The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
SAYS the Jewish Chronicle: " .Tl

are constantly brought In small ana
unobtrusive quantities. A few years
back one of the Grand Dukes inaugu-
rated, with much imposing ceremonial,
a church upon the Mount of Olives,
the most noticeable feature of which
is tower of singularIy disproportion-
ate elevation. from the summit of
which, ii is said, one can signal as far
as the Mediterranean. The Car does
not proclaim his policy from the house
tops, but only men as simple and blind
as the pilgrims at the Church of the
| Holy Sepulchre could miss the signifi-
canoe of these things"
"A very curious load of dock pass
engers arrived in San Francisco the
other day on the Hamburg American
| steamer Nicaria. There We're no less
then seven llamas from the Repuvian
| Andes-animals so very valuable at
| home for their soft wool and for their
| services as beasts of burden that their
export is prohibited by the Peruvian
| government. These were exported
| through the courtesy of the govern
ment and are destined for menageries
| The llama is a second cousin to the
camel, only that he is much smaller
and humpless. In prehistoric times
the ancestors of the llama were COM
| mon in California and Colorado. In
! temperament the llama is something
! like the mule. He is terribly obsti-
| nate and has a deadly sneeze, which
| is a sure shot and warranted to in
| gulf any target at fifty yards. While
| on the Nicaria's deck one of the liamas
was prodded by smart Aleck with
an umbrella. The beasts lip began
| to CULVER, but the umbrella wielder
| persisted, and after the sneeze the
| Hama'S tormenter went below and
| took a bath.
! Gray hair is an ordeal to the aver
age woman under the most favorable
| circumstances, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, and she probably finds in it
| little that is to be palliated. On the
! other hand, most women would prob
ably not mind it so much if they were
| certain that all their hair would be-
come white Immediately and not re-
| main for several years in the yell
lowish, mixed stage that comes to
all women who have not black hair
1t is the problem of getting their hair
! white all at once that troubles most
women. Some of the Paris hair
dressers are said to be able to make
the hair quite white when once it be-
gins to turn. The process is cx
pensive under any circumstances. A
remedy has been found which is sue
! cessful in the case of most of the wom-
| en- who have tried it. 1t is not ex-
| pensiVe, for the process consists IN
giving the hair bath of washing
| blue. The blue must not be too strong,
but must be literally mixed with wa
! ter. If one bath does not have the
effect of taking all the yellow out Of
| the hair, the operation should be re-
! peated. In a day or two after the
bath of blue has been given the yell
| low will begin to fade from the hair,
and in short time it will be quite
white.
There is cruelty and Indifference to
suffering. often to a shocking degree,
among the Filipinos. says James Lee
Roy in the July Atlantic. This is due
to an ever present fatalism. which the
little real religious teaching the people
has received has built upon rather than
sought to eliminate, and to the abso-
! lutte lack of an appeal to, or of an at
! tempt to educate, higher feelings. If
! it is to be assumed at the outset that
| these people are forever incapable of
such higher feelings, then it ought also
! to have been assumed that they were
incapable of Christianity. Water tor
! ture, which has in some cases been re-
/ sorted to on our side. is one of the forms
! OF torture to which these people are
| led alive by order of guerrilla chiefs
! the manning, mutilations. and secret
ASA ssinations certainly make up an APP
! palling and shocking chapter. War
stirs UP the darkest passions among the
most advanced peoples, however, and it
was in a degree to be expected that a
| people unframed in modern interna-
| tional usages, and never in the past
treated as though they belonged to the
| h1.n ~ n
sible to humanity for humaneness
would exhibit an entirely refined code
| of Staying. The "ethics of Warfare
| after all. that IS a rather Daradoxical
| phrase, is 1t not?
An English physician has lately re-
ported on the diseases prevalent in
Alaska, after a residence of sixteen
months in the country. There are two
seasons, winter, the season of pack
ice; summer, the season of swamps.
The winter lasts for nine months, the
summer for three. Among human mall
aides cerebro- spinal-meningitis is very
prevalent, sometimes in epidemic,
sometimes in sporadic form. 1t is Of
ten difficult to distinguish from the
cerebral form of typhoid. Scorbutus
is also widespread. rheumatism is
frequent, and usually takes the neu-
ralgic type, inflammatory rheumatism
is rare. Pneumonia is almost unknown,
strange to say. Affections of the d.
gestion are very frequent owing to
poor food; nervous diseases, such as
locomotor ataXia, etc. are also FREE
quent. Alcoholism and the like are
prevalent, due to the ennui of the long
winter, but, on the whole, intemper-
ance is less harmful in Alaska than
in more southern climates. Insanity
is by no means rare, and it declares
itself most frequently in winter, ow-
ing to ennui, absence of occupation,
lack of exercise and isolation. Its
usual form is acute melancholia, al
most always followed by acute mania.
Suicidal mania is also frequent. Taken
altogether, the catalogue of Alaskan
diseases is a long one, and indicates
that vigorous physique and morale
is required to resist them.
During his recent visit to the VOL
cano-stricken islands of the West In
dies, a New York Tribune reporter
was told that the water cocoanut,
fresh from the tree, is the best thirst
quencher in the tropics. During an all
day ride over the dusty road from
Kingston to Georgetown, st. Vincent
the reporter had a chance to test the
truth of this statement. For various
reasons it was deemed unwise to drink
the ordinary water, and when beyond
tine reach of distilled water from the
Dixie thirst became an interesting fell
low-traveler. The heat was awful, and
nil acE7e tn +I,a ns,,