The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

prominent brewer Is building church
as a memorial of King Edwards cor
onation. Dean Swift's cathedral-St.
Patrick's, Dublin-was restored by the
late distiller, Sir Benjamin Guinness. 1t
was famous distiller, too, who rebuilt
the Protestant cathedral of Cork and
another distiller restored Christ
Church in Dublin. One of the famous
brewing firms in England has erected
not less than six churches at various
times.
C. r. Slinter is quoted by DR.. r.
Horst of the Leyden Museum as au-
thority for the statement that crabs
do climb trees. Mr.. Clinter possesses
near Batavia some captive specimens
OF the cocoanut crab and has seen them
climb to the top of mangrove trees
and palms fully sixty feet in hight
What they did at the top he was I'M
able to ascertain, but he considers It
probable that they were engaged in
opening young cocoanuts and devouring
their contents. Whether they have the
power of opening ripe cocoanuts could
not be determined, the specimens I'M
der observation merely fumbling such
as were given them without attempt
ing to penetrate the shell.
Beverley minister, 1870 miles north
of London, is the shrine of ST. John
of Beverley, who died in the year 721.
In S3S Athelstan, King of England,
gave several privileges to the monas-
terry, one being the privilege of sane
tuary. This was not merely for man
Staying; it was open to all wrong
doors except those who had been guilty
of treason. For ordinary offenses,
such as horse stealing, cattle stealing
being backward in accounts or being
in receipt of suspected goods, a man
came into sanctuary about mile
from the monastery or church. There
used to be four crosses on the main
roads leading to Beverley, marking
the limit of the area. In cases of man.
slaughter and murder it was not suf-
hcient to be within one of these
crosses. Before the fugitive could
claim sanctuary he must enter the
church and seat himself in a stone
chair known as the ''frid STOOL or
freed chair To this place many fld
for refuge from all parts of the coun-
try.
"A dispatch from Lancaster, Pa,
Aug. 20, says: Joseph Shirk, who
claimed to be the inventor of the Colt
revolver and of the grain cradle, died
to-day at his home in East Earl town
snip, this county. He was SO years
ola and was, noted inventor and sur
Veyor. In the early thirties Mr.. Shirk
made pistol which is believed to have
have been the first firearm ever made
with revolving chamber. He claimed
TO nave shown this weapon to Colt,
and shortly afterward the Colt Com
pany was organized and commenced
the manufacture of the same kind of
revoivers. To this the Baltimore Sun
adds AS generally understood the
weapon known as the Colt revolver
was devised by the late Col. Samuel
Colt, who constructed the first model
or his pistol as early as 1929, making
1t in wood while he was a sailor on
board ship, and he took out his first
patent for revolving firearms in 1885.
AS to the grain cradle, or sheath of
wooden teeth attached to a seythe for
laying the grain as it is cut, there is
a reference to "a cradle for barlie" in
one OF the bucolic poems of Thomas
Tusser, an almost forgotten English
poet of the sixteenth century.
Ordinarily the meteors that flash
across the sky at stated periods of
time burn themselves out in the upper
air, but occasionally a meteoric mass
lasts long enough to reach the earth
One fell on May Is, 1900, at Felix Ala
MeteOrS were seen on the occasion re-
ferred to and sundry explosions were
heard, while later on a mass of me-
teorlc substance weighing seven
pounds was discovered imbedded in soft
soil. This meteorite was analysed and
found to be built UP of such minerals
as olivine, augite, triolite, nickel iron
and graphite carbon. The dark color
of the Felix stone is stated to be due
to the presence in fair amount of the
last-named substance. The interest at
taching to meteorites, of course, CEN
he 70
us to obtain glimpses of the compo-
sition of other worlds than ours. AS
tronomy is well agreed on the unity
of chemical composition which marks
the OrbS, and even the simple fact
that it is hydrogen gas which blazes
in the sun and gives US our light and
heat is a testimony to this fact Me-
teoric iron and carbon similarly dis
play links between these erratic bodies
and our own earth.
For many years fullers earth was
used only as a detergent in fulling
cloth, but with the increased use of
cotton seed oil English fuller's earth
came to be used for decolorizing such
vegetable oils, and also lard oils This
increased the Importation of fullers
earth very markedly. In 1898 good full
lers earth was discovered quite ac-
"A
Quincy, Fla, an effort was made to
burn brick from clay found on the
lands of the Owl Cigar Company. The
effort was a failure, for fuller's earth
when burned exfoliates instead of
forming a coherent mass suitable for
bricks. An Alsatian cigarmaker en-
ployed by the company called attention
to the close resemblance of this clay
10 the German fullers earth, and as a
result the material found sale, and the
industry was developed. Its use as
substitute for bone black in the fill
tering of mineral oils extended rapid
ly, although the fullers earth was the
more expensive material. 1t is prin-
cipa1ly for such purposes that the
American earth is now used, the Eng
lish earth being preferred for cotton
seed and lard oils. Deposits have been
found in Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, at various places in Florida
and in Indian Territory, but the prin-
cipal supply continues to come from
the developed deposits at Quincy, Fla.
The reason for this is the great va
ration in quality of the earth from
different deposits. That from North
Carolina and Virginia is more or less
sandy.
I'm discussing the treatment of
wounds in war Cheyne expresses the
opinion that the experience thus far
gained does not warrant any modifi-
cation in the surgical prooaduroo