The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

mite vehicle, even when unexpressed,
most psychologists agree. That this
vehicle is the mental image of speech
has been asserted by some, while 9TH
ers believe that it may be also the
image of written language or some
special combination Of images that is
neither of these.
There are now in Belgium four
schools for the instruction of fishermen.
The pupils are taught how to read
weather charts. how to make the best
use of currents. what the bottom OF
the sea is like. how to make their Own
nets, how to manage a boat in storm,
how to use the latest inventions in the
line of fishing apparatus, etc. There
are about $50 pupils now in these
schools.
The Benedict Arnold house. a Rev
dictionary War landmark at New
Haven, is being torn down. The front
doors and some of the colonial win
dows have been given to the New
Haven Colony Historical Society for
preservation. For many years the old
house where Gen. Arnold lived when
an apothecary before the war has been
the center of several store yards. Its
interior has been a warehouse.
-Edouard Meyer finds that the veg
etable organism, as we'll as the animal,
gives off N-rays in varying quantities,
as may be made evident by the feebly
fuorescent screen. The most marked
indications are given by the green
parts, such as stems. and especially
leaves, but the emanations are feebly
detachable from the flower. On treat
ing tissues in active growth with the
vapor of chloroform, so as to slacken
their vital functions, the N-ray indica-
tions We're CORRESPONDENCE lessened.
Egypt is threatened with a plague
of locusts, and the government has
TO combat the pest. Owing to the
young locust's habit of never turning
back or aside when once started in a
certain direction, it is possible, by dig
ging trenches, sometimes miles in
length, to entrap the invading hosts
and destroy them. That, of course,
must be done before the locusts take
to the wing. At that stage nothing
can stop their ravages. and they sweep
everything before them.
1t has been observed that imme-
diately preceding storms an unusual
face of ponds, and in a recent issue of
London Nature a plausible explanation
of this phenomenon attributes it IT,
change in barometric pressure. Il is
suggested that the scum formation is
due to the rise of marsh grass from
the ooze at the bottom of ponds fol-
lowing a sudden fall in the barometer,
presaging weather change, the gas
carrying along with it some of the SOL
i'd matter of the ooze, thus forming the
scum.
What is said to be the largest ar
senic mine in the world. and stated to
be at present turning out seventy tons
month, is situated in Floyd county,
Virginia, seventeen miles from Chris
t1anSburg, the nearest railroad point.
The number of persons employed at
the mine is about 1875, who are housed
and supplied with the necessaries of
life by the company owning the mine.
The camp is provided with electric
lights, and the plant. which is consid-
cred the most modern in existence for
the treatment of the ore, is driven by
electric power.
Panama., the new republic, has a
coat-ofarms showing a comprehensive
design 1t consists of a. shield, sur
mounted by an eagle, in whose beak is
the ribbon upon which is written the
motto of the State, ''Paz, Libertad, I'm
ion, Progreso" (Peace, liberty, union
progress). Below, on the upper part
of the, shield, side by side, are the i'm
plements of war and of peaceful occu-
pations. Below this, occupying the
central place, is a land and water view
the site of the canal the fruits OF the
harvest and a rushing train on a tack
fill up the point of the shield. Flags
drape it on either side and stars suc-
mount the eagle.
If the description of the Philip
pines given by a writer in a geograph-
ical publication is anywhere near cor
rect those accustomed to the ways of
Americans will be in no haste to emil
crate to that quarter of the globe in
habited by them. If the Caucasian,
or the native, for that matter, would
avoid cholera and dysentery he must
either boil or, preferably, distilI all
drinking water, and the government
maintains a distilling plant in Manila
for the benefit of the government EN-
ployeS. The slim diet of rice and Vege-
tables which suff1ces for the native
will not sustain the American, who
must exc out subsistence on canned
goods and frozen meats from Austria
liza or Chicago. As there are but a
half-dozen mich COWS in all Manila
condensed milk and canned cream
must be used. Rents are almost pro-
hibitive. Huts of four rooms, built of
nipa, rent for 1856 American money a
month, the annual rent being more
than twice the cost of the building.
Everything that the American wants
and must have is extraordinarily dear,
and the mere cost of a bare subsist-
ence is at an unimaginable altitude.
Manila is evidently not the place for
the poor adventurer, because there are
many places in this country where
food is relatively, cheap. the climate
good and work at high wages plenti-
full. The man with capital may find
opportunities in the Philippines, but
the man with capital can find an op-
portunity anywhere.
"A writer in the Paris Revue DIES
Deux Mondes, NJ. CASTOR Cadoux. has
drawn a fancy picture of that happy
time when London, Paris and Berlin
will be lighted and warmed by electric
energy derived from the sea. In those
economic days, sea mills win skirt the
shore; they will convert the rise and
fall of the tides into electricity, which