The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-04
ITEMs OF INTEREST.

CIRCUS IN 1OFhSnlre, England, recent
ly, when one of the audience called
out, "Rats!" The dog Immediately
vacated his seat and went for" the
rodents. The piano kept on playing.
According to the German income
tax statistics for 1903 the highest in.
come returned by single individual
in Berlin was $4,000. The next high
est was $685. $50. The taxes paid or
these amounted. respectively. to $29, 10(
and $26, $50. Thirteen persons paid taxes
on incomes between 100000 and $780,
900. The number of those taxed or
incomes of more than $3.50 was $3.50
while S7S,4S4 paid taxes on incomes be-
low $3.50.
How to raise chickens will be
taught at the University of Missouri
The curators have decided to offer a
full course in poultry raising. The
poultry business has become one OF
the leading industries in Missouri, the
annual income being estimated at over
$10.000.000.
1t is reported from Rhodesia that
work on the bridge which is to span
the Zambesi river near the famous
Victoria Falls will be begun early this
year. The bridge will be of one span,
600 feet in length, and will cross the
Zambesi some 400 feet above the water
over a narrow gorge, through which
the river flows at that point.
American railway locomotives to
the number of eighty-seven were pur-
chased by the New Zealand govern
ment two years ago, and are now in
opera ton throughout the colony. They
are giving general satisfaction. Ameri-
can passenger coaches are also pretty
generally used, while freight vans, road
wagons, ETC., of American manufac-
ture are also in use.
Perhaps the most remarkable
bridges in the world are the kettle
bridges in Russia and Siberia, of which
Cossack soldiers are expert builders.
They are built up of the soldiers lances
and cooking kettles. Seven or eight
lances are placed under the handles OF
number of kettles and fastened by
means of ropes to form a raft. Each OF
these RATS will bear the weight of half
ton.
William Archer, in the Fortnightly
Review, tells an amusing story of the
economy practiced and necessary in the
early days of the Norwegian Theater
at Bergen. 1t was in 1849, when Ibsen
and Bjornson were creating the nation
al drama. A lady had been engaged
for the part of second old woman
when it was discovered that her elo-
cutionary powers were impaired by the
fact that she had lost one of her front
teeth. Impoverished as she was, the
management came to the rescue and
bore the expense of the necessary dem
hA
after two seasons she had to leave the
tooth behind her, the example of the
dentists art being the property of the
theater. The management were too
poor to part with it.!
Quartz glass consists essentially OF
melted quartz, which is made into
tubes and other articles. 1t is perfect
lY translucent. The initial expert
ments in the manufacture of the new
glass were made in England. The
manufacture of quartz glass has shown
symptoms of vigorous growth. While
two years ago England led in its pro-
dpction, she has since been relegated
to second place by Germany. The prop
critics. of quartz glass are such thai
it will soon replace ordinary glass for
many. uses. If quartz glass can be
produced at q, moderate pfice-and this
seems to be quite possible where cleo
trio force can be cheaplv obtained
from waterpower--it WIN no doubt be
largely employed, especially in the
chemical and electrical industries.
w. A. Gum, of Lexington, KY, has
suggested unique feature for the
Kentucky exhibit at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis. There is, according to
n TN in, ocfe, a II
seven sons whose hight runs from six
and half to seven feet, and he pro-
poses that the state arrange for them
to form the nucleus of a reunion OF
giants, which would undoubtedly prove
popular attraction at the exposition.
There were eight in this family, but
one of them died They are middle
aged men, mainly farmers, finely built
and of good appearance. The commit
tee to which Mr., Gum sent the sugges-
ton has taken the matter up with the
Kentucky Exhibit Association, disclos-
ing the identity Of the family, and an
effort will be made to induce the men
to go to the proposed reunion.
The Geological Museum of st. Pet
ersburg, a very interesting article in
the new number of Nature informs us,
has been recently enriched by a uni
que specimen of the extinct mammoth
from the Siberian tundra. 1t was
first disclosed by landslip on the
bank of the River Beresowka, in the
Government of Yakutsk, about latitude
67'degrees 80. This uncovered the head.
and its flesh was so well preserved
that, though it had been frozen meat
for not a few thousand years, foxes
and other animals began to feed on
it. The Governor fortunately had ear
ly news of the discovery and took
measures to protect the body. A COM
the Academy of Sciences to disinter the
carcass with the utmost care and con-
vey it to the metropolis. 1t is thus
"the first specimen to be photograph
ed at various stages of it's exhuma-
tion."
"A curious radium phenomenon is
reported by M. e. Fourier d'Albe
in the Electrician. Mr.. E. Dorm in
closed 80 milligrams of BuchIer,s
strongest radium bromide in a tube of
Jena. glass free from alkali and &
centimeters long. This was done last
December. At the end Of Nav he
wanted to open the tube. Just as he
was applying a three-cornered file and
had only slightly scratched the surface
the glass was pierced by an electric
spark with an audible noise. The phe-
posing that the negative electrons
had escaped through the walls of the
tude. which We're 0.3 millimeters thick.