The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-03

An official investigation at Liver
pool showed that widely sold article
of extract of beer contained half
its weight in yeast extract, substance
imported from Germany.
The Somali wild burrowing rat lives
in the sand, never coming above the
surface. 1t feeds on bulbs and roots
and its scientific name is heterocepha-
lus phillipsi. 1t was discovered in 1885
by E. Lort Phillips.
"A gymnasium for the Emperor of
China is to be built in the palace at
Pekin. His majesty is in poor health
on account of his sedentary life and
gymnastic exercises have been recon-
mended- to strengthen his muscles.
A practical working laboratory for
assaying. minerals will be an exhibit
of the Colorado School of Mines at the
Worlds Fair. 1t will be operated by
students. The Colorado commission
Metals get tired as we'll as living
beings. Telegraph wires are better con-
ductors on Monday than on Saturday,
on account of their Sunday rest, and
rest of three weeks adds 10 per cent.
to the conductivity of a wire.
Colorado will exhibit potatoes at.
the Worlds Fair of monstrous proper
tions. The commission has 500 tubers
that aggregate a ton in weight. The
heaviest weighs ten pounds and the
lightest three and half pounds.
With the assistance of the latest
machines "A piece of leather can pe
transformed into a pair of boots in
thirty-four minutes, in which time it
passes through the hands of sixty-three
people and through fifteen machines.
Louisiana will show at the Worlds
Fair a model of the levees of the state,
extending from the Arkansas line to
the gulf. including the passes. This
model will be twenty by twenty five
feet, and win be exhibited in the trans
portation department.
The Czar has issued an order by
which the provincial governors of Fin
land are empowered not only to re-
scind the election to municipal and
communal Offices of politically I'M.
sound" persons, but to appoint in their
places others of the governors own Sc
lection.
The Oldest building in the world
that has been uninterruptedly used for
church purposes is st. Martins cathe-
dral at Canterbury. The building was
originally erected for a church, and has
been regularly used as a place for re-
ligious gatherings for more than 1900
years.
In the last annual report of the
British commissioner of British Cen
trail Africa, the details of exports are
interesting as containing the first mem
tion of the export of cotton. Last
spring 900 acres were under cuitiva-
tion, and it is expected that by Decem-
Der there would be 1000 acres.
Probably even in prehistoric times
men have noticed the face of the man
in the moon," says Prof Pickering in
his book on the moon. Plutarch noticed
1t and even wrote whole book on the
face. But besides this, many other OBJ
Jects are supposed to be visible. The
dark markings on the surface are
likened by the Chinese to a monkey
pounding rice. In India they are said
to resemble a rabbit. To the Persian
they seem like oceans and continents
rejecting as in mirror.
Jensen has successfully inoculated
white mice with cancer. This will ma
terially aid the pathologist to study
the methods. of the growth and COM
mun1cation Of cancer. He carried the
cancer through nineteen generations
by reimplantation of the cancer cells
He remarks that these cells. isolated
retained their vitality for twelve davs
at room temperature, while az the
temperature of the body they perished
In fxHra ~ fr.T L,
a mortar the experiments resulted
negatively. Bright light was ranidlv
destructive to the cells and also one
fourth of 1 per cent. solution of car
bolic acid.
The astronomer royal at the annu-
al dinner of the Society of Engineers
said that the American astronomers
really seemed to monopolize the whole
OF the science. They had gone ahead.
ne was sorry to say, even Of English
astronomers. The progress they had
made was due, as much as to anything
elses to the fact that they had been
able to get larger funds for the con-
struction of their telescopes. AS ii
advanced the science of engineering
involved costly works, and, unfortu-
nately in England, it was very difficult
to get sufficient money to.proVide those
costly works that were essential to the
advancement Of science.
An authority on telephony says
that the profit on long-distance serv-
ice, excluding that between New York
and Boston, is meager for distance
in excess of $50 miles, and that on ac-
count of the extraordinary quality of
construction and high standard of
maintenance necessary, and regardless
of rate, the New York Chicago lines
cannot handle sufficient amount of
telephone business to make any profit
1t takes the exclusive use of two
heavy copper wires to talk from New
York to Chicago, and while Ave-
minute conversation Is going on Ito
say nothing of loss of time in getting
the subscribers together) the telegraph
companies. with their ''Quads" and
much lighter wire, can transmit in five
minues forty kilograms, at so cents,
amounting to $40, as against 80 for a
telephone call Then the cost of
maintaining Of the lighter telegraph
service alongside Of the. railroads is
from 25 per cent. to- so per cent less
than the long-distance wires over the
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