The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


shall be removed as soon as British
substitutes can be found. This will af-
feet bandmasters and mess caterers, who
in British fleets in foreign waters are
seldom of British extraction.
1t is said by the Electrician thai
low~tension electrical currents, say un-
der 10 volts, are more deadly thar
those having ten times the voltage
DIR. Berttelli and Prof. Provost nave
made the remarkable discovery thai
high-tension currents are capable Of
restoring the action of heart that has
been arrested by a low-tension cur
rnt.
The Rev. James ]. Dolliver, fathei
of the Junior Senator from Iowa, is
coming to be regarded as "the grand
old man of the buckeye state" 1t is
sixty years since he entered the min
istry and he celebrated the anniversary
of that event by preaching a vigorous
sermon in the Methodist Church al
Redwood, O., where his eldest daugh-
ter lives. Mr.. Dolliver is 81 years old
"A leper was exhibited at a lecture
TO an audience of Chicago University
students the other day. DR.. James
Nevins Hyde, the lecturer, said that
leprosy is not dangerously contagious;
that it is durable, and that 1t is grad
ually disappearing from all countries
He does not believe that any drug
capable of curing leprosy will ever be
discovered. Cleanliness and good food
he asserted, are the surest and best
remedies.
The Mclean automatic one-pound
gun, which is used in the navy, and
which Gen. Miles says is 'the dead
Hest weapon he has ever seen, has
been impr owed 1t weighs about 400
pounds and discharges twenty-five one
round projectiles with one pull of the
trigger, unloading, reloading and firing
being done automatically by energy
generated within the gun, on the prin7
cip1e of a gas machine. 1t can fire 800
shots minute.
The first of the new 16-inch guns
was satisfactorily tested at Sandy
Hook with a charge of SAP pounds, of
powder and a 2,4OO-pound shell. The
powder chamber pressure was $4,000
pounds to the square inch and the
inuzzle velocity 1906 feet per second.
Gen. Crozier said afterward: When
gun has handled the largest charge
of stnokeless powder ever put into a
gun, as this one has, 1t is safe to say
that it is an absolute success"
"A few days ago a negress school
teacher was appointed to the George
Francis Train Public School, one of
the largest in Omaha. At noon the
pupils reported the matter to their
parents. The attendance for the aft
ernoon was only so per cent. of the
normal. On the next day still more
deserted, and the ultiInatum has gone
forth to the School Board to take
away the negress or we Will close the
school in which she teaches by keep
ing our children away
An altogether effective way to
"pasteurize" milk, rendering it ''ster-
lie is to set pan of cold water on
the stove and put the vessel containing
babys milk into this pan. Just as
soon as the water comes to a boil
take it off. Add a pinch of baking
soda to the hot milk-a little less than
half a teaspoonful to a quart. If the
milk was sweet and hadn't begun to
turn" 1t will keep sweet for twenty
four hours or more, even in hot wealth
er, if put in a stoppered bottle.
An interesting story comes from
Vienna which illustrates the dangers
of the hatpin. During an afternoon
performance at a theater in the Aus
TRAN capital a merchant suddenly felt
slight stab in the back. Turning
round he noticed that the lady Sitting
Immediately behind him had fastened
her hat to the back of hts seat with
a long hatpin, the point of which had
pierced him.. The merchant was very
indignant. The lady was summoned
before a magistrate and paid a fine
of $2.04.
in making league baseball a rub
Der marble an inch in diameter is
covered with coarse yarn. Then a
winding machine gives ii a layer Of
four-ply blue yarn, after which 1t is
soaked in cement solution and dried.
This process is repeated until the ex-
act size is gained the last two layers
being finer yarn. The horsehide cover
is sewed on by hand and the ball is
then ironed, 1t must weigh just FIVE
ounces and measure exactly nine
inches in circumference.
Even in art the Kaiser is an auto
crat. Leoncavallo, whose new opera,
Roland of Berlin has been composed
upon commission from him, is now in
Berlin collaborating with his German
translator Herr Book, and he has sub
mitted for the Kaisers selection two
endihgs-one tragic and one, in the
hackneyed phrase, happy" The lat
ter is that of the real German legend
which bestows upon the plebeian hero
Henning, a noble maid to wife. Loan
cavallo bestows upon him the golden
spurs of knighthood, and makes him
rail- in the service of the Great E1lacto,
The composer hopes to win the Kaiser
to this ending as the more artistic.
The law referring to the imports Of
adulterated foods, drugs and lidiiors
becomes effective July 1. Under If
suspected packages may be onenad
and held until the Agricultural he
partment reports upon the purity Of
their contents and the truthfuIness of
the labels they bear. Sophisticated
articles, those not true to label and
those whose sale is prohibited in the
country of their origin, will not he de-
lVered to the consignee. This will hay
the German Sausage, all of which CON
tain borax; the French wines. nearly
all of which are blended. and the tIne.
hsh Jams and jellies made Of por1ace
from CIDER mills, of glucose and acids.
The use of fumes from leaves Of
the uealyptus in the treatment Of mil
monary consumption, which is now
attracting the attention of the Med,-
cal Society of Berlin Is new in Ameri-
ca Danelius and Sommerfeld of Rer-
IN nave made satisfactory tests Of II
~ combination Of the powdered
ieaVes' Hover, sulphur and charcoal
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