The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


stuff which the ice-cream man dispenses
in the streets are common in every great
city, and an inspection of the filthy sur
roundings in which the cream is prepar-
ed should be more than sufficient to war
rant enactments thai would prevent this
wholesale poisoning of youth. The medical
officer hopes that mothers will see to it
that their children are forbidden to pa
tronize the street barrow.
"A novel suggestion comes from man
who has been looking into the growing
chemical industry of producing artificial
perfumes. He says that the sense of
smell in man is wholly uncultured, but
that it is as capable of artistic develop
ment as our perception of color. In
walking through the country, for ex-
ample one can seldom identify the plant
from which a certain odor comes; it is
necessary for the plant to be in sight.
He thinks that the sense of smell can
be cultivated so that there can be in
slant and complete Identification under
there, or under any other circumstances,
and that this cultivation will be brought
about by the continual production of new
odors in the manufacture of perfumes.
AN interesting case of somnambulism
is reported by NJ. Badaire, director of the
Normal School at Blois, France, 1t is ac-
credited to DIR. Dufay and printed in the
Proceedings of the Society of Psychical
Research" writes DR.. r. Osgood Mason,
in the Ladies' Home Journal "Theophile
Janieaud was a pupil at the Normal
School, and in the month of July of his
second year he commenced to walk in mis-
sleep. On one occasion he got up at night,
determined to go fishing. His brother
in-law, NJ Simonet. decided to accompany
him, but before starting he induced him
to alter his plans and go and visit a rela-
tive instead. Accordingly this was done,
Janicaud remaining fast asleep and I'M
disturbed by the barking dogs or the IA
tigue of a long walk. Finally, he was
ready to return, and on the way, coming
to a narrow and dangerous path close to
the river, his brother-in-law cautioned
him to go carefully in the darkness, Jani-
caud, with some scorn, declared that he
could see the better of the two, and to
prove it asked Simonet if he could see
the match under his foot, and, sure
enough, there was a match. 1t was a
dark night and besides Janicaud was
some thirty feet ahead of him and had
his nightcap drawn closely over his face
of the making of hymnals there is no
end, says the New York Post. A new
Methodist Episcopal hymnal, which is
being prepared, will contain, it is said,
only six hundred hymns, to replace the
eleven hundred of the old. The average
layman will probably regret that the
number is not reduced stin more, say to
two or three hundred; for it may be
doubted if there are more than three hun
dred really good hymns in the English
language. The rest are put into the col
lections because they were written by men
ay,oip in 70 fbPU 9Tp inn
peccable from the point of view of doc
trine or because they appeal strongly to
some members of the church, whose
taste in such matters is very poor Hap
PLY, the standard of church music in this
country is steadily rising. Sunday-school
music, which a few years ago was par
ticularly bad. has been greatly bettersd
by the wide sale of such collections as
that made for Plymouth Church, Brook
Ign, by the late Thomas G. Sherman.
Since the Hymnal Committee of the Meth
odist Church contains a man of such fine
literary taste as Prof. c. T. Winchester
of Wesleyan University at Middletown,
Conn, the new hymnal will certainly be
d vast advance on the old, even should
he allow as many as six hundred hymns
to pass his scrunity.-
Nowhere in the world, perhaps, in any
field of endeavor, do men labor under
such tremendous pressure, and maintain
such a terrific space as the newspaper
workers. 1t is a pace that makes men
old al 40-an age when, in other profess
sions, they might be first firmly estab-
fishing themselves. The making of met
r0politan daily is the tiercest. bitterest,
most eXhausting struggle in the world.
Every man in the office is constantly on
the jump. Minds are trained to work at
railroad speed, to make instant decisions,
and the wear and tear is frightful. The
heaviest burden naturally falls upon
those in authority. says Munsey's. They
do not long stand the strain. l have
seen three men whom l numbered among
my friends go insane while in executive
positions During the Spanish-American
war, when the souls of newspaper men
were tried as never before, l saw one of
the ablest journalists that New York
has produced in the last decade leave the
composing room, where he was making
up" and rush through the editorial
rooms raving maniac, still clutching
proofs in his hands. He died few
weeks later without recovering his rea-
son. His associates were shocked and
grieved, but it never occurred to them
to be frightened The third victim died
few weeks ago. raving like the others.
aging editors of the New York newspa-
pers are less than 40 years old. Truly it
is the pace that kills. While the workers
themselves have no real appreciation of
the pressure at which they work the pro-
prietors have-which explains why three
or four men are so trained that they can
take charge of the different editions at a
moments notice Horace Greeley once
said that the way to make a journalist
was to make him sleep on newspapers
and to feed him on printers ink.
The Beriner Tagebiatt brings the news
of a considerable sensation recently caus-
ed in Constance. on the Lake of Con-
stance, by an incident occurring there
in military circles. A new casino for the
officers of the garrison, recruited from
the principally of the Grand Duke of
Baden, was to be inaugurated. Above
the entrance was the Latin inscription
"Imperatore Gulielmo Secundo Gloriosis-
sine Resnante Aediioatum' Corrected in
the most glorious reign of the Emperor
William I'D. This inscription has now
been quietly removed. 1t is understood
that the officers at Constance were in
formed by the general commanding the
army corps that the person who rules in
Baden is in the first place the Grand
Duke although the Kaiser is the ODER
feldherr of the German army.
An interesting literary discovery is re-
ported from oxford, where a number Of
hitherto unknown poems by King James
! have been found in the Bodleian Lii