The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-25
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pltals. an ample medical stan. inspection
OF the meat sold. carefully sunk ana COW
cred wells. vaccination. examination or
native houses IN the towns. drainage and
finally a careful study OF the black wa
Ger fever by Dr. Koch.
What promises TO be the best apple
crop In the history Of Canada-not merely
In quantity. but quality-is now fast ap-
pgoaching the harvest season, according 10
me United States commercial agent at
stanbrldge. In three weeks the fruit Will
begin 10 come 10 Montreal preparatory 10
shipment 20 Europe. Last year Montreal
shipped .Ss.000 barrels OF apples: the year
before. sg3.o00 barrels From present APP
pearances this years shipment will be at
least twice as large as last years.
a severe wind and hail storm struck
Function, Md. a few nights ago just
after Charles Cozad and his family had
gone TO bed. The storm lifted the whole
house. except the lower floor from Its foun-
dalton and carried the walls and roof up
into the air. deposting the house right
side up and complete. except for the floor,
nearly 100 yards away. The family awoke
20 nnd themselves sleeping In the open
air. the house having been literally blown
from over their heads. Not one OF them
was injured
"A newly discovered property Of cells
Of various organs has just been announe-
ed TO the Paris Academy Of Sciences by
NJ Delezeune. According to a notice In
Ia Nature. III an animal Is inoculated
with the liquid given by any macerated
organ. this animal yields a serum which
iuoculatcd IN new animal. brings about
the destruction OF the cells OF the CORE
spending organ. Thus. for example. We
may cause the destruction OF che salivary
glands. the Kidneys. etc. An emulsion Of
the liver, when given by incubation to an
animal. determines a Modification of It's
serum such that This serum. when like
wisc administered TO another animal pro-
vokes the destruction OF the hepatic cells.
The action Is strictly limited to the or
gans effected Furthermore NJ. Dele
zeune has discovered that the serum IN
question. inoculated continuously in weak
doses In a healthy animal. makes IL i'm
muno against the action OF stronger Sc
runs"
la France Militaire states that the
French Red Cross Society has decided rot
to send any ambulances to accompany the
French troops on land in China. as Il Is
an incumbrance than anything else. The
society, therefore. will confine its energies
to the equipment and sending out, az
cost Of 10000 OF the hospital ship Notre
Dame de Salut- Special provision has been
made for heating the vessel throughout in
anticipation Of the cold weather prevalent
IN North China during The winter The
medical stan OF the ship consists Of nine
doctors, two chemists and twelve hos
pltal attendants. Three OF the doctors
and ten Of the attendants belong TO the
French navy and accompany the vessel
by order Of the minister OF marine. The
vessel has accommodation for 800 patients
She will be stationed at the base OF op-
eraiions but AZ occasion arises she will
convey the sick and wounded to Japan.
thus following the example Of the hospital
ships OF other nations.
a Parliamentary paper has recently
been published In England dealing with
The prevention OF cholera and typhoid by
incubation. In regard TO incubation
against the frst-named disease the opln-
ions OF the medical officers and the sta
tistics are decidedly IN favor OF the opera
lion. and on certain OF the tea plantations
a preference Is shown for inoculsted cool
les for lahorers. Respecting incubation
against typhoid or enteric fever. the re-
suits have been even more satisfactory
and in one series OF experiments, where
1000 soldiers were inoculated. no bad or
unfavorabie symptoms followed. Only
i've or six OF the men so treated contract
cd the disease. and with the exception OF
one case. Il was Of an exceedingly mild
type. The chief British medical officer
in India states IN his report: From ex-
periments which have been carefully made
II has been conclusively proved TO the
satisfaction OF those who are best COM
petent 20 Judge Of the matter. that anti
typhoid incubation. when properly carried
out. achieves an immunity equal 20 or
greater than that which accrues 60 a per
son who undergoes and RECEIVERS from an
attack OF the disease"
-Neodesha, Kan. promises to become
the Mecca OF fat folks. The inhabitants
Of the town. 1900 in number. are remark
ably thin. most Of them weighing not over
100 pounds. A correspondent Of the New
York Commercial who has just visited the
place. reports his observations as follows:
''lf all the people in Neodesha we're strip
ped and stood up In line and dressed only
In Indian attire they would make a pie
ture equal TO the represe nations OF starv-
ing people In India. Physicians say that
the great bodies OF oil and natural gas
under the town are natures anti-fat rem
eiy." II y propoied. IN fact. to start a
great anti-fat sunitarium Al Neodesha At
this place Il appears. all tho men wear
boards. because they are too lean to be
shaved The typical Populist-long, lank
hirsute and voiuble-is illustrated In every
citizen. II went 10 a show IN the even
ing" the correspondent adds. land IN an
audience 81 ~ people ! don't think one
weighed over los pounds The clerk at
the Ncodesha postofiioo H. feet : inches
IN hight but weighs only 81 pounds.
strangely enough. the only iohhlng black
smith In the town Is also the thinnest and
liehtest man IN weight-S0 pounds: the
wife Of the orgarist IN the Unitarian
Church is 2s years old has three healthy
children, and weighs s. pounds this SUM
mcr. although she always fats up some
Ia the winter. having once, IN February
last tipped the scales al S9N"
-Havelook Ellis. In the Popular Science
Monthly, has an article on the "Psycholo-
~ % Red which well summarizes what
is known on this interesting subject. Red
rays are life to the chlorophyll-bear
plants; violet rays are death. Plants
growing under blue glass become insensl-
tive and make no progress: those under
red glass attain extraordinary devotion
ment. but the red Is not favorable 10 Tho
rlpcuing fruit. The foliage under red glass
g. lighter. under blue darker than under
other colors. Rcd or orange produces The
greatest amount Of vegetation but The
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