The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


world is in the Ozark Mountains, near
Lebanon, Mo. 1t comprises 1900 acres
of ground and is planted sixty trees
to an acre, says The Philadelphia
Press. After six years of waiting this
huge apple garden has come into full
bearing and is sending out a crop that
il is claimed, surpasses in size, guam
tity, and quality any other crop of the
fruit ever grown in the United States.
Its value is estimated at over S1,o0o,-
600.
1t is an object lesson in goodness to
see a surgeon washing his hands after
performing a operation, says The
Chicago Chronicle. He works, of course,
with sleeves rolled up to the elbow, so
that tAe washing extends from the
crazy bone to the tip of the finger nail.
First, there is a hard scrubbing with
plain soap and sterilized water. This is
followed by a swlbbing with tincture
of green soap and sterilized water.
Then comes a genuine securing with
equal parts of Quicklime and soda in
sterilized water, and finally a rinsing
in a solution Il to 10000 of bichloride
Of mercury. Without these four sepa-
rate washings no surgeon would think
of venturing out to scatter germs of
disease.
Among hotel employees sex does not
appear to make any difference so far
as honesty is concerned, says The
Brooklyn Eagle. Certain young women
who act as checkers in hotels work
with certain walters. Whenever one of
the girls obtains a position the men
soon follow her, and the hotel proprie-
tor is victimized accordingly. The
waiter who is in league with the check
er makes small private mark on the
check with which he desires to cheat.
She see it, and instead of stamping the
prices against the articles ordered she
puts her fingers over the figures on the
die so that a slight blotch is all that is
recorded in the place for figures. The
waiter does the rest. She keeps her ac-
count against her confederate, and they
settle up later on the outside.
"A stringent law against bachelors
has recently been promulgated in one
of the states forming the Argentine
Republic. A man is nlarriageble in
Argentina when he is 20. If, from that
date, and till he passes his thirtieth
birthday, he wishes to remain single,
he must pay Ell a month to the state.
For the next five years the tax in
creases 100 per cent. Between So and
so the bachelor is mulcted to the tune
of ga a month. From his fiftieth year
to seventy-five Sc a month is the tax,
but having reached the seventy-fifth
year relief finally comes, and the tax
becomes nominal, being reduced TOT a2
year. After so a man can rentln
single without paying anything. There
is a paragraph relating to widowers,
who are given three years in which to
mourn and pick a successor. A man
who can prove that he has proposed
and been refused three times in one
year is also considered to have earned
Immunity from taxation. 1t is said
that the law works like a charm.
An exchange quotes a distinguish
ed entomologist as saying that sin
gle female fly will lay 12O eggs during
her life of ten to fifteen days, and
that these 80 or 100 will produce other
flies, says the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal. During summer twelve or thir-
teen generations of these flies will be
produced, so that millions in one sea-
son may be the descendants of a sin
gle fly. Millions" is a feeble word
to express the number that would be
produced under this estimate. Put
ting the first generation at 100, and
allowing that half of them are females.
the second generations would number
5000 with $500 females. The third
generation would number 100000. the
fourth 1,250,000, and the fifth 81, 500. 900.
Continuing the calculations on the
same system to the twelfth genera
ton, we should get a grand total of
1852 81, 500, OOO,0 100000, or expressed in
words, four quintillions eight hundred
and eighty-two quadrillions, eight hun
dred and twelve tFillions, five hundred
billions, a number quite inconceivabIe
estimating the populate of the earth
at a billion and half. this would give
S,255,2OS,333 1-3 flies to every man, wo-
man, and child on earth, all the de-
scendants of one fly in single sum
mer.
Miss Mary Brooks of Los Angeles.
Cal, has shown another way in which
the progressive woman may move on
ward toward independence, saws the
Cnlcago Record-Herald. Miss Brooks
MAKES living by taking medicine. She
ls' OF course, young and beautiful. All
maldens who do wonderful things are
young and beautiful, but Miss Brooks
is more than that. She is ambitious
she longs to assist her sisters to rise
to- nobler and better things and to 81
equip themselves for the battles with
the world as to be able to snap their
nhgers at the men. Therefore she hs &
entered into an engagement with the
Los angeles Medical Society to test
physicians who are suspected of prac-
tlclng without licenses. She has thus
tested almost every drug and mode of
treatment known to medical science in
spite OF which fact her health and
beauty are unimpaired. What nohler
calling could appeal to a. Young and
beautiful girl? Most women like to take
medicine and are happiest when don
ing, hence Miss Brooks lob must he
peasant as we'll as profitable and sci
entlncally beneficial. May she Ions
survive to sample bread pills and TASTE
ram water tinctured with aIoes. and AZ
iast be happy where mortar and pes-
tie are no more.
In Plurien (Britany), SAYS the
Glasgow Herald there is a quaint ola
parish church, built in the early part
Oh the ntteen century, and having
VIII many other primitive arrange
l, the Dell rope from the belfry
hanging down from the roof of the
nave and dangling Just in front ~ t the
pulpit, so that the process of hell
ringing is performed in full view ~
the congregation. But what was nore
peculiar was the projection at riSbt
angles from one of the walls (also near
the pulpit of sculptured hand and
arm OF ruiz size. as though held ONT
from the shoulder by some BODY buiIt
INTO the solid fabric of the wall itself
and the hand opened and palm upward
ana myers extended had a Suggestion
OF appeal and solicitation which no+