The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-03

clan has cautioned him against any
sudden starts or jerks. 1t has been the
custom many times when greeting the
old gentleman to take advantage of his
extreme ticklishness. The surgeons say
that man of his nature, after under
going such a critical surgical operation,
would be liable to be badly injured by
a sudden start. Therefore, his friends
should not greet him in the old way
by poking their finger in his ribs"
Consul Dudley says that among the
specimens of gold brought to the as
say office at Vancouver considerable
quantities of platinum are found, and
the miners do not know platinum when
they see it. In all the placer mining
districts of British Columbia and the
Yukon Territory large amounts of plat
mum and kindred metals have been
thrown away by miners, who did not
know the value of the product. With
the present price of platinum 1t will
pay prospectors to be on the lookout
for this metal, which doubtless exists
in considerable quantities in this prov
ince. Platinum is not found in lodges,
so far as is known, excepting in one
place in the world. 1t is found in
black sand containing a large percen-
tage of magnetic iron ore and a vary
ing quantity of gold.
DR. Bang, a Danish physician, has
constructed an electric lamp likely to
prove of great Importance outside the
field for which he intended it. In the
ordinary arc lamp the carbons are
heated to some 5000 degrees, but DR..
Bang succeeds in avoiding this high
temperature by making the carbons
hollow and letting a current of water
fhTOllOb ha off ic cirer
lar. Almost the whole of the energy
of the electric current is removed to
the light arc between the two cleo
trodes, while the latter themselves re-
main cool. In addition to this the car
bons are consumed so slowly that the
usual automatic adjustment can be
dispensed with. In science the new
lamp will no doubt be invaluable, says
Engineerings; its cold light is able to
kill bacteria in one-eighteenth of the
time required with the light of the
ordinary arc lamp.
1t is well known that an enormous
amount of unused fuel exists in the
Irish boys. Two processes have re-
Gently been discovered. one in. Germany
and the other in France, which seem to
warrant the hope that peat may soon
be utilized both for the production of
ceived the Endorsement Of the Berlin
Chemical Testing Station by which
peat and Ignite can be worked up into
briquettes, possessing a heating value
fully equal to brown coal. In the
Fatherland which includes nearly S.
000,00G acres of peat beds, a good deal
is expected from this invention. Sinful
taneously, NJ. Richie, of Paris, has in
vented a system by which it is
haf he
through the destructive distillation of
wood, ueat or Ignite in three times
the quantity hitherto realized, the gas
being in quality a fair approach to
that obtained from coal. 1t should
seem to be worth the while of Irish
patriots and capitalists to see whether
these methods can be applied to the
peat beds of the Emerald Isle.
The old-time saying to the effect
that never yet was there a law passed
through which a coach and horses
could not be driven was proved the
other day in the Supreme Court of New
York state. Through the use of the
word mo" instead of AN in the game
laws passed by the Legislature in 1900
two coid-storage proprietors were
saved the payment of fines aggregating
about SS25,000 The men were caught
with a large number of shorebirds in
their warehouses, but the word of two
letters saved them and they are now
engaged in calling down blessings on
the heads of the drawers of the BILL
the copiers, or whatsoever was respon-
sible for the change. The section of
the law which removed the protection
on the birds. reads Certain Wild
Fowls Protected Wild birds other
than the English sparrow, crow, hawk.
crane, raven, crow blackbird common
blackbird, kingfisher. and birds for
which there is no Originally am open
season, shall not be taken or possessed
at any time. dead or alive, except I'M
der the authority of a certificate under
this act
English travellers VINO have crossed
the beautiful Simplon Pass will hear
with regret that the monks of the
| Grand st. Bernard have been consider
ing proposal to abolish the historic
| hospice on the top of the pass, says the
London Chronicle. This is one of the
results of the tunnelling of the Jura-
Simplon Railway, which is to be COM
pleted in two years time. The fine car
riage road from Glys to Domo dos
sofa, which was constructed by Napo-
leon. is very costly to maintain, owing
to constant avalanches: and when the
post goes by railway it will cease to
| be used by the "Diligences Suisses, -
which now in summer cross daily twice
each way By the rules of the house.
hospitality is given to every traveller,
and no request for payment is made.
But Napoleon never foresaw that mere
tourists would abuse the privilege, and
although ones stay is limited to three
nights, yet many appear to take ad-
vantage of the hospitality to secure an
inexpensive week end in the mountains.
The monks of st. Bernard, who took
over the house in 1925, recognize that
this is hardly a fulfilment of the orig
inal intention. OF course the
road is also used by num-
bers of Italian laborers tramp
ing backward and forward to work in
Switzerland, but if the hospice is abol-
ished it is probable that a, special fund
will be formed to enable such to travel
through the tunnel on special terms, in
which case the road may become dis
used altogether.
One of the most common of skin
ailments is that known as summer
heat" says an exchange. 1t is also
known as 'prickly heat" and consists
as far as its symptoms GO of very
irritating feeling of heat in the skin
accompanied by redness. and often by
a slight thickening of the skin. This
last symptom is Of temporary ma
ture as a rule and results occasional
ly from the subject of the affliction
scratching himself This "prickly
heat" is liable 90 affect different parts
OF the body, and Is liable to be mistak-
en- for a very different and more Sc