The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

dence, as gift from the sisters of the
late president of the Royal Academy.
The house is full of fine studies and
drawings illustrating the dead masters
methods. William Hogarth's home in
Chiswick, which is in private hands,
is also to be preserved, as a memorial
Of the great English satirist.
American Medicine has this to say
on a subject that is of much interest:
Sir William Richmond estimated that
as many as 5000 tons of coal were car
ried off in suspension in the atmos-
phere daily from the chimneys of Lon
don. This gives sony idea of the mag
nitude of the nuisance in that city. The
dirt caused by this black fog is only
one of the resulting evils; days spent in
darkness or in artificial light, as well
as the large amount of oxygen con-
sumed by artificial light is another
item of much importance which
should be considered in this connection.
Inhabitants of dark cities are never
cheerful, and no doubt this may be the
reason for the spleen of the English,
which is supposed to be characteristic
by the French and some others. The
London scientists state that there is
even a decided increase in the death
rate during these heavy black fogs,
SO much smoke in the air is a cause
of bronchitis and other infiammations
of the respiratory tract. which in their
turn give rise to greater liability to
pneumonia and tuberculosis"
The questions, how far can light
penetrate a layer of water, and what
is the cause of the very various colors
of the ocean, have been studied, says
the New York Sun, on several scien-
tific voyages during the last ten years.
In very blue water the transparency
increases with the suns altitude and
it was determined that the average
Transparency corresponded to a solar
altitude of about As degrees. The
transparency varies with the color of
the water greatest for blue water),
the SUMS altitude greatest in winter),
with the salinity of the water great
est when most saline), with the tenn
perature greatest for low tempera-
tures), with the depth of the water
Generally greatest for deep water)
with the cloudiness Of the sky great
est for clear skies) with the disturb
seas), and so forth. The greatest
transparency observed in the Aegaen
sea was As meters Photographic
places were also exposed at various
depths to see how far the chemical
rays of sunlight penetrated. Fifty
five experiments at depths varying
from 100 to 900 meters were made and
beyond the latter depth no action at
all was observed.
in the holy East the sinner and
saints carefully brush each seat be-
fore sitting down for fear of crush
ing an animalcule. says the New York
letter of the Pittsburg Dispatch. That
care does not often mark the busy
throngs of the West, but here is the
fierce New York jungle of commerce
a tiny crippled mouse stopped traffic
in Broadway to-day. 1t was just be-
low Days theater. The mouse was
about half an inch long. Two of its
legs had been broken, and it was try
ing to get to the curb. A crowd gath
cred at the edge of the walk and
watched it. A big heavy truck came
rumling down the street. Look out
for the mouse!" cried the crowd. The
driver turned to one side. He stopped
the cart back of him. This impeded
a truck. The house by this time had
managed to wobble upon the car
tracks. A Broadway car came slid
ing along jauntily. Look out for the
mouse!" cried the crowd. The motor
man damned down his brake. The
car came to a stop. The down town
cars back of him stopped. So did the
northbound cars. Broadway was
blockaded. The mouse painfully crawl
ed over to the curbstone. The crowd
cheered and moved away. A boy with
a dirty face kicked the mouse into a
catch basin. The blockade was lifted,
and Broadway moved again.
THE lying in state of no earthly
potentate could be half so impressive
as that of a Pope, says Mrs. Belloc-
Lowndes in Lippincott's. For here it
is no material, secular loyalty which is
engaged, but we seem to penetrate the
barrier which separates the things that
are unseen from our mortal vision. All
the burning love and devotion of the
Church Universal, that great company
which NO man could number, and all
their deepest thoughts and feelings
come winging their way here from the
uttermost parts of the earth. The air
is laden with the mysterious incense of
prayer; the desire of the myriad souls
of the whole Catholic world is centered
here; here the field-hand on a Western
ranch, the courtly' Austrian noble, the
old Connemara peasant woman, the
lonely Subaltern on an Indian frontier
post all direct their thoughts in a
common sorrow and common faith
The third day wears on, and now in
the gathering dusk the long procession
again takes UP the precious body and
conducts it to st. Peters, and there.
protected by iron ratings within cha
pelle ardente, it lies in state, viewed by
streams OF people, for several days. BY
ancient custom the right foot is ex-
tended that the faithful may kiss the
cross on the embroidered slipper AT
last, on the tenth day after the death,
the final and most solemn requiem Is
sung in st. Peters, and on the evening
of that day the Pope is buried in
temporary vault. After the space of
year the body will be taken to the
tomb chosen by the Pontiff during his
lifetime.
Much has been written lately, con-
corning the connection of mosquitoes
with disease. Prof. Smith of Rutgers
College has recently printed a note in
Science (Jan. g. 1902 which those in
terested should read in full. His obser-
vations were made throughout the sea-
son of 1901 and some of his results are
given in what follows. The vast col
abundant species was Culex sollcitans
and 1t was found that this species will
travel to great distances from its
breeding places-twenty miles, for in
stance. Migration of the sort proves
the mosquito question to be more than
local one; it can only be dealt with