The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


birthday of the German author, Rudolf
Won Gottschall the Emperor sent him
a letter of congratulation, with the an
nouncement that he was to receive an
annual pension of $500.
The botanical expedition sent to
Venezuela in June by Harvard Uni
versity has returned with more than
4, 500 specimens of MOSES, ltchens, hoW-
ers and fungi, secured on the Island OF
Margarita, forty miles off the main
land.
The annual consumption of calcin-
ed plasters and wall plaster cannot be
estimated, but it is very large. Most
Chinese houses are built of cheap
brick, and are plastered both inside and
out. Large quantities of plaster are
also used for the making of Chinese
graves, almost all of them being en-
tirely covered with it.
One of the greatest joys that fell
to the lot of the late Prof. Mommsen
was the award to him last year of
Nobel prize of 100000 marks. ITO think
that / should become a rich man even
in my old days." he exclaimed. He
promptly donated 5000 to the libraries
in Charlottenburg and 1000 to the Uni
versity of Leipsic for its papyrus col
lections.
DIR. Schweninger, who used to be
Bismarck's physician, relates that one
time, when there was an epidemic of
cholera in Marseilles, the Chancellor re-
ceived from that city a package which,
on being opened, was found to contain
innumerable cholera germs. The mat
ter was kept secret at the time but
when Bismarck afterwards heard Of it
he simply laughed.
d. L. Deering, a dentist of Kan
sas City, Mo-. is the inventor of a gas
or gasoline engine of the turbine type
which is very simple and compact and
is said to greatly simplify the con-
struction of automobiles. 1t is a very
trivial matter says the doctor, for the
owner of a carriage of the ordinary
type to place one of these engines in
it and propel it by power.
1t is only natural that the trade
between Canada and the United States
should be extensive. We cultivate sim
liar soil; we draw riches from the
same great lakes and rivers; we delve
into the same mountain ranges for our
minerals; we are very much alike in
customs and habits; we have the same
system of weights, measures and
money; we have similar methods of
keeping accounts and of transacting
business-hence our nearness to each
other must ever induce extensive trade.
The Journal of Tropical Medicine
tells of an apparently harmless bever-
age which is the sole stay and stimu-
liant of the working classes in Para
quay and the Argentine republic. 1t is
often known as Paraguay tea or mate.
1t is usually drunk as a hot infusion,
through metal tube, but may be
taken like tea, with milk and sugar.
WOrkmen take it with them wherever
they go and sip it occasionally. Wood
cutters will work on it for five or six
hours before breakfast, and the writer
of the article declares that, taken at
night, 1t makes nursing, study or what
doctors call might work. real pleas
ure. Analysis does not explain these
results and lifelong and persistent use
appears to have no evil consequences.
Adelaide enjoys the distinction of
being the oldest municipality in Aus
tralia. 1t was named after the Queen
Of William ", in whose reign it was
founded, and its principal thoroughfare
bears the name of King William street
Its Oldest newspaper, the South Aus
tralia Register, was first published in
London as the organ of the South Aus
tralian. association, the body under
whose auspices the pioneer settlers and
founders of Adelaide were dispatched
from England. The pioneer colonists
were in sore straits, when valuable cop
per mines were luckily discovered near
Adelaide. The late Sir George Grey,
who was appointed it's governor at the
early age of 29, materially helped to
pull the place out of the slough of de-
spond and rescued the infant settle
lnent from imminent bankruptcy.
There is at least one man in Eng
land who makes money out of his re-
creation, and that man is the octoge-
marian Duke of ROchester-Dean Hole
deep learning with a large
fund of bright wit and broad humor
he can spare time from his heavy &C.
clesiastical duties to add IS, 900 a year
to his income by growing roses in the
musty old town so we'll known to the
lovers of Dickens. For sixty years the
dean has been studying the national
flower of England, and during that
time as many as 500 varieties have
passed through his hands He is his
own gardener, even at his present ad-
vanced age. AS early as Z o'clock in
the morning he may be seen in his
Sdi uSH IOOhlHS dllef MS pets, ana his
method of disposing of his growing is
through London wholesale florist,
who cuts them at Rochester under the
critical eye of the Dean and removes
them to Covent Garden market.
Many of the varieties are rare and it is
no uncommon thing for a single bloom
to fetch as much as 81.
"A we'll known Akron (O.) horseman
brought out an electric battery for use
on horses some years ago. the first trial
of the same on the Cleveland tracks
taking place at Rockport, where it was
used on mare called Annabelle, a
PAGER which would rush out in front
and lead to the three-quarters pole
where she would fade away and usual
ly finish behind the flag. 1t was used
on this mare with splendid effect. the
battery being carried in the drivers
coat pocket the wires being fastened
under the reins and being attached to
the crupper, so that when the luce"
was applied the shock would take full
effect on the animals spinal column.
In this particular race the mare was
out in front, as usual, but about the
time the crowd expected to see her
fall back into the ruck they were as
tonished to see the mare f1atten her
ears on her neck and come on to the
wire like a scared jack ra bbit. A pro-
test was made as to the use of the
battery and the matter was referred to
the local humane authorities, the latter
ruling that the battery, applied in mod
Grafton, was more humane than the
use of the whip.