The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

some knotty questions to solve. Here is
one of them: Mrs. Lizzie Halliday who
murdered her husband near Warwick, Or
ange county, New York, more than three
years ago, and is now in the Matteawan
Hospital for the Criminal Insane, has APP
piled for a pension. Notwithstanding
that she became a widow by numbering
her husband, Col W. l.. De Lacy, a local
pension attorney, declares that Mrs. Hal
liday, under the act of June q, 1890, is
clearly entitled to one. This law excludes
only the widows of pensioners who die
through their own fault. Commissioner
Evans may decide that the murdered man
assisted in his own death, and that Mrs.
Halliday for that reason does not come
within the law.
Bricks of fruit-pulp pressed solid and
packed in oiled paper are among the nov
elites. At present the bricks made in
France are decidedly better than the do
nestle product, but the manufacturers of
jams and jellies in this state, California
and the other Embarrassing regions are
conducting experiments with a view to
improvements. Mr.. Taylor, pomologist of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture, made a study of the manufacture
of fruit bricks, and brought back a num-
Der of valuable suggestions. 1t is ex-
pected that their convenient form and
their excellent keeping qualities will make
these pulp bricks popular among house
keepers. They can be eaten like any
other sweetmeats, softened to make sort
of jam or sauce, or cooked in pastry or
other desserts. Some of the kinds al
ready successfully manufactured in this
country or abroad are strawberry, rasp-
berry, currant, gooseberry, plum ounce,
apple, peach and pineapple. Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson, in a circular, says:
trfol afniY fhnia or
surprising length of time. They are
all but proof against deterioration, be-
ing perfectly good and fit for use eighteen
months or two years"
DO not attempt to teach left-handed
children to be right-handed, is the Curl
Gus advice given by Prof. Fred W. Sned-
ley of Chicago, in an address before the
Illinois Society for Child Study says the
New York Post Mr.. Smedley, who is
director of the Chicago department of
child-study and pedagogic investigation,
and who holds views radically different
from those entertained by many physi-
clans. says that teaching ambidexterity
is teaching contrary to the law of life.
When We go beyond Nature and attempt
to teach ieft-handed pupils to use the
right hand, we are making a mistake.
Teaching ambidexterity is likely to inter
velopment, and may give the loss of
speech In his investigations on the sub
ject he had discovered that "a surpris-
ngly large number of the children whose
speech is defective are left-handed. Out
of thirty children defective in speech VINO
came to our laboratory, twelve were left
handed; that is about 40 per cent Sew
eral said, When my mother learned I was
ieft-handed she made me carry my arm in
! 4 sling
| with the free use of the left hand in
terferes with the development of the pow
err of speech" The professor, unlike
Charles Reade. believes that strong uni
dexterity is the natural and ideal condl-
ton.
The doctors say that very few people
know how to breathe properly, and those
that do know seldom do it. Oxygen is
the one indispensable thing for the main
| tenance of health and life, and the only
way we get it is by breathing it with
the air. We must breathe in the right
way, however, not only to get the neces-
sary supply of oxygen, but to keep out
certain impurities that either bring dis
| eases directly or prepare the system to
| fall an easy victim to them. The most
| important thing, perhaps, is to form the
habit of breathing through the nostrils.
same temperature as the blood before it
| is taken into the lungs, and it's passage
over the network of blood vessels in the
| mucuos membrane of the nasal canals
| gives it the necessary heat. Besides, the
| air always contains dust particles, and
! il we breathe IT in through the mouth we
run the risk of the irritation that such
| particles often produce. In breathing
| through the nostrils, on the contrary. we
draw in the air gently. along a system
of winding canals, and this not only mod
| crates its temperature, but purifies it at
| the same time. The doctors advise all
| persons that have to lean over their
work, as in writing, sewing or studying,
| to stop work now and then, sit back in
| the chair and take ten or twelve deep
| breaths. This is especially important for
school children, and the wise and consid-
crate teacher will make it a part of the
| daily exercise.
The average mortal who discusses to-
bacco from the point of view of the
| smoker talks learnedly. as rule, about
| nicotine, and the injury that the alb
| sorption of that active principle is cal
| culated to effect on humanity, says the
| London Chronicle. 1t would seem that
nicotine, like fusil oil in whisky is not
| in itself such a dangerous thing when
| little or no nicotine at all in the course
| of our ordinary pipe and cigar expert
mentation. Nicotine is not in itself so
| harmful as ordinarily supposed, but be-
| comes so Qike fusil OLD from the bad
| company which, chemically speaking. it
| Keeps. Hitherto nicotine has been re-
| garded as the only active principle which
| the fragrant weed contains, but one
| learns that, as the result of recent ex-
periments, three new principles have
! been isolated. What effect these latter
| substances may exert on the smoker is
a topic which has yet to be investigated
but it would not be surprising matter
to discover that the consequences of to-
bacco excess, most marked on eyes and
heart, were due Father to the newly-dis-
| covered principles than to the nicotine
itself. / trust the Anti-Tobacco Society
is not going to make capital out of this
new discovery. tor the assertion that TO-
bacco is a poison will evoke the inevita-
Bile remark that. II so, it is a remarka
bly, slow one in respect of its effects AS
my late friend, Wilkie Collins. used 10
say, all the opposition offered to the
use Of tobacco only sends the smoker
back with renewed relish to his pipe or
cigar
The truth of Weissman's statement
that IAN investigation into the history