The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

most extensive and complete collection
of beetles in the world and is a skilled
entomologist.
Or Keith in a lecture lately deliver
ed before the University Of Aberdeen ex-
| pressed the opinion that both the gorilla
and the chimpanzee are co-descendants
of an anthropoid animal that lived in
the early miocene period. He suggested
that the animal be called protroglodytes.
His estimate is that the human stock as
distinct animal form separaed from the
original 100000 year ago.
According to the director of the Geo
logical Survey of Canada, at least one
third of the area of Canada remains to
be explored. Nothing whatever is
known of one large area-the interior of
the peninsula of Labrador, which COM
prises at least 100000 square miles. 1t is
thought that the Dominion has dense
forests of hardwood and mineral deposits
of great value, all awaiting exploration
and development
The London Geological Society has the
photograph of a pair of elephant tusks
that break the record. They belonged to
an African elephant and measure, along
the ouaer curve, ten feet and four inches.
| Though they measure the same they diff
| fer ten pounds in weigh, one weighing
225 pounds and the other 235. This ele-
plant had more than his share to car
ry-460 pounds of ivory, in addition to his
| trunk.
An English naturalist travelling in the
Malay Peninsula, has made two queer
! discoveries. One is a kind of bamboo
| in which are stored, between the joints
| that connect the stems, large quantities
| of naturally filtered water. Emergencies
might arise in which a knowledge of this
might prove of great Importance. The
other discovery is two species OF ferns
| growing on trees, the thick stems OF
which are filled with galleries tunneled
by ants. the ferns thus forming living
nests for the ants.
Somebody has recently discovered at
Seville, Spain, state paper giving an
account of what Christopher Columbus
and the officers and men of his caraVels
received pay on their first voyage
| 1t makes rather interesting reading. Co
! lumbus had the title of Admiral and re-
ceived a sum equal to 1920 year in our
money The captains of the three cara
! wells received respectively SIG, SIS and Sl9
a month The sailors received from 81 to
$40 month and their food, with two
! suits of clothes year.
Fiber pipes and conduits, made from
wood pulp and treated with a preserva-
tive, are now being put in use. After
| the usual grinding the pulp is washed
! screened passed through a beating en-
| CINE, then screened again. These oper
/ ations completed, "a thin sheet of the
pulp is wound on a core until the desired
thickness is secured. After drying the
| tube is areated with a preservatve. Its
ends are then finished in lathe to any
desired form. 1t is claimed that this
product possesses the advantages over
bored logs of a homogeneous material
throughout, free from grain, and thor
| oughly impregnated with the preserva-
| tive, thus avoiding variations in hard
ness, dryness and amounts of resinous
matter.
The King Of Italy is determined to
reduce the number of employees in the
royal household and to abolish many
sinecures, writes a Rome correspondent,
according to Leshe's Weekly. Being an
early riser, he turned up at the office
| of the household at a. m. the other day
| and found two attendants lazily busting
| the writing-desks. The King remained
| there smoking cigarettes till $780, when
| one of the clerks-the most diligent-
| sauntered in and stool aghast at the I'M
Majesty asked him at what hour he and
his still absent colleagues were expected
to begin their days work. AT eight
sire" stammered the pen-driver. The
King looked at his watch, nodded and
walked out. The clerks in that Office
have been uncomfortable ever since.
"A maker of farm implements in some
remarks recently made before a gathering
of farmers called them to task for the
way in which they ill-treat their mple-
ments. 'If," he said II treated ma
chinery in my factory as you treat what
1 make for you I'd soon be bankrupt"
| The waste involved in leaving implements
exposed to the weather accounts for
| much of what is classed as agricultural
| loss. In large business enterprises
small economies are constantly prac-
| ticed, for the managers cannot afford to
be wastefu The user of the articles
| manufactured seems to feel no such re-
| sponsibility, and, while he has right
to do as he pleases with what is his
| own, the caution of the manufacturer was
intended to show him how money and
! trouble might be saved by his taking a
little better care of his implements.
A well-known physician writing in the
Medical Record declares that the most
| prolific cause of rheumatism is indiges-
tion. "If only such food" he says, las
can be easily digested were put in the
stomach there would be little heard of
rheumatism" 1t follows as a matter of
| course, says Leslie's Weekly, that one
| of the most effective methods of treat
| ment for rheumatism is through the die
| tary THE longer l can stand hunger the
! less rheumatism l have" says this writ
| er, but in many cases the remedy is
| worse than the disease. In other cases,
! however, a perpetual hungry condition is
the lesser evil. 1 have taken this cure
partially, but never have been quite able
| to do so fully. 1t is not a popular treat
| ment. In acute attacks, active elimination
! by brisk catharsis. and restricted diet,
| along with decided constitutional soda
ton, shorten and attack two-thirds."
Although the difference is so slight
that it is not noticed in the gait nearly
everybody in the world lmps little for
| nearly everybodys left leg is shorter
than the right. A child's legs at it's
birth are shorter than its arms. The leg
bones lengthen chiefly by additions to
their ends, caused by the continual for
| nation and ossifcation of cartilage there
during the period OF cro WITH. If one of
these cartilage caps be injured it may
make the leg shorter. or II one of them
be stimulated by Inflammation 1t may
result in the leg being heightened The