The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-20
ITEMS of INTEREST.

| impending.
"A nest of young rabbits was
ploughed up in Kansas, and little
girl took them home but after getting
tired of her pets she decided to feed
them to the old family cat that has a
number of kittens. Instead of the cat
eating them, as was expected, she is
raising them. The cat seems to think
as much of the rabbits as she does of
According to a note from Algeria,
via Paris, flock of $40 sheep, destined
for the French Army, had been cap
tured by an armed band from the
neighborhoOd of Fifuig. 1t now appears
that the contractor sent only 450. Then
| he declared his flock had been raided
and one of the shepherds killed. on
further inquiry it was found that the
450 sheep and the shepherds We're safe
and had never been attacked.
"A report from Glasgow states that
a diver has discovered a bronze
breech-Ioading cannon, four and half
feet long, dated 1868, a sword blade,
and a pistol supposed to be relics of
the Spanish Armada. Capt Burns of
Glasgow, with the permission of the
Duke of Argyll, has been searching
| Tobermory Bay, where the admiral OF
| Florence, one of the Armada, was
blown up. The relics will be exhib-
tied at the Glasgow Royal Exchange.
| The new uniform which has been
| proposed for the French army will be
| worn by company of infantry at the
review of July 10. 1t consists of blue
| gray trousers and tunic with dull
bronze buttons and Boer hat, also
blue-gray, with cockade on the turn
ed-up side. This uniform, which will
supersede the traditional red trousers
of the French infantry, is to be the
same for all ranks, with the exception
that the dress for the officers will be
! OF better quality of material.
1t is reported from Berlin that a
woman, charged with killing four hus-
bands and attempting to poison the
nth, was sentenced to death by the
court at Allenstein. The motives of
the woman are not known, but it was
stated at the trial that a fortune teller
once told her that she was destined to
have six Husbands before attaining
happiness with the seventh. 1t seems
| that the husbands were all young and
healthy when they married her but
after year they began literally to sink
into the grave. The wife administered
arsenic to them systematically In small
quantities, mixing it in their food. Ac-
eordlng to local alienists, the woman
had murdered her husbands from sheer
delight in homicide.
In his report of 1902 on Danish
trade with foreign countries, Capt
Boyle, British consul at Copenhagen,
calls attention to the rising popularity
in Denmark of athletic sports. He
writes Hitherto the supply of athletic
and sporting goods has been entirely
in the hands of British manufacture
ers or exporters, but as the trade is
increasing, it would be well for Brit
ISM manufacturers TO send represen-
tatiVes to study the trade carefully on
the spot; If not, the German manufac-
turers who are always ready to make
anything required provided they are
furnished with sample and see their
way to make a profit, may step in.
Yachting is increasing, and the de-
mand for cordage and sails is large"
MN. Provost and Capus, who went
to st. Petersburg to settle the question
OF copyrights for French authors in
Russia, have returned to Paris. The
ARRANGEMENTS made by the two
Frenchmen are as follows: A dramatst
can join the Dramatic Society of ST.
petersburg, and he will then be pro-
get translation of his work prepared
and published in Russia a day or two
before the original is issued In his own
country, and his novel will then be ac-
cepted as Russian original work, and
will receive the same protection as the
book of Russian author. The process
OF translation, passing the censor and
publication takes about six weeks at
the shortest, but the short delay would
a
The recent report of the president
of the Bank of France threw an odd
light on the reputed movement of large
American banks to shut down on
small accounts" M. Pallain's detailed
figures showed that at the opening of
1903, that institution had outstanding
4,SOl separate loans on collateral Sc
curity in amounts between $50 and
800. During 1902, there were present.
ed at the bank and discounted $685.
III separate bills, of which 80 COG were |
in amounts from 81 to 81; 1,434, 349 in |
amounts ranging from 81 to $40;
1,169,S32 in amounts from SO |
to $40, and S,56S,2S9 for larger |
sums: The average value of |
all the banks discounted bills was |
SAT francs, against 5SS in 1901 the |
average maturity II days, against a |
trifie below Ply in 1901
William A Setchell has recently
conducted series of interesting re-
searches on the lower forms of life
which inhabft hot springs and geysers.
he found in certain springs forms Of
chlorophylless schizmycetes bacterial
forms), which lived comfortably in
water at temperature of SO degrees
Z. QS2 FL. This was the highest tenn
perature at which he found anV form |
of living organism, and these were
only found in hot springs whose water
was siliceous. The schizophyta tisap-
peared in the calcareous springs after
a temperature of II degrees c. was
reached. In springs having a decided
acid reaction no organisms were fo,ind
How these organisms are enabled to
withstand temperature which imrne
diately coagulate the ordinary forms
of protoplasm is a mystery DIR.
Setchell calls attention to the fact that
certain proteids when freed from wa
ter do not coagulate at the very high
est temperatures, but says that he has
discovered nothing to indicate that the
protoplasm in these bacterial salaman-
ders owes its great resistance to CO.
agulation to an unusual lack of wa
ter.
The German government, SAYS a
note from Berne Switzerland. has in
formed the Swiss Federal Council of
It's desire to open negotiations with
switzerland for the conclusion of A
treaty or commerce between the two
countries. The negotiations are to take
y D.