The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NCdLAlC4 IA NAAdl lh6lllulAyu LOl MY
years. Last week his friends presented
the school with a handsome portrait in
oil of the veteran instructor. While
Mr.. Capen's record is remarka BILE, that
of Miss Harriet Caryl of the same city
is more so. Miss Caryl entered the
High School as a pupil in 1852. the year
the institution was founded, and three
years later became a teacher. She has
remained in that position continuously
ever since.
Housewives who complain about
the price of things" may bless their
stars that they are not in Johannes
burg. From a letter recently received
is taken the following: The hens at
Madeira provide us with so-called
fresh eggs which we get retailed to
US al $1.0S a dozen; new-laid eggs,
when you are fortunate enough to get
any, are from $40 to $1.50 a dozen.
Somehow the hens very much negle, I
their obvious duty here. Mutton is
sold at 80 cents pound, hungry look
ing fowls at 81 each, and turkeys about
SIS each.''
"A scientist asserts that the heart
of an infant aged 8 years was remov-
ed thirty hours after death and SUBJ
Jected to a process of artificial circu-
lation, with the result that the organ
began to pulsate after twenty minutes
treatment, and its regular beats con-
tinued for an hour. The bearing OF
this experiment on reviving apparently
drowned persons is evident. There is
a much more extraordinary case of re-
vival Of dormant vitality in the ami
malcules known as rotifers. These can
be kept in dried state for months, yet
on the addition of water they resume
their functions with renewed vigor.
Rotifers, be it added, are by TO means
lowly organized creatures.
The preparations for such visit
as that which the King and Queen
made to Lord and Lady Howe are not
small. The suites of apartments for
their majesties must be painted deco
rated and furnished absolutely novo,
Not even window curtain or chair
must have been used before. The list
of guests to be invited is submitted for
the Kings approval and the invitations
which have the force of a royal COM
mand are sent in the Kings name.
Even the menus of the meals to be
served must receive the royal approval,
as also the programme OF each days
events. Arrangements have also to be
made with the postoffice for Telegram hic
facilities, the King being accompanied
everywhere by his private telegrapher
A map of Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory, showing all political divls-
ions and the principal water courses
made entirely in maroUetry of forty
three kinds of the various woods indig-
enous to the two territories, is a
standing attraction on the floor of the
lower house of the Oklahoma Legisla-
ture. 1t is the handiwork of S. 0.
Moreland of Shawnee, a stone mason
with no technical knowledge of cabi-
net work, and in the making occupied
the spare time of the last nine
months. In size it is about by feet
The border, representing the white pa
per upon which maps are printed, is
cottonwood, the most widely and even
~ distributed of Western trees. II is
framed in blackwalnut. with heavily
turned pilasters at the ends, and is nm
der glass. The various bits of wood
composing it are sawed to show the
grain to the best advantage, highly
polished, and shaped to conform ex-
actly to the territorial subdivisions
shown on the latest published maps.
The map Will be given a prominent
place in the Oklahoma exhibit at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
The two Gillian war vessels, Con-
stitucion and Libertad, which were Of
fered for sale to both the United States
and Germany, and We're rejected by
each, are reputed to be superior to al
most every other battleship afioat
They are vessels of IL 800 tons displace-
ment, with engines of $1,000 horse
power, calculated TO give a speed of
nineteen knots an hour. The battery
consists of four 10-inch and fourteen
Il.
round can discharge projectiles at the
rate of 427 pounds for each 1000 tons
of displacement. The 10-inch guns are
said to be capable of penetrating at a
range of three miles the 11-inch armor
plates of the American battleships in
the Louisiana class, and the 71z-inch
guns could penetrate at a range of
four miles the 5-inch armor plates of
the latest Americai cruiser of the Ten
nessee class. 1t was sought to unite
in these vessels high gun power with
special protection and great speed in
ships of moderate draught. Chill is
very anxious to sell the two ships, Tor
the reason that she is a party to the
recent agreement, with other South
American nations to joint curtai-
ment of naval armament. But, luck
lily. the United States doesn't need
them.
In the pitched battles which some
times take place between the great
carnivoral and the largest and most
powerful of the OK tribe the forces Of
animal courage, desperation and bodily
strength must be exhibited on a scale
never elsewhere seen, says a writer in
Leslie's Weekly. Such combats do &C.
cur, but have seldom been witnessed.
and. still less frequently described.
Two or three lions sometimes combine
in such an attack, but from the marks
seen on buffalo it is probable that
sometimes there is a single combat
for it can hardly be supposed that the
buffalo could escape from more than
one lion. The number of foot pounds
of energy put into such a struggle
must be something extraordinary. The
efforts of lion. which can strike a
mans arm from the shoulder and
leave 1t hanging by strip of skin. or
which AN carry a COW over a high
stockade, endeavoring unsuccessfully.
in those grips. to drag down or disable
a buffalo bull, must be on a gigantic
SCALE and the strength which can
shake him off, and, it is believed. oc-J
casionally crush the lion afterward.
must be even more amazing. A buff
falo bull has been credited with en-
gaglnS three lions in mortal combat
and making good fight before hewas
disabled by one of the lions hamstrine-
ing him by biting his legs from be-
hind.
1t is rarely, says the Lancet that
suspended matter in air or water fails
at length to subside, but the process