The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Amazon region, where they abound
on a large number of goody plants.
They are generally spherical in form
and about the size of walnut. Ihey
are formed by several species OF ant,
which appear to collect the seeds of
many different plants and to SOW them
in these nests, covering up the seed
lings with humus when they begin to
terminate. In the structure of these
"ant epiphytes" the foliage and the
roots display characters which es-
pecially adapt them for the situation
in which they grow, and promote also
the protection of the ants themselves
in their nest. Quite a number OF the
epiphytes were found by Ule as dem-
zens Of the ant-gardens and nowhere
else.
The long buried millions of Monte
yuma may some day be found in me
hills of Yucatan, near Lake Chichan-
kanabe. saws an exchange. 1t is esu-
mated that the fund still unaccounted
for amounts to 100000, 0Oo,O 900 pesos
worth in our gold about $lS0,0O0 O0O, OOV.
This mysterious fund has been grow
ing these 500 years, starting at some
thing like 1000, 600 pesos. Many ilVes
have been lost in the impenetraole lot
ests of 0axaca, Chiapas Guateihdia
ana HONDURAS III lnc oCdiNh AOA $500
treasure, which, in the opinion OF most
folk. is a myth. Last year young ex-
plorer from Chicago declared that ne
had traced it's hiding place to the VI
cinity of Quezaltepeque, which is at the
base of the Mirandon mountains. here
he contracted the scourge ana pafely
escaped with his life.
Thrift did not die with DR.. Tai
Ioroalv 40 NAV have
partaken of that quality while alive,
says the New York Post. He has oeen
dead little over a week, but up to the
present writing no less than five differ
ent authorized" editions of his life
have appeared, and are being hawked
in the newspapers of the country. Some
of the editions are said to be highly
illustrated, and to be splendid exam
pies of the printers art, but 1of an
that the advertisements promise that
the books can be delivered WITHIN
week Some of the volumes contain
pictures of Adam and Eve and other
heroes and heroines from the Bible
perhaps put there by way of illustra-
tion of DR.. Talmage's well-known or
thodoxy. or perhaps for some other
reason. Not a few of the newspapers
have been disposed to criticise these
illustrations, but there seems no good
reason for doing so. Talmage would
doubtless have approved had he been
consulted, and in the case of biog-
raphy the consent of the biographed is
the main thing.
"A farmer in the town of Urbana,
Me-, noticed the other day a black spot
on the back of one of the sheep, says
the Brooklyn Times. When he went
to look at it the spot instantly disap-
peared. Then another black spot APP
peared for an instant on the sheep's
back and as quickly went out OF sight
This time the farmer saw that the
black spot was a mouse, and while ne
was looking at the place where it had
been a third black spot came into sight
at the same place on the sleeps back,
and disappeared as the others had.
Then Farmer Bailey thrust his hand
down into the sleeps thick coat of
wool, and found three snug and coy
mouse nests, each with a newborn lit
ter of young ones in it. He lost no
time in breaking up those old mouse
colonies, and then looked over others
of his sheep, with the result that ten
nests were found in ALL containing an
aggregate of eighty young mice. Inc
sheep seemed not only not to mind the
presence of the mouse nests In their
fleeces, but acted as it they were not
pleased with their removed and the de-
struction of their contents.
This operation Of having ones
nose bored out seems to have become
a fashinoable fad" remarked prom
inent journalist to the New York cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
He referred to the surgical operation
of removing a turbinated bone from
the nostril. That this operation is be-
come very common there is no doubt.
One Specialist of the nose and throat
in this city has operated on over 5000
cases of this kind. The operation con
sists of saving or cutting from inside
the nostril a piece of protruding bone
that interferes with the free use of the
nose in breathing. An application of
| cocaine deadens the pain, and another
recent discovery, that of a part of a
sheep, properly prepared and applied,
prevents the flow of blood. But for
these two discoveries this operation
would be impracticable, and thus it is
that so many people are now seeking
this form of relief from serious trouble
with their breathing apparatus, where
as a few years ago such thing was
not thought Of Instead of being a
fad" therefore, it Is in fact one OF
the great contributions of science for
the relief of disease and pain.
A dispatch from Philadelphia, Pa,
April 81, says: DR.. Harry E. Price of
Germantown will marry on Tuesday
next Miss Susan Turnbull of Worces-
! ter Mass, who has been his sweet
! heart for forty years. DR.. Price is IS
years old and Miss Turnbull is nearly
| TO- Dr. Price met Miss Turnbull forty
| years ago at a summer resort on the
Maine coast. 1t was a case of love at
! first sight and their friends looked for
| speedy marriage, but DR.. Price, to
whom a large fortune had been left
some time before, found that he had
! spent most of it and started in to make
money. This was slow work, and al
| though he and Miss Turnbull CORE
| sponded for years, they did not meet
again and finally her letters ceased. For
years they did not hear of each other.
| Last January DIR. Price was stricken
was fever and during his relirium
| called for Miss Turnbull. She was sent
| for and came to his bedside. Then
! they determined to get married, but
Miss Turnbull was taken ILL., She is
we'll again and the two will be mar
ried from DR.. Prices house by the Rev.
Charles H. Arndt. Miss Turnbull
comes from a we'll known family and