The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

operation in France limiting the hours
of labor TO ten hours and thirty min
utes a day in all factories employing
mixed help-that is to say, employing
women and children as well as men,
"A phenomenon of the volcanic de-
struction of st. Pierre still unexplain-
ed is the instantaneous disintegration
of all metals. The market, a large hall
covering 1000 square metres, which
had been entirely and solidly rebuilt
of steel after the cyclone of 1891. was
annihilated without leaving a vestige
except fine metallic powder.
"A geological survey report on Cra-
ter Lake. in Oregon, proclain1s as un-
true the assertion. commonly made.
that this remarkable body of water is
bottomless. 1t took line 1000 feet
long, however, to reach the bottom in
the deepest fresh water in the United
States. This lake was formed in a
former geological age by the collapse
of a volcano.
The London Taller says a Chinese
| gentleman wrote to the editor of an
| English newspaper in Tien Tsin say
ing that sometimes he was at loss
to understand the meaning of the mes
| saees which were received from Reu-
| ter, and said he wanted to know,
among other things, what is Sham
rock III. The editor informed him as
follows: 1.-THE America Cup is piece
| of elongated silver, much coveted by
English and American people, who sail
boats for it, 1t is worth a. hundred
| taels Ia tael is worth % 3D., and a
boat to compete for its costs about $780,
| 600 taels. The man who has the fastest
| boat keeps 1t till some other man builds
| a faster boat. An American holds it
at present, and believes it is his for
keeps because the English people have
forgotten how to build boats. Sir
| Thomas Upton thinks he can build a
better sampan than any that can be
| built in America, and has tried twice
already to beat the American sam
| pans"
| When M. de Voltaire was told, at
the age of so, that coffee was poison,
| he is reported to have rejoined, says
the Westminster Gazette, that it must
be a remarkably slow one, as he had
taken it all his life; and when the
Athenaeum is solemnly sorry to no
tice the creeping in again OF the word
| Premier for Prime Minister, even in
places where a better practice might
have been expected" one is tempted to
observe that this Creeping in" has
| been going on for certainly two centu-
ries. Before, indeed, the term Prime
| Minister" was heard of in this coun-
try Premier" was to be noted. In the
time of Charles II not only did An
drew MARVEL satfrically choose for the
King an unmentionable parsonage as
| his Minister Premier" but Roger
North declared of Buckingham Of "the
Cabal'' that he was little less than
Premier Minister to direct all the
Kings affairs" A greater than either
writer, and that one Swift, described
Harley, when made Lord Treasurer in
| 1710, as "a Premier Minister of State, .
and Walpole was Familiarity described
as "our Premier" less than a score Of
years later.
"A special to the Baltimore Ameri-
can from Ann Arbor, Mich. yesterday
says: DR.. Jules o. Schlotterbeck. pro-
fessor of pharmacognosy and botany
in the University of Michigan, is about
to make known officially the discovery
of seven new poisons. The poisons are
l all distinct, though three of them are
| made from the same vine. They will
be used for medicinal purposes. and
| experiments to test their properties on
the lower animals are now in prepara-
ton. Three of these poisons are made
i
| in abundance on porches all about this
section of the state. Besides the known
poison protopine made from this vine,
the professor has extracted poison
which he has named adlumine and adj
lurnidine, and one still unnamed. From
the calandine poppy the professor has
extracted the fourth and fifth poisons,
called stylophine and disphylline, and
from the Japanese celadine the poison
I hnn M ,aa5 n..A
of twenty-five pounds of the Allie
gheny vine used this fall for the ex-
traction of three of the seven new
poisons there were only two ounces
of them combined. This same process
is used for the Japanese celadine and
the celadine poppy.
AS a result of the order of the gov
eminent to remove all fences on the
public lands. Lake, Tomb & Co., large
ranchmen of Dakota. have leased 80O,-
900 acres of land in. the Standing Rock
Indian Reservation for a period of five
years, paying an annual rental of 301s
mills per acre and allowing each fam
| lily of Indians to Craze free 100 head
of cattle. This will be the largest pas
ture in the world except the KIT ranch
in the Panhandle in Texas. This i'm
mense tract will be fenced with three
|
of the lease the fence will belong to
the Indians. 1t will take almost 200
miles of fence to inclose it, the posts
for which will be brought from Min
nesota and Wisconsin, and will cost 16
cents each delivered on the ground. II
will require $4,000 posts, and they will
cost $1O,240. The company have on the
range about $4,000 head of cattle. and
the intention is to run the breeding
stock and the others that are to be
turned of TO market in the pasture
They Will put UP enormous quantities
or hay which can be cut in the pasture
with which to feed the stock in the
winter. and thus save the heavy loss
incurred when cattle had to hustle on
the range for a living during the win
ter. The cost of keeping cattle on the
| Tree ranges is about 81 .25 per head an
nually, and the company say they have
inquired the matter down to a fine point.
and under the terms of this lease II
Will cost them s2.46 a head, or about
twice as much as on the free range.
"A recent report of the New Jersey
State Board of Health deals with the
subject of impure and adulterated
foodstuffs and drugs sold within the
limits of the state. The report sets ont
tnat out of 3S2 samples of drugs mr.
chased in the state no less than 60
per cent. were found to be below the
Standard OF purity required by the
united states pharmacopoefa, while OF
the foodstuffs examined by the analv-
SIS 1ully 90 per cent. We're found tn ha
adulterated. This is a bad shour,no
ana the cutlery which has been yaisod