The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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| u feet, services were held every Sum-
day. But the church came to an un-
timely end. One hard winter the Eski-
mos dogs, being half famisfed, dined
on the sealskins, and only the frame
was left. The Eskimos have now erect
ed dog-proof tabernacle. q
The Journal Oficiel of Paris says
in a report of. the proceedings of the
National Agricultural Society, that a
new means has been discovered of
producing alcohol. AS a result of ex-
perinents made many years ago by
Mr. Barthelot, in the chemical analy-
sis of alcohol, efforts have been made
TO perfect and simplify the proceed
ings that he had indicated, and it now
appears that chemical alcohol can be
made from carbure of calcium and its
product acetylene at nine cents a gall
lon, the alcohol to be of 100 degrees.
The Pacific coast is sending across
the continent and across the ocean for
oyster seed. The Pacific coast is in
need of good oyster seed, and Japan
csc, as well as American seed, is
sought for the beds. That from the
Atlantic seaiboard is from Wareham,
Mass, where the raising and shipping
of seed has become a considerable in
dustry. 1t does not cost much more to
bring the Japanese oysters across the
ocean than it does to ship the Ware
ham seed by rail, and the government
is especially DESTROYS of having the
Oriental stock tested.
La Nature describes curious aero
batic performance recently given at the
Casino de Paris, in which two broth
ers, Danes, after fastening a cushion
on the top of their heads, jump around
the stage on this important organ as
freely and carelessly as If they were
right side UP, nothing touching the
floor but the padded head, not even
the hands. Although the ability to
perform this feat must require not
only great skill in balancing, but un-
usual strength in the neck muscles,
the latter do not seem to be unusual
ly developed in the two brothers.
-Katatypy, the new method in pho
Biography, is described as follows:
lover the finished negative is poured
solution of hydro-superoxide. This
leaves, after evaporation, uniform
layer of peroxide of hydrogen. Soon
the silver of the plate works upon this
peroxide and produces a catalytic dis
solution wherever there is silver, while
in the places free from silvr the perox-
ide remains. By this means an invisi-
bic picture of hydro-superoxide is pro-
duced upon the plate. This picture can
be printed from the plate directly upon
common paper, to which the image is
transferred"
The Canadian government has is
sued a census bulletin, which gives
statistics as to agriculture in Alberta,
Assinibola and Saskatchewan, which
united compose the Northwest Terri
tories. The total area of these terrific
ries is 190.963,11 acres. OF this area,
1899 per cent. is unimproved. Field
crops, exclusive of hay, occupy SO per
cent. of the improved land, but only a
fair beginning has been made with
fruit trees and vegetables. The area of
land in wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn,
pease, potatoes and other field roots in
1891 was 194773 acres, an increase in a
decade of 1888 per cent.
"A Warsaw journal relates the fol-
lowing story of an experiment made
by Polish nebieman to ascertain how
far storks migrate during the winter
He caught stork and attached a
plate to its neck on which were in
scribed the words, "Haec ciconia ex
OAOiiid 1nlS COfIlSS 1TOIIl 1Os
land'). In the following spring the
same stork was found in the noble
mans park, with bundle around its
neck, containing several precious
stones of great value, and the metal
plate with these words on the other
side: india cum donis remittit Po-
lonis" ('India sends him back with
presents to the Poles').
Out in Missouri the papers speak
frankly, especially if the subject is
politics. In more polite parts of the
world it is the custom to make such
hints as in the following item only re-
garding persons of another race or
nationality not of friends and neigh
bors. "The Centralia Courier" has just
raped a successful candidate over the
head in the following item in praise
of the defeated man. Prof. Green of
Sturgeon is a clean, able master of
the science of pedagogics. He would
have made a splendid school commits
Sioner, but, alas! he is a man who
bathes and wears store clothes and
holds himself up like a man. Hard to
elect any one who takes his baths reg
ularly."
Josiah F1ynt, whose studies of the
underworld" are so well known, has
been devoting attention to the police
system of London, England. The most
striking facts, from the American
point of view, that his observatio
reveals are: 1First). That the force is
composed mainly of honest and con-
scientious men; (second) that politics
is not allowed to play any part in the
management and direction of the or
ganization; (third) that London is one
Of the safest cities in the world. As to
police corruption in London there is
very little to report. Mr. Flynt found
no corruption which could be compar-
ed with the Matchmaking system for
which the New York police have been
so long notorious. Gambling is pun
ished speedily.
An oddly carved tombstone marks
the resting place, in AXIS Burying
Ground, Germantown, Pa, of the re-
mains Of an old resident of that sub
urb. 1t bears the following inscrip-
ton: 'In memory of Adam Shisler,
who departed this life Dec. %, 1777,
aged 969 years." Every one in Ger
mantown, however, believes that Mas
ter Shisler was not a Methuselah, and
is confident that there must have been
some mistake. And so there was. The
explanation is that the stone cutter
marked the mans aged SO, instead of
SO, by an accident that might happen
to any absent-minded person. To cor
rect this error the ''9'' was filled with
cement and another figure was cut
after the So" Time and frost have
loosened the cement, and now the once
hidden 80" appears as distinctly as the
other numerals.