The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Crystalized nitrogen is one of the
greatest chemical curiosities. BY cool
ing nitrogen gas down to 367 degrees
below the freezing point, and then al
lowing it to expand, solid snow-like
crystals are formed.
Prof. S. P. Brooks, who was re-
Gently elected president of Baylor Uni
Versity, Waco, Tex, was section
hand on the Santa Fe Railroad less
than twenty years ago. Out of his
small earnings he saved enough 10
pay his expenses for a year at Bay
Tor. His evident disposition to make
the most of every opportunity attract
ed the attention of r. c. Burleson,
founder and at that time president Of
the university and the ex-section
hand was given every chance to i'm
prove himself. After graduating Mr.
Brooks was a member of the faculty
until two years ago, when he entered
Harvard to take a postgraduate
course.
"A singular phenomenon has just
been observed son Loeb Treig, a soil
tary sheet of water lying in the west
of Inverness shire says an Edinburgh
cable. The loch is being surveyed by
Two gentlemen connected with the
British Lakes Survey, and one of
them noticed that certain stones on
the shore were covered and uncovered
at regular intervals. A foot rule was
placed in the loch when it was found
that the water rose and fell half an
| inch with the greatest regularity every
| ten minutes. This phenomenon is not
| known on the continent, but Loeb
| Treig has the distinction of being the
| first Scottish loch to exhibit it. The
cause is assigned on the one hand to
earth movement, and on the other to
variations in the pressure of air.
They are telling in New York of a
man who after putting large sum
into publishing business decided that
the word publisher" was much over
worked. So he decided that, inasmuch
as it was his business to make books,
| he was a bookmaker. A few days
| later he met politician from up the
state who inquired as to his business.
Il am a bookmaker," said the New
Yorker, proud of the opportunity to
say it. Just the man I'm looking
for said the politician. II always
like to take flyer at the track when
down here. What will you lay against
King Hanover" The reformer consid-
cred deeply for a moment and then
said, slowly: Il am not a bookmaker
any more, only a plain, everyday
publisher
"A dispatch from Marysville Cal,
says: Forty years ago j. H. Merryman,
an Ohioan, buried beneath the floor of
his mining cabin in Plumas county
$4,000 in gold nuggets and this week he
unearthed his cache to find this stor-
ed wealth just as he left it in 1860. In
that year Merryman, who had prosper
ed as a miner, concluded to visit San
Francisco, and putting in his belt what
gold he thought he would need, buried
the balance. "A gay life at the bay
soon broke him and while betuddled
with drink he was "shanghaied." He
was finally landed at New York. Mis-
fortune followed misfortune and it was
only recently that he had money
enough to return to California. During
the intervening years the thought of
his buried treasure never left him and
it was with trembling hands the old
pioneer grasped a spade to dig for gold
on the spot where he figured his cabin
once stood. Providence favored him
after many efforts, and yesterday
Merryman came down from the noun
tains to take a. train for San Francis
co. He win return East.
"A rush of emigrants from Austria
liza to South Africa has set in and Is
worrying the authorities of the COM
monwealth of the Southern seas. The
Melbourne papers strongly deprecate
the exodus, declaring that the emf
grants are largely those whom Aus
rralia can least afford to lose-lAborers,
artisans, farmhands, etc. Applicants
for permits to emigrate have to prove
themselves possessed of a minimum
of f100. The requirement, together
with the expense of the voyage, is an
obstacle to the poor in purse but ad-
venturous in spirit, who usually flock
to gold countries. The result is that
ships from Australia are suffering
from a plague of stowa ways. The
captain of the Fortunatus, bound from
Melbourne to the Cape, found that
he had twenty of these unlicensed pas
sengers on board. Captains are usual
ly kind to single stowawayS, but when
they. come in battalions it is another
story. The captain of the Fortunatus
took drastic course. He dropped
all the stoWaways on the Australian
coast, two hundred and fifty miles
from Melbourne.
Prof. de Heen of the University of
Liege concludes that all electrical phe-
nomena are to be attributed to vortex
motions of the ether, and proposes
three fundamental hypothesis. First.
All bodies are surrounded by an at
mosphere of vortex elements, which
elements we may call electrons. Sec
ond. Each electron represents small
con1cal vortex whose energy of motion
is Interchangeable. Third. The direction
of motion of the superficial electrons
| is always the same. When a body is
electrified the vortexes that e-existed
at It's surface are oriented. The hypo-
| theses can be expressed and discussed
automatically and We may look for
further developments of these IDEAS
In England, during the year 1900
there were GAS strikes 1873, 53S strikers;
3,152,694 days work lost in conse-
quence. In France the figures were. 902
strikes; 222,714 strikers; 3,760,577 days
work lost> In Italy there were 259
strikes; 1874 strikers; 291,59O DAYS
work lost; or more than 1000, 900 days
work lost in the three countries in a
single year. In England, 80 per cent. Of
the strikes were successful. 25 per cent.
unsuccessful;. in France, % per cent.
were successful, 81 per cent unsuc-
| cessful; in italy, "a per cent. were sue
ceSSful, 30 per cent. unsuccessful. The
strikes not here accounted for were
compromised in one way or another
The landlords of some of the public
houses in the poorest districts in the
East End have invented new method
Of coIIactipor yoonav fo,.