The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-23
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dren excel laLe1-DOrn cnlluren IN IlRnl
and weight. says Arthur Macdonald, in
Everybody's Magazine. This may be due
to the greater vigor of the mother at the
birth of the first child. We are reminded
of a fact, mentioned later, that out Of so
great men of this century, 80 per cent.
were the youngest sons. In England it
was found that growth degenerates as
we go lower in the social scale, there be-
ing a difference of even five inches in
hight between the best and worst fed
classes in the community. An investiga-
ton of 10000 children in Switzerland show
ed that children born in summer are tai
Ter for their age than those born in vim
ter; as a majority of children in the pub
lie schools are poor, in winter their pa
rents are forced to onomize more on &C.
count of expense of heating; their rooms
are also liable to be small and poorly
ventilated, while in summer they are out
in the fresh air; food is also cheaper and
more varied. The influence nf unhealthy
conditions on a very young child would
be much greater than when it is older
and better able to resist them.
Mirrors that one can see through"
says the Philadelphia Post, tare a new
invention, already coming into use. They
are of so-caled 'platinized glass;, being
backed with compound made of 95 per
cent. silver and per cent. platinum. and
OFFICIALLY speaking, they are exceedingly
curious and interesting. Looking into a
glass of this kind one finds first rate
reflection it is a mirror and nothing
more. At the same time, a person on
the other side can see directly through it.
For example, a glass of this sort placed in
front of the prescription desk in an apoth-
ecary shop perfectly conceals the pre-
scription clerk and his apparatus. Thus
the privacy of that department is secured,
while on his part the clerk is able to sur
vey the shop and see everybody who
comes in just as If the mirror were or
binary glass. 1t is transparent to him,
but is like any common mirror from the
point of view of people in front. 1t is
easily seen that glass of this kind is
likely to be useful for good many pur-
poses. 1t can be put in the doors of dark
bathrooms, or of any other rooms where
privacy is desirable and light is wanted"
Until last week one of the fashionable
apartment houses in New York had
telephone in an salcove near the main en-
trance, says the Chicago Chronicle The
instrument, which had been put there for
the convenience of tenants, has been re-
moved and the manager gives surpris-
ing reason for the change. Since the
house has been open it was always next
to impossible for a man to use the tele-
phone in the daytime because it was
monopolized by women. This was in it
self bad enough, but there was another
and more substantial reason for the
change mentioned. The women came 10
the alcove in all conditions of dishabille,
some of them absolutely startling in their
frankness. The climax was reached one
day last week when inside of two hours
tour half-dressed women in turn held
long conversations over the wire with
friends. One had her shoe strings dang
ling along the floor, snother's face was
dripping with cold cream, the third wore
felt slippers, which failed to hide holes
in her stockings, and No. had her shirt
waist outside her belt. All needed the
hairdresser. Next day the telephone was
missing.
Among the newer forms of summer
perils for which compensation may be re-
covered on accident insurance policies
may now be included the bite of insects,
says the New York Post This was de-
cided recently by Judge McMasters of In
dianapolis in the case of Carson against
an accident insurance company. Carson
is supposed to have been bitten by a bug
which, apparently for lack of better des-
lBudliOIl, NdS ltTHuGu KISSING &.
Apparently about all that Carson knew
about the accident was that one night
last summer while asleep in his own home
he was awakened by a singing sensation
in his face. On awakening he brushed
from his face bug which, as was stated,
made a hasty departure" whether by
wing or foot does not appear-through the
window. The bite caused a large SWELL
ing, and was so painful that Carson re-
Subsequently, he demanded payment from
the insurance company for lost time. The
company refused payment, and he then
sued. The judge decided that the bite of
an insect which incapacitates a man from
his work should be classed as any other
accident, and he allowed Carson a verdict
of $50. 20.
"A letter from Moscow correspondent
to the London Standard says that the
Russians are steadily establishing their
grip upon Manchuria by the familiar
methods wnicn they always employ in new
territory A complete service of engi-
neers, drivers, etc, has been provided to
work the trains of the Manchurian rail-
way for which locomotives have been
supplied from America, and coaches col
lected from all the state railways of the
empire. These, of course will be avail
able for soldiers, If need should arise, and
the troops are in readiness. The rail-
way through Siberia this spring will carry
a hundred thousand immigrants into the
Far East. Sixteen thousand were settled
along the Ussuri river last year. and the
new contingents are expected to go south
of the Amur into what is still, on paper
Chinese territory. These immigrants are
OF the class subsidized by the govern
ment. They are conveyed at nominal
prices, with all their goods and chattels
provided with land and certain amount
of hard cash. In return for this they are
expected to serve as soldiers when want
ed. Most of the males have been through
the military mill already. This is known
as the Cossack system, and the men are
to all intents and purposes actually Cos
sacks. 1T is by these means" says the
correspondent, that Russia has invari-
ably kept her hold on any territory once
seized, and Manchuria will be no excep-
ton to the rule. 1t is the privileges OF
service and the license accorded to these
men that make them Cossacks, and they
never fail to live up to what we under
stand by that name, as has quite recent
ly been proved at Blagovestchensk and
elsewhere In the Amur region
"A result which seems TO amply vim
dictate the governments expenditure on
agriculture experiment stations has been
attained at the Minnesota station In the
production of a new and improved wheat.