The Savannah morning news., 1900-09-27
ITEMS or INTEREST.

keeper cannot recover for debts for liquor
amounting 10 more than s.. The son or
an eminent English throat specialist late
~ ran up a bill OF $50 az an English puo-
ne house and refused payment upon the
validity OF this act. A. the statute was
stnl on the books the judge was obliged
10 acknowledge it's force.
According TO the Scientific American.
Dr Ormondy has discovered process Of
brick manufacture by which the immense
hcaps OF spent sand and refuse glass with
witch al glass works are surrounded may
hc converted into servlleable building ma
tcrial The new process Is said 10 be
economical and cheap, and 90 furnish
bricks having many advantages over those
az present in general use. The amount
Of waste material available for this pur-
pose may be judged from the fact that
"a to glass works OF Pilkingt ton Broth
err. IN Great Britain there IS an accumu-
lltion Of this refuse OF over l,yooe1 tons,
aud The pile g. now being added to az the
rate Of l,2o0 tons week
1t g. now believed on very good evil
dcncc that rats are important agents In
spreading the plague when b has once
gained entrance into a town. II. there
fore. becomes a matter Of considerable inn
portance 10 destroy Thorn. and IN way
which VII not further disseminate the
disease II poison or fumiratiou g. em-
ploycd. the effect will probably be 20 scare
the rats away from the locality, and tbus
lead TO the Infection OF new districts. II
che rats are caught ia traps or hy means
OF dogs or ferrcts. there b. danger of in
f,ction from handling them. and through
the transfer OF some Of the parasites with
which the rats are always covered there
b. danger OF injecting the dogs ana fer
rcts on all accounts the plan OF eNter-
mination proposed BY ". J. Dunysz OF the
Paris pastour Institute seems the most
desirable. IL consists in the infection Of
a given rat population with a bacillus OF
common occurrence which is fatal TO the
rat This plan has already been tried with
considerable success at Lille, Hamourg.
Copenhagen ana Tunls as well as in
Paris itself for the determination OF rats
quite apart from their connection with
ihc plague.
The following version Is given IN the
Philadelphia Inquirer Of decr-shooting
accident near North Greek. Ia the Adiron-
daek Mountains in which Mrs salma A.
Kerr Of New York city ana Charles r..
Bailey o. Philadelphia were badly wound
ga By Dr Charles T. Dade who mistook
CURED at dusk on the evening OF Sent.
b. about two and a half miles from the
Fahawus club lodge. la Essex county.
The edges Of clearngs there are favorite
resorts OF hunters. who after conceaiing
Themselves in the bushes. await the com
ing OF the game. Mr.. Bailey. who Is sec
rotary ana treasurer Of the Bailey. Banks
4 Biddle Company Of Philadelphia, with
Mr. Kerr. was at the edge OF one or
ing coat OF reddish brown. something re-
semhling the color OF a deer. ana stood
watching the eastern eue OF the clearing.
Mrs Kerr. ride In hand. was sitting on
a rock a few feet away when DR. Dade
apprc ached along the road from the west
Tie caught sight OF Mir. Bailtys shooting
coat through the bushes when about 20
yards away and Ia the twilight mistook
the wearer for deer. Or Dade raised
his rifle and fired. The bullet struck Mr.
Bailey iu the small Of the back passing
through the body and striking Mrs. Kerr
in the right thiEh. Mr.. Baileys condition
improved rapidly. hut In the case Of Mrs
Kerr blood poisoning SCI In. and IL be-
came necessary o amputate her leg"
a writer In the London Times fur
nishos some interesting calculations based
on the Official statistics OF the losses OF
the British army len the South African
war He estimates The mean strength Of
the entire British forces engaged at 52C0
officers and 1880 non-commlssioned OH
GERS aud men. The fatalities were. OH
GERS killed or died o. wounds $50: died 81
disease. $50. total. $50. Non-commlss Toned
officers and men killed or died 81 wounds
$3.50; died OF disease. $50; total 1850 The
rates Of mortality We're as follows OF
the officers. 721 per i.ooo were killed or
died OF wounds and al.6 per 1910 died
from disease. total 1927 per 1000. or the
non-commissioned officers and men. 10 per
l0o perished ia battle OF died Of wounds
ana 3l.S per 1n0 died 81 disclose. total
rob per 1000. These figures Indicate that
the officers suffered in battle a loss three
and half times as great as that OF the
men, and suffered equally from disease.
Exact figures would show thar the per
centIge Of loss In battle among the OH
GERS was higher stili Oficiai 'dguros
show that tn force of 25.ep officers ard
Si2 $50 men eng ged Ia the Franco-Geruan
war. the battle losses were 1850 officers
ard 2G627 men. Whiia 80 officers and To-
$50 men met their deaths form disease
The rates 81 mortality were as follows.
Officers, SIS per 100 killed or died 81
wounds. and 50 per 600 died from disease
and other causes. total. IA per eo0: non
died OF wounds. 300 per 100. died Of dis
ease etc. l4.2 per i.o00. total. Al per 100
Here also there Is a large discrepancy be-
tween the number OF officers and men OF
the Killed In battle; but while In the
Franco-German war an officer had a
double chance Of being killed as COMPARED
with his men. IN South Africa the Brit
ish officer had TO face three ana "A half
chances
In an article on this subject she Brit
ish Medical Journal cites che two follow
ine cases, which have come under ia no.
tice: a strong. healthy Girl Of q was
stung on the neck by a wasp and tainted
on regainlng cousclousncss she COMPLAIN
"a or a general feeling Of numbness ana
partial blindness. and vom,tcd: she suffer
90 severe abdominal plan. She recovered
~ The course Of u few hours Two months
later she was siung again. this time on
che hand Her face became flushed she
again complained Of numbncss ana biln5-
ness, suddenly became very pale tainted
ana died twenty-five minutes after she
was stung. The second case was that OF
q girl Of 2. who wns stunE by n WASH
behind the angle OF the jaw. The STING
was az once extracted aud ammonia sr-
piled. In a few minutes she conpl,ine.l
Of fnintncss ana would have fnren IN She
had not been supported. Her face asaun-
"a an expression Of great anxiety. ana .
fcw minutes lafcr she was tossing on the
bed complaining OF q horrible feeling ~
choking ana 81 agoniZing pniu I'M she object