The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ing Transcript to the fact that modern
rapid transit systems In our large cities
are potent factors in checking the growth
of ceaters of dense population. The low
fare for lons distances permits persons OF
moderate means to live in the suburban
oil semI-suburban sections.
The London Daily Mail has just awak-
ened to the fact that Tin big American
cities ice is carried round like milk" 1t
says that lin London one searches i'm vain
for an ice shop or warehouse. Though
thousands of tons are sold every week.
the average Londoner Is unable to procure
ice. One difficulty is that the weather is
variable Another is that London is be-
hind the times"
China proper is about half the size of
the United States. leaving out Alaska and
the Indian Territory. and has about Ave
and half times the inha bitants The
Chinese empire is about as big as the
United States, including Alaska and add
ing Mexico 1t contains close to six times
as many inhabitants as the United States.
II Is nearly 100000 square miles larger
than all Europe, and contains about the
same poulation.
In addition to the medals already de-
signed in commemoration of the Paris
Exposition. says the Gaulois, three other
medals will be struck in connection with
congresses which will assemble during the
exposition at the Palace of the Cours ia
RENE. The first medal, designed by N.
Dupuis, Is intended for members of the
Numismatic Congress, and represents Nu-
mismatoiogy as nymph, seated, aud
scrutinizing coin. The second medal,
CONNIE lucrative of the Congress of Med
ha hnn lnxr
and the third is by M. Roty, this being
intended for members of the Congress of
Valuers. On the diverse the third medal
has fine figure of the republic, and on
the reverse Fortune pouring into a Golfer
the contents of a cornucopia.
An English shoe trade organ quotes
one of the travelling statesmen of a Liver
pool house as follows: In looking back
ward one feels that the spring season has
been especially noteworthy in respect to
one peculiar item, viz, every commercial
traveller representing a British house has
felt American competition to be a real
live fact, and far from being the bogy that
II was said to be some time hack. Slowly
the various American houses have ad-
vended and spread themselves around
adapting themselves to the wants of each
particular market with a cleverness which
petitors. They are thousands of miles
away, and home manufacturers are on the
spot; and yet. in spite of all advantages,
they have increased their trade and to
some extent established themselves"
A Chicago man with nothing better to
do has discovered that at least 20 per cent
of the women of that city "toe in From
observations made in houses. railway cars
and out the street he finds that the habit
of about one-fifth of the women is 20 turn
their toes in. Sometimes II is both feet and
sometimes but one. He does not pretend to
account for this ungraceful habit. but ii
presumab bly, arises from improper or a to-
tai lack of physical training. Certain IL is
there is scarcely anything more distress
ing than to see the points of a pretty wo-
mans shoes converging toward each 9th
er from beneath her dress. No one of an
observing nature who once saw her feet
in glass would ever again toe in, as the
saying is. 1t is habit acquired in child
hood, but which might easily be correct
ed by mothers-if they did not toe in
themselves
English experts are convinced that jim
goism is new development of brain dis
ease. Others believe that it is the result
of cerebral laws which have aweys sx-
listed. but of which little has been known
until lately. A sudden inroad of exciting
images-such as the spread of the Ameri-
can flag over the entire world the control
of { = earths commerce by the United
STATES, etc.-causes strong vibrations over
the nerve centers, the brain becomes
overweight and the mental balance is
temporarily upset. In this condition per-
sons fall into a state of evaporation, be-
come fatuous and often cruel, and swell up
with pride and self-content. The condi-
ton is contagious because the image Of
one mans mind is transmitted to the
brains of other men, with the result that
while none reflect each is influenced by
the impression that his sensation is that OF
many others.
I Two of the many snuff boxes of the
First Napoleon came to England in the
| shape of presents. says the London Tele-
graph. The one bequeathed to Lady Hol-
land. and handed to her, if we are not
| mistaken, by Gen. Count Bertrand, is in
the British Museum. The other, given
personally by the great captain to Archi-
! bald Arbuthnot, surgeon of Her Majes-
| tvs Goth Foot. was, as we mentioned
yesterday, sold on the anniversary of
| Waterloo, at Messrs. Sothebys, and real
lied f140. Archibald Arbuthnot lies in the
graveyard of Ecclefechan, his native
| place, close to the remains of the great
est of all his fellow-townsmen, Thomas
Carlyle who only wrote short mono
graph on the modern Hannibal in He
roes and Hero Worship" 1t Is curious
to reflect what would have occurred If
these two had ever met. We might have
had a sequel to THE French Revolution"
But the future author of ID left long be-
fore the surgeon returned from the wars,
and che world is the poorer, perhaps, by
one great book.
1t is fact of comparatively recent dis
covery in chemical metallurgy, says Pear
sons. that metals lose their vitality from
repetitions of shocks and strains, and may
be said.as the expression is. to suffer from
fadgue-that is. they may be worked till
their molecules fail to hold together As
is Familiarity known, bars of tin, rods of
brass and wires of any metal will sepa-
rate, owing to fatigue, IL bent backward
and forward continuously But by care
full experiments, however, the fact is made
10 appear that reDedy exists for this
condition of metals If the overstrain does
not border on rupture, and this remedy is
very much like that which is applied In
the case of an overworked human frame
namely, rest. Feather-edged tools recover
their vitality better than any other. OF
course, the length of time required for this
rest varies with different metals and the
subjected. Hard metals, such as iron and
steel, use up one and two years time in
the process. On the other hand, soft met