The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-19

! smallpox Dy the administration OF
substance internally. A Cedar Rapids
| physician has been giving vaccination
certificates to children who had not
! been vaccinated in the usual way, but
| who had been treated with pills. The
members of the Board of Health be-
lieve that the pills contain vaccine VI
rus, and they are trying to discover
whether virus is effective when taken
| into the stomach.
"A Parkersburg, W. Va, dispatch
says: A big tblacksnake, which was
summing itself near a clump of black
berry bushes, was killed yesterday by
Ira Beckwith. 1t measured five feet.
! One part of its body was swollen, the
lump being very hard. Beckwith cut
the snake open, and found inside it a
china nest egg, which it had evidently
swallowed while robbing some hens
nest. A neighbor Unidentified the article
by certain scratches and bumps as one
which had disappeared from his farm
two years ago. 1t is supposed that the
snake, unable either to digest or ex-
pei the egg, had carried it around for
two years. The skin, at the point where
the egg was found, was worn almost
through.
-Fibroleum, q. new artificial leather,
has just been invented by a French
man. 1t consists of pieces of refuse
skins and hides, cut exceedingly small.
which are put into vat filled with an
intensely alkaline solution. After the
mass has become pulpy it is taken out
of the vat, placed in a specially con-
structed machine and after undergoing
treatment therein is again taken out
and put through a paper making ma
chine. The resulting paper-like sub
stance is cut into large sheets, which
are laid one upon another, in lots of
ffom 100 to 1000, and put into a hy-
draulic press to remove all moisture.
The article is strong and -piiable and
can be pressed or nodded into all
kinds of shapes and patterns. 1t is
said to make the best kind of wall pa
per. Decorators who have used this
article speak of it in the highest terms.
"A medical journal has lately been
investigating the claims Of new and
stale bread for popular acceptance. 1t
is admitted that new bread is indigeSt-
ible-that is, in the case of the ordi-
nary stomach-though one medical
writer alleges that lit need not be So
New bread contains vastly more water
than old bread, its constituents are
of doughty character and its digestion
must present great difficulties because
the digestive secretions do not readily
gain access to its mass. If bread is
new it is apt to prove indigestible.
This is plain statement of fact, veri
fed by the experience of everyday
life. Nothing can alter the character
of new bread in this respect unless, in
deed, it be toasted The scientific as
pect of the new-bread case is all on the
side of popular belief. Let those who
have feeble digestions avoid new bread
Such is the lesson to be cleaned from d
review of the case.
A typical scene in a Manchurian
village is thus described by a CORE
spondent of the London News: That
afternoon we pulled up near three
shanties on a woodside, and a gang of
Chinese-all squabbling and making
noises like dogs growing over bones
fought with one another to get on a
platform, where a boiler. made by a
New York firm, was chained There
was scuffle. One Chinese was push
ed backward and fell His head hit
the metal and cracked like a nut He
gave a wriggle and died The Russians
! who saw the accident were affected.
| The Chinese laughed. He lay for an
hour in the sun, until I'undid his Sleep
ing rug and spread it over his face. He
was soon forgotten. A Chinese threw
| SOlAAC ilOb NdLGl ON ti d SIOMlluS QDS,
and made it howl. At this there We're
| shrieks of mlrth. The engine puffed
and groaned and jerked the wagons
| into progress. The last I saw of this
| spot was two Cinnamon pitching mud
at the same dog to keep it from sniff
fing at the body of the dead
When the navy turned to building
its ships of steel it was remarked that
unless some device was adopted for
| offsetting the effect of heat condensing
on the metal it would be only a matter
| Of a short time before all our officers
| would be suffering from rheumatism.
| The Introduction of metal chairs. tables
and other pieces of furniture followed a
| few years ago. and now there is not a
single piece of wood of any size to be
found in an officers room on a modern
warship. He sleeps in an iron berth,
keeps his clothes in steel chest. while
the floor. ceiling and walls of his
apartment are of the same metal. Since
the adoption of solid armor for the
sides of warships a great deal of trouble
has been experienced in making habit
able the quarters directly next to the
outside covering. The heat of the room
| condensed on the cold metal, and in a
very short time the occupant would be
on the hospital list with a bad case of
rheumatism This is now guarded
against by the use of a sheathing of
asbestos placed next to the metal and
held in place by a framework. This is
found to absorb the moisture in sat-
isfactory manner. Care is also taken
to see that the berths are not built
against the outside of the vessel, but
against one of the side walls, so that
the sleeper will be as far as possible
from the metal that comes in contact
with the water.
Among the maladies peculiar to Ha-
wall, says the New York Times, is one
called boo hoo fever" a name derived
from the fact that, though it is not
particularly dangerous or painful, its
victims lose control of their emotions
for the time being and "boo-hoo' like
children at every opportunity to tell
their woes. OF all people in the world
American sailors in active service
might be considered least likely to suf-
fer from disease of this sort, and yet
DR.. @. a. Lung, who accompanied our
marines OH the Picking relief expedition,
reports to the Surgeon General of the
Navy that little epidemic of some
thing very much like boo hoo" fever
attacked his charges while making the
terrible march to the Chinese capital.
the heat was extreme. often 104 de-
grees; there was neither shade nor pure
water to be found and the conscious
ness that close to hand were innumera-
bic enemies, formidable for craft and
cruelty II not for courage, wore con-
stantly upon the nerves of the ma
rines. The result was that many of
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