The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-18


ing an antidote for typhoid fever. On
gelatine layers in tanks, IA square
feet of fever germs are bred at time,
the germs being scraped of, bottled
up and used experimentally on animals.
An enormous power for evil lies in
these Pandora's boxes.
The telephone in giving means for
conference by facilities for the ques-
ton and immediate answer is in like
manner reducing the necessity of sim
liar commercial interests keeping in
close proximity to each other, says the
Electrical Review. The natural trend
of affairs has been concentrating pop
ulation into cities, and the centrifugal
force of electrical applications, while
increasing the great commercial inter
ests of cities, is also ameliorating those
conditions in such manner that this
concentration can continue without
also imposing restricted conditions of
life.
"A scientist" who was travelling
in the Transvaal at the time of the
war says that as result of circum-
stances too long to relate he found
himself blockaded between the English
and the Boer forces, unable to move
without receiving gunshot from one
side or the other. He was forced dur
ing six weeks to depend upon sugar,
mixed with a little sawdust, for nour-
tshment for himself and six rabbits,
which he was DESTROYS of keeping for
breeding purposes. 1t was impossible
for him to find straw for his rabbits.
They and their owner were none the
worse for this diet, but prospered I'M
der it and the rabbits grew fat.
The contract for the completion of
the Agriculture building at the st.
Louis Worlds Fair was let on Sat-
urday, Feb. %, for 1929, $40. This build
ing is Is per cent. larger than any
other building at the exposition and
is the largest structure erected for the
reception of a single department. 1t
is 500 by 1900 feet, thus containing
floor space of almost twenty acres.
This building and that to be built for
horticulture will probably be the only
ones in the exposition bearing color on
the outer walls. The Agriculture build
ing will have used upon it green with
points of brighter color. Garlands,
wreaths and festoons of fruits and
flowers are to figure in the color
scheme. The architectural members,
such as the oornices, and the PIERS be-
tween the mouldings, are to be left
white.
Trust methods have been applied to
Delaware county chicken stealing with
a fine showing of business results, up
ward of fifty fowls having lately been
bagged in a single foray says the New
York Tribune. Formerly from three
to half a dozen were looked on as a
good nights work, paying better than
most lines of local labor. and not
tending to break Up the industry by
a swift destruction of its basis as the
more wholesale form of depreciation
would manifestly tend to do. The
thieves were the next day arrested at
Delhi, the nearest market town. where
they were trying to dispose of their
spoils, and that particular trust may
be considered to be exploded. But 1t
was shown what such combinations
can do, and may thus be initiated else
where. A careful preliminary survey
of local chicken houses, a dark night,
a smart team and two or three con-
fedcrates who know their business.
form the machinery of the organiza-
ton, which does its work. as has been
shown, with smoothless, celebrity and
economy unknown to former methods.
Once introduced at the South among
the old colored experts in that bust
ness, heretofore looked on as beyond
rivalry, it would in no long time leave
the Southern chicken pretty nearly
as extinct as. the dodo or the New
Zealand ornithoryncus, unless the
practice were arrested by a remedy
as scientific and efficacious as it
self.
"A ditpatch from London, March
says the International Congress of
Rats now in session in the Strand dis
trict is receiving the unsympathetic
and undivided attention of the human
inhabitants of the neighborhood. Rat
catchers state that delegates are pres
ent from Japan, China, Singapore,
Ceylon, Persia, Turkey, Morocco and
New York. They can tell the different
species by their fur and the curves in
their tails. An experienced catcher
who works in the Tilbury Docks de-
clares that seafaring rats were leaving
the vessels in swarIns and travelling to
the Strand by easy stages. AS an in
stance of this ne said that the con-
ductor of a Blackwell bus which
stopped last Thursday night for five
minutes outside the East India Dock
gates shortly afterward found three
rats under the sea. The rat-catcher
stated that he only caught eleven rats
on the Atlantic liner Minneapolis last
week, and on the Minnietouka, belong
ing to the same company, he did not
secure any. To prove the fact that the
Nautical TOueHts were joining fOrceS
with those in the Strand a Poplar rat
catcher caught a large China rat on
board steamer in the West India
Docks which had just arrived from
the East and set 1t free again after
having attached a tin label to its neck
with a piece of wire. That was on
Feb. 10, and the identical rat was
caught on Saturday afternoon in We'll
lington street as he was about to en-
ter a shop. Formerly the Far East
ern and London rats used to tranship
at Singapore, where 1t was q curious
sight in the evening to watch long
procession of them climbing along the
hawsers. Now, according to the off,
GERS of the P. & o., the foreign rodents
have changed their habits, and come
right through to London, where they
land in hungry crowds-just like any
other undesirable aliens.
ALFRED Belt of London is unques-
tiorably the richest man in the world
in his own right-and he has been on
this earth less than half q century and
less than twenty-five years with any
money in his pocket, says the New
York Commercial. The late Cecil
Rhodes cut so colossal a figure in the
affairs of South Africa that he quite
overshadowed in public attention his
partner in a great enterprise that
made both of them Immensely wealthy,
This obscured man was Alfred Belt.
who was connected with Rhodes in the
working of the fabulously rich diamond
mines of Kimberley, which have Weld
ed as high as $40 000 00O a war pait