The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Worlds Fair at st. Louis, it
is promised. win cover 1900 acres, at
an estimated cost of construction of
| S3e, 600, 600. The construction cost of
| the Paris Exposition was $4,000, 900; OF
the Chicago Exposition, $lS,O00000; of
the Buffalo Exposition, $lO,0OO,0OO
in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, B.
c. 600, and after the Assyrians had
number of different musical intruments,
| the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psal-
terry and dulcimer being specified, and
'al kinds of music" mentioned by Dan
| iel in this connection being supposed by
some commentators to refer to drums,
cymbals, castanets and horns.
According to a Smyrna contempo-
rary, an "aged Athenian professor" has
become convert to the religion of his
classic ancestors. He has transformed
a spare room into a temple, furnished it
with two statues of Mercury and Juno,
| before which he sings and prays, and
| occasionally offers up sacrifices on
neatly constructed altar. His relatives,
unfortunately, are treating him for
mental arrangement.
Over a thousand mummy birds
have been sent by M. Maspero, direc-
tor of the Egyptian service of antiqui-
| ties, to the Museum of Lyons. They
belond to two ategories-namely, the
ibis and birds of prey-and come from
! Sakkarah, Roda, Kom Ombo and Gil
| zeh. Those from Kom Ombo are of
Roman. and those from Gizeh of Ptole-
maic age. A large number of them,
| according to NM. Lortet and Gaillard,
| have not hitherto been found among
| rnummied birds, and it is remarkable
| that the white ibis is a larger bird
than the existing white ibis of Nubia
| and the Soudan. Another fact brought
| out is that the black ibis of Greek his
torians was, as surmised by Savigny,
| the ibis falcinella, called "el-hereis" by
the Arabs, and 'leheras' by the an
! cient Egyptians.
An interesting trick is to lift de-
| canter half-filled with water by bent
straw. This would seem impossible,
| but it is not. The decanter should
| have a narrow neck and wide and
rather square shoulder part. The
straw must be good and whole one,
| about two or two and half feet long.
This is to be bent upward one-third
of its length, or enough to bring 1t
under the shoulder" of the decanter.
| Doubled it is pushed into the decanter,
and then it is spread apart, leaving the
short end inside and the long one out
side This end is lifted carefully, and,
as it is, it displaces the center of gray
/ ity, which is brought directly under
| the point of suspension. 1t is we'll
| for the performer to have two or three
extra pieces of straw and to be sure
to find one without crack or break.
J The use of Newfoundland dogs as
life-savers on the Seine river, in Paris,
has been revived. AS far back as 1S45
dogs were used for this purpose, but
the plan was gradually dropped. Re-
| Gently however, the corps has been re-
established and it is expected that good
will result from the employment Of
| the dogs. One feature of the, plan,
| however, is not so agreeable, either to
| the persons saved or the men directing
the work of the dogs. Experiments
were tried with dummies. The dogs
swan out into the river and brought
in the figure without any trouble, but
after they landed there was a terrific
fight among the animals for the pos
session Of the body. The dummy was
| in shreds before the men could get
| them separated. Now the police off,
| Gals are wondering what would hap
pen when an animate body is dragged
from the river by the animals.
"A Honolulu special to the New
York Evening Post says: "a remsrka-
BILE action of the south Pacific waters
was noticed on the recent trip of the
Moana from the colonies. An entirely
new current was experienced in the
| southern waters. The equatorial cur
rents extended from 10 degrees north
to degrees south latitude. When the
Moana was about degrees south lat
itude, it was NOTICED that she did not
| keep her course. 1t was many miles
too soon for the equa torial currents,
and for while the officers were at a
loss to determine the cause, as there
had not been any wind to exert any
unusual influence on the vessel OBJ
| servations of the waters were made
| with the result that a well-defined
westerly to southwesterly current was
discovered. The current was running
at the rate of about knot an hour.
Chicago is to have the largest fish
ing stream in the world. 1t will be
twenty-eight miles long. Its width
| will vary from 120 to 300 feet and it's
| depth will average twenty-four feet
! 1t will be free to all who wish to cast
| their lines into it's placid waters and
the poor of the city will be able to pro-
| cure fish dinners from it by simply
dropping in hooks baited with fried po-
tolOCS. IO-dcy lLe pOAlu is Known as
| Chicago's great drainage canal. Early
rext spring it will be stocked with food
tish and before two years have rolled
around the rock and earth sections of
the main channel will be alive with
! four-pound carp and other fresh water
food Col. S. P. Bartlett of Quincy,
and Commodore Nat II. Cohen of Ur-
bana, both of the Illinois Fish Com
mission, recently had their attention
called to the fish-producing POSSIBLE
ties of the drainage canal. They at
once grasped the situation and said
| that the first thing next spring 500
carp would be planted in the canal.
They were asked, why only 500 carp;
why not 5,000?" From that the idea
grew.
Commonly hoarfrost, says Knowl-
edge. is described as being frozen mois-
ture, but this is not an adequate de-
scription of an agent that has the
! power OF adjoining in a few hours such
pIOsaic objects as gateposts and DUST
| bins with all the trappings of fairy
land. Moisture is indeed the fabric out
! of which all this feathery whiteness is
built up; but. although il seems some-
times as If it is disturbed in a very ca
less certain definite circumstances
| which cause the hoarfrost to settle
down on some surfaces rather than
others. On any cold and frosty morn
| ing Il win usually be found that those
surfaces that are the best radiators
| of heat are also those that are the
al