The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-03
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waters of the Alps and Apennines are
giving her as cheap power by means of
electrical plants as coal is furnishing
to Belgium, Germany, England and
the United States.
Ether and chloroform, so useful in
sending men asleep, have the very
opposite effect on plants, which are
stimulated to the greatest possible ac-
tivity by these drugs. In Denmark
and Germany advantage has been TAX
en- of this fact to force flowers in rooms
and glass houses, and to make them
bloom out of season. The results are
said to be marvellous.
"A correspondent of the Vienna
Zeit writes that, notwithstanding the
honors heaped upon Prof. Adolf Lo-
REM in the United States, hardly any
attention was paid to him in Mexico.
He was not invited to demonstrate
his method, and the local German as
we'll as the Mexican doctors kept aloof
from him. The Austrian ambassador,
Count Hohenwart, however, gave a
dinner in his honor.
George E. Calvert, an employe of
the United States Court of Claims, is
the nearest lineal descendant of the
Lords Baltimore in this country, and
would bear the title Lord Baltimore
If it were not now extinct. He Is a
genial, middle-aged man of modest and
retiring disposition. The historic home
of the Calverts has been purchased
by j. Edward Addicks, the Delaware
politician, who will turn 1t into club
house.
Since the addition of clause to
tho ErreYoI, 1ap,a Ia we for the nrOt Pc-
ton of wild birds police superintend-
ents in Paris deal strictly with the
men who bring bullfnches, thrushes,
chaffinches, and others to the Sunday
market on the Quai aux Fleurs, near
Notre Dame. The other day the COM
missary of the Cathedral district lib
Grated about 900 birds and arrested
two of the bird catchers, charging
them with infringement of the game
laws.
The Manchurian Railway authori-
ties, it is reported from st. Petersburg,
have completed arrangements for
through railway communication from
Moscow to Port Arthur. The serv-
ices by sea and by rail, it is stated,
will work in co-o0eratton. 1t is be-
lieyed that it is the intention of the
Russians to exploit the mineral re-
sources of Manchuria. According to
recent agreement the Manchurian
Railway has the right to work all the
coal mines thirty miles to the right
and left of the line throughout its en-
tire length.
1t is stated on high authority from
st. Petersburg that Gen. Won Wahl,
chief of gendarmerie, has been remov-
ed from Office for the severity of his
methods in dealing with popular DEM
onstrations at Tomsk and other
places. At Tomsk the general had
forty students of the Siberian UniVer-
sity publicly logged He is to be sue
ceeded in Office by Lieut.. Gen. Count
P. P. Schouvaloff, late Governor of
Odessa, and son of the former ambas-
sador at Berlin, who in later years, as
viceroy of Poland, was the most pop
ular Russian administrator that Po-
land has ever had;
1t appears that the effects of the
Anglo French rapprochement have PEN
etrated Abyssinia, for M. Lagarde,
French minister to the Court of the
Negus, instead of returning to France,
because he is no longer persona grata
with Menellk, is merely on leave of
absence and bears a private letter to
President Loubet from the Negus, in
which the Abyssinian monarch takes
the liberty of cOngratulating France
upon the rapprochement and designates
both the republic and England as his
friends and allies who will henceforth
work together in spreading the light
of civilization throughout Abyssinia. }"
1t was recently cabled by the
special Paris correspondent of a New
York paper that an American living in
the French capital had purchased the
former mansion of the military gov
ernor of Paris, in the Place Vendome,
for 2,TO0,000 francs, and that the pur-
chaser would transform the building
into a handsome theater, where only
lyric plays would be given. In COM
menting upon this dispatch La Patrie
says: This report is absolutely fanci-
full. The house in question, where
Mansard resided at one time, is the
property of an insurance company,
which purchased 1t in 1899 and let it to
well known couturier. We called
at the company's Office this morning
(June 2D, and were Informed that
nothing was known of the negotiations
with the wealthy American
According to Senior ]. Garcia To-
ledo, president of the Malaga Society
for the Protection of Animals. there Is
no law in favor of animals in Spain.
Some OF the cities. however, have by
laws relating to the protection of
beasts Of burden and other animals.
which have been introduced in the
Malaga code. The society has erected
drinking troughs, which, Senior Toledo
says, have made the society popular.
He adds: 1--WE have been fortunate
enough to establish an important move
ment by founding school humane So
cieties similar to the British and Amer
lean bands Of mercy, for which we
have obtained the moral support of
the government by means of a cir
cular, having just finished a distribu-
ton of prizes in the public schools Of
Malaga and its provinces" Another
society, having the same object, has
been organized in Madrid under the
presidency of Senior Jose de Cardinals.
Song spotting'' is a new industry
described by "T. A. IT," the new Eng
fish penny magazine journal The
song spotter" is the accredited and
responsible agent of the big London
music publishing firms-or some of
them, at all events. His business is
to go from one seaside resort to an
other all the summer round spending
week or so at each, and sporting"
which dittieS "go" and which do not.
He knows that some among the songs
whose choruses are hummed upon the
sands this summer will be the fayorites
during the dark winter evenings. So
he reports each evening to his princi-
pals in London. These latter have, OF