The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-21
ITEMS of INTEREST.

Honduras CORRESPONDENT of the Boston
Herald, are OF course grown almost
everywhere, and while in camp it was
my custom to purchase bananas for our
party. And such bananas! of red or yell
low variety, just as we might select but
in every case large punches. almost as
high as a man. and weighing over a
hundred pounds each. One of the many
purchased was Of the red variety, and
contained by actual count 262 bananas.
and was over five feet in hight Some of
the bananas measured 81 inches long and
8 inches round. They were brought from
the plantation of an Indian. who Travelled
with the bunch on his back and held to
his head by a leather strap. He crossed
the Chiquilla river five times, and his
price for this bunch was 10 cents in our
money. Our custom was to eat raw
when ripe, or fry them. Our cooks way
was to roll them in -four so as TO avoid
their sticking to the pan"
The brewers of Indiana have gotten
fit Of economy of hate. This fit may
lessen the number Of saloons in the state
but it is open to question as to whether
the consumption of beer will be in any
way diminished. They have agreed that
after July / they will cease the practice
of starting men in the saloon business,
furnishing fixtures and licenses, on con-
sideration that the saloon thus established
should sell only the beer brewed by the
promoter. 1t is an expensive way of do
ing business, and the brewers have de-
cided that 1t will be wiser to let the trade
follow its natural course. 1t was also
agreed to discontinue the practice of CIV
ing away costly calendars, knives and
other presents for the purpose of adver-
Using certain brands of beer. This prac-
tice, it is said, has cost the brewers large
sums annually, and II is probable that it
will not only be done away with in Indi-
ana, but in other states, as it Is under
stood that 1t was discussed at the meeting
of the National Brewers Association at
Buffalo recently.
From Africa we have ever something
new, and the latest novelty is Commits
sioner Johnston's discovery in Uganda of
a race of ape-like men hitherto unknown,
says the Baltimore Sun Darwinites have
| long bewailed the want of the 'last
link" or intermediate species, between
the lowest man and the highest ape. The
| lowest grades of mankind have hitherto
been found to be much more closely re-
lated to the highest type of mankind
than to the highest type of animal. A
wide interval, in fact lies between man
and the monkey, and fossil remains have
not helped to bridge it. Scientists will
accordingly await with great interest
specimens of the low-grade men, or high
grade apes, found by the commissioner
in the Congo forests. The alleged "ape-
men, found in the remote interior are
said to differ entirely from the pygmies
discovered by Stanley" Commissioner
Johnston has brought to London pho
nographic records of their language and
music and we shall doubtless soon be
supplied means of fixing their place in
the scale. 1t is a thousand pities that
the autocrat of the Uganda protectorate
was unable to induce a family of the
ape-men to make the tour of Europe and
America, so that all may have the pleas
ure of becoming acquainted with our
alleged earlier type.
"A special cablegram from Paris to the
Philadelphia Inquirer says: "A typical
incident of Paris life was brought to light
the other day. Nine. Perrichet a small
storekeeper, had trouble with her hus-
band, who has the habit of spending all
his wages in wine shops. One evening
he returned home drunk and had a scene
with his wife, who vowed revenge. He
then went to bed under a trap door in
the ceiling. In the garnet overhead Nine
the end of rope down to BEAM Then
she went down, tied the moose around
her husbands neck and returned to the
garnet in order to pull him up While
she was going back he awoke and. be-
ing fairly sober after his sleep, took in
the situation. Disengaging the rope from
his neck, he tied it around an empty fire
stove. Te-y soon the stove was pulled
up Nine. Perrichet. who fancied that
-J,o hod 1tatp hYc ar.H
of the rope. shouted through the garnet
window to her neighbors. telling them
that he had hanged himself A few
minutes later some neighbors and police
men arrived and saw strange specta-
Gle. The stove was dangling from the
ceiling and NJ. Perrichet was beating his
wife in a corner of the bedroom. Nine.
Perrichet was so severely mauled that
she had to be sent to a hospital"
in a recent bulletin issued by the
United States Department of Agriculture,
says Leshe's Weekly, interesting and
valuable facts are given in regard to the
food value of eggs, their dgestibility,
and the best methods of cooking them.
Experiments in the digestibiity Of eggs
show that hard-boiled and fried eggs re-
quired 315 hours for digestion soft-boiled
eggs required 3 hours, roasted eggs "a
hours, raw eggs, not whipped. 2 hours,
and raw eggs, whipped, 1l2 hour 1t has
also been established that from SO to
81 per cent. of an egg that is eaten is d.
gested. The following methods of pre-
Barring soft-cooked and medium-cooked
eggs have been found to give uniform
results in laboratory tests at the Uni
versity of Illinois: Using q granite ware
stewpan of one quart capacity, one pint
of water was heated over a gas flame;
when the water boiled the gas was turn
ed off and an egg which had been kept
In a refrigerator was dropped into the
water. Without disturbing the vessel 1t
was covered closely and the egg allowed
to remain in the water six minutes. It
was then soft-cooked. AS shown by tests,
when the egg was dropped into the water
the temperature fell almost at once TO
1855 degrees Fahrenheit and then slowly
to n0-17l degrees Fahrenheit. II the egg
remained in the water eight minutes il
was medium-cooked. In this case the tent
perature of the water at the end of the
cooking period had fallen to 162-1e4 de.
grees.
The hair Of the dog Is good for his
bite" is an ancient saying which has
long been believed TO have no foundation
in sense or reason. American Medicine
quotes the following from a traveller in
India. II is narrated as follows: About
three months ago a mad-dog bit six or
seven DersOna. among uhonn mara tu,o