The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-12


plant when injected into the tissues
thereof near the roots has been dis
covered by a German chemist. The
plant so treated stops growing, but
maintains its fresh. green appearance
as long as the effects of the injection
last.
"A strange case is that of Mrs. Mary
Elvira Gillespie, who, at the age of
81, has just been admitted to a hos
pital in Denver. She is the mother of
thirty-seven children, including fifteen
sets of twins, but all have drifted
away from her and she knows not the
address of one of them.
The foreman of the laboratory of
a firm of manufacturing chemists in
Detroit reports that when he opened a
cask of white powdered arsenic con-
signed to his employers recently he
found within a number of worms
which resembled caterpillars, and
which seemed to be thriving upon the
deadly poison.
The enterprising manager of a
chautauqua bureau recently offered
Senator Hanna $4,000 for a series of
eighteen lectures in the South and
Middle West. He was sorely disap-
pointed when the Ohio boss refused to
consider his offer. why" said the
manager plaintiVely, Its as much
money as he gets for serving two years
in the Senate and he could easily make
the circuit in a MONTH"
The University of oxford proposes
to celebrate in October next the tercen-
tenary of the opening of the Bodleian
Library. A very large and distinguish
i l=.w1 Al
parts of the world is expected at Ok
ford for the occasion. The Bodleian Lii
brary was actually founded in 1898,
but it was not opened till 1902 by Sir
Thomas Bodley, who died in 1912. 1t
contains over 100000 volumes.
"A dispatch from Wilmington. Del.
says: Although Mrs. Peter Koskinski
is but % years old she is the mother
of sixteen children, and all are alive
and well. At least that is the age
given by the mother to-day in a GER
tif1cate to Recorder of Deeds Delaware
Clark containing a record of the
birth of Frank Koskinski, the six
teenth child, on Nov. 3 last Peter
Koskinski, the father, gives his age as
As years. The parents are Polanders.
The Department of Agriculture is
preparing to fight the ravages of the
San Jose scale throughout the coun-
try with its natural enemy, the lady
bug, brought from the interior of
China. Assistant Botanist Marlatt has
just returned from the Orient, where
he sought the original home of the
dreaded scale. Far in the interior of
the latter country, where European
plants had not penetrated, he found
the scale and also the lady bugs which
kept the scales in subsection and per-
mitted the native plants to flourish.
Mr.. Marlatt started home with good
supply of these lady bugs, but only
sixteen survived on arrival in this
country and fourteen of these suisse
quently died. The two remaining are
nursed carefully by the government
with view to fighting the scale in
the same manner as in China. There
are now fifty of them, requiring the
constant gathering of scales from the
department grounds for food. While
not expecting the scales to be extermi-
mated from this country, experts are
planning to attack them with the in
creasing breed of their natural enc
mics.
"A remarkable circumstance con-
nected with the gathering of the royal
family of Denmark on the occasion of
the King entering to-day upon his
eighty-fifth year is the exceptional ages
which both his family and his wife
have attained. says the London Chroni-
Gle. The King is one of ten brothers
and sisters, of whom one died at Fl,
and the next youngest at SO. Four are
still living, at the respective ages of
81. 81, rs and II. Queen Louisa was
one of a family of five or whom one
died at IS, two between so and 10 and
two at 81. All the six children of the
King and Queen are living. 1t is a
curious fact that during the last 200
years every Danish King has either
been a Frederick or a Christian. His
present majesty is, of course, Christian
TX, and his. father whom he succeeded
in 1868, was Frederick VII. In the
same way. should all go WELL he will
be succeeded by his son Christian, who
has a son called Frederick and a
grandson called Christian, the last
named having been born in 1899. Thus
like the late Queen Victoria, the King
has lived to see four generations in the
direct male line of his family.
Some time ago, says Chambers
Journal, Prof. Darwin of Cambridge
pointed out that if a star revolved on
its axis with a certain velocity, that
of a few hours, the star would tend
to divide in two, and the form it
would take before complete separation
would be that of dumbbell, or rather
of two pears joined top to top. This
deduction was purely theoretical. Dur
ing the past two years an examination
of the light changes of some recently
discovered variable stars reveal this
very condition of things. For example,
one star in the southern sky goes
through a certain regular series of
light-changes in seven hours; and an
examination of these light-changes in
dicates that the star is a twin system
the two bodies composing it being in
contact. This dumbbell system revolves
round their common center in seven
hours, the most absolute confirmation
of the theoretical conclusions. Then
there is another variable star in the
southern sky. the light-changes of
which show that the two stars COM
posing the system are no longer in
contact, separation has just taken
place, the nexus between them is
broken. and two worlds, full born, have
started on that outward spiral which
in the course of ages will carry them
far remote from one another.
Cigarette smokers have an indus
trious friend in the London Lancet
says the New York Times Months ago
that venerable representative of the
medical profession took much pains
to prove that the stories about narcot-
les in cigarette tobacco and poisons
in cigarette paper were quite without
foundation, and now it argues clabo-