The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| from the sale Of Ibsen autographs.
When the Norwegian dramatist lived
in Copenhagen he used to spend much
| time in the cafe in which this waiter
| was employed. At the time he was
writing his Woman From the Sea-
| he would get so engrossed in his work
| that he refused to make his wishes
known by word of mouth. Therefore
| when he wanted drink he would write
out an order on a slip of paper, sign
| ing 1t III. l." AS he wanted drinks six
| or seven times in the course of every
| afternoon the collection of autographs
| which the waiter saved became very
large, and they are now bringing good
prices.
-Surra, an animal disease of the
Philippines, is pointed out by Dr. C. w.
Stiles as a matter of great military
| Importance. 1t seems to have hsen
quite recently introduced from India,
and is due to microscopic parasite.
which lives in the blood and is proba-
bly, transmitted by biting flies. 1t is a
wet-weather disease, reported to be in
variably fatal to horses and mules. 1t
occurs also in camels. elephants. dogs
and cats, and more rarely in rumi-
nants, but is not vet known in birds.
1t is closely allied to the tsetse-fy dis
ease OF Africa and to dreaded maladies
of Europe and South America The
| chief symptoms are intermittent or re-
lapsing fever. eruption, enemia. ema-
| citation, ravenous appetite, great thirst,
and more or less paralysis. The intro
duction of the disease into new locali-
ties is to be guarded against as a Sc
| rious calamity.
What is bird's-eye maple?" That
is question which just now seems to
be battling not only people who use
| furniture made of this particular wood.
but even woodworkers themselves, says
| the Scientific American. In a recent
number of woodworking magazine an
article was published which stated that
| bird s-eye maple was not a peculiar
| maple, but simply ordinary maple cut
| in certain way. In a recent issue of
the New York Sun that statement is
refuted. 1t is there stated. on the au-
thorfty of woodworker, that bird s.
eye maple and curly maple are both
| cut only from the logs of the rock ma
| pie tree. Acer saccharinum, in which a
beautiful lustrous grain is produced by
| the SlnuovS course of the fibers. This
| tree is not at all the common hard ma
pie. 1t is a hard maple, but it is full
of little gnarls called eyes Men look
| ing for bird s-eye maple logs go
through the standing timber and pick
.,
! for them from $50 to $50 a thousand
feet in the woods. Ordinary hard ma
| pie logs are worth only from Sc to 81 a
| thousand feet. 1t would be impossible
| to cut a piece of veneer with eyes in
1t from common hard maple log, and
| 1t would be equally impossible to cut a
bird's-eye maple log, no matter how
! you cut it, so that it would not show
! the eyes"
1t is a mistake to eat quickly, says
the London Doctor. Mastication per-
formed in haste must be imperfect
| even with the best of teeth, and due
| admixture of the salivary secretion
| with the food cannot take place. When
crude mass of inadequately crushed
muscular fiber, or undivided solid ma
terial OF any description is thrown in
to the stomach, it acts as mechanical
irritant, and sets up condition in the
mucous membrane lining that organ,
which greatly impedes, If it does not
altogether prevent, the process of di-
gest1on. When the practice of eating
quickly and filling the stomach with
unprepared food is habitual, the diges-
| tive organ is rendered Incapable of
performing its proper functions. Either.
much larger quantity of food than
would be necessary under natural con-
ditions is required, or the system suf-.
matter may seem a small one, but it
is not so. Just as man may go on
for years with defective teeth i'm
perfectly masticating his food, and
wondering why he suffers from indi-
| gestion, so a man may habitually live
under an infection of hurried dinners
and endure the consequent loss of
health without knowing why he is not
well, or how easily the cause of his
Illness might be remedied
The mania for egg collecting is
/ widespread and the numbers affected
by it are so large as to be really as
tonishing. In the United States alone
there are said to be over 100000 COL
| lectors and the collections made by
them run from 1000 to $4,000 eggs. The
eggs of feathered species that are now
| extinct bring almost fabulous prices.
The egg of the great Northern aux,
| which died out more than half a CEN
| fury ago, is now worth anywhere from
| $1,000 to $4,000. The egg of the dodo,
which lived formerly in Madagascar.
Is worth several hundred dollars That
| of the dinoris, giant feather creature
| of New Zealand, is worth even more
From these large figures the prices
run down very rapidly. Those of the
| eagle family are, as a class, the most
| valuable. The golden eagles egg brings
$40, and bald eagles "a, the great
Swiss eagle IS, the snow eagle s, the
| Greenland falcon IS, the louisiana
| kite $40, the Filipino fish eagle $40 and
the fishhawk 81. In fact, it may be
said that eagles eggs average 81, fall
cons eggs 81, hawks eggs, So, owls
eggs Sc and kites eggs 49, The eggs
| OF the grouse and partridge family are
| very pretty in their markings and
| command good terms. They range all
| the way from 6 cents for the egg of a
common ruffed grouse up to that of the
Canadian grouse at rs cents. There
are 100 humming birds whose eggs are
| in the market, and, although the lat
| ter are scarcely larger than beans.
they bring exceedingly good prices
varying from % cents up to $40 The
| eggs of the duck and goose family
are not very high priced. The cheap-
est is worth a single cent, while one
| species of the wild duck costs IS.
The Raven Inn, an old hosiery at
| Hook, near Basingstoke, is advertised
for sale. the license having been trans
ferred to the new hotel near the rail-
road stations, says the London Chroni-
Gle. The old inn was built in the
| year 1858, and still retains it's Quaint
| old half-timbered work overhangine
gables and small windows The house
gained wide notoriety in the latter
| part of the eighteenth century durioo
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