The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

amazed at the criminal statistics, par
ticulafly at the number of murders.
Ordinary crimes-dishonesty and the
vices that prevail in other countries
are not general, but murders occur al
most daily. Homicides in the province
in which Athens is located average an
nually almost l to 1000 of the popula-
ton. The causes lie mostly in politics.
The government has forbidden the
carrying of concealed weapons, but the
law is not enforced.
The National Association of Millers
has concluded arrangements with an
agricultural college at Wye, Kent, for
number of experiments with the
view OF improving the strength of
English wheat and bringing it up to
the standard of some classes of Amer
lean wheat. For the Investigations to
be made wheat is being grown on the
college farm in Kent, at two other
stations in Kent, one place in Surrey
and three places in the eastern coun-
ties. Special spring wheats are being
obtained from Minnesota and Canada
and will be grown at Wye and in
Surrey. Efforts will be made to Sc
lect and improve some of the foreign
wheats that are to be grown.
There is solid citizen of New York
whose fortune was founded on sand,
says the New York Post 1t amounts to
few millions. James Everard dug the
earth out of the hole in which sits that
architectural monstrosity known as the
general postoffice. This earth proved to
be fine building sand, a very scarce
article in New York. Jim not only
received big pay for removing it, but
sold it for fancy prices, thereby laying
the foundation for his ample compe-
tency. Prior to this windfall he had
been a patrolman on the police force.
In ten years he would have been a cap
tain, and it is not unlikely that. with
! a captains graft he would now own
numerous blocks of valuable real es-
tate.
"A French newspaper describes an
ingenious method of milk adulteration
practised in Athens, says the Boston
Transcript. The residents have a PEN
| chant for goats milk, and herds of
| these animals are led along the street
| by milk-sellers wearing long blouseS
with capacious sleeves. Their cry of
"Galal Gala!" brings the housewife to
the door, and she prudently demands
that the goats shall be MIXED in her
presence. This is done, but the milk
man has in one hand the end of a thin
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connects with an india-rubber recepta-
Gle full of water, which is carried I'M
der his ample blouse. At each press
ure of the fingers on the udder there,
is corresponding compression of the
water-sack. and milk and water flow
side by side into the milk pail.
--Kienbock of Vienna. in experiment
ing on, pigeons with the x-ray found
that the effects on the skin were not
immediate, but showed themselves aft
er several days or weeks. Two weeks
after the last exposure all the feath-
ers of the back fell out, and later
those of the breast, neck and Uranium.
The feathers of the wings, side and
rump were only slightly affected. The
downy feathers and the minute hairs
of the skin were also lost A fresh
crop of feathers began to show itself
in two days. The remarkable thing
was that the x-ray was effective not
only where it impinged directly upon
the skin, but also of the birds body.
This high degree of penetration does
not obtain in man and mammala gem
orally, and is accounted for in birds
by the existence of air spaces in their
anatomy. Kienbock cautions physi-
clans that severe burns and ulcers are
caused alone by over exposure, and
that the operator can no longer shield
himself behind a supposed idosyncrasy
of the patient.
Tt doesn't take much to draw a
crowd" said the special officer at the
Reading Terminal, according to the
Philadelphia Record. II had one this
morning that was the funniest eyed,
and what do you think was the cause
of it? A man getting measured for a
suit of clothes. He had to catch the
10; 80 train for New York, and he must
have wanted that suit of clothes bad
ly. He was afraid of missing the train
if he waited to get measured in the
tailor's shop, so nothing would do but
the tailor must go with him to the
Terminal. Trailing along behind them
came another young fellow to take
down the numbers as the tailor called
them out. 1t was three minutes to train
time, and / tell you they didn't waste
a second. The tailor made his tape
measure fly, and the man stood near
the gate with his watch in his hand.
In the mean time the crowd had coll
lected, and / couldn't keep the people
back Everybody wanted to know what
was the matter and a very officious
cid fellow was going around shouting,
Stand back and give them ART The
| tailor finished his job just as the con-
| euctor yelled All aboard"
1T is at once interesting and pa
thetic to go through the cells of the
| Eastern Penitentiary and to note the
| objects which, with tedious pains, the
| prisoners have made to while the time
away, says the Philadelphia Record.
Here mantel will be hung with a
\ lambrequin, deliberately fringed, the
! fine knots and delicate patterns of the
| threads comparing with the work of
! the French lacemakers. The lambre-
| quin is of an odd blue hue. and the Wis
! it0r is told that it is made of an old
| pair of prison trousers. On a little gilt
| bracket is a small stuffed animal. The
| bracket, so delicately turned, is of
newspapers pasted together and gild-
ed and the animal is rat caught in
a homemade trap, stuffed with rags,
and with pieces of chewing gum, col
! ored with shoe backing, for it's eyes
! A wall is completely covered with
really artistic decoration of reeds, on
! which are perched at least 200 birds.
each accurately colored and drawn.
| There are also numberless checker
boards and sets of chessmen that, in
the delicacy of their inlay work and in
| the intricacy of their carving, would
do honor to the craftsmen of the
| Orient.
Between A. D. 1900 and A. D. 1900
electricity was known as some force
which could be separated off into two
| opposite kinds, and left to stand on in
| sulators, or on a conductor which was
insulated; therefore, in this phase it is
called statical electricity. Sometimes
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