The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

gram OIL corrosive SuDLndIe maze once
a week for long period.
According to the Chinese consul at San
Francisco, there are not more than y, coo
subjects of the Chinese emperor now liv-
ing in that city and they are leaving at
the rate of 5000 to 1900 a year The pro-
portion of those who return to those who
depart is small. Evidently the almond
eyed knights of the tub in Frisco have
laid aside enough good American dollars
to see them comfortably through a long
spell Of rainy weather
Siberia will soon lose its terrors in the
popular mind The opening of the ST.
berian railroad has caused a rush of
Russian peasants for the plentiful and
cheaper lands in Siberia, and whole viii
lagos in Russia are being left without
Inhabitants. So far this year $4,000
peasants have emfgrated. and in the mid
die of May there were 1900 persons
encamped at Tchelyabursk, awaiting
transportation. 1t is reported that the
government win stop banishing criminals
to Siberia, and will use only the island
of Saghalien the northern provinces and
the prison districts as receptacles for con-
victs.
No one is permitted to practise medicine
in the republic of Hawaii without a Ii
cense, says the Medical Record. A person
wishing a license must pass an examina-
ton before the board of medical examin-
ers, and if this is done successfully the
board of health is notified. and recon-
mends the minister of the interior to issue
a license. All applicants must pay to the
minister of the interior a fee of $40 Any
violation of this act entails a punishment
by fine of not more than $3.50. A license
may be revoked at any time by the minis
tor Of 49, r,4r e.
duct, gross carelessness, or manifest in
capacity.
billiard balls must be we'll seasoned
before they are used for play Manufac-
turers have incubators in which to store
them that they may undergo the drying
process. Some incubators will hold fully
1900 balls. When they are first made
they are green" Sold ivory is the only
satisfactory material of which to make
them; artificial balls Chose made of
composition are much heavier and do
not wear well. English makers, to give
the red balls perfect color, steep them
in decoction that is sometimes describ-
ed as the "guardsmans bath" This is
extracted from the old coats of Tommy
Atkins" and for billiard balls it is the
finest scarlet known.
DIR. Drysdale, writing to the British
Medal Journal, apropos of certain re-
Gently published statistics of smokers
among the students of American col
leges, recalls some facts discovered by Ber-
tillon in 1855 He found on inquiry made
by him concerning the pupils of the Poly
technic School of Paris that los of the
pupils smoked and So did not smoke He
then arranged the 100 pupils into eight
divisions. according to the place they held
in examination, 20 in each rank, and found
that of the 20 who stood highest, six were
smokers and fourteen non-smokers or
the next 20, 10 were smokers and 10 non
smokers; of the next 90 IL smoked and 3
did not smoke; thus showing how much
higher the non-Smoker stood intellectli-
ally than the habitual smokers He also
found that the mean rank of the smoker.
as compared with that of the non-smoker
deteriorated from their entering to their
leaving the school. AS a result of Ber-
tillon's inquiry, the minister of public in,
struction of France issued a circular, al
dressed to the directors of schools and
colleges, forbidding the use. of tobacco md
cigars to students.
There is a woman in the county of
Cornwall, England, who speaks Ian
guage known by no other person in the
world, says the New York Journal. 1t is
the ancient language of Cornwall and
once was spoken by hundreds of people
Dolly Pentreath is the woman in oues-
tion and she lives in the town of Mon
shale, in Cornwall. She was born in 1906
Notwithstanding this fact, she is very
vigorous, and her memory is good. The
Cornish language is a branch of the Gel
tic tongue, which was once widely spoken
throughout the European world 1t be-
gan to decline about the first quarter of
the last century, being superseded by the
English language. At the beginning of
this century there were no more than two
heads of families who could speak the
language. The father of Dolly Pentreath
was one of them. He was a fisherman by
Occupation. Up to her twentieth year she
could speak only Cornish f1uently. while
her English was just about Ineligible
When she grew up there was no one with
whom she could converse in Cornish ex-
cept her father and after his death, in
1880, she was the sole one in all Cornwall,
in fact, the whole world, who could con-
verse in that language
While mankind was suffering during
the recent warm weather, saws the New
York Tribune, the ants and other insects
in the Greater New York were very ac-
tive, for SO degrees is considered by then,
a most enjoyable temperature During the
not day ant wars were not of uncommon
occurrence, and the red slave-making ants
-4AASAit 10 7SSli VI iiiSliS nome their D.
tives, which, strangely enough, are black
OF color. One afternoon a long column of
tnese ants was observed at Arrochar, on
Staten Island. They had already van
pushed the blacks, whose net was under
stone about 300 feet away. and were
engaged in carrying the partly developed
young ants to their own nest. there to he
brought up as slaves. Many Of the ants
come home empty handed, or empty law
ed, for they transport everything in their
mandibles. Now and then one would he
seen carrying companion, who, perhaps.
mad been taken Ill or injured in the war.
Running about the red ants nest there
were number of blacks that had been
captured when they were young and were
now serving their masters. They often
relieved the warriors of their burdens car
ried them into the nests, and thus assist
ed IN the further enslavement of their
kind. This does not seem a pleasant fea-
ture of ant civilization of which philoso-
pliers talk, but their wonderful thrift ana
untiring efforts for the general good of
the colony are admirable traits