The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-24
ITEMs OF INTEREST.

Sixteen cents a day will feed a man al
moderate work and 10 cents a day is re-
quired for food for a woman This is
the result of experiments begun by Dr.
II. b. Gibson of the Missouri State Uni
versity, and continued after his death by
Profs. Sidney Calvert and David w May
Many studies of dietaries We're made The
actual amount of food consumed each day
and the cost thereof have been actually
determined The average cost per man
per day at the University Boarding Club
at Columbia, is 1919 cents; of this amount
MT May said probably cents worth is
wasted. The cost in private families would
be smaller with less waste.
The highest and lowest temperate
capable of being endured by the animal
creation give the superiority by all odds
to man. the difference between the high
est and lowest limits in this respect being
25O degrees Fahrenheit says the New York
Tribune. French troops in Algiers must
frequently train and march at a heat of
122 degrees above zero, and a French pro-
lessor is mentioned who during a stay in
the Sahara with tribe of Tuaregs, OBJ
served heat of 1853 degrees. Attendants
in Turkish bath establishments work ten
hours day in rooms where the air is arti-
ficially heated all the way from 155 to 1876
degrees Fahrenheit. On the other hand,
man viii stand greater cold than any of
the other animals. Thus, the lowest tenn
peratures known have occurred in Siberia,
temperature of so degrees be-
low zero being not uncommon there,
while at Werchojansk as low as
SO degrees below zero has been OBJ
served. 1t appears, therefore, that men
can stand a cold of 80 degrees below zero,
while a heat of 100 and even $50 degrees
Fahrenheit is the extreme limit in the OPP
posite direction.
An exclusive cablegram to the Globe
Democrat from Rome under date of Sun
day. says: Leo XIII, as if to disprove al
reports current concerning his alleged
failure of his mental and physical powers,
has just issued a dainty volume of Latin
poems entitled Gamma Novissima. As
he does not call them ultimatum. or last
poems, il may be taken for granted that
he looks forward to living long enough
TO publish many more similar volumes.
The poem with which the book opens is
a beautiful set of sapphics on that memoir
able Christmas day at the expiration of
the fifth century. when Clovis, King of
the Franks was baptized, with thousands
of his soldiers, by Remigius, bishop of
Rheims, thus laying the foundations Of
Christianity in France. 1t is singuarly
artistic and noble, and fully bears out
the assertion that Leo XIII is the most
scholarly Pope who has ever occupied
the chair of st. Peter The volume like
wise contains rules for the promotion of
health and longevity. Horauan in their
stlye, they advocate a sufficiency of the
best in eating and drinking, and modera-
ton in all things The Pope is neither
vegetarian nor is he in favor of total alb
slinence, and he emphasizes this fact in
his volume"
-Babriele d'Annunzio, the Italian move
list and dramatist, hopes to bring about
the erection of a theater, built after the
style of the ancient classical theaters, to
stand on the shores of the lake of Albano.
near Rome. He expects it to be opened
in the spring of 1899, and has at his dispo-
sition, so he says, money enough-3, 100000
or 100000 francs-to carry out the project
1t is to be open two months of the year
only. In it he desires to produce TRACE
dies in which an absolutely modern inspir-
alton will be paired with purity of form
worthy of the best days of Athens. Music
is not to be excluded from these produce
tions like the dance, it will serve to adorn
the works that will be chosen and to hight
en- their meaning. Mr.. dAnnunzio pro-
poses to leave the freest hand to the au-
thors and their interpreters "Whoever
has fine idea and the power of express
ing it in accordance with Graeco-Italian
ideas of beauty may obtain the SURFACES
of this new city of life he says. Besides
tragedies, eclogues, pastorales and satir-
ical dramas will be performed. French
plays may be done in French and Italian.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard will be invited to
several performances. Mr. d'Annunzio
himself is now working on adaptations of
"Antigone" and "Agamemnon which will
be given in the theater. Finally, ii is al
ready announced that the first work to be
performed will be Mr.. d'Annunzio's Dead
City" played by Nine. Duse.
"A report by NJ. Reclus, in one of the
French journals of several cases of severe
injuries of limbs, treated successfully bv
a novel conservative method, has attract
ed much attention. Instead of removing a
crushed limb NJ. Reclus would embalm the
injured structures in antiseptic applica-
tons and wait for a natural separation of
the dead from the living parts, not inter-
fering except to saw through bone. and
after careful disnfection of the skin and
of detached fragments of bone
and Of loose tendons and torn muscle, the
whole wound is forcibly injected with
water heated to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Hot !
water acts as an antiseptic and increases
the activity of other antiseptic agents. and. |
when injected into a large and |
deep wound, 1t arrests hemorrhage and |
warns the chilled and collapsed patient.
The interior of the wound is next thor |
oughly disinfected by a solution of per- |
of potash applied on pieces of |
wool and finally embamed by what is /
called a polyantiseptc pomade, containing
a very large proportion of active agents. |
some of which being absobable, such as |
sublimate, carbolic acid and iodo- !
form, are in small quantities. while 9th
ers which are not so absorbable. as boric !
acid salol and antiDyrin, are distributed !
more abundantly. This pomade is spread
-hickly on bands of tarlatan which are
thrust into all the crevices of the wound. |
The injured part is covered with q laver |
If cotton wool, which is firmly bound down |
o the surface of the limb by bandages. BY |
he end of the third week, it Is stated the |
lead have become detached from the liv-
ng structures and the sloughs are quite |
Dose.
One of the Illinois men at the capital
Who is on the lookout for statistical and
olklore information, has discovered a Sc
les of curious Condolences in regard 70 tho