The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-23

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States.
The idea for "JekylI and Hyde"
came to Stevenson in a dream, and he
began it as soon as he rose on the fol-
lowing morning. His wife could hard
~ get him away from his table even
for meals. The first draft of the tale
was finished within seven days.
-Cutlasses are to be allowed no lon
ger in the French navy. In ordering
those in the service to be sent ashore
the Minister of Marine explains that
naval commanders had advised him
that there is no need now for these
weapons, which formerly were used
for boarding purposes.
The Canadian government has is
sued a census bulletin which gives sta
tistics as to agriculture in Alberta,
Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, which
united compose the Northwest Terri
tories. The total area of these terri
tories is 190963, III acres. OF this area
1890 per cent. is unimproved.
Women are employed on the gar
dening staff at Kew Gardens, England,
on condition that they work in male at
y
the herbaceous and Alpine plant de-
partment at the present time. The
women gardeners go through two
years course of study at Kew.
1t is said by the Electrician that
ow-tension electrical currents, say I'M
der 100 volts, are more deadly than
those having ten times the voltage DR..
Berttelli and Prof. Provost have made
the remarkable discovery that high
tension currents are capable of restor-
ing the action of heart that has been
arrested by a low-tension current.
DIR. Elvira Cashier of Marienfelde,
near Berlin, who was one of the first
German women to come to this country
to study a profession closed to her in
Germany, has given up her profession
of dentistry after many years of sue
cessful work, and is devoting herself
to a school of horticulture for women
founded by herself There are now
a number of women dentists in Ger
many.
Some people have the medal craze
badly, as is the case in Tivoli, n. Y.
Col j. L. de Peyster of that place
raised the Stars and Stripes over Rich
mond after it FELL. and the unkind
government would not give him a
medal of honor for it, as it was claim
ed that there was no personal risk or
danger i'll the act. The mans friends
have had a nice medal made for him,
however.
There has just been started on the
Island of Santa Catalina, off Southern
California, the first daily newspaper
depending on wireless telegraphy for
all its news. The Avalon Wireless
(Avalon is the capital of the island)
publishes every morning the tele-
graphic news of the world, which is
sent across the channel during the
night from the mainland installation
at San Pedro, thirty miles away.
According to NJ. Bohn, in a paper to
the Academic des Sciences, Paris, the
rays, OF vapor, from radium arrest
most the phenomena of the develop
ment of the ova of the hedgehog, but
at certain stages there is an accelera-
ton of the development. 1t appears
from his researches that the rays, or
carnations. have more effect on It's
sues in course of formation than on
more stable tissues. In man the skin
which is in constant process of renew
al is more attacked by the rays than
the muscle. Nerve cells, fully formed
however. are affected by the rays, it is
said.
1t is reported from Berlin that Mr.
Walker of the Indian meteorological
service is about to establish expert
mental stations in India for the obser-
walton of monsoons by means of kites
and kite balloons. The first station
will be at Simla, in the Himalayas. Mr.
Walker is a Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, England, where he took
high mathematic honors and taught
mathematic physics since 1895. He has
studied meteorology, and astronomy In
the observatories in this country and
the Weather Bureau, and made him
self acquainted with the methods of the
Berlin aeronautical observatory.
"A servant girls union, recently
formed at Holyoke, Mass, has passed
these resolutions: mo Sunday night
suppers will be prepared. No work
will be done in the kitchen between
1880 p. m. and $50 a. m; no ba bies
will be minded between acts of ordi.
nary homework; no children will be
allowed in the kitchen; each girl shall
have three nights out per week" The
document goes on to assert that IS per
week shall be the only rate of wages
permitted and that the front door must
be available for the company" of the
help as well as an apartment more
| suitable than the kitchen to be used
as a reception room.
According to L. Q. Howard OF the
! Department of Agriculture, the adult
mosquitoes live indefinitely and they
may bite an indefinite number Of
! times. While their two chief occupa-
| tons are bloodsucking and egg-laying,
| they break up the monotony of life by
| humming and singing. A mosquito
| has been known to drink water but
never when she can get blood. When
| female mosquitoes cannot taste the
| blood of a wam-blooded animal, they
| insert their beaks into juicy plants
or ripe fruits. Bananas are a favorite
article of diet with mosquitoes. They
! also. attack other insects and bite
birds. The male mosquito has not
mOuth-parts adapted to blood-sucking.
1t sips water molasse and beer and
wine. Only the female mosquito bites
animals and sucks their blood.
Most of the 1000 or 5000 parrots
that are brought to this city every
year are of the sorts known as the
double yellow head and the red
head" says the New York Commercial
The former are the best takers, and
as young birds sells for SIS or $50
While the redheads fetch the same
price as the Cuban parrots The finest
Understanding to dealer who
talked with reporter the other
day-are the gray African parrots; but,
| although they are in good demand. il
| is said that only 100 are sold TODAY