The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-12

zig has established a system of Segre-
cation, in order to prevent rheumatic
patients from spreading the malady
among other invalids.
"A tramp smoking in a granary at
Zsarnoe, Hungary, set fire to the place.
The inhabitants unable to extinguish
it, threw the tramp into the f1ames
whence he was rescued by the police
in a dying condition.
Monsieur Blondlot, a member of
the French Academy of Sciences, dis
covered, not long ago, that invisible
rays, capable of penetrating solid
substances, are given off from the in
candescent mantles of the Welsbach
light,
A Nebraska court has held that
where a man receives a check in pay
ment of a BILL and lives in the same
town with the bank on which the
check is drawn, his only safeguard is
to cash the check by the following day
at the latest.
Let our arithmetics apply addition,
subtraction, percentage, and common
fractions to agricultural problems and
the farm boy will see the need of
education as preparation for his own
life-work. At present, however, the
entire curriculum leads away from the
farm. s
-Hackensack IN. j. toII-gates are
connected by telephone, and when an
automobile without, a Jersey Ftag
passes one gate the keeper promptly
phones ahead to the next, the motor
ist on reaching it finding it closed and
locked. Meantime the keeper has no.
titled the nearest officer, who is on
hand to arrest the culprit and take
him before a magistrate.
of India's imports more than so per
cent. are of class that might be call
ed indigenous to the United States
and the o. greater painfully three
fourths-of the entire list is made up
of a class of articles successfully pro-
duced by and exported from the United
States; and yet our exports to India
amount to less than per cent. of the
imports of that country.
"A surgeon of st. Petersburg has
been making some interesting expert
mentS with the Bacquere1 rays on the
eyes of the blind. He finds that per
sons who are wholly blind. ~ or, those
who have only the feeblest,, possible
perception of light, are peculiarly SEN
sitive to the rays In many cases they
were able to form visual CONCEPTIONS of
the form of objects, the shadows of
which were thrown on a screen by
means of the rays.
All kinds of people in the United
States go abroad. In the second cabin
you will find men who work for days
wages, school teachers, clergymen from
the country towns and villages, mer-
chants, farmers, mechanics and repre-
sentatives of every profession and per-
suasion, who consider it profitable to
spend $50 or $50 of their savings for
steamship ticket in order that they
may have an opportunity of seeing
something of the world.
THE Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is
the name of a new lily which has been
hybridized by Joseph Tailby, of Welles-
ley, and received a silver medal from
the Massachusetts Horticultural So
ciety as being the finest novelty in the
way of decorative plants ever hybri
died in the United States. The new
lily is about two feet high and resem-
bles subtropical plant, having large.
dark-green, silvery spotted leaves and
tall primrose yellow spathes. 1t is
strong and hardy. lives out of doors
and is able to reproduce itself from
seed.
Some distance from HaIberstadt.
in the district of Magdeburg, saws the
Westminster Gazette, is a village of
about 1000 inhabitants, where old and
young, rich and poor, are confirmed
chess players. 1t is said that in the
eleventh, century prisoner of state
confined in the castle situated in the
center OF the village introduced the
game to his guards, consisting of peas
ants of the place. His custodians
taught the game to their households
and chess has ever since remained the
tavorlte pastime of the people, It is
one or the compulsory subjects taught
in the elementary schools, where every
day one or two hours are set anart
for practice and the composition and
solution of problems Twice a year ex-
amlnatlons are held and a prize of
beautiful chess board awarded to the
best player. An annual tournament is
also held at the old inn ITO the Chess
Board, in which some of the greatest
players OF the day have taken part.
There are few samples of the skill
of the taxdermist more interesting
than a fine cabinet of birds in the nos
session of the Sora Gun Club. and now
displayed in the reception hall of the
club house down on the banks of the
Cohansey near Bridgeton, N. j. Its
chief interest lies in the fact that the
majority of the birds here displayed
may be found in the woodlands and
marshes bordering the creek in that
neighborhood. In fact, this secluded
section of South Jersey, along the lone
~ marsh banks of the Cohansey creek.
is given the credit of possessing more
interesting game belonging to the feath-
cred tribe than any other section of the
state. Although some of the rare speci-
mems displayed in the cabinet were
not shot In the immediat e neighborhood
OF the club house, and these beautifully
nnished specimens of taxidermy were
not captured by the present owners,
they are highly priced because typical
or their present trophies, which the
enthusiastic gunners capture at va
rions seasons during their periodical
soJourn at the club. Although there
are only about forty birds in the cabi- |
net, they present distinct types. The |
gorgeously plumed wild duck in the |
center is one for which the gunners |
watch eagerly in the autumn, and one |
which Is frequently captured in great |
numbers humble IN this wooded section of the |