The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MS nlSLOTlGS 10 " give pluOC W a btNAA
office building The Motley house has
been occupied for twenty-five years by
the Boston Library Society.
1t is reported that King Alexander
peremptorily ordered four Servian Off
GERS to challenge a professor to a duel
to the death because the latter had
publicly charged them with having OBJ
tanned promotion over the heads of
their seniors by servility to Queen
Draga.
-Sho Masuda, a female servant of
Niwagori, Japan, has had a green RI
band conferred upon her by the Japa-
nese bureau of decoration for remark
able fidelity to the family that EN-
ployed her. She is said to be the first
domestic servant who has ever been
decorated by government
The great power station of the dis
trict railway, London, possesses spe-
cial interest because of the fact that
it will be the first large electrical pow
er station to be operated entirely by
steam turbines. The plant will con-
sist of ten Parsons clearinghouse tur-
bines, each of 7,5OO-horse power.
The only ancient gold diggings yet
discovered which are of sufficient mag
nitude to be those of the Ophir of
David and Solomon are those of the
Zambesi region. The gold contributed
by David alone to the building of the
temple, being 1000 talents of the gold
of Ophir," would be in value over $780,
100000
The delays in the construction of
warships in private yards in this coun-
&,-1y va n finnQl dam
ger. The British admiralty boasts that
it can wait to know the designs and
efficiency of the projected vessels of
France, Germany or the United States
before it begins to build new vessels to
excel them.
One hundred and seventy-five of
the 700 members of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Bos-
ton have already subscribed to the
fund for the entertainment of the An
cient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany of London, England, on their Wis
it to this city, the sum pledged being
$4,000. The guests are expected to
number 200
Here is a curious advertisement, re-
from an eighteenth century paper:
''Wanted-For a family who have bad
health, a sober, steady person, in the
capacity of a doctor, surgeon and
apOthecary. He must occasionally act
in the capacity of butler and dress hair
and wigs. He will be required to read
prayers occasionally and to preach a
sermon every Sunday. The reason of
this advertisement is that the family
cannot any longer afford the expense
of the physical tribe, and wish to be
,Es,,,, fO, hail hAI
and souls. A good salary will be given"
For three years visitors to Wash
ington have seldom failed to remark
the fact that the statue of Andrew
Jackson, in Lafayette square, Wash
ington, just opposite the White House,
is discolored with verdigris, which not
only streaks the marble pedestal, but
notifies the charger upon which "Old
Hickory sits, with his cooked hat up
lifted, as if acknowledging the cheers
of his soldiers. The verdigris comes
from the bronze of the equestrian fig
ure. The statue of Lafayette on the
southeast corner of the square is sim
Harry discolored, although not to the
same extent.
PROF. C. V. Hartman, the we'll
known archaeologist, whose work upon
the Ol OOSId INlCd was re-
| Gently published by the Royal Geo.
graphical Society of Sweden and who
several months ago accepted service
in the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburg
as the curator of archaeology and eth
nology, is at present in Costa RIGA in
the interest of the museum. The mu-
scum has secured from Senior Don
Pedro Maria Pelasco the extensive col
lection of Costa Rican antiquities at
Il H.
ical Museum of the University of
Pennsylvania. DR.. Holland, the direc-
tor of the Carnegie Museum, announces
that it is not his intention, however,
to remove the collection from the tenn
porary custodianship of the museum in
Philadelphia until a later date.
AT a recent meeting of the Acad-
mey of Sciences of Vienna Prof. Mo-
lisch of Prague communicated a paper
upon phosphorescent bacteria. He has
been able to photograph the colonies
of a phosphorescent micrococcus by
means of its own light. BY inoculat-
ing large glass TASKS of one-half litre
capacity, containing a suitable culture
| medium, with the organisms, a "bacte-
| rial lamp" is obtained with which it
is possible for an observer at a dis
| lance of one or two metres to read a
| thermometer or to see the time of a
watch. On a dark night the "bacte-
rial lamp is visible at a distance of
more than sixty PAGES. 1t is suggest
| ed that such cultures of phosphores-
cent bacteria might be employed in
| powder magazines or for attracting
fish, as the flask might be sealed and
| lowered into the water. Under suita-
BILE conditions the phosphorescent prop
critics of the cultures last for two or
three weeks.
"A naval officer recently returned
from China tells an extraordinary
story about a derelict which has been
| floating around the Eastern sea. The
| Fannie Kerr is a four-masted bark of
| 2,426 tons. built of steel. She left New
! castle in April 1902, with a cargo of
| coal for San Francisco. She rounded
the Horn safely, but her cargo caught
| fire in the South Pacific and after try
! ing for more than a month to extin-
| guish the flames the ship became so
| hot that the captain and crew aban-
! doned her on June and took to their
| boats. They landed at Kauai, an is
| land of the Hawaiian group, made
! their way to Honolulu, where the cap
tain made his report and the crew was
discharged. On March 10 last the
| captain of the steamship Heathdene.
| bound from Yokohama to Formosa.
sighted a vessel adrift from which
! smoke seemed to arise. Steaming
toward her he discovered that she was
the long missing Fannie Kerr, which
had been gradually drifting westward