The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Relief Expedition, will sailed under the
flag of the Royal Corinthian Yacht
Club and win lie off the clubhouse at
Port Victoria until ready to start.
. AT the headwaters of the Orinoco
Spanish traditions located the land of
Ell dorado THE Gilded Man." a po-
tentate whose country was so rich in
gold dust that he had his body anoint-
ed with oil and sprinkled with gold
every morning, so that he shone in the
sun as though gilded. 1t is a curious
fact that the country in which tradi-
tons located this marvellous being has
never been explored by a white man.
Prussia is becoming notorious for ex-
traordinary murders. A man named
Beck at Konigsberg killed his wife,
Tut the body in a box and kept it by
him for eighteen months without be-
ing detected His wife's absence was
concealed by his mistress going to
Danzig and beginning divorce proceed
iEgs against him in the name of the
murdered woman. The body was dis
covered through the curiosity of his
former landlord, with whom he left
a box on moving from his apartments.
When he found the police were after
him Beck shot himself
England has q deeper lake than
any in acknowledgements in Cum
berland, which is 270 feet deep, and
never freezes; but Ireland has the big
gest in the kingdom-Lough Neagh.
which covers nearly 100000 acres, and
whose waters wash five counties. Ire
land has also the deepest bog. There
are parts of the Bog of Allen AZ feet
deep. Another curious fact about Ire
land is the comparative scarcity of
wild creatures. No less than twenty
one species common to Great Britain
are unknown to Ireland. Among these
are the mole, added, shrew, water-vole,
wildcat, polecat and roedeer.
There is, or was a few years since.
an English walnut tree, at Washington
Heights, near New York city said to
have been planted IA years ago. 1t
is a monster in size, the stem feet
in diameter at the base, and more
than IS feet in height, with wide
spreading branches. One of these
branches was cut off some years ago,
cross sections of which were large
enought for the entire top of fancy
tables which were made from it, From
1910 to 1865, according to accounts,
about two carloads" of the nuts were
considered a fair annual crop, and it
had borne continuously for more than
a century.
The Fish Commission steamer AL
batross, which sailed from San Fran
cisco on March IL, arrived at Homo
lulu on March "a, says Science. Much
interesting pelagic material was OBJ
tanned with surface and intermediate
nets in the outer voyage. An attempt,
pYtandincp fXra low 70 Ja+a inc
the nature of the life on Erben Bank.
was unsuccessful, as the peculiar la
val formation of the bottom resulted
in the loss of all the travis and other
appliances used, and subjected the
dredging cable to an unprecedented
strain. The surface collecting off
Waikiki on March q by the aid of
electric light is reported by DIR. Gilbert
to have been probably the most sue
cessful work of the kind ever done.
Among the creatures thus obtained is
remarkable animal, at first identi-
fed as a crustacean, afterwards call
ed worm, and finally considered a
vertebrate; its eyes are on stalks half
an inch long.
A Kansas man who is teaching in.
Megavao, in Southern Luzon, writes
home: SCHNEIDER and 1 are teaching
in the two boys public schools, which
for the present are under the same roof
and in the same room. We have a
combined registration of PIG, but a reg
ular attendance of but 100 TO $50. Each
of us have a native teacher, who from
what l have heard of native teachers
all over the islands, are stars of the
first magnitude. They are both gradu-
ates of the Jesuit College at Maya, and
both students by nature and by train
ing. And now, hold your breath, for
this is astonishing: When we discuss
English words derived from the Latin
the four of US spout Latin. Think of
it! l laugh about it whenever l think
how l used to wonder, when l was dig
ging out Latin at high school and col
lege, what practical use it would ever
have And in these Philippine Islands,
of all places But this is only one of
the many happy surprises that keep
happening to us here
M. Santos Dumont, the Brazilian
successor to the only original Darius
Green of Connecticut, says that air
ships are expensive affairs, and with
him, at least, are growing more so
with each new model. ITO give you
some idea of the cost" he said yester-
day at the Hotel Netherland, take the
case of the shed that has to be built
and equipped wherever l am to use
the machine. The shed for the new
Santos Dumont model No. Z, the latest
model, cost $4,000. 1t has to be near
ly $50 feet long, of no inconsiderable
hight, and equipped with great
amount of paraphernalia. The ship
itself costs another $4,000, and there
is the expense attached to moving it.
and if l change my trial grounds the
cost of workmen, repairs etc. Then,
at the end, is the constant danger that
the whole affair will be wrecked in
two seconds. You have no idea how
quickly an airship can be wrecked,
and $4,000 reduced to a mass of ropes
and twisted slim steel rods and torn
silk. No, it is not a remunerative
task, this experimenting in air navi-
cation, yet. But it is grand sport
and some day it will bring grand re-
suits"
A practical and apparently conclu-
sive, test of the marvellous power of
control the operator of an automobile
has over his machine was given on the
Riverside drive to-day, says the New
York letter of the Philadelphia Ledger
Eight aldermen, who are considering a
proposed ordinance to increase the city
speed limit of automobiles from eight
to ten miles at hour, were present ait
the test, and Chairman Mathews of
the Aldermanic Law Committee, sum-
med up the conclusion they reached as
follows: THE trials are surprising,
for two reasons: First, they give an
idea of speed and prove that every We
hicle in the city exceeds the lawful
limit almost all the time. Second the
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