The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-17

of this the doctor must pay his fare.
Lieut. Won Eichel Streiber of the
Third Uhlans, German army, recently
wagered that he could drink a quart
bottle of brandy in ten minutes. He
did so, and was buried with full mill
tary honors.
The authorities of Minden, Ger
many. have made a meteorological ex-
animation of school inks. Most of the
specimens examined contained bac-
terra, which, when animals were inoc-
ulated with them. often proved fatal.
Lancashire boasts of producing
more twins than any other county in
the United Kingdom. During the past
five years 66S twins were born annually
in that county. OF this number Liver
pool contributed 10 and Manchester 10.
-Jonesboro, a new village now being
laid out at Fort Lee, five miles from
Richmond, Va, is to be populated by
negroes only. The site consists of 500
acres, cut up into building lots, park,
orchards, grazing lands and small
farms for trucking.
The interesting prospect of a COM
petition between Lord Rosebery and
Joseph Chamberlain for the lord rec
torship of Aberdeen University has
been SPOILED. They have declined to ac-
cept the nominations by the Liberal
and Unionist students respectively.
The silver coins of Hawaii are be-
ing retired as fast as they are received
by the Federal and Territorial officials
in the course of their public business.
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They amount to 81, ,00O, ,OO0 of which sum
about 100000 is still in circulation.
The Woman's Club of Ravenswood,
ILL.,, suburb of Chicago has been con-
Quoting a strenuous campaign against
the comic valentine. 1t is urged that
the caricatures and the verses that ac-
company them are not funny, but VI
cious, and that they tend to pervert a
childs notions of art and to suggest
evil and malicious thoughts.
The French Academy has appro-
priated sum for the maintenance of
an album in which three photographs
OF every immortal-one showing the
full face and two the Drofile-will be
carefully preserved. When an Acade-
mician dies it is usual to adorn what
may be called the literary Hotel des
Inval!des with his bust, but OCCASION
ally the sculptor experiences difficulty
in finding trustworthy representation
of the departed great.
The fiction of the mysterious load
stone mountain which drew the nails
out of ships that passed near enough
has certain foundation in fact, ac-
cord.ng ITO the Paris Steele. On the
coast of Norway, near aoedern, there
is sand dune nearly three-quarters
of a mile in length. The sand is mixed
with particles of loadstone, and when
ship comes in the vicinity the COM
pass becomes irregular. AS a result
vessels frequently run ashore at this
point.
The strange story of the elopement
of an ordinary milch COW with a bull
moose comes from Lake Onawa, a
pretty sheet of water in the hills of
Piscataquis county, says the Spring
| field Republican. The COW was the
property of DR.. A. r. Sandan of New
York, whose cottage is located on the
shore of Onawa, and she was kept in
a pasture inclosed by a rail fence. A
! big moose had been several times seen
hanging around the cottage grounds.
Last Thursday night he came close UP
| to where the cow was and the two
| seemed to be good friends. Late at
| night a tremendous crash was heard,
and next morning the fence was a
wreck and the cow gone. Neither she
nor the moose has been seen since.
The islands of Japan are remarka-
BILE for their richness of animal life,
says the Popular Science Monthly. The
variety in climatic and other condi-
tions, the nearness to the great con-
| e A.s, &I.o akzs szF ,t1,,.
| of marine life-the East Indian Islands
its relation to the warm Black Cur
rent or Kuro Shiwo-the Gulf stream
| of the Orient-and to the cold current
| from Bering sea, all tend to give va
/ riety to the fauna of its seas. Espe-
! cially numerous and varied are the
! fishes of Japan. 1t has been noted that
the fish feuna of Japan bears a strik-
ing resemblance to that of the Medi-
| terranean, and Doctor Gunther has
! suggested that this can be accounted
| for by supposing that in recent times
continuous coast line and sea pass
| age extended from one region to the
other, the Isthmus of Suez not existing
With regard to the senses of the
| lower animals, experiments We're re-
counted which seem to show that in
| the matter of color and sound some in
! SeClS, Wnlle not possessing our percep-
! tions are endowed with others often
| more acute-a capacity to distinguish
| shriller sounds and possibly light eff
! fects that are beyond our range of
! vision, says the London Telegraph 1t
! was, the lecturer confessed, to him a
fascinating inquiry to find in what
| kind of a world the lower animals
! lived. Probably it was widely different
! from ours. They may be conscious of
| sounds we cannot hear, perceive colors
we cannot see, and have senses we
cannot conceive. Some creat lures ap-
| peared to have a sense OF electricity of
| which We were devoid, and he saw no
! reason why there should not be fifty
| other senses besides the five we pos
sess. The truest and most alluring nat
| ural history was that which made us
familiar with the lives and habits, the
faculties and powers of the living
world around.
An experiment was recently con-
busted at the Tamarack mine in Michi-
| gan, which is OF interest to the engin-
eering word, says the New York Even
| ing Post. There was nothing new in
! the principle involved, but the facts
| made it unique. Though the result
was not what had been expected, dis
coveries were made which may prove
of value to scientists. In order to
verify surveys, 1t was decided to drop
two plumb lines from the top of the
SHAFT to the twenty-ninth level, which
Is $3.50 feet below, and take observa-
| tions from top and bottom No, "a piano