The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-21


the Austrian Supreme Court the mar
riage OF a Christian and freethinker is
illegal. In the case in question an
Austrian named Clemens Kollischer
married in London an Englishwoman
named Anna Home. Kollischer de-
clared himself to be a member of no
particular creed, while the woman was
a Protestant. Three Austrian courts
have now ruled their union to be lille
gal. Marriages between Jews and
Christians are also prohibited.
Some idea of the lightness and lack
of bulk of Saturn't rings may be OBJ
tanned by a recent report from Prof.
Hall that he has determined the mass
of the ring is in proportion to that
of the planet at to 1892. This gives
the ring a mass of only two-thirds
that of Titan, the largest satellite, and
if the ring be composed, as some the
orists believe, of small bodies of mat
ter the weight of each must be small,
indeed, when the entire mass does not
compare with that of one satellite.
This month the first motor water
ing cart ordered by the Paris munich
pality is to make it's appearance in the
streets. The vehicle, which Is nearly
-
capacity of 1,1G0 gallons. This tank is
removable, and it is intended to use
the cart in winter for taking away
snow. The van is propelled by steam
motor of 30-horse power, and can be
driven at a maximum speed Of twelve
and a half miles an hour. Eventually
the Paris municipal authorities will
place orders for a motor dust cart.
DIR. Yamane, a member of the
House Of Representatives, proclaimed
in a recent debate that more than $780,
600 persons succumb annually to tuber-
culosis in Japan, and the number is
constantly increasing. In regard to lep-
rosy he stated: There is no country
in the world in which this disease is
so prevalent and so neglected. The
Home Office returns show that there
are 33, 059 lepers in Japan, while their
offspring number 999, 300. The authori-
ties allow leprous beggars to sit on the
public streets and to infect the very
air with their spittle.'
The emitting of torpedo tubes in
our recent battleships is criticised ad-
versely by the Scientific American.
They were not installed, because in
late wars several vessels have been
destroyed by their own torpedoeS. An
under water device for launching tor
pedoes having been perfected which
puts them below the protective reck
safe from the enemy's she'll fire has
reduced this danger. All foreign ma
lions now building warships are put
ting in torpedo tubes and the torpedo
with microscopic steerage gear, which
makes it effective at 5000 yards.
More than 300 meteorites from outer
space are seen in the National museum
at Washington, their range in weight
being from a few ounces to 5000 pounds
The monster one is roughened from
it's surface. being melted by friction
with the earth's atmosphere. One
weighing 1,400 pounds is almost pure
iron. Precious metals are not found
in these aerial excursionists, but micro
scopic diamonds are sometimes formed
by combustion with the earth's atmos-
phere. They are made up from iron
nickel, sulphur, carbon, phosphorus
oxygen, silicon, magnetism, aluminium
and calcium.
Much interest has lately beer
aroused. in London by two surgical op-
erations which have resulted in a mark
ed change of character in the patients
One was that of a boy of good family
who had developed strangely brutal in.
stincts. A clever surgeon examined
him with care. located what he con-
sidered the seatl Of the trouble, remov.
ed a piece of the skull and thus re.
lieved the deforming pressure. The lad
was restored to his parents a normal
and lovable child. The other case was
that of soldier who, after an injury
in skirmiSh, developed a propensity
for theft. An operation on the brair
cured him.
The uses to which the army is put
have increased wonderfully in both
number and Importance since the
Spanish war. In Porto Rico it distrib-
uted food after the hurricane and pro.
vided for fair elections; In the Philip
pine, before war ceased, the army es-
tablished schools with soldier teachers
stopped smallpox by enforcing vacci-
nation and improved sanitation which
excluded other contagious diseases. A
stable government and healthy cities
were given Cuba by the army, so that
that country no longer menaces oul
Southern cities with epidemics. OuI
army is constructive rather than q
destructive agency and has saved more
lives than 1t has destroyed.
The largest flying machine in ma.
ture is found by Langley and Luca,
to have been the Ornithostoma inRens
the greatest of the pterodactyls OF
ancient days, whose body weight wa,
probably about thirty pounds. ant
whose extended wings measured about
twenty feet from tip to tip. The larg.
est of existing flying creatures is the
! albatross, which has a weight of eigh.
teen pounds and spread Of wing o.
eleven and one-half feet though il.
wing area is but seven square feet
while it develops only a twentieth
horsepower, and such is this bird,
power of progression by mysterious
soaring that a tagged individual hal
been known to traverse at least g..
$50 miles in twelve days.
The earth contains an abundance
of water, even in places like some OF
our great Western plateaus, where the
surface is comparatively arid. The
greatest depth at which underground
water can exist is estimated to be about
six miles. Below that, it is believed
the cavities and pores of the rock are
completely closed. The amount OF
water in the earth's crust is reckoned
at neorly one-third of that contained
in the oceans, so that 1t would cover
the whole surface of the globe to q
depth of from 5000 to $500 feet. The
waters underground. flow HORIZONTALLY
| after sinking below the unsaturated
zone of the rocks, but in the sands OF
the Dakota formation, which Supple
remarkable artesian wells, the motion
does not exceed one or two miles a
year. The underfow toward the sea
beneath the great plains may some