The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ly 1000 miles at an elevation of from
11,0O0 to $4,000 feet.
Many companies are being formed
for the purpose of working the enor-
nous coal area newIy discovered in
the Campin district of Belgium.
Travellers in Belgium this summer
will find at Bruges big exhibition of
early Flemish painters. The pictures
have been brought together from col
lections throughout the country.
AT the time an effort was made to
mpeach President Andrew Johnson the
deciding vote against such action was
cast by Senator Ross of Kansas. Mr..
Ross is now setting type in newspa-
per office in Albuquerque, N. NJ.
The new census of Berlin, Ger
many, gives the population at 1,901,567.
The increase in population in the past
year is only 1887, as against 1888 in
the preceding year. This falling off in
the yearly increase is attributed to the
movement OF the inhabitants to the
suburbs as a result of electric trac-
ton.
The very large proportion of sem
ators in Washington live in hotels and
boarding houses, while a certain per-
centage keep house in a style no diff
ferent from the bulk of their neigh
bors, who are chiefly retail merchants
and government employees, lawyers,
doctors and the other average people
that go to make up a large commune
ty.
Mr.. Orvid Reuterdahl, in a paper
read before the American Electro
chemical Society, said that ionic con-
ditions must exist in the realm of cleo
trostatics and carbohydrates as well
as of electrochemiStry, and that che
manifold phenomenon of electricity
will be found to be ultimately the re
suit of the activities of the atom of
electrochemistry.
-Glosue Carducci's library and man.
uscripts have been bought by Queen
Margherita. The poet will retain the
use of them while he lives and will
receive an annuity of 1000 francs.At his
death his heirs will get 10000 francs 1t
looks like delicate way of arranging
a pension for Carducci, who is Rad
ical, and would refuse a pension from
the state.
the General Telegraph Department of
Germany to test the octuplex system
of typograph telegraphy invented by
the late Prof. Rowland of Johns Hop
kins University The apparatus to he
regularly used between Hamburg and
Frankfort will shortly be installed. 1t
is claimed that the octuplex system
will permit $4,000 words per hour to
be sent over a single wire by twenty
operators. By the Hughes system
now in use in Berlin only 1900 words
per hour can be dispatched. The send
ing instrument resemble a typewriter
and any letter can be telegraphed by
depressing it's corresponding key.s The
receiving instrument prints the mes
sage on a sheet of paper, not on
tape. in convenient form for delivery
by mail or otherwise.
Under the title white Coal" the
Revue Scientifique gives an account
of the use made of water power in one
of the departments of France (Orne).
1t appears that more than 10000 horse
power is utilized in 779 establishments.
In 1880 the same establishments used
only 3,480 horsepower. The lesson for
France is one to be needed in our
own country where energy is wasted
not be a single steam engine in Cali
fornia, for example, as the hydraulic
energy is more than sufficient to do
all the required work. A very small
stream will drive a water wheel and
all the work about a place can be
done by a. small motor. Cities can be
lighted, and the work of manufac-
tories performed by larger plants.
Railways can be operated by dynamos
3r,e4 Of OF nfa 40 f1.1y0
of California, is, in degree, true of
many other states of the Union.
About a year ago a gentleman re-
siding in London, says The Outlook,
finding that burglars had visited his
house, rushed to his telephone to com
municate with the police. Imagine
his CONSERVATION on learning that
there was no telephone in the police
station AS the idea of using the tele
phone would never have occurred to
Londoner at home this gentleman must
have been foreigner. THE Spectator
presumes he then found on inquiry that
the correct thing to do under the cir
cumSt ances was to dispatch his butler
to the station house in a hanson, a
good old custom dating from the reign
of Queen Anne. AT the time of the
search for the Liverpool Bank robber,
Goudie, the police were much hampered
by the fact that the Scotland Yard
service is not equipped with the tele-
phone. These astonishing conditions
prevail in London to-day, the local
police stations having no telephone
connection whatever, either with one
another or the public.
That typhoid fever can be conveyed
to man through the media of oysters
is an unquestioned fact, says the Lon
don Chronicle. The bacilli of the dis
ease can survive for a certain number
of days in the body of the oyster while
it lies in sea water. If during this
active period, SO to speak, man eats
the oyster he becomes liable to typhoid
attack. 1t is satisfactory to note that
certain local authorities are bestirring
themselves in the matter of prevention
from typhoid infection through oysters
The sanitary committee of the Corn
wall county council shall petition the
Board of Trade to invest it with pow
ers to prevent the laying down of
oysters in any area under the councils
jurisdiction which may be regarded as
unsuitable from a sanitary standpoint
This is a step in the right direction and
one may only hope that the example
set by the CornwelI authorities will be
followed by other local bodies, who,
knowing the locale of oyster beds, may
be regarded as best fitted to check
the sending of infected oysters beyond
their area.
That shorthand was used in the
ancient world is wen known, but our
information Is still scanty and any ad-