The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


per cent, during the ten years. The
growth of Christianity in India is
much more rapid than the increase in
population. yet the ChristiapsssaEs. but
one per cent. of the total pdaAzsn.
-Litchfield, Conn, has more historic
trees than any other town in New
England. Among others are two elms
planted by John c. Calhoun; syca-
more said to he one of the thirteen
planted by oliver Wolcott, signer of
the Declaration of Independence, and
named after the thirteen original colo
nies an elm which served as a whip
ping post in colonial days, and a will
low tree which grew from walking
stick stuck in the ground by Col. Tai
madge, the American officer who cap
tured Maj. Andre. the British spy.
A plate of timed iron two square
meters in area is supported four me-
tiers above the earth's surface on in
sulating pillars. In clear weather the
plate is first connected to earth, ac-
curing a negative charge, then dis
connected and left to itself for some
time, so as to acquire the potential of
the surrounding air. 1t is then earthed
through a galvanometer, and shows
current proceeding from the plate to
the earth. The charges acquired vary
within wide limits, being largest in
fine and smallest in foggy or damp
weather. This shows that the connec--
ton of negative ions from the at
mosphere to the earth varies i'm ac-
cordance with their mobility in the at
mosphere. A rough estimate of the
quantity of electricity thus conveyed
on fine day gives over 100000 electro
static units per square mile per min
ute.
"A method of metallizing textiles
electrically which is said to afford the
possibility of impregnating the thickest
piece of cloth, either thoroughly or only
on it's surface, with any kind of metal,
has been invented by DR.. X. Donslow-
ski of Russia, says London Engineer
ing. There can be used copper, iron,
silver, nickel and any Of the metals
which can be separated from their
salts by electrolytic action. The tex
tile has to go through a preparatory
treatment before ready for the pro-
cess of metallization, consisting of i'm
ORIGINATING the cloth with a solution of
the salt of a certain metal. After the
cloth has been impregnated it is sub
mitted to treatment with oxidized sui
phur, which causes the metal to be
separated from the solution in a sedi-
mentary mass, which, being very fine,
intrudes into the cloth, uniting closely
with it's fibers and also settling down
on it's surface. When the cloth is thus
made ready it is put into an electro
lytic tub filled with a solution of the
salt of the kind of metal which is to
be coated upon it.
German silver is not silver, says
Pearson's. neither is it the invention of
an jrNabitant of the fatherland. 1t is
an abby of several metals, and has
been known in China for many hun
dreds of years. Burgundy pitch is not
pitch, neither is Burgundy its home
any more than Prussia is the home of
Prussian blue or that Holland is
where Dutch clocks come from. Leg
horn hats have no association with
Leghorn except as a port of shipment.
Our vice consul states that these hats
are all plated up the Arno, at Sigma,
near Florence. Port wine is not al
ways wine from Oporto by any means.
Stranger still, a great quantity of the
Scotch whisky sold In London is Irish,
to use an Irishism. Far more Irish
whisky is sold in London. In the poor
err districts the so-called Scotch whis-
ky contains two-thirds Irish, and even
the special" Scotch contains one-third
Irish Irish stew, on the other hand is
not Irish. 1t is a good old English
L
ish than are Turkish baths. The birds
first came from America, the baths
from Russia
There is rich business man of Phil
adelphia who got his start in life
through the manufacture of burglars
tools. He said the other day, confiden-
TALLY: I'm my youth 1 was a machin-
list, but the business didn't pay at ALL
a fniCk-SAf RI
morning and showed me Jimmy. I'll
give you $40 for duplicate of this he
said, and / took him up joyfully, for
in my innocence didn't know what a
Jimmy was, and besides, I foresaw a
80 per cent. profit In the job. So made
the burglars tools and afterward I
made the thick-set man some other i'm
PIGMENTS, and after that again l fixed
up an outfit for a friend of his Thus
in year" continued the man. accord
ing to the Philadelphia Record, 81 had
more work than 1 could do; or 10
Misunderstanding individuals brought
me in big orders every day. and in
four years had saved $4,000 Then 7
quit. pulled out and went into INV
present line, which pays me well
enough, though its profits are nothing
to those that you will find in burglar
tool making. 1 often wonder who in
Prof. Herr is bringing from ST.
IBERIA mammoth-in the fesh-which
he dug out of the ice, says an ex
change. 1t is of about the size of an
elephant, which it resembles somewhat
In form. 1t possesses a trunk, has five
toes instead of four, and is a heavy
beast 1t is supposed to have lived
about 5000 years ago. It's age was
probably not more than 26-very young
Tor a mammoth. It's flesh was quite
complete, except for a few pieces
which have been bitten at by wolves
or bears. Most of the hair on tn. |
body had been scraped away by ice
but its name and near foreleg were
IN perfect preservation and covered |
with long hair The hair of the name |
was from four to five inches long and |
OF a yellowish brown color while its |
left leg was covered with black hair !
In its stomach was found a uuantitv |
or undigested food, and on it's tongue |
was the heritage which it had been
eating when it died. This is quite |
green DR.. Herr found this extraor- |
ulnary beast within 200 versts of
holymsk, and brought it down 1000 |
miles to Irkutsk by means of sledges. |
From the position of the mammoth, II |
was evident that it had been killed |
by railing down a declivity, it's neck |
being broken.
One often hears the question dis
cussed whether moles do much damage
to the land or not, says an exchange,