The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Ihe wholesale price OF pair OF
shoes represents about % per cent. in
wages. IS per cent. material and Is PEI
cent. minor expenses and profits.
According to DR.. Pinard, of Paris
many persons catch contagious dis
eases by taking off their dusty shoes
and then sitting down to meal with
out washing their hands.
The new battleship Mikasa. built
for Japan at Portsmouth. England, is
ready for her trial trip. She is 1920
tons burden, and is spoken of by cx-
ports as the finest fighting machine
afloat.
The raising of the instrument shell
ter of the weather bureau in New York
city from an elevation of $50 feet above
the street to an elevation of 300 feet
has caused an apparent towering of the
mean actual temperature of 2h de-
Grees.
The Treasury Department puts the
number of Chinese in the United
States at 500, 900. If this be true two
thirds of them are here in evasion OF
the exclusion laws, for there are reg
istered as arriving legitimately on oul
SnOFeS out S5,uOU CnlneSe.
"A scientist of Coopwood, Miss, has
calculated that the Mississippi river
and it's numerous tributaries have for
vast period of time been engaged in
carrying the material of the land from
countries far in the North to the Gull
of Mexico. This process of transpor-
tation has resulted in shifting an enor-
nous mass and weight through nearly
30 degrees of latitude from the north
to the SOUTH and this transfer OF
weight may SO disturb the center oil
gravity of our planet that finally il
will lose its poise and assume a new
position of adjustment to the new CEN
ter of weight. If this should happen
there would be a corresponding vast
f1ow of water to the side turned down
and a disappearance of water from re-
gions now covered. Moreover, the pill
ing up of so vast weight on the floor
of the Gulf of Mexico may break
through it and let the water of the
sea upon the vast interior fires sup
posed to be there. In such a case there
would be an enormous forming OF
steam, which. might produce terrific
explosions and consequent disturbances
of land and sea.
Some men carry small thermome-
tiers on their persons, usually in their
vest pocket and these Instruments in
not a few cases are of considera bile
cost and guaranteed to be accurate,
says the New York Press. An ordi-
narily comfortable person would, upon
seeing 11S degrees indicated, feel
frightfully hot. With his own scien-
tifically accurate instrument he could
assure himself that the 118 degrees
were false, and the correct temper
allure being only 107 degrees would
Immediately cool off. A collector of
thermometers in this city has some
thing over $50 different styles hanging
about his library, and their continual
differences of opinion give him no lit
tie amusement. He has the various
forms-air, balance, chemical, clinical,
differential, electrical, marine, mercu-
rial, minimum, etc, and even a pyr-
ometer. The last named measures g.
900 degree of fire heat A curiosity is
an ether thermometer capable of
measuring 500 degrees below zero,
though absolute zero, the bottom, end,
nullity, it is said to be-461 degrees
on the Fahrenheit scale.
Salt mining constitutes one of the
staple industries in Roumania, says
the Chicago News. There are -four
mines in all. The mineral is mined in
three of the mines by convicts. In all
there are about 1000 conyicts at work
in the three mines. The laborers are
not provided with any mechanical APP
paratus whatever, the whole of the
work being performed by hand, each
convict having to quarry a specific
quantity of salt daily. The mines are
controlled by a state official. whose
position is similar to that of Governor
of a prison. The mines are thoroughly
well ventilated and illuminated with
electric light, so that the lot of the
conVictS is somewhat alleviated, though
to those who are serving life sentences
IL represents living grave. The mines
are worked in galleries, and the pure
white crystal presents a weird and
peculiar aspect, especially in reflect
ing the fitful electric light. The main
shaft terminates at the bottom in q
huge apartment with a dome-shaped
roof, and from which all the working
galleries radiate. The mine contains
a chapel and numerous other apart
ments, all cut out of the salt by the
prisoners.
The expression feeling out OF
sorts is one which may be said tc
be familiar in our mouths as house
hold words" 1t may not describe any
very exact condition which may be
said to belong to the province of ILL
health, but it certainly indicates al gen.
eral state of body which lies outside
the province of well-being, and which
is certainly productive of a good deal
of misery to those who are the sub
jects thereof. The treatment of this
state of matters resolves itself sim
ply into measures calculated to i'm
prove the general health. In cases OF
overwork or worry change of air will
often accomplish wonders. Even a
weekend in the country or by the sea
will send a fatigued man home with
increased appetite and in a better state
of health. 1t is not given to all of us
to be able to leave work at a moment S
notice; therefore many medicines in
the shape of tonics have to be depend
ed upon for restoration to a proper
state. The family doctor will usually
suggest the best one. In many cases
the practice of taking a cold bath in
the morning will be found an excellent
tonic. Those unaccustomed to the cold
bath should begin by taking it tepid
and gradually decreasing the degree
of heat, rapidly sponging themselves
with cold water, and then use brisk
friction with rough towel Another
advantage of the cold bath is that il
certainly protects us against the chills
of winter.
AT the exhibition of medical and
surgical apparatus which has been Civ
ing the Queens Hall the appearance
of a bazar of chemists shops on a
large scale, says the London Post.
there are at least three installation