The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The cost of operating electric rail-
way trains is per cent. less than that
for steam trains of like seating capac-
ity, as shown by the experience of Ger
man railways.
Statistics for the last year show
that So 30 native Germans left their
country to liva abroad. The vast ma
jority came to this country. This is
considerable increase over 1902 and
1901.
The current in some parts of the
Tigris river is so strong that the Brit
ish steamboats, running on it sometimes
can make no Roadway for hours, and
are occasionally turned around COM
pletely.
The French astronomer Touchet, by
using an ingenious method first en-
ployed by Warren de la Rue, has sue
ceeded in making stereoscopic pictures
of Neptune. the planet farthest from
the earth.
Although Bogota is 500 miles from
the Atlantic and only $50 from the Pa
cific, it is less accessible from the Pa
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is situated $3.50 feet above the sea level,
and the weather is springlike all the
year around.
A Toxic newspaper sold many ex-
tres the other day on the headline,
Mobilization of the Staff" Purchas-
ers of the extras found that the staff
referred to was that of the paper,
which was to be increased in view of
the great demand for news.
Snail gardens are getting to be al
most as common in Germany as in
France. The snails are gathered in
July, and fed till autumn, when they
get their shells The dealers pay for
them at the rate Of 20 to Is cents per
hundred, and a hundred make a
meal.
The use of Roentgen rays in the
hospitals of Germany has opened up a
new field of work for women. The
service of nurse for patients treated
by X-rays and as assistants at the
use of them is of a very delicate ma
ture, and in Berlin courses of instruc-
ton for X-ray nurses are to be in
stituted.
Hundreds Of boys from the Denver
Juvenile Court will be sent into the
sugar beet fields near Longmont. Col.
TO work this summer. The boys will
be sent out in parties of TWENTY-FIVE
each, in charge of probation officer,
and will be equipped with tents and
camping outfits. They can earn from
$1.20 to 81 a day each.
The Chamber of Commerce, at
Denver, Col, is considering a propo-
sition to bore one and an eighth miles
into the earth at a point fourteen
miles east of the city in search Of
natural gas, oil and coal. The cost is
estimated at 100000, but the plan is
considered feasible by experts who
have investigated the geological for
nations.
In 1891 an old woman left to the
British Lifeboat Institution the sum
Of $4,000 to be paid on the death of a
thvorite kitten which had survived
her and which was to be provided for
with the interest. In 1902 the cat dis
appeared and the courts have now de-
clded to assume its death and let the
institution have the money, on giving
a bond to provide for the cat in case
it should come back.
According to the United States
consul at Callao, Peru, that country
has many rich, large mineral deposits
or gold, silver, copper, mercury. lead
sulphur coal, salt and petroleum, not
TO name those of less Importance. He
further states that the only things
necessary to develop these vast de-
posts are capital and labor which
would make the republic as renowned
for its mineral wealth as California,
Australia and South Africa.
The rise of the Easter lily is one
of the most sensational features of
greenhouse Horticulture in America
during the last quarter of a century
american florists raise about 5000 900
Easter lilies year. Assuming that
only half of these plants are sold:
that each bears only two flowers "a
good plant should have six to eight
and that the public pays so cents
bud, 1t would seem that the American
people spend at least $4,000, 900 for
Easter lilies every year.
Three men in Paris. whose names
are we'll known in the scientific world
are said to be projecting balloon
voyage across the Atlantic They ara
Capassa, the aeronaut; Berget Sor-
bonnie and M. Reclus, the famous ge
ographer. They propose to start from
the Canary Islands in the month of
May, when the trades will favor them.
and will attempt to make land AT
Trinidad, in the British West Indies.
The voyage, in their opinion, will last
about four or five days only.
Il. Alalin of Marseilles, France.
has devised a method for a chemical
publication of water which is said tn
have given excellent results, Iodine
which is powerful antiseptic, is add
ed in proportions of one part to 100
900, and in most cases DESTROYS ba
cilli within a quarter of an hour. To
make the water palatable, the free 10
dine is then neutralized by sodium
hyposulphite. The water is then Al
tered through charcoal, and is claimed
to come out limpid, colorless and
tasteless.
A bill to prevent persons being
buried alive having been introduced
in the Legislature of Massachusetts.
has attracted public attention to the
possibility, remote as it is, of that ac-
cident. There are several ways of de-
termining if death has occurred: Tie
q cord tightly around a finger: If the
end becomes swollen and red. life is
not extinct. Inject a few drops of
aqua ammonia under the skin: IL life
still exists, red or purple spot will
form. Insert bright steel needle into
the flesh; allow it to remain half an
hour; If life is extinct it will tarnish
BY oxidation. Place the surface OF a
cold mirror over the mouth; If moIs-
ture condenses on the surface resni-
ration has not ceased. In from twelve