The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Nov comes along the quack doc
tor with the theory that consumption
is caused by STOPPING back and droop-
ing shoulders, both of which neces-
sarily make the chest fiat or hollow,
says a writer in the New York Press.
For ten or fifteen years the notion. will
be laughed at by reputable physicians
because it is the notion of a quack,
so-called; then it may be generally be-
lieved and accepted. The quacks are
the inventors and discoveries in the
medical profession, just as the coiners
of slang are the builders of a Ian
guage.
During the past summer Galveston
has been disinfecting with sprinkling
cart. To the alleys, the low streets,
the fronts of market houses, and the
refuse of fish and oyster shops the
cart has paid almost daily visits, and
it is generally admitted that the prac-
tice has done much to preserve health.
The Board of Health is working on
the "ounce of prevention" principle,
and the distinfecting cart was part of
its campaign of education in the adj
visibility of a liberal use of disinfec-
tants. Those who will agree to use
disinfectants are furnished with them
by the city without cost, and the re-
suit, according to the Galveston News,
is that the city has been in a SUPERIOR
sanitary condition throughout the sea-
son.
The regard in which the Cubans of
this city held the late President Nc
Kinley was shown on the day before
bis relapse, when he asked that he be
permitted to smoke a cigar, says the
New York Tribune. Senior F. E. Fon-
SEGA, who represented the Cubans af-
terward in sending the floral tribute to
the capital, at once instructed the eX-
pert of his factory to select the choic-
est leaves of Havana tobacco and have
made one hundred cigars to be sent to
the President. This was done at once,
and they were ready to be forwarded
on the following day, each wrapped in
sllken tissue paper, with the Presi-
dents name thereon. His death pre-
vented the sending of the gift, and Sc
nor Fonseca has distributed them
among few of the Presidents close
friends as mementoS.
"A curious letter from Mindanao,
in the Philippines, has been received
at the War Department in Washington.
1t is written in characters not unlike
the notes of a musical score, and is
an acknowledgment of a gift by Walto
Mama Datoh Baqui, one of the native
chiefs. His conduct had been so ex-
emplary at the time when other in
habitants of the Philippine Isles were
giving much trouble to the United
States that Gen. Macarthur, after a
tour through that part of the archi-
pelago, decided to send Datoh a cane
He accordingly had one beautifully
headed and engraved, at an expense
of about $50, and forwarded it to the
loyal chief with his compliments The
acknowledgment, translated into Eng
fish, is as follows: This letter from
your brother Wato Mama Datoh Baqui
to his brother the Captain General of
the Philippines concerning the appro-
pirate present-a cane-which I have
received from his excellency through
the commanding officer at Malabang.
j wish to express my great gratitude
to him for his thoughFul remembrance
My pleasure at receiving it reaches
the skies"
1t is popularity supposed that
Noah's Ark is the first ship of which
we have any record, but Egypt. that
land of mysteries and surprises. shows
paintings of boats that were built and
navigated at far earlier period than
2S40 B. c., which is the date usually
assigned to the flood. 1t may have
been one of her boats thus pictured
that provided Noah and his three sons
with a proper model for the Ark,
though the proportions must have been
different or fewer animals must have
existed. ]. De Morgan, the French
Psychologist, about six years ago, dis
covered in brick vaults near Cairo a
number of boats that are certainly as
old as the date at which the Ark was
built, and perhaps a bit older. They
are, it is true, but small craft, measur-
ing 33 feet long, or feet wide, and
80 to SO inches deep. They resemble
in general form the pictures painted
by early Egyptian artists, which show
what boats were used seventy and
even eighty centuries ago. And to-
day, when the fellah steps aboard his
small oar-propelled skiff, he uses yes
sci the shape of which has been little
improved during the ages that have
past since the Shepherd Kings ruled
the Valley of the Nile.
On the occasion of giving a concert
Madame Sala engaged Paganini at a
fee of so guineas, says the Golden
Penny. The next day she repaired to
the violinists home, and handed him
the sum in gold, the sight of which
filled the great player with such vio-
lent emotion that he plunged his fin
gers among the bright pieces, which
he poured over his arms and hands as
though they were water. Despite this
display of avarice, however, he return
ed the fee to Madame Sala. When he
received fl 900 in gold as the price of
some shares, the late Littleton Holt,
the proprietor of the Iron Times has
tened to his hotel in the West End,
and, rtiring to his bedroom, emctied
the money bags into his bed. Thither
he promptly followed the sovereigns,
among which, having for a time rolled
and tumbled. he ultimately fell asleep
For his novel. Les Memories du Dia-
ble." Frederic Soulie received from his
publishers 10000 francs in gold Over
joyed at his good fortune he hurried
home, and pouring the louis dor into
a footbath plunged his feet into the
glittering treasure, where he kept them
Tor over half an hour, smoking the
while a Gargantuan cigar and building
castles in the air Madame du Barry.
when at the. zenith of her power, had a
bath so constructed that on touching
a tap a cascade of golden louis-from
a reservoir that was always kept we'll
hlled-mingled with the flow of scented
water. This device was fashioned IL
is said, to represent the legend of Da-
nae.
A writer in the Outlook SAYS: 81