The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t was held recently in London po-
lice court that no one has any right to
force his way into a railway carriage
| already full.
Cattle herds in the Argentine Republic
are said to number 100000, all descended
from eight cows and one bull brought to
Brazil about 250 years ago.
Improvements on the Rhine river this
year will cost the government of Baden
Bavaria and Alsace-Lorraine u, 1000, 600
! marks The Improvements will be on the
river from Strasburg down,
Fifty servant girls of st. Paul, who
propose to form a union for their protec-
ton against "stingy and cranky mis-
tresses," met in the assembly halls the
other evening and formed temporary or
ganizaton.
Popular opinion has at last done away
with the demoralizing spectacle of pub
lie, executions, a law having been passed
by the Legislature providing that in flu
ture the galows shall always be erected
inside the Jail.
The members of the Toronto public
school board have made up their minds
that they don't like the vertical writing
Under an order just adopted the Toronto
boys and girls will hereafter slant their
letters to the right.
Germany although it has $4,000 900
acres of forests excellently managed and
| increasingly greater quantities of wood
so that for the last ten years the amount
of timber which it buys has doubled and
its value trebled.
Last year 1404 persons were injured
and eighteen killed in London by being
| flung headlong out of handsom cabs by
reason of the horses slipping and falling.
! 1t is not surprising that Londoners are
| calling for a public vehicle less danger
Gus than the hanson.
-Cartoonists and comic papers have so
long and in SO many ways lampooned
janitors that members of that ancient
! guild in New York city have formed a
league with the purpose. among others,
| of removing the mistaken impression
created by funny writers and artists.
The snowfall this winter throughout
Southern Russia was altogether phenome-
nal and up to the middle of March there
| had been no break in the cold weather.
| For a considerable period that part of the
| country was cut off entirely from all COM
munication with the rest of the world, ex-
cept by telegraph.
| "A perfect copy of the rare first edi-
ton of Pilgrims Progress" is to be sold
| in London early next month. The history
| of this book is interesting. The volume,
| was at one time in the possession of the
Fleetwood family, and was given to Ann
| Palmer the great grandmother of the late
owner, John Nash. Book collectors are
much interested in the approaching sale.
| According to a Rome dispatch to the
| London Express, there has just taken
place at Verdis house, SAINT Agata, near
Busseto, a great destruction of the COM
poser's private papers. There had lain
in the building for some years two huge
| chests Theoretically sealed. Nobody
| knew what was in them, but they were
believed TO contain the composers i'm
| provisations and musical compositions
which he did not care to publish On
| his will being opened, it was found to
contain clause directing that these two
chests, with their contents, be burnt
without being opened. and this has just
| been done on a sort of improvised funeral
pyre outside SAINT Agata.
AT the last regular meeting of the BIZ
illogical Society of Washington, Mr.. f.
| A. Lucas spoke of Some Reservations of
| Dinosaurs" saying that while a short
time ago the dinosaurs were very impar-
| fectly known now, through the explora-
| ton of our Western territory and the sys-
| tematic methods employed in collecting
we have a very thorough knowledge of
| these animals, and are even able to
present reservations of their external APP
| pearance. The American Museum of
of Nov ba
| led to this work: The speaker explained
| the methods of collecting, showing views
| of some of the famous quarries and of
specimens as they appeared when
| mounted.
Among the many curious features
which the beer poisoning epidemic has
been the means of evoking-in a scienufc
| sense, that is-the discovery that arsenic
| tends to be eliminated from the system
| in part by the hair is not the least In
teresting of the details which investiga-
| ton has brought to light says the Lon
| don Chronicle. 1t would appear, from an
| account of recent researches by DR.. f.
| knecht and w. f. Dearden, that Prof.
| A. Gautier, of Paris had demonstrated
the part played by the hair as a means
of exit of arsenic from the system. 1t
| seems probable, indeed, that arsenic may
DC uelecleu, IN lnUnlleSlmalIy small
| amount, of course, i'm ordinary hair, bu.
| when arsenic is taken, incidentally. for
instance. very appreciable amount OF
! it was revealed by the analysis of the
! head covering. In case of arsenical
| poisoning by beer, the proportion of the
| drug in the hair rose to one part i'm TO-
O00 While the fact of the hair apparently
forming a natural channel for the ex-
| erection of arsenic is notable, 1t may read
| lily be understood that this line of re-
search may bear fruit in other direc-
| tons. Thus in cases of arsenical poison
| ing of homicidal nature the medico-legal
expert may find in the analysis of the
hair of the victim a corroborative proof
| of valuable nature. The skin is well
| known of course, as an organ whose
| chief duty is connected with the excre-
ton Of bodily waste, but it is a somewhat
| novel idea that which regards the hair
| as seemingly sharing in the latter func-
| ton.
The fact that treckles are the usual
penalty exacted by nature for the bestow-
al of a delicate complexion in no way
compensates any daughter Of Eve for their
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