The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-01

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isms not normally present in the Dub
lin air, and scattered them with a
spray over refuse heap. He then
placed culture dishes to windward 500
feet away, and some of them sixty feet
in the air. After three hours he found
that bacteria had been carried on float
ing particles of dust to every one of
the dishes.
Chop Suey, the national Chinese
dish, is growing in popularity in this
country. Over sixty Chinese and some
American restaurants in New York
serve il. The base" so to speak, is of
pork and chicken livers and gizzards.
Celery, mushrooms, green peas, chop
ped string beans and asparagus tips
are placed in a frying pan with the
meat and covered with gravy of pea
nut oil. heavily spiced.
According to a telegram lately re-
ceived from Irkutsk. huge rent of
recent formation has been discovered
on the side of Mount Verkholensky. At
first 1t was thought that the assure was
the result of volcanic action, but it has
been found on close examination by
biologists that the steam and white
hot eXudations thrown out from the
rent are due to the spontaneous COM
OI COAL IHG
face of the mountain.
Herbert Spencer is quoted as say
ing that he has no illusions as to the
popularity of philosophy. 81 think it
probable that if you would ask ninety
nine out of a hundred people whether
they would daily take a spoonful of
cod liver oil or read chapter of my
Principles of Psychology they would
prefer the cod liver OIL" he said. The
philosopher has again declared that he
is broken by the burden of years and
has laid his pen down forever as far
as any large work is concerned.
"A new dodge has been tried by
the ordnance department of the Brit
lsh army to make guns invisible. BY
painting the field pieces and their
limbers in irregular patches of the
three primary colors, red, yellow and
blue, they have been found to har-
monte so exactly with any sort of
background or surroundings as to be
almost indistinguishable at relative
ly short distance even with powerful
glasses and by persons knowing their
location.
-Apropos of the recent speech of the
Duke of Argyll protesting against the
tremendous burden" of the death du
ties, the Duke has been reminded by
the Liberal press of London that the
Scotch peasantry pay him S250,000
year in rents. that the Duchess re-
ceives $4,000 a year of public money,
and that after deducting his annual in
stallment toward the death duties on
his fathers estate, the Duke and Ouch
ess will have to play the part of splen-
did paupers on only $215, 900.
The Lake Shore electric line be-
tween Cleveland and Detroit will soon
establish a through sleeping car SER
vice, says the Chicago Chronicle. The
cars will be built on the lines of the
Pullman sleepers, with upper and low
er berths, and an ordinary car will ac-
commodate fifteen persons. AS soon as
the line between Detroit and Toledo is
completed there will be through sleep
ers regularly between Cleveland and
Detroit. The speed will average thirty
to thirty-five miles an hour, leaving
Detroit at 8 o'clock at night and reach
ing Cleveland at o'clock the follow
ing morning. thus covering the dis
lance of 173 miles in ten hours includ-
ing stops.
"A collection of $4,000 insects has
just been purchased by the depart
ment of zoology of the University of
Chicago. says the Chicago Tribune.
This great number Of what most peo-
pie would designate as thugs was COL
lected from all parts of the world by
the late John Akhurst, a noted ento-
mologist of Brooklyn, N. Y. The COL
lection is unusually valuable on ac-
count of its completeness, and repre-
sents large amount of careful work
extending over many years. The in
sects are to form the nucleus of a nu-
scum which is being established and
will be added to as rapidly as is pos
sible. w. L. Tower of the department
of zoology has gone to Brooklyn to
superintend the work of packing the
specimens for shipment to Chicago.
The average length of human life
is constantly and steadily increasing,
having, according to DR.. George M.
Kober, professor of hygiene in George
town University, D. c., doubled with
in the past three centuries, says Sue
cess. In the sixteenth century it was
between eighteen and twenty years,
while to-day it is forty. The princi-
pal agencies in this pro1ongaton of life,
Or. Kober believes, are more attention
to the air we breathe and more care as
to the water we drink. This opinion
is sustained by the statistics of large
cities, which show that, owing to i'm
proved sanitation. the introduction Of
sewers and of public water supplies,
their rates of mortality within the past
forty years have been reduced to about
one-half. Do you want to prolong your
life and increase your powers? Then
breathe deeply, and drink plenty of
pure water between, not at meals; rot
iced water or boiled water, but dis
titled water.
Eight hundred elks' teeth in the
grave of an Indian chief, all splendid
specimens and susceptible of mount
ing, was the wonderful find by a Phil
adelphia curio hunter named thinner
man, who has been gathering relics
along the canyon of the tortuous Snake
river for several months, says the San
Francisco Call. Zimmerman dug into
the grave, which was in a wild, barren
and remote country along the Snake
river, above Lewiston, Ida Some dis
lance down he encountered several
small bones, which on examination
proved to be magnificent specimens of
elks' teeth, and on scooping away the
earth with his hands he found that a
loose tunic wrapped around the ex-
chiefs skeleton had been literally
crammed with teeth--the best obtain
able in the days when elk were pIer-
tiful Zimmerman took his find to
Lewiston for shipment to Philadelph,v
Keeping very quiet about the discov-
cry. One man to whom he conHded
the secret in Lewiston offered him $40
apiece for the 400 with the red streak,
Sixteen times on the operating ia.
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