The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

own newspaper Ut dCtCl
as correspondent of the London Times.
He was greatly interested in educa-
tional and musical matters. AS an
amateur conductor he created an or
chestra, which did much to develop a
taste for high-class music among the
educated Levantine as we'll as the
European communities of the Turkish
capital.
kissing the book is more gen
orally praticed in England than in
this country. Witnesses have enjoyed
for several years the statutory right
of being sworn in the Scottish fashion,
but extremely few exercise it, despite
the frequent objections urged against
Kissing the book on sanitary grounds.
witness in the Newcastle County
Court has contrived to adhere to the
practice, while showing his apprecia-
ton of the grounds on which doctors
have condemned it, Immediately he
stepped into the witness box he pro-
duced Testament from his pocket to
be sworn on. This precaution was at
once commended by Judge Greenwall,
who remarked that he himself would
not kiss one of the court Testaments
for I'll ,OO0 In a court in another part
of the country d Testament had been
so long in use that it is calculated
IL.
The officials are said to have made
this interesting calculation known to
the world with feelings of peculiar
pride.
In England last year a case occur
red in which delirious woman recov-
cred her mastery of a language which
she had been unable to speak for seven
~ years. She had been born in India
of
her was the native Hindostani of her
nurses. AT the age of 8 she had been
removed to Europe, living in turn in
France and Germany before going to
England to complete her educa ton.
Afterward she had retained her pro-
1lciency in French and German, but all
but few words of Hindostani had
passed from her memory. In her de-
llrium she talked fiuently in Hindostani
and friends about her who knew the
language were able to follow her say
ings to her nurses as she recalled her
conversations in India of seventy years
earlier. Then the talk changed. She
passed into French and from that to
German, while when she was nearing
recovery her utterances changed to
English. She had in her delirium re-
visited the scenes of her childhood and
there was recognizable throughout a
sequence in which appeared the scenes
and friends she had known in the or
der in which they had come into her
life When she recovered all recollec-
ton of Hindostani had again left her.
The introduction of blue-prints into
the United States was not such a rapid
process as the present universal adop-
tion of this method of copying tracings
might indicate, says the Engineering
Record. The first prints of this nature
81, no rNf ~
exhibit in the Swiss section of the
Centennial Exposition, and it was stat
ed by one of the gentlemen in charge
of that exhibit that the process had
but recently been introduced into
Switzerland from Germany. Mr.. Ru-
dolph Herring was requested to prepare
an article for the proceedings of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
on the Swiss display, and came across
these prints while engaged on this
work. He obtained a copy of the for
mula for the solution, and after some
trouble secured the ingredients and
tried the process at his home. This
was in 1876, and was probably the first
case of blue-printing in the United
States He sought to interest the city
engineer of Philadelphia in the pro-
cess, but Mr.. Smedley, who then held
the office, refused because the opera
showed some of his prints to DR.. Cole
man Sellers, but that eminent engi-
neer refused to see anything good in
them. Workmen, he said were so ac-
customed to working from drawings in
black ink on white or brown paper
that the attempt to intr 1uce draw
ings with white lines on a blue back
ground would be the cause of serious
trouble.
There stands little to the east of
Port Arthur, on the Linotung PENN
sula, the most remarkable city in the
world, says London cable to the New
York World. II is Dalny, the new
terminus of the great Trans Siberian
Railway. 1t is as yet a city with
out inhabitants. Save for masons and
woodmen its streets are as deserted as
those of a decaying village. In it the
Russians are building houses and ad-
mnistrative offices for a population
which is yet to come, and are erect
ing great docks for a trade which
does not exist. Dalyn is the paradox
of cities. 1t was forced into existence
because M. de WHITE, the Russian FL
nance Minister on the far-distant Neva,
ordered, Build me a city" This Rus
sian railway, which has been one of
the greatest factors in making Man
churia virtually Russian province,
was possible only by the labor of the
Chinese themselves. And thousands of
Chinese coolies, under hundreds of Rus
sian architects, engineers and over
seers, are building Dalny. Dalny is the
city on Talien-Wan Bay which is to be
the free port in Russian territory.
Looking into the future, M. de Wife
made every possible arrangement for
the personal comfort and business sue
cess of Dalny's inhabitants Streets,
drainage and electric wires were laid
down, electric lights and telephones
were installed. parks, gardens, electric
trans, municipal buildings, hospitals,
schools prisons, docks and jetties were
provided before single lot of land
was offered to the public for purchase.
The original estimate of the huge work
was $4,000. 900. and it has been ex-
ceeded long since. The city will be gov
erned by the civil and not by the
military authorities.
The man who handles the trains
that run in and cut of the New York
Central depot has strenuous job, says
F,verybody's Magazine. Any day he
and his assistants apparently have
about all that can we'll be put upon
them; but Harvard, or perhaps Prince
ton, plays Yale at New Haven to-day
and ten or twelve extra trains must be
made up and sent out between 10
o'clock and noon, dovetailing in with
the general everyday system. Ten
o'clock; a ten-car special must go out
at 1920 Peering out through the pail
Of smoke the director catches sight of
the cars for the special rolling in from