The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-01

vessels built or building, and France
has fifty. Their presence is expected
to make blockades impossible.
A lately-tested section of the sub
marine cable laid twenty years ago be-
tween Cienfuegos and Santiago is in
excellent condition, proving the dura-
bility of rubber-covered cables.
Information from Berlin, under date
of Sept. H.. states that forty cases OF
trichinosis, several of them of gan
grenous nature, have occurred at Neu-
stadt, near Coburg.
TO destroy the mischievous practice
of persons who invent false bottle mes
sages, the German Nautical Society at
KieI suggests that all ships shall carry
special tin cases.
-Silver-chasers are wanted in New
York, Boston and other American
cities. During the recent strike many
of the chasers found employment as
bronze workers, and are remaining
at 1t.
A physician says that nausea has
it's seats in the brain and not in the
stomach, and that relief may be obtain
ed by cooling the base of the brain.
He claims to have tested this often and
thoroughly in the case of sick head
ache.
The agency of the American Bible
Society in the Philippine Islands was
established in 1899. 1t covers work
throughout the archipelago. Its circu-
lation is largely in the Spanish Ian
guage and in the dialects of the Philip
pines.
About 1000 umbrellas, lost by their
owners in elevated trains, are awaiting
Identification in the 'lost and found"
office of the Manhattan Railway Com
pany in New York. About half of the
number were taken in by the l. guards
in the recent period of rainy weather.
When Stephen Crane died mention
was made of an unfinished novel en-
titled 1.-The O'Ruddy." Since then. by
his request, his friend Robert Barr
has been working on the book, and 1t
will be published in the course of the
season.
The agitation against the corset
which has for several years been go
ing on in Germany is proving so eff
cacious that every other woman met
on the street, in South Germany, at
the interest of which weekly paper
is circulated.
The trustees OF the estate of the
late A. NJ. Byers of Pittsburg report
in it's value of nine millions $3.50 900
worth of paintings, including Turner's
1.-The Wreckers." valued at $4,000,
loch," at $4,000, and works by REM
brandt Can nUCE CNnnCfa HE
seau, Corot, Troyon. Rosa Bonheur and
many others.
Z, The hamlet of Barbizon, France, so
well-known in the artistic world since
the days of Corot and Millet, has had
its celebrity officially recognized by
being elevated into a distinct commune
by the Council of State. Thanks to its
new status, the artistic population of
the little place will be able very large
ly to manage their own affairs and not
be under the municipal rule of neigh
boring villages.
A young man named Farrell, a grad
uate of Yale, and the heir to d fortune
of $S.0e0 coo, has entered his fathers
iron foundry at Ansoma, Conn, as a
toolmaker's apprentice. He is working
ten hours day at a grindstone. learn
ing how to sharpen tools for the ma
chinists. The position of toolmaker's
apprentice is the lowest Of 1,500 in the
foundry, and the wages are 81 week.
Considerable progress has been
made toward the discovery of the true
nature of that mysterious African
malady, the sleeping sickness, by the
Identification of fly as the cause of
trypanosomasis, which is either a form
Of the same disease or a disease of
very similar nature. The fly, it seems,
is a variety of the tsetse fly, so fatal
to horses. The danger of insect bites
in just beginning to be appreciated.
1T is said that the Japanese minister
to this country is going to import some
of the singing insects of Japan, chiefly
because his wife misses their comfort
ing music, but incidentally to let US see
and hear what they are like. Madame
Takahira says that none of our song
birds, sweet as their notes are, give her
one-half the pleasure that her native
insect musicians give. The one most
liked in Japan is called the "susumu-
shi,' which means insect bell" Its
note is exastly like that of a little sill
yer bell of the sweetest and most deli
cate tone.
1t has been found that liquid air
may NC hSSu W SiCdS dQN diLdBS III the
examination of the intracellular nature
of bacteria 1t is desirable mechanic
cally to break up the minute bodies of
the Inicro-organisms without modifying
the cell-juices by heat or chemical
agents, and this has Seen accomplished
by freezing the bacteria solid with
liquid air, and then grinding up the
cold mass. In this way it has been
proved that the typhoid bacillus con-
tains within itself a toxin, Independent
of the soluble poison that/it excretes
when alive.
An incident of the morphinism so
prevalent in certain groups of New
York social life was the appearance
at Bellevue Hospital the other day of
a refined young woman in company
with young doctor, who both COM
mitted themselves to the drug ward"
which is always we'll filled. They were
engaged to marry, and as a last hope
of saving themselves from their curse,
they took this course The use of
opium is one preparation or another
is besetting temptation to young doc
tors who are overworked and over
strained, and has been for generations.
1t was probably never more prevalent
than just now. Bellevue must know.
Albert Gilbert, the English sculp-
tor, set to work to retrieve his for
tunes by opening huge school of art
in Bruges. Here he found a disused
factory which could be rented cheaply,
and furnished not only enormous ate
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