The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


might be a source of danger to auto
mobilists. These signs will have dis
tinct shape and color, and will be en-
tirely different from those put up by
the Touring Clunb.
lie Temps of Paris states, on the
authority Of a correspondent in St.
Petersburg, that the Car is suffering
from a bad form of nervous depression,
which is causing considerable anxiety
at the court 1t is declared that in
his efforts to keep his hand on the
government His Majesty had involved
himself in a mass of detail which his
state of health did not fit him to mas
ter 1t is added that he has been
induced by his physicians to rest from
his labors, and, should he be sufficient
ly improved, he will visit England the
last week in August.
"A Museum of Science and Art is
shortly to be established in Munich.
The President of the Bavarian Society
of German Engineers, Councillor Os-
car Won Miller, has succeeded in in
teresting the BaVarian Government as
well as representatives OF science and
industry in the scheme. The Prince
Regent has offered to place the rooms
of the old National Museum at the dis
tions, including the sum of 100000
marks from Commercial Councillor
Krause, have already been made to-
ward the capital expenses.
From Odessa comes the story of
tragedy in which a, glass eye was a
most important factor. Two young
people of good position were at the
altar to be married. The ceremony
NXb a
crying that the wedding must be stop
ped, as the bride was blind. The
bride tainted and was revived and the
ceremony proceeded Hardly had the
priest given his blessing when the
bride fell dead. 1t seems that the
brides sister was in love with the
bridegroom. The bride had a glass eye
which she in some mysterious way
had concealed from her future hus-
band. Therefore the bad sister went
to church to break up the wedding
and took the glass eye as a preteXt for
so doing. AS a fitting sequel the bad
sister went mad.
Few of us can watch a dynamo in
operation without a feeling akin to
awe, though the inspiration may arise
from very different sources. To the
laymfan it is little less than miracle
that the simple spinning of a mass
of iron and copper between the poles
of a large magnet should suffice to
light his house, carry him from place
to place and do all the countless
things for which to-day electricity is
operative agent. To the engineer this
feeling comes from a different source.
He knows and understands the ac-
cepted theory of the operation of the
dynamo and is familiar with it's con-
Struction. Hence it is the simplicity
of the thing and the beauty of it's
operation that impress him. OF the
action he knows just as little as the
layman, for our theories merely give
us something plausible to think about
and of themselves prove nothing.
The London Oxygen Hospital.
which held it's annual general meeting
recently, shortly after it's officials had
given a public subscription ball at
which the air was purified with ozone.
has record of eight years work, dur
ing the last three of which it has tack
led the problem of tuberculosis. 1t
treats consumptives with Alpine air."
even in London, by putting them into
plate-glass cubicles, to which air is
led by a fan after careful modification
1t is first filtered through cotton wool
cheap and efhcient-which frees it of
every microbe and every particle of
dust, so that the patients lungs are
not subjected to a constant accumula-
ton of solid particles. 1t then passes
through calcium chloride which abso-
lutely dries it. Lastly, a clock, con-
nected with an electrical battery, gem
crates ozone for five minutes of every
quarter of an hour Ozone is a more
powerful form of oxygen present in AL
pine and country air but soon de-
stroyed in towns.
DIR. P. L. Hurts pointer dog was
the cause of a good deal of amuse-
ment and excitement in Boonville the
other day, says the New York Tribune
me doctor stopped at a trough to
W wa ms morse. A sewer pipe about
100 feet long passes under a crossing
at this place, and the dog, being warm
from running, crawled into the nine
TO get cool. When the time came to
leave he could not turn around, and.
as the pipe was crooked, he could not
see the opposite end of it; so there he
stuck. After various suggestions had
been made for getting him out, a small
negro boy was sent in after him. The
boy got him by the leg, but then found
that he himself could not back out.
Here was a pretty howdy-do. Finally
a second negro boy was sent in His
legs remained within reach from the
outside, and when he had caught the
hrst boy by the legs, and the first boy
had got a secure hold on the dogs
legs, some strong men took the second
boy by his legs and thus they were
all pulled out.
John Redmond's recent plea for the
legalization of tobacco culture in Ire
land recalls the fact that it was per-
mitted there until 1880, though forbid
den in England and Scotland. Wex-
ford tobacco was then so highly es-
teemed that its price was three times
as great as the Virginian leaf. The
rapid extension of the culture, more
than a thousand acres being planted
with tobacco, led to its prohibition in
$780, Twenty years ago Gladstone ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction with the
veto and offered to remove it if a
scheme were produced for the collec-
ton of the duty SO that the revenue
might not suffer. Two years ago an
official experiment was made in Meath,
an acre of land yielding LOO pounds
of serviceable tobacco. This Irish to-
baccO, it is said, was inferior to Amer
lean leaf, but this is largely considered
a matter of curing" Even Austral-
ian-grown tobacco was a rank failure
until the British government engaged
an American expert to instruct and
advise the planters.
-London's Oxygen Hospital held its
annual general meeting shortly after its
successful ball. at which the air was