Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-27
NEW CRIMES IN THE CALENDAR
aran's Lawless Ingenuity Is Giving tue Courts Added Trouble.


 Under the laws of the land as they exist at present the theft of a la1p is larceny: 1t may be Roman lamp or 9 Greek lamp, an oil lamp or an electric lamp. Whether 1t constitutes grand larceny or petit larceny will in certain states of the union depend not upon it's age or newness, but upon its 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 perpetratien did not exist. They are the outcome of mod ern civilization and they require new legislation. The tapping of a tele- graph wire is a modern form of high way robbery. In the old days the method was to waylay the courier on the roaG 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 Ana .le may get a message from the light- Ling courier which may be wortk mora to him than q Well-flled purse. But there is nothing to be gained by indis- eriminate 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 of war, unless the code as we'll as the message has been stolen. For the tap- ping of power or light lines the mod ern highwayman comes in out Of shs 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 Ne the impiica- tian of recent statuteS
 s~ss Playmate or the Q1ee.
 There has just died at Clapham, Eng land, & somewhat interesting charae ter in the person of Mrs. Middleton, who was we'll known throughout ths district as having in her younger davs been a playmate and close companion Of her majesty the queen. The old
  passed her hundredth birthday, was, during the early part of the century, maid to one of the queen's ladies-;a- waiting, and used to converse freely of her recollections of her majesty's childhood, witk which she was closely associated, and of which sine retained some very pleasant memories. She was recently the recipient of a substantial gift from her majesty on the oe6aaion of her birthday
 Tllrea Po.soar tn Tobacco smone
 z. Binz, in the Deutsche Aerzte-Eei .ung, says there are three kinds of pol which is obtained by the slow ash for nation, pryridin, etc, and carbonic OK. ide. Carbonic 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 06 and 7.6. The variations depend upon the rapidity of the ash formation and the quantity of the atmospheric air drawn in or the lung air blown out. A never-s~-slight acute poisoning from earbonic acid of tobacco gmoke is, un- der ordinary conditions, scarcely to ba expected. Whether the daily taking in of the small quantity of carbonic oxide which, through many years of smoking, gets into the blood of smok- CTS. cannot set up a chronic iniufy, ia a question still to be settled