The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


built in johannesburg will be the big
gest establishment of it's kind in South
Africa. 1t is to be called the Carlton.
"A cotton mill to be built at Quito,
the capital of Ecuador, must be carried
on the backs of mules through the
Andes, passing a point $1,000 feet in al
titude.
DR.. Annie D. Lyle, Of San Francisco,
has been appointed assistant to DR..
Esrech, of the University of Vienna,
one of the most noted living specialists
in diseases of children.
After an interval of 365 years a
new Roman Catholic abbot has been
installed at the abbey of Buckfastleigh,
Devon, England. The ancient monas-
terry, now re-established, was suppress
ed in 1888.
Miss Helen Gould will defray the
expenses of DR.. William H. Tolman's
trip to Europe to study conditions in
the principal cities and collect mater
ial illustrative of economic progress in
various municipalities.
Mrs Robert Goelet, of New York,
will endow an American bed in the
Victoria Hospital, in memory of her
daughter, at Cannes, France. The only
other American bed in the hospital
was endowed by Andrew Carnegie five
years ago.
ity of Baro, in Chile, is to have their
town known as a second London, and
within the last decade much money
has been spent to make it an exact
replica of the British capital. The
streets have been laid down and named
after those in London.
The United States government has
allowed more than $50 patents for wave
motors, according to Lippincotts Mag
azine. OF these over ninety are ac-
credited to the Atlantic and nearly SIX
ty to the Pacific coast. OF the latter
class nearly all have been actually or
eXperimentally tried, only to be de-
stroyed by the tremendous power of
the surf.
The fact that fishes, after the loss
of the ears, lose their equilibrium, but
still respond to sounds, led to the be-
lief that the ear in fishes was for eQui-
libration, and that fish hear through
the contact of sound waves with their
skin. Now Parker of the United States
Fish Commission has demonstrated
that the fundulous heteroclitus hears
after the nervous connector between
the skin and brain is severed.
Germany has pay wedding, at
which the bride receives her guests
with a basin before her, in which each
person entering deposits a jewel,
silver spoon or piece of money. In
some parts of Germany the rule is that
the expenses of the marriage feast
shall be met by each guest paying for
what he eats or drinks. The prices paid
for viands and drinks are high, and
the young couple often make a hand
some profit out of their wedding, real
izing a sum quite sufficient to start
them nicely in life.
With the object of discovering a
cure for typhoid fever a remarkable
experiment is being conducted at Ann
Arbor University, Michigan. Six big
tanks have been constructed, with a
layer of gelatine, and on these ia
square feet of the fever germs are
grown at a time. These living germs
are scraped off, killed and bottled up.
Two ounces of them would kill 10000
guinea pigs. The object is, if pos
sible, to extract the poison from the
germ bodies, feed animals with it and
try to discover an antidote.
1t is the tendency of the day for a
woman to be known by her husbands
first name, no initials being used. For
instance, Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry
Belmont has now cards reading Mrs
oliver Belmont" A few years ago
the proper caper" was Mrs. O. H. P.
Belmont. There was a time when
three given names were the hight of
fashion. After the women of the in
ner circle had resurrected the forgot
ten intermediate names of their hus-
bands. lesser lights invented aristo-
cratic family names and went about
with cards bearing names to which
they had no right. But this is the
era of condensation.
The Minnesota legislators are
wrestling with the problem of how to
provide against accidents from the
use of kerosene and gasoline. One
member has introduced a bill provid-
ing that all kerosene or coal oil kept
or intended for sale in Minnesota must
be colored n deep red by the use of
aikanet or some similar dyestuff. The
offer for sale of oils not conforming
with the requirements of the bill is
by a fine of not less than $25 nor more
than 500, or in default of fine by i'm
prisonment for term of not less
than thirty nor more than ninety days.
Other bills provide that all gasoline
must be kept in red painted cans.
The game of sylps is the most re-
Gently devised form of amusement; it
is in reality electric battledore and
shuttlecock. The two players hold a
wand each, these wands having been
electrified by friction. The shuttle
cock is represented by butterfly
made of collodion. The butterfly is
thrown into the air, and one or other
player approaches the tip of his wand
to the so-called sylph; the electrified
wands repel the butterfly, which
skins away as the wand draws near
In this way the butterfly is sent flying
hither and thither without being
touched. A very good game, with
proper rules, is made from this idea.
The finest diamond ever imported
paid no duty to the customs officers,
having struggled itself in from some
other planet in a meteorite. Packed
in a thick envelope of meteoric iron,
it fell to earth in Diablo canyon, at the
foot of Crater mountain, Arizona, it's
coating being broken into numerous
particles by contact with the rocky
formation of the ground. Some six
weeks ago a party of biologists, dis
covering these fragments, at first
thought them indications of a remark
ably pure vein of iron ore, but their
true character was soon diScerned, and