The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Steps are being taken to develop

are said to be among the purest found
anywhere in the world.
-Machinists and iron workers are
greatly interested in the discovery of
the art Of welding cast iron, which
w. S. and L. r. Schaap, Of Love
land Colo, claim to have made. They
declare that the compound which they
have invented also will brace alumni
mum, as successfully as borax will
braze steel.
For a winter climate, Canon City,
Colo, has a reputation second to no
locality in the United States. During
the winter of 1903-1904, hundreds of
robins, bluebirds and turtle doves
made their homes in that vicinity, and
there was no weather during the whole
season so severe as to harm the feath-
cred creatures.
One of the largest and most ex-
pensive mineral collections in exis-
tence, owned by John F. Campion, of
Leadville, Colo, forms part of Colo
radios mineral exhibit at the St. Louis
Worlds Fair. The collection is val
ued at $250000, the bullion value alone
being $4,000. 1t has never before
been placed on exhibition.
The Tibetans are believed to be
the dirtiest people on earth, and the
Llamas are the dirtiest Tibetans. A
correspondent remarks that the coun-
try people are probably a little less
dirty than the townsfolk, because they
are Constantly exposed to the puri-
flying winds of the tablelands, which
are the nearest equivalent in Tibet to
q cold bath"
The telephone was used a few days
ago for the first time in the history
of the Roman Catholic Church by it's
Supreme Pontiff, at the Vatican, when
Pope Plus x. telephoned to Venice,
three hundred and fifty miles away,
and talked with Monsignor Cavallari
whom he had just appointed patriarch
of that see, the office formerly oc-
cupied by the Holy Father himself.
One million dollars a mile is the
estimated cost of constructing a tun-
mel, four miles in length, on the line of
the new Moffat Railroad, from Denver,
Col. to Salt Lake City, Utah. Con-
tractors hesitate about bidding for
the work, because of the hardness of
the granite through which the tunnel
must be bored. Sticks OF dynamite
make little impression on the rock,
and the railroad company, itself, may
have to build the tunnel.
Recognizing the great and imme-
date Importance of investigation of
the nature and properties of radium
the radioactive bodies, the court of the
Goldsmiths' Company, of London, re-
Gently signified its willingness to hand
over sum of $4,000 to the Royal So
ciety to constitute a radium research
fund. The council of the Royal So
ciety at once accepted the duty of ad-
ministering this grant. Proposals re-
lating to the method of utilizing the
fund for the assistance of scientific
investigation have at the same time
been communicated to the company
for its approval.
The sacred scarabei, little Egyp-
tian charms, are manufactured by a
Connecticut firm. They are carved
and Clipped by machinery, colored in
bulk, made to simulate age, and ship
ped in casks to the Moslem dealers
at Cairo. The Arabian guides are the
chief buyers, many of them being
adopts at Sailing" the sands at the
base of the pyramids, or about the
sacred temples, where they artfully dis
cover these scarabei before the very
eyes of the Yankee tourist and sell
him for an American dollar an article
a cent, perhaps within a stones throw
of his own home.
In a report on the German esti-
mates for this year a secretary to the
British embassy in Berlin states that
in the new estimates a sum of $40,0 900
is inserted under the head of further
ance of scientific. especially ethnologi-
cal, studies in China" In explanation,
II lie OnnDfinnnd fhot Of
China advances, a more exact study
of the individuality of East Asiatic
nations is becoming a necessity. 1t is,
therefore advisable to station perma-
nently in China German scholar we'll
acquainted with ethnology and the
Chinese language, whose object is to
develop intellectual relations with a
little known form of civilization.
1t is stated in an English journal
that the Canadian government has
purchased the steamer Gauss, which
was built three years ago for the Ger
man Antarctic expedition, and the
vessel is now in Bremen harbor. The
Gauss is to be commanded by Capt.
Bernier and a picked Canadian crew,
and is to be employed at once in con-
veying relief stores and coal to the
government steamer Neptune at pres
quently she will be engaged in survey
work on the coast of Labrador. Capt.
Bernier hopes to be able to utilize the
Gauss in 1905 in an attempt to reach
the north pole from Canada.
A French specialist on the throat
and voice has discovered that every
man unconsciously betrays his charac-
ter when he laughs. So does every
woman. So to study your sweetheart's
silvery cachinnation is to probe the re-
cesses of her mind says the physiol-
ogist. Each person laughs in one OF
the vowel sounds The man or woman
who laughs in "a" who emits a hearty
"Ha-ha," is frank, loyal and loves
noise and movement. Those who laugh
in 'e" are phlegmatic, some of them
even melancholic. Their forced He
he!" comes from no sense of forgive
ness, nor is it impelled by amusement.
The laugh in 70" indicates on the one
side generosity and good companion
ship; on the other holiness or brutality.
Never a villain in a melodrama but
who Knocked his victim with "Ho-hoi"
Those who laugh in "u" are misanth-
ropes and the hateful noise they utter
when they grin should warn their fell
low-creatures against them.
The Department of Agriculture re-
ports most interesting experiments
made by Prof. Poffa, of the University
Of California, upon men engaged in
hard manual labor most of the time
and students working to support them
selves while pursuing their studies.
The professor says: Nut are the
cheapest source of energy, peanuts
ranging far ahead" The price, 3.6