The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-20

as we'll as wonderment sometimes.
There is one of the richest rajahs who
has a passion for acquiring things in
bulk, and during his visit to England
he astonished some of the tradespeople
by ordering whole showcases of Jewels
or silver, sometimes a whole trayful OF
tooth brushes or a windowful of va
rious scented soaps. In art also his
purchases were equally expansive, and
ON one occasion he was so charmed
with a picture that he ordered it to be
copied three times, so that he might
have one hanging on each wall of his
favorite room. But perhaps the most
extraordinary order which was ever
given or undertaken was that for two
dressing bags, one the exact duplicate
of the other, and each of such enormous
size that the two together were a
camel's load. They were made OF the
ordinary brown leather, but inside they
were most luxuriously mounted, and
and they cost $4,000 apiece.
of all the lands in the world, none
exerts the peculiar fascination OF
Japan. Others have equal beauty of
scenery, greater grandeur. more noble
works of art, more interesting problems
of society, writes David Starr Jordan
sesses an equal fascination. No one
who has been in the real Japan which
lies outside the treaty ports and the
foreign hotels and railways, ever could
or ever would forget his experience. NO
one ii he could, would ever fail to re-
turn. The great secret OF this chdTn
lies with the people themselves. Their
acts are those of good taste and good
humor. Two cities of about the same
size and relative Importance are Paris
and Toxic. No two could show a great
er contrast in spirit Both are In a
sense, cities of pleasure. Toxic is
city of continuous joyousness, little
pleasures drawn from simple things,
which leave no sting and draw nothing
from future happiness. Paris is fever
ish and feels the difference in the
morning" and the hard, fierce lust ana
cruel deed which go with the search
for pleasure that draws on the future
for the joys of the present. No one
who catches the spirit of Paris can ran
to miss underlying sadness. the pity Oh
it all. The spirit of Tokio-not or all
Toxic, but of its life as whole-ls
fresh as the song of birds, as sweet
as children's prattle is" and 1t is good
to be under it's spell.
-Baelz gives the results of observa-
tons he has made on the japanese,
among whom the lower classes are al
most entirely vegetarians, says the
British Medical Journal. They are so,
not from choice or from principle, now
ever, but from necessity, since when
ever they are able they buy a little
meat or fish, and regard it as great
luxury Their main article of diet Is
not rice, as usually supposed, because
this is too expensive, and is used main
ly by the well-to-do, but barley and
buckwheat and the soya bean, Whlch
contains twice as much albumin as the
best beef, costs one-quarter as much
while in addition it contains 20 per
cent of fat The fallacy of Volts die
tum that 120 grams of albumin daily
are necessary for an adult is SHOWN,
for, as evidenced by the habits of the
Japanese for generations, 1t is 20 to ~
per cent. too high, while 1t is demon
strated that a race may live on an al
most exclusively vegetable diet and
yet be capable of vigorous and pro-
tracted labor. The prevailing type or
metabolism investigation, in which
purely arithmetical results of analysis
of the income and outgo are made, is
unreliable and does not give a true
| idea of the values of diets, etc, for dit
| ferent conditions may produce almost
! identical results in figures. The dis
position of the individual and, there
! fore, his capacity for work, may vary
widely, and, therefore, the author pro-
| poses a new method of conducting such
experiments, which shall include
study of this factor, and suggests the
designation of capacity balance" for
! its results.
! Americans have scarcely compre-
hended the purpose behind Russia's
enormous expenditures for its great
transcontinental railroad through the
Siberian plains, and for railways and
canals in all direction, says Leslie's
Weekly. In suggestive report to the
/ State Department, made by our consul
| at Odessa, he points out that Russia
is the chief competitor of the United
States in the grain markets of Europe.
Four years ago Russia sold to Ger
many $27 100000 worth more of grain
than did the United States. Last year
the sales of Russia were only about $5,-
900, 900 more than ours, but Russia S
new railroads and canals are rapidly
opening the way for the cheap trans
portation of her crops toward the Ger
man frontier, where one of our best
markets has been found. The vast
area of arabic land in Siberia opened
! by the new trans-Caspian route will
make Russia a stronger competitor of
] the United States in the European
| grain markets than ever before. Some
years ago our farming interests be-
lieved that their chief competition was
! to come from the far-off wheat fields
of India and Egypt, but the cost OF
| transportation was too high to enable
! these countries to undersell us. With
Russia, the situation is entirely differ
! ent. Germany is simply across her
| frontier, and France, Austria and
! England are within easy reach. The
maintenance of our supremacy in the
grain markets of Europe, therefore, de-
! Ponds upon the cheapening of Atlantic
ocean freight rates. This is the con-
clusion of our consul at Odessa. There
! is in this fact still another argument
in favor of substituting and develop.
ing to the highest degree of perfection
American shipping interests.
If handwriting is an index of char
acter, American women are all getting
to be exactly alike, says the Chicago
News. Every fashionable woman now
writes the angular English hand and
others are cultivating it. Good form
DEGREES that paper, ink and wax must
be of certain style, and this, taken
in conjunction with the similarity of
penmanship, makes one fashionable wo-
mans letter resemble another's almost
exactly. The angular writing possesses
one merit, that of being easily dis
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