The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

possession, says the New York Even
ing Post. "a broad writing-t table bears
a brass plate on the front with the
inscriptions 'Writingt table of Prince
Bismarck, 187S-1S90. On the table are
a marble clock, a porcelain inkstand
with the quill pens which Prince Bis
marck always preferred to use), the
celebrated long pencils, scissors, ruler
and magnifying-glasS With which he
read bad handwriting. The room also
contains a movable reading-desk, a
bureau which the Prince used when he
was still at the foreign Office QS62 to
1879, and a writing table which belong
ed to his wife,
The remarkable discovery of large
subterranean beds of ice of undoubt-
ed glacial origin, was made some time
ago by Baron Toll. and the last issue
(volume 32) of the Bulletin of the Rus
sian Geographical Society contains a
memoir by him describing these old
fossils and giving several Photographic
reproductions of their appearance. He
found them on the great Lyakhoff ISL
and of New Siberia in "a degrees north
latitude. These beds of ice undoubt-
eddy date from the glacial period and
contain branches, roots and other re-
mains of trees which do not now grow
above 20 degrees of north latitude. They
The ice has apparently been preserved
by the permanent and perhaps increas-
ing cold of this region.
Some interesting statements re-
garding brandy were made at a recent
trial in Dublin. A Kingston grocer
sought damages from a firm of liquor
sellers who had supplied him with
some brandy which he found unstable,
one of his customers returning a bot
tie with the remark that he had been
given benzine by mistake. The liquor
sellers replied that they had supplied
what was known in the trade as real
Cognac brandy, made in Cognac,
France, from grape spirit, and 'other
things" The same brandy as that sold
under the name of Hennessy, Martel
and other famous labels. Real Cog
nae, they said, that is Cognac made
entirely from Cognac grapes, did not
exist on the market, all of the common
brandieS being blends, or mixtures con-
tanning many other things besides the
pure grape spirit.
Representatives of eight nations
met at Christiania early this summer
to consider methods of systematic in
ternational oceanic research. Sweden.
Germany, Great Britain, Denmark,
Belgium, Norway, Russia and Holland
were the nations represented. The
scheme Professionally adopted divides
the eastern North Atlantic and it's
estuaries into spheres, each of which
is looked after by one of the nations.
1t is expected that each country will
build and equip a special ship for it's
work. There is to be a central inter
national laboratory, possibly at Chris
tiania, where the work of the various
ships Will be collated and combined
and the general results of the work
made ready for the public. The work
of the association will be of a practi-
cal as well as scientific character. The
study of the distribution of fish, fish
food, deposits, ETC., being one of the
first items in the present plan.
-"Of course" said local cigar deal
er, according to the Philadelphia Re-
cord, ''of course, you have noticed the
growing popularity of what is called
the Turkish cigarette. Everybody is
smoking it. When it came into this
country only the rich could afford it.
Now everybody buys it, whether they
can afford it or not. Well here's the
curious thing about it.. What are called
Egyptian or Turkish cigarettes aren't
made at all of either Egyptian or Turk
ish tobacco. AS a matter of fact, the
tobacco that is grown in those coun-
tries-what there is of it-isnt fit to
smoke and only the very poor use it,
The cigarettes we get with the name
| of those lands on the box are made of
blend of two tobaccoes. The Egyp-
tan and Turkish weeds are very
coarse. Consequently, the people of
these countries import a dark, strong
tobacco from the shores of the Black
Sea and a mild, light grade from the
hot
| the Aegean. These two are mixed and
| smoked in both Egypt and Turkey. 1t
| is imported ready mixed into this
| country, and only in so far as it is the
| mixture that is smoked in Turkey and
! Egypt is it at all Turkish or Egyp-
tian.''
Il have been impressed recently
With the popularity of brains as a
food" says a caterer, talking to the
| New Orleans Times-Democrat, "and il
| is a rather striking fact that only in
| recent years have men come to look
| upon the brains of certain animals and
| fowls as being worth their while at the
| table. can remember the time when
even the most fastideous and most
fashionable of the epicures, men who
| mad really reduced the matter of order
| ing and eating to delicate science,
would scarcely think of fooling with
brains. OF course, they would some
| time seat calf brains or hog brains.
and occasionally they might attempt to
crack the head of squirrel in order
| to get the brains. But this did not
| happen often. These things are all
changed now. The squirrel head, the
| chicken head the snipe head the dove
| head and the heads of other fowls and
| animals were either left in the kitchen
| originally or they would come back
| from the table. But this is not the
case now. 1t is conceded that the
snipe's head is really the best part of
the bird. There is nothing more dainty
than snipe brains 1t is one of the
most delicat things to be found on the
| table, and the dish in recent times has
| become very popular. OF course, there
| is only a small quantity of brains in
the snipe's head, but by cracking the
| head of the bird and getting this small
quantity out one may add a delicious
| flavor to the snipe 1t tones and tastes
| down somewhat, robbing the flavor OF
some of it's wildness."
| "A new ringfinder, invented by Prof.
| G.. Forbes, r. r. s., was on view at
the Bisley rifle meeting, says Nature.
| The want of a rangefinder that is port
| able and workable, that has not more
| than per cent. inaccuracy at 5000
| yards, and that does not require a tele-
| scope so large as to require a stand is
| much felt for infantry work, especially
| with Maxims. All these conditions saws