The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AHe largest university IN the world
dourishes at Calcutta. 1t has over 10000
students.
Millionaire Bradbury, whom the San
Francisco authorities arrested for spit
ting on the floor of cars, has again been
arrested for kicking a music teacher down
his back stairs.
-One of the busiest members of the state
board of health. is Secretary Abbott. who
IS preparing his annual report on the use
OF antitoxine which is made up from the
returns submitted to the board by the phv-
slcians and hospitals using it, saws the
Boston Transcript. The board at its labor
atory in Bussey institution, prepares
about one-half of the anttoxines used in
the state, cne-quarter being made bv the
city of Boston, The results of using tba
antitoXine have been as gratifying this
year as last. An examination of several
sheets of tabulations from the returns
which came in all through the year shows
that of 2O5 cases all but % recovered. This
was about one-half the number reported
and proved that only about Il per cent.
died. Under the old treatment the deaths
were % or 30 per cent, so that there is a
reduction of at least one-half in the fatal
tiles since antitoxine has been used.
Edgar Brown, a shrewd New England
er, is making a fortune by breeding pole
cats or sl1unks, as they are commonly
called Brown lost all of his money in a
Canadian gold mine swindle a few years
ago, and shortly afterWard while in
store of the Hudson Bay Company he dis
covered that the skin of a polecat was
worth H.25, says the Philadelphia Times
When he learned that in addition to this
the carcass of full grown polecat will
yield gallon of oil that is worth 81 or S.
he determined upon the scheme that is
making him rich. He leased an island
with an area of about 100 acres in the
lake of the woods, hired halfbreeds to
catch lot of the animals for him and
soon had 200 or 800 of them in captivity
on his island. Last year he raised 400
polecats, and now has about 1000. They
multiply rapidly and Mr. Brown thinks
his novel farm will soon be yielding him
an income of $4,000 or $4,000 a year.
Washington Corrington, an aged and
wealthy citizen of Peoria, Ill, has just es-
tablished a trust by which property worth
between 100000 and 100000 is to go to
the erection and endowment of a college
in Peoria, to do for general education what
Mrs. Lydia Bradleys gift of 81, 000,O 900 will
do for polytechnic training, says the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean. 0. J. Bailey, president
of the board of trustees of the Bradley In
stitute, is one of the trustees under Mr..
Corrington's plan, and Prof. Newton c.
DouSherty, superintendent of the city
schools, and recently president of the ma
tional educational association, is another.
Mr.. Corrington directs that the property
shall be invested by the trustees until it
reaches a certain amount, after the plan
followed with the fund for the Lewis in
stitute in Chicago, and that 100000 shall
be set aside for endowment Mr.. Corning
ton is 81 years old, and has lived in Peoria
over sixty years. When boy he got what
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always had desire to make an education
easier for others. ..a.
An increasing use is being made in the
west of what is termed "compo board"
which is pronounced superior in some re-
spects to laths and plaster in the con-
struction of inside walls, says the New
York Sun. One-inch boards are ripped
into strips .one-quarter of an inch in
thickness and four feet in length. 1t
takes but little time thoroughly to Grad
icate all moisture from these strips, and
which, as they lie solidly edge to edge,
they are covered top and bottom with
specially prepared building paper which is
cemented with an insoluble cement. With
out further manipulation the boards are
nailed upon the studding of the building
in process of erection, forming a solid
wall, which is now ready for any suisse
quent treatment desired. This compo ma
terial is handled by the carpenter rather
than the plaSterer, and is said to con-
stitute a satisfactory sheathing, not only
air tight, but also stiff and strong enough
to take the place of lath or boarding.
which enabling the complete finishing of
the wall without plaster.
The fickleness of monarchs is proven
bal, and is well illustrated by the move
ments of the King of Siam in Scotland.
says the Westminster Gazette. AS origin
ally arranged, the visit was to last a
week, Edinburgh and Glasgow sharing
alike in the honor of the lxingly presence.
First the Glasgow visit was deferred, and
then absolutely abandoned, while the visit
to the Scottish capital was restricted to a
couple of days. Glasgow is feeling might
lily sore over this curt treatment, but even
some of the kings Edinburgh entertain
ers have reason for some heartburning
The royal programme on Wednesday in
cluded a visit to Edinburgh castle, which
contains the jewelled regalia worn by the
kings and queens of Scotland. When the
party drove up TO the castle gates the
king changed his mind, evidently presum-
ing his treasure to be an insignificant ar
ticle alongside some of his own costly jew
els at home. At the Forth bridge the res
ident engineer was about to give an expla-
nation of the principle of contraction and
expansion of the bridge, when the king
interrupted him with the remark, Its too
wet, anu Ee-eIlltIe0 the Train.
The curious custom of trepanning-
that is, of removing small pieces of bone
from the living head-is very ancient and
widely spread. In his recently published
book, Prehistoric Problems DR.. Munro
has devoted a chapter to Prehistoric Ire
panning and Cranial Amulets." About
the same time Drs. Fl. Malbot and r. Yer
neau published in rAnthropologie (tome
ViD memoir on the Chaouias and the ire
panning of the skull. in the Aures. The
Djebel-Aures, Mountains of the Cedars,'
form the southeast border of the Algerian
plateau; here and in the neighboring Die
bel-Chechar is the center of trepanning,
says Nature. The natives are carefully
described; they belong to the Berber stem:
a portion-perhaps one-eighth-are fair;
thus the external, as well as the cranial
characters show them to be a somewhat
mixed people. The method of trepanning
is very fully described, and a native doc
tor showed DR.. Malbot a skull with over
a dozen circular holes, two Sits, and a
large irregular orifice, al of which had
been pierced when the man was alive! The
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