The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

questered New Jersey vale which bore
the name of Turkey, says the New
York Tribune. Some of it's household
ers were restless and uneasy lest they
might be regarded unkindly as I'M
speakable Turks. Therefore it has
been resolved to bestow a new title
upon this humble village. and it is to
be known hereafter as Fernwood. Min
arets and mosques, muezzin and Ma
hometans were never seen in Turkey,
N. j., and viziers and pachas, beys
and shelks. emirs and dervishes alb
stained from sojourning within it's
borders. The change in name, there
fore, appears to be reasonable, as the
ferns in the woods are numerous.
A Philadelphia who knew DR..
Rixey, Mrs. McKinley's physician.
when he was a student in that city,
called on him in Washington and was
invited to luncheon. The Philadelphia
asked to be excused because of chronic
indigestion, which prevented his eating
luncheon. Nonsense" said DR.. Rixey,
Il have asked you to luncheon because
l want to give you good lecture. You
are suffering from restleSsneSs, not
dyspepsia. In the five minutes you
have been sitting opposite to me you
have looked at your watch four times,
fumbled with the seal on your watch
chain, twirled the handle of your UNI
brella when you didn't stop to run
your fingers through your hair, and
have talked necessarily without hav-
ing anything particular to say. You
simply waste your nervous force. Learn
to keep still when you can, and not
to bother yourself about tri1es that do
not concern you. If patients knew how
to do nothing at the proper time, half
the nerve doctors occupations would be
gone"
"A current item mentions that the
cigars smoked by King Edward are es-
pecially made for him and cost in the
neighborhood of a dollar apiece, says
the Philadelphia Times. Like many
other stories told of royalty there may
be no lack of imagination in this state
ment, although no reason exists per-
haps why his choice in the matter
should not be rather literal as to price.
Besides being an expensive smoker, he
is likewise a constant one. Indeed,
along with the King of the Belgians
| he is about the most addicted to the
habit of European monarchs. But His
! Majesty of Belgium cultivates the weed
| on more democratic lines. He prefers a
| briar-root pipe to the cigar, and every
! Gay smokes heaping jar of choice to-
| bacco. The commences of the smok
| ing habit with monarchs in the present
| day recalls by contrast how many of
these dignitaries in earlier times re-
| garded the custom. One Gar of Rus
STA is said to have imposed the death
| penalty on persistent smokers, though
this extreme punishment might be
committed into amputation of the nose,
| and certain tobacco-hating Shah of
| Persia burned pipe, Tobacco and smoker
| in one common blaze.
"A controversy of the kind that
fiourishes only in the columns of the
London Times is that concerning the
proper treatment of Harris" tweed,
says the New York Post. This expen-
sive homespun is made in small huts,
and during the weaving it absorbs
more than suspicion of the Scottish
''peat-reek. This odor. added to that
of the natural wool of which the
tweed is woven, produces a character
istic eff1atus which sufficiently identi-
t1eS the wearer of a genuine Harris"
| The odor is not in itself unpleasant,
and, in fact, is regarded as an essen
tial quality of the cloth. To anna
teurs of tweeds the securing of piece
| of cottage-made homespun would be
very like the busting of an old bottle
serious proposal to scour the peat
reek out of all tweeds, on the ground
that it represents and spreads abroad
the unsanitary conditions of the High
land novels. in which it is acquired,
has met with indignant protest, and
with Highlanders has become a sec
tional issue. Times readers are divid-
ed into factions of scourers and anti
scourers. 1t is clear that there are
-
collision when the "bacteriophobe" may
ask of his tweed-clad neighbor: par
don me. sir, but have you been am
monia-scoured?"
Tides of the ocean, as every one
knows. are the result of the unequal
attractions of the sun and the moon
on the earths surface as compared
with its center, says the London Tele-
graph. AS the proportionate differ
ence on account of its lesser distance
is greater in the case of the moon, its
tide raising influence is rather more
than twice as great as that of the sun
Notwithstanding the dictum of the mar
who would not believe that the moor
had anything to do with it, because
he had seen tides when there was nc
moon. Visitors TO the Lake country
may not be aware that our small in
land seas have tides which follow the
moon with even more precision than
the open ocean. The water in a lake
rocks" as though it were a solid mass
but slowly, the surface changing its
level, as the meridian of the lake alters
it's direction with regard to the moon
1t requires, however, minute observa-
ton to detect this tide. So small is il
that the difference between high and
low water in a lake a hundred miles
broad is little more than an inch. In
some of the lakes of Switzerland, be-
sides the semi diurnal tide. phenomena
have been observed, called locally
seiches, in which the whole body of
water rocks or vibrates in twenty
minutes or half an hour. British lakes
are probably too small for similar phe-
nomena to be easily perceptible; but
DR.. Forel of Lausanne, has made
careful study of the seiches of the Lake
of Geneva, and his analyses, showing
that the movements are often COM
pound oscillations about two or more
axes, are full of interest.
During the sojourn of the Wellman
polar expedition in Franz Josef Land
in 1S9S-99. says the New York Sun. Mr..
Wellman made a sledge journey to the
North, attaining nearly 50 degrees
north latitude. He had almost ar
rived at the northern terminus of his
journey when he saw to the northeast
what appeared to be three islands.