The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| "A good instance OF the Importance
of punctuation was afforded in he
case of a contemporary, according to
the London Chronicle, which once an
! nounced the death of the Bishop of
| Brisbane. This was promptly CONTRA
dicted. The explanation followed that
the cable received was: Bishop of
| Brisbane found dead sea serpent fifty
! feet long" Reading this as two items
! of news, the news editor chose the
piece of information most suited to his
columns. and the cable announced,
The Bishop of Brisbane has been
found dead"
| Walnut stumps are assuming I'M
dreamed of value in Tennessee. An In
diana concern has had men travelling
all over the country buying every old
walnut stump that could be found. At
| first the prices were small but they
have now leaped out of sight. The
stump of tree that was felled several
| years ago brought more than the trunk
! and branches. The odd part of it is
! that the uglier, knottier and more I'M
slightly stump is the more money it
| will bring. 1t is stated that the stumps
are made into veneering material and
used in the manufacture of high-grade
| furniture.
There is to be a bicycle path from
| Athens to Pyraeus! The highways
now connecting the two cities are mar
row, poorly graded and poorly kept
! making transportation by any kind Of
| vehicle or wheel extremely unpleasant
! Through the generosity of Mr.. Syngros,
wealthy Athenian, a new boulevard
| is now being constructed from Ha-
drian's Arch, on the Boulevard Amelia
Athens extending in a direct line and
gradually sloping grade to the shore
! of Phalerum bay, at a point midway
| between Old Phalerum-the bathing
| place of the ancient Athenians-on the
| south shore of the bay, and New Pha-
lerum, the bathing place of the modern
! AthenianS, on the northwest shore. The
| boulevard will be about 3,417 meters in
| length and 9S.42 feet wide, and will cost
SIS, $3.50 1t will be divided into a
promenade, a carriage drive and BIZ
cycle path. The grading, culverts and
bridges are well under way, and it is
hoped to have the whole finished by
next December.
The ideal method of operating mills
is to use water power for generating
electricity. This makes the cost from
| 20 to 40 per cent. cheaper than when
! the water power is used directly for
operating the machinery, and from 20
| to 80 per cent. cheaper when the steam
| is used for electric transmission where
| no water power is convenient. This
| saving has been demonstrated in many
cases in the South in the last few
years, and the experience is sufficient
| to cause a general adoption of this
form of power. Thus electric trans
mission from water power costs from
| 81 to $40 per horsepower year. Ev-
| erything depends upon the natural
conditions and environments. At Gaff-
ney, S. c., there is a large mill where
! the cost is computed to be at the low
| est figure given, and another at Co
lumbia, in the same state, has been
run at an average cost of SIS a year.
| There are innumerable streams of wat
er scattered throughout the cotton belt
which are eminently suited to the gen.
! GRAFTON of electricity, and the work of
building mills on the line of these is
going on with great rapidity.-
Prof. William L. Poteat, in the
Popular Science Mouthly, makes an in
structive study of the great Latin poet,
| Lucretius, who wrote a poem in which
he forecast the doctrine of evolution,
and who, although he lived 1000 years
ago, had the spirit, if not the methods,
of modern science: Prof. Poteat takes
pains to point out that the union of
the scientific and poetical genius, so
conspicuous in Lucretius, is not SO rare
as 1t is sometimes, on superficial
grounds, claimed to be. Tyndall, Hulk
ley and Maxwell have been known to
drop into verse. On the other hand,
the poet Goethe was said to be more
proud of his scientific achievements
than of Faust" OF poets of the first
rank who have maintained an interest
In science Tennyson was a striking ex-
ample. He studied medicine until he
imagined that he had all the diseases
set out in the books" 1t is interesting
n mo fNGAy~t0
who died in 81 B. c., left a description
OF the great epidemic of plague in Ath-
ems, and that this description forms
part OF his poem. He has given the
history of this tremendous pestilence
with the accuracy of a historian and
the genius of poet The agnosticism
of Lucretius for a long time made his
poem unpopular with clerical educa-
| tors.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers at recent meeting at In
dlanapoiis adopted the following reso-
buttons: 1t appears to this associa-
ZION that the compulsory adoption Of
the metric system would probably af-
feet the manufacturing interests of
TINS country as follows: One third
VINO are exporters to European coun-
tries and dependencies would be bene-
hted; one-third, who do business in
thlS country and all other countries
would D@tther be benefited nor greatly
injured; one-third, who do business in
this country and in England and de-
tendencies, would be seriously injured
For all this the expense and incon-
Venlence would be very great In view
OF these conditions, and of the further
fact that the metric system is already
iegallzed for the use of those who find
II prohtable, this association recon-
mends that no further action be taken
on this matter at this time"
The first vaccination, it seems was
not made by Jenner, but by a simnle
farmer, Benjamin Jesty, of Dorset
snlre, england. In 1774 he inoculated
ms wife and two sons with virus taken
from the teats of the COWS. The chill
dren had the disorder in a. favora HE
manner. Mrs Jestys arm was badly
Unnamed, but she finally recovered In
1903 the two sons We're inoculated for
smallpox with others who had NOT had
the cowpox. The Jestys did not have
the disease, but the unprotected had
typical inoculated smallpox In 1805
MT. Jesty went to London as the guest
OF the Jennerian Society.
EVERY week we see in some journal
an allusion to the high pressure of
American life, says an exchange u
Is taken for granted that the onlv naca
that Kills is our own that we aro
shortening our lives and bringing on
| early death by the strain R,,t $3.50