The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

on the DAY LndI the census Was taken,
and that there has been a net increase
of $4,000 since. This is an average of
1880 inhabitants to the square mile,
showing Norway to be the most thinly
settled of all European countries.
1t was suggested that wireless
telegraphy may be of great use in POI
lar exploration and indirectly the
means of solving the great arctic and
antarctic problems. In the past, and up
to the present time, one of the obsta-
cles, and perhaps the most serious one,
to progress in these regions has been
the impossibility of maintaining COM
munication with a base of supplies.
But it is now thought that the wire
less systems will soon be in such a
condition of completeness as to make
it possible TO equip exploring parties
with them. Should this prove to be the
case, we may confidently look for more
important results from circumpolar ex-
petitions in the near future.
During the demolition of old Mer-
Ger County Court House, at Trenton,
N. j., preparatory to the erection of a
new one, workmen unearthed a quart
bottle of brandy, which had been plac-
ed in one of the pillars at the erection
of the building sixty-three years ago.
The liquor was City years old at that
time. Aaron Reed, a farmer, said d
few days ago that he had been pres
ent when the brandy was placed there
and wanted to be present when it was
taken out, but no one excepting Reed
knew just what pillar contained the
bottle and he refused to tell. He watch
ed the worlmen each day and when at
last they came on the liquor he smiled
cortentedly. When the bottle was open
ed Reed was the first to sample it.
"A captain of a yacht like the Aph-
rodite receives about 5000 a MONTH the
mates, between SIS and $500. Her sea
men receive $50 a month, and so do the
firemen and oilers. The chief cook is
paid at least $50, and his three assist
ants $50, while the head stewart, whose
duty it is to look after the quantity and
quality of the supplies, to attend guests
and to see that everything runs smooth
ly, is cheap at $500 or $125 each month.
1t costs about so cents day, on an
average, to feed each of the sixty men
on the Aphrodite. Then take the cost
of engineers and mates stores, the
maintenance of the cabin and wine
lockers, the various entertainments,
and you find that it costs not less than
$4,000 a month to run her; say $4,000
year. Such figure was cited by
person who is in a position to know.
Among other yachts whose yearly ex-
penses amount to fair-sized fortunes
are Howard Gould's Niagara, George
Gould's Atlanta, John Jacob Astor's
Nourmahal, Commodore Gerry's Elec-
ira, Mr.. Davis Kanawha, and a score
of others. None of these yachts cost
less than 100000 to build. Sir Thomas
Upton purchased his yacht, the Erin,
from an Italian count for $S75,O00.
Breathing through the mouth is an
other great cause of deformity of the
Jaws and malformation of the teeth,
says Leslie's Weekly. Sleeping with the
mouth open produces pressure by the
tension of the muscles, causing con-
traction of the sides of the jaw, a pro-
truson of the teeth, and an elevation
of the roof of the mouth. Mouth
breathing is, by the way, a matter that
parents should never allow to go un-
corrected, as it is sure indication of
enlarged tonsils or adenoid growths-
an enlargement of the tissue back of
the nose caused by repeated colds.
These adenoid growths partly close the
eustachian tube, and are the cause of
almost all the ear-acheS of childhood.
To cut them out is a very simple and
entirely safe operation in the hands of
a skillful specialist. If allowed to re-
main, the child is supposed to have
| merely continued colds, and catarrh
| and deafness develop. Nine tenths of
the deafness of later life is due to
these neglected adenoid growths of
childhood. Even children are far more
| frequently deaf than is imagined. They
are accused of heedlessness and mat
| tention when they are simply defective
in hearing. Sleeping with the mouth
| open, and inability to breathe through
the nose, are sure symptoms of these
| enlarged tissues.
The midsummer comforts of cleo
| tricity form the topic of some leading
i editorial paragraphs in recent num-
Der of the Electrical World and En-
| gineer. Hard to bear as was the late
unexampled heat, it would have been
| much harder but for some mitigating
! appliances furnished by electricity-ap-
| pliances not available to the last gen.
Grafton. Thirty years ago men would
| have been obliged during the tropical
| days to carry messages through the
| torrid streets, which now are trans
mitted by telephone. Offices and stores
| and houses which then were lighted by
| the heating gas or oil, now enjoy the
| light with but little access of heat of
| the incandescent lamp. Moreover, the
same circuit that supplies the lamp
can run the electric stove and furnish
| power for turning the ice cream freez-
| er, thus doing away with much perspi-
ration, not to say profanity, formerly
| evoked in the manufacture of that
cooling midsummer luxury. Then, too,
| says the paper referred to, there is the
electric fan bringing sea breezes into
| the hottest building. We have heard
| of one society woman who, with sick
| member of her family under the wealth
| er, went to an electrical store, and be-
ing told all the fans in sight were al
ready sold, laid violent hands on one
| and refused to be comforted until she
was allowed to carry it away in per-
| spring triumph in her carriage"
The British vice-consul at Leghorn
in his report on his district for the
past year, mentions a curious industry
in which orris root plays the chief part.
This is the production of beads made
from the root, with fine hole through
| the center. The beads are of many
sizes, the smallest being about that
of marble. Not many years ago about
| 20,000,000 of these were exported each
| year, but now the export has fallen to
100000. 1t appears that there was once
a medical theory that the best means
| of curing scrofula and certain diseases
of the blood was to keep an open
wound in the body of the sufferer, and
| these orris rot beads We're inserted into
the wound for this purpose. 1t is still