The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-16

fever and diphtheria among humans
has been a welI-settled fact for some
time, and now it is thought that chick
ems are often responsible for the pres
ence of diphtheria. In North Wales,
Eng, ii has been observed that several
outbreaks of that disease Immediately
followed an epidemic Of 'roup,". which
is fatal chicken disease.
One of the peculiarities about the
military service in Germany is the pa
ternal interest that the officers are re-
quired to take in the frugality of the
men. The pay of the soldiers is only
cents day, but the army regulations
guard it jealousy. Each man is ex-
pected to keep his money in little bag
suspended from a string around his
neck, and any officer during inspection
may demand to have the bags opened
and their contents shown. If it be
found that a soldier is spending his
pay too freely-think of that with the
pay at so low mark-he is reprimand-
ed and punished. He is compelled to
make his pay cover his expenses.
Lord Kelvin is busily engaged in
compiling the specification of two new
patents, says the Scientific American.
The competition and patenting of these
devices will bring the number of pat
ents controlled by the Kelvin syndicate
to 40, large number of which deal
with appliances which are now re-
garded as Indispensable to the equip
ment of ships in every country of the
eran physicist has exploited the COM
mercial side of his inventions is shown
by the circumstance that upon the lat
est war ship added to the Japanese
navy there are no less than fourteen
Kelvin appliances.
A Scotch visitor to Washington
who attended a session of the Senate
the other day expressed great surprise
at the fact that that body made three
adjournments because there was no
one ready to go on with a speech. mo
doubt it was all done with the best of
reason" he said to a Washington Post
interviewer. but the idea of an Amer
lean not being prepared to talk under
any and all circumstances seemed bit
funny. The readiness of the men of
the states in parliamentary debate is
often alluded to in the old country,
and when 1 get home and relate this
episode of the Senate my friends may
accuse me of romancing."
in 1898 an International COMPETE
ton for a paste for matches not con-
tanning white sulphur was announced,
and prize of $4,000 francs ($9,650) was
offered by the Belgian government to
the inventor. According to United
States Consul Roosevelt, at Brussels,
the commission appointed to judge re-
suits has now declared that, after four
years of careful experiment and anal
ysis, it has been found that none of
the products so far submitted fill the
required conditions, being defective in
infiammability, igniting on all sur
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mable matter containing some poison
Gus substance. The sum already ex-
pended in the matter amounts to
$1,57S.35. This covers cost of printing,
correspondence with foreign countries,
purchase of materials, analysis and
experiments.
The queen wasp is one of the most
wonderful insects in the world, says
an exchange. At this time of the year
she is an uncrowned queen, for she
has no kingdom and no people. Her
husband died of hunger, cold and early
old age in autumn. So she is quite
alone in the world when she feebly
buzzes out into the uncertain climate
of our English spring. But she has a
brave heart, and is soon prospecting
| for a convenient slope in sheltered
| bank for her future capital. Here she
| for pick-ax and her slender feet as
rakes. So she excaVates a tunnel lead
| ing to a vaulted cave; and then she
| changes from miner to a papfer-
| mache maker, and again, with no 9TH
| er tools but her royal jaws and feet,
she gnaws off some old log into thin
| paper, of which, now turning architect,
she builds a number of little rooms or
| cells, all hanging together side by side
a mill iaI1 ho hoe
the roof. Next she becomes a mother,
laying an egg in each cell; and then,
! turning huntress and nurse, she pro-
| videS all of the little grubs which
emerge from the eggs with constant
supplies of food, till in due time they
all become wasps, her handmaidens,
children, and first subjects.
The wardrobe of Leo XIII Is the
| largest and the most costly that the
whole wide world has to show. 1t hap
pens any way that few rulers are sur
rounded with more ceremony and mag
| niflcence than the princes of the
| Church. AS for the Pope etiquette and
| tradition have imposed upon him a
sumptuous magnificence. Three large
rooms in the Vatican are given over
to Pope Leo's wardrobe, and many SER
wants are constantly at work keeping
| INC NCStillChtS III OlNEIs 1nCTS are gar
| ments set aside for each day in the
year, varying in color, weight, and
| value, according to the occasion and
season. In Lent the papal raiment
| from shoes to cap, is of scarlet The
Easter season calls for white. Other
| holy days demand other colors. Every
| item of each costume is the finest and
richest of its kind. The SUPPLIES worn
at audiences are of priceless old lace
Nowhere in Europe is there a more
| valuable and interesting collection of
lace. The slippers of the Pope are
legion and each pair is of the finest
velvet. The right slipper, which is
kissed by pilgrims and other pious Wis
itors, bears cross in gold embroidery,
while on the left are embroidered the
crest, keys, tiara and pallium which
make up the crest of the Roman
Church.
The old ,catch-question whether the
Mississippi river flows up hill seems to
have once more bobbed to the surface.
says the New Orleans Picayune Like
the proverbial cork, it cannot be kept
down for any heightened period, and
| the whole subject has to be thrashed
over and over again. 1t is one of
| those questions which can be answered
either in negative or positive sense,
| just as the person interested is in
clined. If in the former sense, the
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