Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-26
NEW CRIMES IN THE CALENDAR
nan's Lawisss Ingenuity Is Giving She
 Courts Added Trouble


 Under the laws of the land as they exist at present the theft of lamp is larceny; 1t may be Roman lamp or Greek lamp, an oil lamp CT an electric lamp. Whether it constitutes grand larceny or petit larceny will in certain states of the union depend not upon its age or newness, but upon it's mar ket value. On the other hand there are a great number of modern crimes which could not have been committed n ancient days because the instru- ments for their perpetration did not exist. They are the outcome of mod ern civilization and they require new legislation The tapping of 0 tele- graph wire is modern form of high way robbery. In the old days the method was to waylay the courier on the roac and to rob him of his purse or of his message The formula of the modern highwayman is not Stand and deliver" but simply Deliver" &H6 he may get a message from the light~ ming courier which may be wortA morS to him than a Well-filled purse. But there is nothing to be gained by indis- criminate tapping. It is some special message or information that the thief is looking for, possibly for it's effect on the stock market or on other busi- ness ventures, but the use of cipher codes renders the tapping of telegraph wires Of little avail even in time or war, unless the code as well as the message has been stolen. For the tap ping of power or light lines the mod ern highwayman comes in out of ch9 rain. He can do his business better indoors by attacking the electric me" ter, confusing it's calculations and thus getting more current than he pays for. Such at least seems to ss the imoiies- lion of recent statutes
 wss Playmate Of the 11etm
 There has just died at Clapham, t.a 7. land, a somewhat interesting chafac ter in the person Of Nrs, Middleton. who was well known throughout tl9 district as having in her younger " been playmate and close compaH.og Of her majesty the queen. IT. 2ld lady, who at the time of her deatss. .ad passed her hundredth birthday, wa. during the early part of the century, maid to one of the queens laeses-.n- waiting, and used to converse freely of her fecollections of her maies9ess childhood, witk which she was closely associated, and of which she retained some very pleasant memories. She was recently the recipient of substantial gift from her majesty on the onditnon af her birthday
 Three rs.sone "a Tobacco smoh e.
 2. Binz, in the Deutsche Aerzte-Zel sung, says there are three kinds of poi- son in tobacco smoke: nicotine; that which is obtained by the slow ash for nation, pryridin, etc, and carbonic OK. iee. C2rbonic oxide Is always easIy shown to be present in tobacco smoke. It's percentage depending upon the vol ume of the smoke gas, varies between 0.6 and 7.6. The variations depend upon the rapidity of the ash formation and the quantity of the atmospheric air drawn ir or the lung air blown out. A never-sa-slight acute poisoning from larbonic acid of tobacco smoke is, un- der ordinary conditions, scarcely to be expected. Whether the daily taking in of the small quantity of carbonic oxide which, through many years of smoking, gets into the blood of snaok- srs, cannot set up a chronic injufy. ia s question still to be sattle6