The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

va, an S-year-old singer who made
her first appearance in London the
other day, that her voice has one of
the greatest ranges of any living sing
er and rises to the top G. Madame
PATHS voice did not go beyond the
top D, Miss Ellen Beach Yaw's goes
to the top E, and Miss Edith Helena
can reach the top F.
The police of London have intro
duced experimentally a new measuring
system for recognizing criminals. AS
1t has been successful, it will soon be
adopted by a number of other police
departments both in England and
abroad. In this system only the i'm
pressions of the fingers are taken. Com
pared with the "Bertillon" system, it
has, above all, the advantage of sim
plicity, as it can be applied without
any contrivances, and is, therefore,
much less expensive.
The longest aerial cable for the
transportation of iron ore in Spain is
now approaching completion. The ca
BILE, which is twelve miles long, starts
from Culativi, point in the Sierra
Alhamilla, 4,400 feet above sea level
and terminates at Casa Fuerte, on the
coast. At Casa F'uerte is a pier FOL
Jle lOdOilS VI SIedIneTS. II Is Claimed
that the mines which are to feed this
cable have been proved for over
100000 tons of red hematite of APP
proximately 50 per cent. iron ore and
per cent. of manganese. The cost
of the cable and the right of way will
be about $155, 900.
The wreck chart of the British Isles
for 1902 is thickly spotted with
wrecks around the coast of Devon and
Cornwall. The total number of ship
ping casualties on the shores of Great
| Britain and Ireland during the year
was 4,124, an increase of 1I6 over the
previous year. The number of lives
lost as a result of these casualties
totaled 627. During the last forty
| nine years as many as 31,271 persons
persisted from shipwreck on or near
| the coasts of the United Kingdom
During the same period the number of
lives saved by the ROYAL National
Lifeboat Institution totaled $4,000.
1t is with great rarity that one is
enabled to observe the effect of light
ming on the animal organism on such
a large scale as has been studied by
Ripe, who reports that a building oc-
cupied by three squadrons of Rus
sian dragon regiment was struck by
lightning. says the Medical Record
There were twenty-five men in the
building at the time. One man and
a horse were killed, and all the Others
were more or less severely injured
Post mortem examination of the dead
man and horse revealed as the most
important abnormities hyperaemia OF
the brain and its membranes, hem
morrhage into both hemispheres, aug
mentation of the subarachnoid fluid
and congestion of the internal organs
especially the lungs, liver and kidneys
The symptoms in the survivors were
the severest on the part of the nerv-
Gus system. All the men were rem
dered unconscious. and in some in
stances there were commissions, deir-
ium and other signs of conclusion OF
the brain. All these symptoms dis
appeared.
"A battle royal between squirrels
| and pigeons was watched with much
interest in the state House yard
Thursday, says the Columbus (O.)
Press-Post. An early visitor brought
with him a small sack of hulled hick-
DRY nuts. He began to feed them tC
an old white squirrel. when a pigeon
| was attracted by a number of the ker-
| nels on the ground. AS soon as he
| began to pick, the old squirrel made
lunge and the bird went into the
| air for a few feet. 1t lighted again
and again upon the ground, but every
| time it was chased away. Other pi-
| geonS were attra cted, as we'll as other
squirrels, and the visitor, in order tc
keep up the excitement, emptied the
| entire sack. The squirrels, however
| proved themselves to be the masters
of the situation. In order to thor
| oughly brighten the pigeons the little
| animals began to make peculiar noises
and chase each other about in a. cir
Gle, but at no time did they leave the
| space covered by the nuts. It worked
| well, for the pigeons soon tired of fly
| ing up a short distance and down
| again, and disappeared, leaving the
situation entirely in the hands of the
enemy.
An Oklahoman named Lawson had
an unpleasant experience while visiting
his brother-in-law, Milo Blodgett, who
lives near Adobe Walls, in the Texas
panhandle, says the Kansas City Star
Lawson went wolf hunting alone. Next
day his horse was found saddled, but
| without a bride. Blodgett summoned
about thirty neighbors and began
| searching for Lawson, who was located
| after nearly "a days hunt. His fee;
were sticking from the top of a vol
den, and about three feet of dirt rested
on his body. Lawson was so fastened
that he could not extricate himself. He
| had dug down in the wolf den about
| five feet on a slant in a manner some
| thing like the entrance to a dugout
then lay down in the trench to reach
| in after couple of coyote pups. He
caught one and threw it out, and it is
supposed that this frightened his horse
which was tied to a bunch of beaI
grass near the hole. The horse, max
| ing a lunge, caused the banks to cave
the dirt falling on the PROSTATE body
| of the man, covering his body and
| head. The dirt caught him with his
arms stretched out in front so he could
not use them to much advantage, but
| he managed to work his hands and
shove the dirt down the hole until his
head was uncovered and he could gel
air from the top. He lay in this posi-
tion from o'clock Thursday after
noon until 10 o'clock on Sunday morn
| ing.
The street commissioner of Atoka
has removed one of the oldest Indian
landmarks of the town, says the Kan
sas City Journal. It was a bois dare
post ten feet long and twelve inches
| In diameter, in the middle Of what is
now known as b street. 1t was placed