The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-13
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collars and cuffs slashed with silver.
mouse gray SLOUGH hat and overcoat,
with a transverse bandolier and top
boots of brown leather for the troopers,
complete the equipment. The ofhcefs
retain their swords, and are also distln-
guished by a black and silver sash in
addition to the ordinary badges of their
rank.
The German exhibit in the art pal
see at the st. Louis Fair is said to be
the finest display ever made by Ger
many in a foreign country. Peter
Breun's marbles of Adam and Eve,
and Christ and the Children" are
among the notable sculpture repre-
scented. OF the paintings, Thor A. Van
Werner's six large canvases are at
tracing much attention. One OF these
portrays the great international con-
gress of 1873 in Berlin, of which Bis
marck is the central figure.
There are beetles in England (of the
family known to scientists as Telepho-
ridae) that are popularity called soldiers
and sailors, the red species being called
by the former name and the blue spe-
cies by the latter. says st. Nicholas.
These beetles are among the most quar-
relsome of insects and fight to the
death on the least provocation. 1t has
long been the custom among English
boys to catch and set them fighting
with each other They are as ready for
battle as gamecocks and the victor Will
both kill and eat his antagonist.
Engineers are here from India, says
the Pittsburg Gazette, looking into the
merits of Pittsburg stern wheel steam
ers. They are interested IN the trans
port of coal on the Ganges and Brah-
maputra rivers and have found other
types of boats unequal to the task. They
have come where the transportation of
coal by river has become almost an ex-
act science to learn the best methods,
and it will not be strange if orders for
the Pittsburg boat builders shall result
There is no doubt the Ohio river craft
are the best in the world for handling
tows.
The Germans were the first to dis
cover the commercial importance of
liquefied carbonic acid. It's antiseptic
properties recommended it's use in
beer. They also use it in all gaseous
drinks-soda water, sparkling wines.
settlers water and other hygienic
drinks. Factories were started in Ger
many to utilize the liquefied gas and
the best machines are made to use it
in making ice and to reduce the tenn
perature. Fire eXtinguishers are also
made, and more recently it has been
employed to destroy vermin on ships
and in cellars.
Commentators Boni. the famous
archaeologist of the Roman Forum, has
given an interesting clew to his impress
sions of that treasure house of Latin
antiquity. According to him it was a
cemetery long before it was a forum,
and the tombs were packed so close to-
gether that no trace of q pathway,
however narrow, could be found The
Via Sacra was probably made over the
tombs. Romulus, Signor Boni thinks,
was born on a soil peop'ed with the
dead for thousand years before his
birth, and the wolf only existed in the
legends left by his ancestors.
The periscope, which is the eye of
water torpedo craft now being built
by nearly all the leading maritime
Powers, is a combination of lenses and
refiectors which throw upon a small
screen of ground glass, at the bottom
of tube leading down into the yes
SELL a view of whatever would come
within the range of a human eye where
the periscope is fixed, which is usual
ly about three feet above the water.
This covers the sea quite well for a
distance of three miles, and to get a
view in any other direction than
straight ahead the tube at the end of
which the periscope is fixed can be
turned, at the will of the officer in
charge.
DR.. H. B. Ferris, professor of anat-
omy; DR.. George McCurdy. professor of
anthropology, and L. A. Bostwick, in
charge of the Peabody Museum, all of
Yale, have been at Hartford, Conn, and
boxed up the skeletons of the Indians
found in the millyard of the Howe &
Wilcox Company. One of the skeletons
is that of a man s feet s inches tall. 1t
will be articulated if possible. Among
other skeletons were those of a man
and woman with arms interlocked as IL
they had been buried in close embrace.
Around the womans neck was a neck
lace, but the professors were unable to
recognize the material from which it
was made, and it has been sent to an
expert for examination. The professors
believe the skeletons are of q tribe of
Indians which held that section before
the Pequots, and that they are at least
300 years old.
Consumption, says an English au-
thority, differs from other forms of
zymotic diseases only in the slowness
of it's oncoming and in the seemingly
less virulence of infection; but it is
still the most fatal of all, and we
must look to prevention rather than
cure. Especially must attention be
paid to its earlier stages, and there
fore in the interest of the community
as well as of the individual sufferer
phthisis should be made compulsorily
notifiable. DIR. Alexander Marmorek
read a paper lately at st. Georges
Hospital on the success he had attain
ed with his specific serum in the treat
ment of number of advanced cases
of tuberculosis. The results appeared
to be encouraging; but whatever NAV.
be-. done in this direction the whole
tendency of research points to elimi-
nation of causes rather than combat
ing effects.
A medical authority has recently ut
tered a warning against the habit of
sitting with one knee crossed over the
other-a pose which is nowadays al
most as common among women as
among men, says Harper's Weekly.
This apparently harmless habit. II
seems, is likely to cause sciatica. lame
ness, chronic numbness, ascending ma
ralysis, cramps, varicose veins. and
other evils. The reason is simple. The
back of the knee, it is explained az
well as the front of the elbow and
wrist, the groin and the armpit. con-
tains nerves and blood vessels which
are less adequately protected than in
other parts of the body: The space be-
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