensive apparatus for collecting
atmospheric dust, which is likely to be
of value to bacteriologists and micro
scopists. The apparatus consists es-
sentially of wire, the middle portion
OF which is coiled into a spiral to fit
over and turn on a vertical support.
One end of the wire is bent so as to
hold a strip Of glass, and the other
enf is bent so as to clamp a piece of
cardboard, serving the purpose of keep
ing the plane of the glass at right an
support comprises tenpenny nail
driven into block of lead. Soldered
upon the head of the driven nail is
the head of a second NAIL The heads
thus placed in juxtaposition serve as
shoulder upon which the coil of wire
rests. The glass plate is smeared with
glycerine upon which the dust adj
heres. The apparatus can be set in
any convenient place where the wind
he nlotA
time to time"
"A new variable of the Algol type
is reported by Herr F. Schwab, which
will be known as 80 Q90D Sagittae,
situated in r. A. 19h., lam. 26s., Dec
10 degrees 25 minutes 4 seconds It's
normal brightness is 6.5 magnitude,
and falls to nearly g. so that it can
be easily observed with small instru-
ments. Its light curve is very like
that of U Cephel, occupying II days.
Its next minima are due about the
18th and oath of January. A new plan
etoid, which is believed to approach
closer to the earth than Eros, has been
found in the southern skies, having at
the time of discovery a declination of
about go degrees. The announcement
comes from Prof. Pickering and Prof.
| Simon Newcombe calls attention to it's
| eccentricity. Senior Comas Sofa of Bar
celona, considers that the sixth star
of the well-known trapezium of the
| great Orion nebula has increased in
brightness, being on Nov. 10 only a
magnitude below the fifth star, which
itself seemed unusually bright.
The Japanese artist has made a
most careful study of how to convey
truths in the most pleasurable way;
how to make his lines most beautiful
as though a speaker would use but
| words of most exquisite sound, says
| the Independent. To do this he has
| cultivated his touch" until il is but
mockery to compare it with that of his
European brother. He has learned to
| handle his brush with a directness and
| precision which is a thing of wonder
and he has studied with a patience be-
yond compare the possibilities of each
! particular kind of brush. He knows, for
instance, that one kind of brush may
| be used to express a bamboo stem and
! that another brush will be less effica-
| cious. He knows how to fill each
! particular part of that brush with a
| certain amount of color or of water
| SO that single movement of the hand
over the paper will paint the stem, it's
| light and shade, its peculiar character
of that single movement of his hand
! over the paper he and his ancestors
have given years of study. Listen to a
| description by a Japanese. He is not
an artist himself, but is explaining how
! artists use certain brush: THE brush
| with color is passed over a piece OF
| paper with heavy stroke that spreads
the bristles of the brush. at the same
| time bending them at the tip. The
brush is then turned so that the bris-
ties curve toward the, artist, and q
| light stroke will produce the hairlike
lines. This is one of the ways of paint
ing the hair or fur of animals"
There is not the slightest doubt
that, in future warfare on the seas.
submarine boats will play a very prom
inent part, writes Lewis Nixon in Sue
cess. In the system of naval tactics
which has been evolved by hundreds of
years Of sea fighting, these small, in
conspicuous boats will bring about
| changes which will be almost revolu-
tionary. The blockading of ports, as
practiced under out present system.
will be well-nigh impossible. The i'm
mensely wealthy seacoast cities. which
have trembled at rumors of war be-
cause of the likelihood that an enemy
would steal up to their doors and de-
stroy them, may put aside their fears
A few submarine boats will be able to
clear any harbor of attacking ships of
war. Against the stealthy and under
hand. but terrifically destructive as
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