The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tured. "In walking through the coun-
| try" he says, I'VE can rarely identify a
particular odor caught until the sight of
the plant from which it emanates makes
us wonder at our hesitation" He sug-
gests that the growth of the perfume in
| dustry, which results in the continual
production of new odors. may lead to a
cultivation of the neglected sense OF
smell, which may be capable of as artis-
tic development as that which color per-
ception has attained.
George Findlay, a well-known politi-
clan, has returned from a trip through
Indian Territory, says the Wisconsin Sen
tinel, and vouches for this story of the
remarkable devotion to his little mistress
OF dog owned by Jim Hay, a quarter
blood Quapaw Indian. Hays 4-year-old
girl, Nellie, wandered into the woods near
his place last week and became lost. She
was accompanied by her dog, a gigantic
stag hound After wandering one and
one-half miles from home she became
tired and fell asleep. Her father searched
until midnight. when he heard the bay
ing of the hound in the woods. He hast
ened in the direction of the sound and
found his daughter, with the big hound
standing guard close to her. and in the
underbrush near her were the bodies of
two big gray wolves. The wolves had ev-
identity stolen up to the sleeping child
and her protector with the intention of
killing them, and were whipped by the
dog.
"A haberdasher was talking the other
day of how young men who dance in hot
weather lay in an extra supply of col
lars, and when one willis exchange it for
a fresh one, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. He told of two young fellows who
were bound for a dance at one of the
suburban inns, and had neglected to sup
ply themselves with extra collars when
they left. home. One was tall and thin,
and the other was short and fat. The
thin fellow selected his collar, and in
stead of having it wrapped up he placed
it inside the band of his hat. "One isn't
enough for me; it wouldn't last two
Dances" said the fat fellow IT guess
I'll take three" How are YOU going to
carry them?" asked his friend. "I'll show
you," replied the stout young man. He
asked permission to retire behind the
counter for a minute, and, rolling UP his
tonsers, actually fastened the extra col
lars around his leg, as though they had
been garters.
In producing certain delicate coiors
in silk, chloride of tin is used as a NOR
daunt; and it is said that unless great
care is taken large proportion of it
remains in the competed fabric In the
case OF stockings or any garment next
the skin the Precipitation may dissolve
the tin, and 1t is then absorbed by the
skin. A case is reported from Vienna of
a woman who suffered from attacks of
paralysis in the lower extremities with
numbness, sense of coldness and a pc
culiar jerkiness of the legs in walking
She noticed that whenever these synp-
toms were the worst her feet were color
nA 1lrarrr
staining was caused by light yellow silk
stockings which she wore. They were
| analysed and considerable quantities of
tin found. The obvious moral of this,
says the Hospital, is that ladies' should
not wear pretty silks next to their skin
in hot weather unless they can be sure
they are not mordaunted with tin salts.
Colors which are fast" in relation to or,
binary washing are frequently readily so
luble in perspiration.
"A cable dispatch from Berlin says: A
| curious superstition begins to gain a
large number of supporters in Berlin. the
capital of the enlightened German en-
plre- The witch doctors, named Grau,
F'reiberg and Hermann, have established
a reputation for graduating diseases from
| men and beasts by driving it into trees.
The cures are effected at night on Tues
days and Fridays of the week of full
moon, and there must be trees in the
neighborhood to receive the castout dis
eases condition is that the moon must
be visible. A needle is stuck into the skin
| covering the affected part of the body,
and remains there until a few drops of
blood appear. The blood is collected on a
sheet OF paper, and the paper is rolled into
the shape of a pill. The doctor" then
goes into wood alone carrying the pill,
selects tree and inoculates the bark
with the pill The process of blood-let-
ting and innoculation is repeated three
times. 'Drs." Grau, Freiberg and Herr
mann tell the police they did not invent
their procedure. but inherit it from their
parents. The ancient Germans in the Sec
ond and third centuries practiced exactly
the same hocus-popus, although Grau and
his friends don't know it. Grau, Freiberg
and Hermann have had hundreds of pa
tients and the attentions of the police are
deeply resented by a large number of
their adherents.
Miss Herminia Davila of Porto Rico
now staying in New York city, whose
needlework portrait of Washington, exc
cuted for the Pan-American Exposition
made portrait of Andrew Carnegie, also
for exhibition at Buffalo. says the New
York Commercial Advertiser. The latter
work, which has just been placed In the
Porto Rican section of the exposition, is
as remarkable in its way as the Wash
ington, being produced in the same man.
ner with equal success. 1t is mounted in
an elaborate and beautiful frame, design
ed by the artist, surrounding an oblong
space of white, in the corners of which
are embroidered pansies in their natural
colors, so finely worked that they appear
to be painted with the brush. These form
the immediate setting for the portrait In
the center, which seems at first sight to
be a steel engraving, the stitches OF the
black and white silk employed being so
minute that they are invisible, except
upon the closest scrutiny. The picture,
showing the head and shoulders of the
philanthropic millionaire, is an enlarged
copy Of photograph, all the proportions
and shadings of the original being accu-
rately reproduced By the exhibition of
such specimens of eminent skill with the
needle, in place where they may be seen
by visitors from all parts of the Ameri-
cas-, Miss Davila hopes to awaken a gen.
eral interest in the art-embroidery of her
native island.
1t has been proposed by certain Ital-
ian journals TO celebrate next year the
sixth centenary OF the mariners COM
pass. This supposes the truth Of the
tradition that ascribes the invention Of
the compass in its present form to an