The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-19

| OF h DCfAAS ENH1t5SA N1NA ?
against the locusts in Egypt, and tons
OF eggs have been destroyed.
Female slavery stiIl prevails il
China. out OF a population of about
100000, 900 nearly 1o,o,0oeo girls or WON.
| EN- areeslaves.
Buried beneath an avalanche be-
tween Condo and simplon. in switzer-
/ land. two Italian workmen succeeded
in digging their way out unin3urec
after nine and a half hours labor.
At a recent meeting of the medica
faculty of Queens University, Ontario
4 a proposal was received from a mar
/ IN need of money to mortga ge his body
4 to the institution. The communication
! was shelved.
| There are over found hundred ap-
plicants for the forty vacancies which
form Victoria's portion of the quota
of recruits for the Australian squad
ron, to which the naval agreement en-
4 titles Australasia.
The Dutch government objects to
j the position selected in the Bosch, al
i The Hague as the site of Mr.. Carne-
gie's Palace of Peace on the ground
4 that the erection of a building there
| would detract from the picturesque
4 nature of the surroundings.
The French government in Algeria
/ proposes TO establish a woman doctor
4 in every village where the native pop
ulation is large enough, the native
women being prevented by their So
| cial customs from consulting men
| physicians. In Algiers a. tfispensary has
already been opened for women.
The Belgian authorities have de-
cided to add three, instead of one, tur-
4 bine mail packets to their Dover-Os-
tend service. The turbine engines and
machinery are to be constructed in
| England and the vessels in Belgium.
| The vessels are to make the passage
! of siXty-two knots in about two hours
/ and twenty minutes.
The court of the GoldsTnith's Com
pany in London has recently presented
/ the Royal Society with 1000 to be used
/ as a radium research fund. Needless
| to say, the gift was accepted, and the
| best appliea ton of the money for re-
1 search, helping to clear up the present
mystery in which the newest element
! (?) is enshrouded, is now under con-
| sideration.
| Prof. Cornet, long assistant to Prof.
Koch of Berlin, spilled the sputum of
a consunptive on the carpet of a room
| in which he kept forty-eight guinea
/ pigs. He allowed it two days in which
! to dry. Then the room was violently
swept, so as to raise a, dust The
! guinea pigs breathed in the dusty ar.
/ All h11f nf fhoV1 cd
! sumption.
An invention has recently been
shown in Birmingham, England, for
the seamless welding of iron, steel and
other metals by a new process. A
| flame is formed by burning acetylene
with oxygen, and it is directed in the
| usual way by means of a blowpipe.
| 1t is said that the hardest metals may
be welded in this way as readily as
lead. Notwithstanding the intense heat
ofthe flame, the process does not make
necessary the protection of the eyes
by dark glasses, for the mixture of
oxygen with the acetylene removes the
glare and leaves a small flame of a
gneentsh-blue color.
One of the curious devices of ma
ture for scattering seeds is seen in the
balloon plant of California. The fruit
| is yellow, and is little larger than an
| egg. 1t has the appearance of an
| empty bag, not of a solid, but it con-
tains a watery substance which evap-
CRATES for dries UP when the fruit ma
lures, sort of gas taking its place.
| This gas is lighter than air, and the
| fruit fips back and forth in the wind
until it finally breaks loose from its
slender stem, rises into the air to a
hight of from seventy-five to "a hun
dred feet, and sails away to fall in
some distant spot, and thus extend the
growth of its kind. ......
| Recent legal actions growing out
| Of a fatal duel in Paris between
| Charles ,Ehelot and Henri Lautier show
how duelling is regarded by the
| French law. Ebelot, the survivor. was
charged with having by blows and
| wounds caused death unintentional-
| ly. Judging from the wording of the
| indictment, the law does not take duel
| lists seriously, or it would not admit
the superstition that they do not enter
| into the encounter with any deadly in
tention. In this case proof was forth
coming that the affair had been car
| ried out fairly, according to the recog-
| nized rules of the duello, and the pris-
oner was acquitted. The family of the
! deceased took no part in the criminal
prosecution, but obtained, in the civil
action. one frame damages and costs.
Vegetarian, or herbivorous, ami
mails, said a physician, quoted by the
Chicago Chronicle, "are the ones that
| get consumption. Everyone knows
how prevalent consumption is among
| cows. Well, it is still more prevalent
among monkeys. All down the line of
the herbivora, in fact, more or less con-
sumption Is to be found. Take, on the
| other hand, the carnivora, or fiesh-eat :
| ing animals. Consumption is rare
among them. Lions, tigers and leop-
ars die in our ZOOS from every other
disease, but consumption, as a rule.
| Among mankind the greatest eaters
| of meat are butchers. A butcher will
| eat pound of underdone steak or a
\ half dozen juicy chops three times a
! day if he can afford it. That is WHY
| ne is so ruddy and gay. You never
4 saw a pale, gaunt butcher, or a mo-
rose one. or a corsumptive one But
among our vegetarian friends the pale,
4 gaunt, n1orose type prevails. don't
go so far as to say that vegeterianism
4 causes consum ption, burt this do saw:
Three or my consumptive patients
We're well enough till they adopted the
vegetarian fad Consumption didn't
! attack them till they left off eating
meat"
~-It is. said that every dog has his
day. Many of them have nothing
else. However that may be, the day
Of all dogs in England is soon to be
4 1885, ~ IL