The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-27

over iron shaYinks. % This mass of
disintegrated iron is enough to incite
heat and combustion. Iron and steel
filings and turnings when mixed with
oil will ignite spontaneously after be-
coming damp. A steam pipe against
wood will cause the latter to ignite
spontaneously after being carbonized,
particularly if superheated steam en-
tiers the pipe, thus increasing the heat
temperature. Steam heat apart from
its contact with water forms a gas.
DIR. B. Hagen. a prominent Ger
man anthropologist, has recently ex-
pressed the opinion that the change in
man from the original shape to his
present one took place in Europe. He
has discovered near Krapina, in Croa-
tia, ten skeletons, the flesh from which
had evidently been eaten by canni-
balls. DR.. Hagen judges from the APP
pearance of the bones that the speech
muscles were only slightly developed
in those persons, and that they could
not speak as language is understood
now. They had huge heads, broad
faces, with fiat noses, strong masti-
eating bones and muscles, short legs
and arms of medium length, and the
greater part of their bodies was COW
cred with coarse reddish hair.
Whaling is one of the vanished in
dustries of Australia. says the London
Chronicle. In the thirties and forties
it was a very remunerative business.
The first settlement in Victoria was
made almost seventy years ago by the
enterprising Henty Bros. from Sussex,
who started a whaling station on the
shores of Portland Bay. They -four
ished there for a considerable time,
but the whales were gradually fright
ened out of Australian waters, and
have now to be sought in the neigh
borhood of the South Pole. The other
day a couple of whales entered Port
land Bay and interested some thou
sands of spectators. No attempt was
made to capture them, as the town of
Portland no longer possesses appli
ances for the purpose or contemplates
visits from the leviathans of the deep.
After the discovery of the plague
bacillus by Kitasato and Yersin, the
remarkable susceptibility of rats to
the disease became apparent from in
oculation experiments. 1t was also
found that the rats ate the bodies of
patients dead from plague, thus inoc-
ulating themselves. Therefore cases of
plague may appear suddenly in human
beings, where it is afterward found
many dead rats are found an out
break of the plague is to be expected.
In an article in La Medeceine Moderne
for Aug. IS, 1902, Olschanetsky, of Con-
stantinople, has reviewed this subject
with historical details. But epidemics
of plague have been observed in which
rats played no role. He advises pre-
venting the introduction of rats from
ships, especially those with disease
n M IN
among rats cannot always be shown to
have been the cause of an epidemic
among human beings, is probably
plays an important Geological role in
the propagation of the plague.
The attention of some of the Off
Gals of the Treasury Department in
charge of navigation matters has been
called to detachable deck, new &C.
vice. designed to minimize the dangers
of ocean and lake travel. When ship
strikes a rock and tears a fatal. hole
below the waterline or comes into col
lision with another craft, the plan is to
place passengers on the portable deck,
unfasten it and let it float away from
the sinking ship. OF the detachable
deck, which is virtually an emergency
craft, fashioned in the form of a deck
fitted into the hull, may have means
LOT steering anu pIOpu1olOus AhC A0So
is that a movable deck so constructed
could prevent great loss of life and
valuables, and even complete the jour-
ney, or at least run into the nearest
port. This auxiliary deck is fastened
by huge screws to the sides of the hull.
The heads of these screws serve as
sprocket wheels, around which runs an
endless chain, either on the outer side
of the vessel or between partition
L., son1 x1rffI y fhn
propelling power of the vessel makes it
possible for the engineer below, at a
moments notice, to release instantly
all the screws which bind the portable
deck to the vessel. In the event of in
ability to communicate the danger sig
nal to the engineer the deck may be
liberated by means of bevel gears and
shafts operated manually from the de-
tachable deck itself.
The question of Sir Walter Raleigh s
burial place has lately been revived in
England, says the New York Tribune.
Three churches claim both the head
and body of the gallant courtier. I'm
mediately after execution, which took
place in Tothill street, Westminster,
on Oct. 20. 1918, his wife placed the
head in a red bag and rode off with it
in a mourning coach. This treasure
y
body was buried in st. Margarets
Church. but shortly after the execu-
ton Lady Raleigh wrote to her brother
Sir Nicholas Carew. asking permits
sion to bury her husbands body in his
church at Beddington, where she de-
sired also to be buried. History is 81
lent from that time on. 1t is known,
however, that her son treasured the
head as his mother had, and, according
to the London Daily Chronicle, tradi-
ton says it was finally buried with
him at West Horsley, Surrey. Dr.
Brushfeld, who has made a Borough
study of Raleigh history, is of the be-
lief that when investigation is made
the three bodies-father. mother and
son--will be found buried together. He
has suggested to the British Archaeo-
logical Society to inscribe the stone
under which his body is supposed to
be buried in st. Margaret's, London.
with his name and coat of arms Np
English memorial to this universal
genius" exists. The west windows of
st. Margaret's dedicated to his mem
DRY through the enterprise of DR.. Far
rar, were the gift of this country.
In the February Pearson's some most
excellent advice is given by an ambu-
lance. expert in an article entitled I'm
Case of an Accident as to what to do
In case of emergency while waiting for
a physician. The following suggestion
in regard to the treatment of cuts is
very practical and should be read with
care. Cuts need the very promptest at
tention: Pressure is the only remedy
for bleeding, pressure between the
wound and the heart. 1t is important
to know if the hlood &c dovipo fro,,