The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Louise NJ. Wittleigh, young wo-
man of Edinburgh, was advised by her
physician to take a yachting cruise to
quiet her nerves and restore her TO
health. She went aboard the family
yacht at once last week. The first
night out the boat took fire and the
people aboard her were rescued only
after running a great risk. Miss Witt
leigh has returned a nervous wreck.
The postmaster general of Aus
tralia has issued a new regulation that
mo telephone messages shall contain
unbecoming expressions or language
calculated to provoke a breach of the
peace" Assault by telephone is rath-
er novel offense, but probably the
postmaster general has had some of his
instruments or receivers smahed by
offended subscribers. He has also de-
creed that live bees, if properly pack
! ed, may be transmitted within the COM
monwealth and to and from the United
Kingdom"
An ingenious man has at last de-
vised a way to make silk from a
spiders web. The spider whose pro-
duct is used is a large one in NADIA
gascar, and the discoverer of the
method of using it is a Catholic mis-
from the threads has already been put
on the market. 1t is more beautiful
than ordinary silk, having a glowing,
old-gold luStre in it's nntural stage, and
is quite expensive. Under the micro
scope. the separate threads look more
like fine gold wires than fibres.
Interesting physiologic experiments
have been made by DR.. Anderson of
hn VaI Gle
bed" a mechanism upon which the
human body can be very delicately ball
anced, and which will show the slight
est additional weight upon one or the
other side of the point of equilibrium.
The object of certain experiments was
to determine the weight of blood sent
in certain conditions toward either
extremity of the body. In mental work
the head soon sinks, and in temporary
cerebral congestion from study the
center of gravity falls after exercise
of the lower extremities. Mere
thought, it is asserted, will send
supply of blood to all parts of the
body SO that mental leg gymnastics"
without movement will cause the feet
to sink. 1t has, of course, been long
believed that the insistence of thought
or attention had a profound effect up
on physiologic and upon pathologic
mGcDaQlC
demonstration of at least one of the
methods of influence is very sugges-
tive.
Maxwell pointed out that 1.-THE con-
centrated rays of the electric lamp
falling on a thin metallic disk. deli
cately suspended in a vacuum, might
perhaps, produce an observable me-
chanical effect" 1t was thought that
Sir William Croolxes obtained this ef-
rect IN his radimeter, but the magni-
tude proved many thousand times too
great. Prof. Lebedew used a large
bulb with high exhaustion and exclud-
ed rays capable of heating the tube
walls. In this way he elimited the
radlometer action. The radiometer
vanes were of very thin aluminium foil
suspended by a glass fiber and the
electric arc was the course of light
The following are the principal results:
~ The incident beam of light exerts
a pressure both upon an absorbing
and a rejecting body; (2) this pressure
of light is directly proportional to the
amount of incident energy and is in
dependent of the color of the light; 90
this pressure of light corresponds with
the ponderomotor forces of radiation
calculated by Maxwell and Bartoli
Bartoli pressure of light is experiment.
ally proved.
Nothing could have been better be-
haved than the Campanile of st.
Marks in its fall, says a Venice CORE
spondent. 1t did, indeed, gather it's
robes about it and fall with decency
and deliberation. 1t had stood a thou
sand years, and one minute sufficed
to end the erect record. The people of
Venice really possess their city and
love 1t. Above all things is St. Marks
their own, and the rosy-brick Campa-
nile with its great copper angel on the
summit, has presided like a deity over
their gay lives and their love-making.
lt might have killed half Venice had
II fallen in the evening when the band
plays IN the piazza and maidens pace
up and down, while men in hundreds
look on from the cafeS-from Florian's.
among the rest, which boasts that If
mas Kept open day and night for 900
years. The tower had no jealousy of
these. gayeties at it's base; it gave
warning to the pleasure makers. and
not life was taken. The Tower of
Sloan did not behave so prettily; but
the luck of Venice is at once tradi-
tional and new every day.
AA ONPtCAAlpCl, 1910, d great land
slide occurred in the deep valley Of
one of the upper branches of the
Ganges in the Himalayas. In three
days S00000,000 tons of rock fell with
deafening noise, darkening the air with
dust, leaving great bare cavity with
steep walls several thousand feet high
to mark its source, and building a dam
nearly 1000 feet deep across the mar
row valley floor. A lake gradually
formed on the upstream side of the
dam and grew to be four miles long
before 1t overlooked, about q wear
after the slide. In the meantime. the
danger that the lake might burst ont
In a great flood being perceived by
the British engineers in charge of the
public works of India, the bridges in
the lower valley were removed; safety.
marks were set up on the valley sides
100 or 200 feet above the ordinary river
level indicating the hight above which
the Hood would probably not rise: and
telegraph line was constructed down
the valley from the dam, to give
prompt warning of the outburst. When
the dam broke, IL months later but
one man (WhO Ignored tLa 5or.--t