The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-26
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houseowners against the new elevated
electric railway. on the ground that its
| clatter deprecated their property by
driving away tenants, has found no
favor with the president of police He
says that Berliners will get accustom-
ed to the innovation.
Daniel H. Morgan, Yale student
ard son of Elisha Morgan. millionaire
head of the writing paper trust, start
! ed out as tramp from Springfield,
Mass, with chum, their object be-
ing to study the hobo with a view to
| literary effort. In Boston they were ar
rested as Migrants, and as this was "a
! bit of local color for which they had
| not bargained, they declared their
| identity. The incredulous policeman
| laughed at their protestations, and
| only after considerable use of the wires
were they given freedom. One such ex-
| perience was enough and both hurried
| back to Springfield.
| Anna Lawyer, a 17-year-old girl of
| Greenwood. a suburb of Altoona, Pa,
| comes to the front with the most oe-
| culiar money-maIing occupation on
| record. On the hills back of Greenwood
| rattIesnakas, vipers and racers abound.
| Her youthful training made her ac-
/ quainted with habits and haunts of the
| reptiles, and now she is one of the most
| expert snake-catchers in the country.
Recently she made big catch of rat
| tiers and sold them at a handsome
| profit to Eastern dealers. She is now
working on a contract to furnish
snakes, at fancy prices. for a carnival
| show. So far this season Miss Lawyer
I has caught SOC snakes, OF many va
rieties, and cleared up about $500 by
! her peculiar enterprise.
-Tortoises are known to be able to
| live for a long time without food, says
the Pail Mall Gazette. 1t was also
believed hitherto that they We're rigid
teetotalers. This belief, however, has
been rudely dispelled by the discovery
| that they are very fond of grapes. The
proprietor of a vineyard in Algiers
had noticed for some time serious dep
| relations going on in this plantation.
The Waterman he had engaged report
ed that mysterious noises were heard
in the place at night, and consequent
ly refused to stop any longer on the
spot. But the master determined to
inquire into the matter for himself,
and, much to his surprise, he found a
large number of tortoises climbing UP
the vines with an alertness of which
tortoises are ordinarily thought to be
incapable and making the most of the
good things which the gods had pro-
vided for them.
"A morbid fastidiousness about dirt
has been labeled "mysophobia" by a
learned Frenchman, says the London
News. Most of us have met with VIC
tins of this 'phobia,' though ignorant
of its scientific name. A person suf-
fering from nysophobia, on taking his
seat at table, begins by scrutinizfng
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his use; he holds the tumbler up to the
light to see if it is free from finger
marks, he scans his napkin to make
sure that it is immaculate, and one by
one each object is critically passed in
review. In advanced cases the suf-
ferer mechanically wipes the various
articles, using the napkin for the pur-
pose. In a domestic servant the at
lection might be held to constitute a
desirable quality, but unfortunately it
is extremely rare in the servant and
working classes. The prognosis is
grave in the sense that the sufferers
rarely recover, the tendency being for
the affection to become more and more
pronounced with advancing years.
Private nursing should be done on
ly by the best nurses, says an ex-
change. A nurse who has never be-
fore known what it is to have no one
in authority over her, to whom she
| may flee in an emergency, finds her
self alone, maybe, in the country, miles
from a doctor. The patients life may
depend upon her competence to act
| promptly. She may find herself with
cantankerous old patient, who can
be managed by no one who has not an
immense amount of power of inspiring
| confidence. She has to know when it
| is necessary to summon medical aid
how to calm the nerves of anxious
! friends, Who would wear the doctor
| out with ceaseless calls upon his time
| and patience unless the nurse had
enough knowledge and assurance to
| allay their fears. She must know how
to walk into a disordered household
| and restore order out of chaos. Pos
| sfbly the head of the household has
| had a stroke. The family is distract
| ed, the servants are weeping. A quiet
/ calm nurse, with a full knowledge of
the gravity of the case steps in, and
order reigns again.
| why is it that one person is tick
| fish and another isn't?' asked man
who is fond of the unusual thing, ac-
| ccrding to the New Orleans Times
| Democrat. Il have often wondered
| why men were differently constituted in
| this way and have never seen any
/
| Some men cannot stand to be touched
| in the side. Others cannot stand to
| be touched on the knees. They steal
} sugar, according to the nursery Ie-
| gend, and will simply have a fit IL YOU
| should scrape the ends Of your fingers
| over their knees. The bottom of the
/ foot or the palm of the llani is
| tender place with other people. On
| the other hand, there are men who are
| not at all ticklish. l have seen tests
made with straws about the ears and
neck without any sort Of disturbance
| The subjects, too. were reasonably SEN
| strive. l cannot say that they were
| not thin-skinned to some extent. for 7
| Know many of them Ware Rut tbev
| were OF ticklish. AS rule the man
| whose skin is thin is the tickifsh man
/ put there are the us Ial exceptions 70
tLls rule. suppose it is a matter
| involving the ne 'vous constitution. and
II persons are unusually ticklish T o,1ess
| IT is due to the fact thae tho sense Of
touch IS more keenly DEVELOPED at the
| particular parts If the BODY which ara
/ pecuharly sensitive. I caa accolIn+ Tor
/ IN" vast difference in persons II, me
| re:iCct in no Other va. II fs sim
Ply q question of a highly deevk,ne,I
| sea>+ of tou III
The old idea that the newsnaper
man is unified for business is not CON
firmed by the facts says the New york
correspondence of the Phi1adeInbia
| Ledger There ara q L. -, iAAiies