The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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To be able to pronounce "heredita-
| bility' is a sure sign of soberness, says
a Cardiff CWales) doctor.
One of the most complete electrical
| power plants recently installed is that
Of the Osake military arsenal of Japan.
The use of electricity in everyday
affairs is developing enormously il
Great Britain. The usual price is 21s
| cents per unit.
| BY the use of electrical appliances
three men now do the charging of
| twenty furnaces, at Homestead, which
| formerly required 200 men.
| -Marseilles, the great market for
olive oil, imported in December 1900
tons of cottonseed oil. Nearly all of it
| was from the United States.
The heart beatof animals continues
for some time after death. In France
| the heart of a criminal beat for thirty
hours after he had been decapitated.
! The lead" Of black pencils is now
made from coke. 1t is ground and
mixed with iron ore and chemicals, and
| subjected to pressure under great heat.
The Royal Geographical Society
| has recently acquired the boats COM
pass used by DIR. Livingston on his first
| Journey down the Zambest valley, in
1856.
DIR. Whitman, of the University of
| Chicago, one of the Carnegie Institu-
tons advisers, recommends a bologi-
cal farm for the study of heredity and
evolution.
A new process for extracting oil
from olives by a centrifugal machine,
! such as is used in sugar refineries, will
effect an enormous saving to the olive
| growers of California.
Locomotives propelled by electricity
drawn from the air without cost, and
| ocean liners racing over the sea by the
agency of the electric current drawn
ineXpensively from the same source,
are promised foi. the near future by
Tesla. 1t is to be done on the principle
of wireless telegraphy.
"A letter of coincidence to Tobias
Lear, March 3d. 1896, signed by both
George and Martha Washington,
brought $1,150 at a recent sale. 1t was,
of course, the double signature, said
to be unique, that gave it this value,
though the epistle itself is a moab of
dignified and yet sincere sympathy.
Out of 1000 school children ex-
amined in England less than half were
normal-the external ear beng affect
ed in forty-nine and the middle ear in
Els cases. Chronic suppuration was
present in eighty-seven and 434 had
adenoid tumors and there were 247 deaf
ears. Only forty had perfectly healthy
ears.
When one considers the enormous
amount of f1ction-much of it pretty
poor stuff-that the American publish
ing houses put forth, feeling of ad-,
mira alton arises for Japan, where, ac-
cording to a Japanese newspaper, the
publishers would be virtually without
occupation if it were not for educa-
tional works.
District Attorney Jerome of New
York is confirmed in the pistol habit
He is said to have "toted a gum for
long time. He now carries his revolver
in his coat pocket, a la Sherlock
Holmes, but some one wants to know
| why, if he expects to use 1t in a hurry
the weapon should be encountered
with a leathern case.
When the fire of a heating appa-
ratus is lighted for the first time at the
beginning of the cold season, one some
| times notices a most unpleasant smell
of ammonia and the like. 1t seems
| that large numbers of microbes gather
| in the pipes during the season of rest,
and the warmth causes the organisms
to vegitate, and thus a. quantity of am
| monia is produced.
Ludwig Fake, the lyric poet, to
whom the Hamburg Senate has voted
an annual pension of $3.50 to enable
him to devote himself to his literary
| tasks, has been a music teacher in
that city for twenty-five years. Once
before the Senate helped struggling
author. Otto Ernst, while teaching in
public school in Hamburg, received
six months leave of absence to enable
| him to devote his time to his dramatic
| work.
There are many historic trees in
the country, and it is believed by the
| Department of Agriculture that inter-
est in three planting can be stimulat-
| ed by distributing a limited number
| of these trees under proper direction
| The seedlings, when grown, will be sent
TO schools in various parts of the coun-
try, and there will accompany each
tree a concise statement setting forth
thC Aist'ilC SNeHtS Connected with the
tree itself and the growing of the
| Seeding.
Most varieties of sea anemones at
tach to rocks or spiles or other hard
| substances, but there are some that
make their home in sand, says the New
York Sun, in which they can bury
themselves completely, or above the
surface of which they can as readily
rise. Such sea anemones are found
at some places along the Long Island
shore of the sound. Extended these
sea anemones may be seven or eight
inches in length, or more; collapsed
they settle down so that their tenta-
cled upper disk is flush with the sur
face of the sand or mud in which thew
bury themselves, or it may be drawn
down little below it, making a LITTLE
depression. veritable trap for any
small living creature that might
! chance to wander that way Or for its
own protection this sea anemone can
settle down into it's hole further still
so that the sand will tumble in or wash
IN over it. Said a fisherman who was
telling of this sea anemone's charac~
terlStics: 1T comes the nearest being
able to crawl into it's own hole and
pull the hole in after it of ANYTHING
know Of"
In regard to the story which has
been going the rounds of the English
papers lately as to a Liverpool man
nndlng message written upon an
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