The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two hundred native beaters are
being brought from Eastern Bengal
to assist at the elephant hunt in My
sore, which is being arranged for Lord
Curzon on the occasion of the installa-
ton of the young Maharajah, in Au-
gust.
Portions of the old Roman road to
the north have been uncovered during
some excavations at Chester-le street.
Durham. The track, which was met
with yard below the present surface,
presents a face almost as hard and
compact as a steel plate.
The election barker" is peculiar to
French soil. At critical moments in
candidates speech the barker" puts
him out by initiating a dog, and a
really good man at the business is
worth good money at such times. Half
a dozen of them in Paris earn enough
at election times to last them for d
year.
The Canadian Department of Ma
rine and Fisheries is wrestling with
the problem as to whether a frog is
increase in the export of frogs legs
to the United States, some fear is felt
that unless restrictions are placed upon
the killing of Canadian frogs there
will soon be none left in the country.
If frog is a fish the department at
Ottawa has the power to institute a
close season for it. If, however, it
should be decided that the frog comes
under the category of game the ques-
tion OF a close season must be set
tied by the provincial authorities. II
the law officers of the different gov
ernments interested fail to come to an
agreement on the subject the matter
will probably be submitted to COM
mittee of experts. Everybody agrees
that something must be done to pre-
vent the total destruction of a valua-
BILE article of both food and commerce.
If it should be decided that the frog
is neither fish nor game it may be
necessary, in order to secure law
for its protection, to obtain from the
Imperial Parliament the passage Of an
amendment to the act of British North
America.
The dust shot up during the great
explosions of the Krakatoa eruption in
August 1883, descended at a number
of places, the most distant of which
was about LOO miles away. This,
however, refers only to material coarse
enough to be identified-the very fin
est dust more than made the circuit
of the globe. 1t was traced, not by
the fall of the dust itself but by the
marvelously beautiful sunsets which
it produced while floating like thin
smoke-haze in the upper air. Similar
atmospheric effects have followed the
eruptions of the Soufriere and Mount
n 49,
The minute dust from Krakatoa was
elected to very great hight from the
earth's surface. The report issued by
the Royal Society states that DR.. YER
beek estimated the steam-cloud with
which dust would be mingled to have
mounted, in one of the earlier erup-
tons, to a hight of about seven miles,
ard during the most violent paroxsyms
on Aug. 26 and 27 to between 10 and
IL miles. Meteorologists who discussed
the sunset glows and other kindred
phenomena, came to the conclusion
that the dust haze to which these were
due must at first have been floating
rot less, and perhaps not more, than
80 miles from the earth's surface
The particular coloring matters
known as dyes are not only eminently
endowed with the power of selective
absorption in regard to light-a power
which causes them to appear colored-
but their particles or atoms possess a
strong faculty for wandering into
flbers and fabrics, and moreover, of
becoming dissolved therein, says the
Lancet. This wandering power and
solubility in solid materials, possessed
to such high degree by dyes, distin-
colored substances. In the former case
the particles travel into fiber and are
actually soluble in it; in the latter
case, although penetration proceeds.
the actual solution of the color in the
material is not effected. In short, a
dyed fabric is nothing more than a
solid solution of the dyestuff in the
substance of a fiber. The number of ar
tfcial coloring matters prepared since
Perkins discovery, now nearly so
years ago, has been enormous. It is
estimated that at the present day over
900 different individual dyestuffs
are easily accessible to our industries.
while at least $4,000 form the subject
Of patent specifications The number
of coloring matters furnished by nat
ural agencies is comparatively small
and those that do exist threaten soon
to be ignored in favor Of coai-tar deri-
vatlves. Perkins great discovery has
led to complete revolution of the col
or output Of the world and has placed
at our disposal an infinite series Of COL
ors Of every variety and shade. More
over, II is interesting to remember
that the aniiine dyes have proved Of
great service in determining the ma
ture OF disease. The germ theory Of
disease could not have developed so
rapidly and on such definite lines as
II has done had not aniline stains been
discovered which were soon found to
possess the power Of marking and in
dlviduslizlng the specific organism by
dissolying IN IL and thus enabling IN
several Instances an exact bacfeFlol0gf-
Cal diagnosis 20 be made