The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Deutsche Destillateuren Zeitung, the fol-
lowing simple method may be employed:
Take a glass tube, bent at right angles,
whose long leg is equal to the hight be-
tween the bunghoe and the upper floor,
while the shorter one need only be few
inches in length. The shorter end is now
connected with the bung by piece of
rubber hose. the longer one is placed in
a vertical position and the bung is open
ed. According to the law of communicat-
ing vessels, the liquid will rise in the
tube to exactly the same hight as in the
sack, so that the level of the fluid can be
ascertaned with great accuracy.
A rather striking light on the life of
6, 400 years ago has been obtained by the
recent discovery of Susa, in the Tigro-
Euphrates valley of some 'remarka bic
Babylonian inscriptions. Chief among
these is a granite obelisk, four feet high,
on which are engraved the title dee-s
Of extensive estates, purchased by one
"Manishtu-irba," King of the city of
Kis!l, one of the oldest Kingdoms of Chal-
dea highly-organized state of society
is indicated by the terms of the agree
ment, as shown by the names of trades,
officials and the relations between the
King and his tenants. The price of one
field includes many miscellaneous items,
such as cleavers, and wedges, asses, jars
of oil and male and female slaves.
"A German medical writer believes that
pain occurring in an extremity or cir
cumscribed nerve area is often designated
as neuralgia. while more frequently it is
of psychogenetic origin, due to neuras-
thenia, hysteria, or hypochondriasis. AS
these varieties of pain have, up to the
present time, defied various therapeutic
measures it Is worthy of mention that
the author claims to have cured several
cases by acknowledgements means. BY
systematic exercises he causes the patient
to neglect the pain emanating from the
affected area, in that the patient concen-
trates his or her entire attention upon
some object like the ticking of a watch.
If this fails, the patients are taught to
direct their attention to two areaS-one
near the seat of pain. the other at some
distance from it. The author claims by
these procedures to have established in
sensibility in the former painful areas.
There is a god for sale in cornhill,
London. 1t is Hindu deity, 1,1OO years
old, and has a wonderful chrysoberyl
cats-eye gem set in it. The cat's-eye is
set in a very yellow topaz, and looking
perpendicularly at the god the face of the
Below the topaz is an Indian native gold
base incrusted with diamonds and set
round with nine gems called the Mine
Charms" These are represented by the
following precious stones: Diamond, ruby,
sapphire, chrysoberyl. cat's-eye, coral,
pearl, hyachinthine, garnet, yellow sap
phire and emerald. After having been
worshiped In an ancient Delhi temple
about 1000 years, the year 1893 brought
q CHI in thn DlY ma 3
medan conqueror Kuthuddin. He wrested
Delhi from the Hindu kings and destroy
ed the Hindu temples as rough-and-
ready means of providing material with
which TO build the great MahOmmedan
mosque of "Kuth- Musjid," which perpetu-
ates his name to this day. The god was
placed i'll the Mogul treasury, where II
remained ga years. Then came the In
dian mutny in 1857, and it was removed
by the Queen of Bad Shah Bahadoor
Shah. the last King of Delhi. and it came
into the possession of the present owner,
who wishes to sell it,
In the theater of the Royal College of
Surgeons. says the London Chronicle, Mr..
n. c. Mcnamara delivered the "Hunte-
rian Grafton" the special subject within
which he dealt being the form of the hu
man skull in relation to the question Of
the prehistoric inhabitants of Western
Europe and the nature of the race of men
to which we belong. The reason why the
brain of apes is 50 defective appears to
be attributable to the small capacity of
the fore part of the creatures skull,
caused by its consolidation during the
first year of life in a rigid closed case
within which the animals brain cannct
expand while mans brain developed till
&c. taNl, IQ.tf MI nl
ways the case, for the skulls of the men
living in Europe during the interglacial
periods more closely resemble in form and
structure the crania of anthropoid apes
than those of existing Europeans, and
the rough Instruments they used are evil
dence of their low standard OF intellec-
ual development In consequence, how
ever. Of the innate power of growth pos
sessed by their crana their brains were
able to respond to the call made on them
by the more complicated conditions of
their environment. which had led not only
to fixed hereditary physical character
such as those typical of the Northern,
Central and Southern inhabitants of Eu-
rope-but elso to spec allied areas of
nerve structure, by which transmissible
mental qualities were controlled. In the
same way our vast and increasing town
population were showing, even in the
course OF rev generations, indications
of change alike in their physical. men
tai and racial characters which, under
existing conditions, would be more pro-
nounced among their descendants.
Surgeons of repute are becoming more
and more averse to performing serious
operations in private houses" remarked
New Orleans physician the other day.
says the New Orleans Times Democrat.
quite recently, to give YOU an idea of
the feeling on the subject, very we'll
known man was asked to operate in a
case of malignant tumor. which had not
progressed very far, however, and pre-
sented no SPECIAL difficulties. The patient
was nervous, middle-aged woman, with
abundant means and a beautiful home,
and she refused positively 90 be moved to
a sanitarium or hospital Very Well
said the surgeon, then you must send
for someone else. This is a simple opera
ton he went ON to explain and I have
performed it at least twenty times with
out losing case. In justice to my repu-
tation ! cannot undertake ID in a place
where the conditions are so unfavorable.
If anything happened l would receive all
the blame The patient remained obsu-