The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-26

Vaccination is a new cure fo
drunkenness.


leo, looks like buttermilk and is sold
for 3 cents quart.
Arsenic exists normally in man
and animals. in the skin and it's APP
pendages, the thyroid and mammary
glands, the brain and the bones. In
| the other organs it has been found
only in slight traces.
Change of color is one of the best
indexes to the emotions of the fish
When the fish is sick it's color is apt
to be faint, while when in health, an
CRY or breeding the colors stand out
brightly and wildly.
Iceland, cut off from the rest of
the world, save for slow mails, is to be
linked to other countries by means of
wireless teIegraphic connection with
the Shetland islands. This is to follow
the action of the Icelandic Parliament,
at it's last session, in voting a yearly
subsidy of $3.50 for twenty years for
that purpose.
The electric weld is becoming a
more and more important factor in
many industries. During recent years
the extension of it's application has
been steady, and each year has wit
messed its entrance into new fields.
sometimes, indeed, new nanufact
or new ways of obtaining results.
have been based upon it's use.
The German government railroad
exhibit at the st. Louis Fair shows
the block system and switch signals
now in use in Germany More than l.
800 feet of track, in the construction
Of WI 1jCh hnf ir6t al
were used, have been laid. There are
a station house, two switch towers
and one intermediate block signal post.
Eloquent of the state of affairs in
London's fire department is this notice
Issued by the fire chief: 81 have no.
ticed that. when turning out at many
stations, the movements of the horses
are very slow. Instructions are to be
given that the horses are to be trained
so as to come up to the appliances
smartly. I desire that later on the
horses shall go to the machines with
out being led
During one generation of thirty
four years-those preceding the year
1901-the divorces granted in Canada
numbered only sxty-Iiine. In the
United States during the same period
the number of divorces was almost 700,-
900. The population of the United
States has averaged twelve times that
of the Dominion, while their divorces
were 10000 times as many.
The Public Works Committee of
Birmingham, England, in submitting
to the City Council proposition for
| the construction of an additional under
ground lavatory, ETC., announces that
where small charges are made there are
profit possibilities in conveniences of
this kind. The committee said that
the four underground lavatories, etc,
were paying the city a net profit of ST.
433 a year.
A species of acacia which grows
very abundantly in Nubia and the
Soudan is called the "whistling tree"
by the natives. It's shoots are FREE
quently distorted in shape by the
agency of larvae of insects and swol-
len into a globular bladder from one
to two inches in diameter. After the
insect has emerged from circular
hole in the side of this swelling the
| opening, played upon by the wind. be-
comes a musical instrument sugges-
| tive of a sweet-toned flute.
The Society of German sIronmas-
| tiers recently celebrated at Dusseldorf
the completion of the twenty-fifth year
of its existence, and also the twenty
| fifth year of the presidency of Carl
Lueg. The society is in a very four
ishing condition. The meeting was at
| tended by about eight hundred mem
bers. The announcement was made
| that a gold medal had been instituted
to be called the Carl Lueg medal, and
to be awarded for conspicuous services
| to German metallurgy. The first award
| was made to Mr.. Lueg.
The so-caIIed N-rays, the new form
of invisible light discovered by Blond
| lot in France, is found to be given off
| by bodies under strain, as in COM
| preston of bending. Hence vibra.
| tory body, such as a tuning fork or
bell which is undergoing rapid alter
| mating strains, is source Of the rays,
1 which also emanate from the vibrat-
| ing air surrounding a sonorous body.
| The rays are detected by their prop
| erty of increasing the brilhancy of
| phosphorescent substance. When the
revolving disk of a siren is made
| slightly phosphorescent it is seen to
! shine out more strongly every time
the instrument is sounded.
Some of Prof. Curies more recent
| CAPCl lllCilto WITH IduluiH nave u6dlt
/ with it's presence in mineral waters,
! says an exchange. To an English in
| teFviewer the scientist said: MY ex-
/ periments leave no room for doubt.
! There are certainly radioactive princi-
/ pies in these waters. But as I am not
I doctor, Ii would be rash of me to
/ say they have a curative virtue. How
! ever, in view of the facts we have TO
| go upon, it seems highly probable that
| they have" 1t is a very old medical
| opinion that the waters of certain ia
| nous springs must be taken on the
| spot or their curative virtues are les
| sened. Analysis is unable to give any
| explanation of the potent virtues of
Carlsbad waters. The discovery Of ra-
dunn in several springs offers a new
! ana most interesting explanation of
the hitherto mysterious and curative
activity, which vanishes when they
have been some time bottled. Taking
| samples Of the radioactive springs.
| Profs. Curie and Laborde found that
after bottIing their activity fell by a
/ half In four days, and eventually van
ished altogether.
The recent murder Of Gen. Bobri-
koff, Governor OF Finland brings to
mind the similar murders Of President
Mckinley; Humbert, King of Italy;
| Elizabeth, Empress OF Austria, and
| President Carnot of France, and peo-
| pie ask themselves what has become
OF the murderers. who have not been
| executed like Czolgosz and Caserio the
| slayerS Of Mckinley and Carnot saws
| the New York Tribune Only fhoss n