The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

borough man comes forward with
peanut cure for insomnia. He says of
it: Il had been a poor sleeper for FIVE
years. Violent exercise, drugs and
other remedies had given me no relief.
Finally, at the suggestion of a vege-
tariaB, tried the peanut put beside
my bed a bag of peanuts newly roast
ed, shelled and salted, and on my first
attack of insomnia l ate fifty, masti-
eating them very thoroughly-giving,
in fact, twenty-five chews to each nut.
While taking this large dose, 1 felt
gradual dTowsiness stealing over me.
and as soon as the dose was ended |
fell asleep. Since that time 1 have
always kept fresh peanuts by me at
night. They have never failed"
Many persons in this country be-
lieve that women should not wear os-
trich feathers because taking the
feathers from the birds is supposed to
be very painful. says H. A. Holmes
of EIiza bethtown, South Africa, in the
Washington Post. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Feathers are
taken out once a year, and the birds
suffer no pain from the plucking. The
ostrich is raised for commercial pur-
poses on great tracts of land, which
are fenced in and called camps. 1t is
hardy and multiply rapidly. Some os-
trich hens make as many as five or
six nests year, and the number of
eggs in a nest varies from twelve TO
seventeen. Ostrich raisers make their
profits almost exclusively from the
sale of feathers. There is little mar
ket for the BIRDS
As to the origin of the potato, says
the Springfield Republican, the cyclo-
pedias tell us that it is wellknown.
They say that it was first brought into
Spain from Quito, which is south of
Colombia but that the wild plant eX-
lists in a good many other places. They
do not say that it was native to North
as we'll as South America, but that is
the fact, and the Indians of the At
lantic Coast cultivated it. A river in
Nova Scotia, the Shubenacadie, pre-
corruption of the Algonquin word Sc
geeben, the wild potato, and the word
for place" which is also corrupted to
"quoddy," as Passamaquoddy, and has
suffered oter changes, and gave itself
to "Acadie," the Acadia of ''Evange-
line" and history. 1t is also native in
the mountains of Colorado, whence
came the Colorado beetle, the potato
bug" which finds the cultivated potato
erous plants are all of the solanum
family and are regarded by many
botanists as perhaps all varieties of the
soanum tuberosa.
Americans are the greatest drum
mers in the world, and they make the
finest drums, says the Indianapolis
Journal. Chicago and st. Louis have
large factories, but in these all kinds
of drums are made, most of which are
of the cheap variety and low in price.
There are only three factories in the
United States which make the kind of
instruments manufactured in this city.
These drums are distinct from the 9TH
ers in that they have a sharpness in
tone required only in orchestra and
band work. The drums that are used
in corps and in military work must
have a tone which is duler, and the
drum must not be so sensitive to the
touch. Drum-making is a curious in
dustry, and as complicated as it is GU
rious, for the drum has many parts. A
drum of the best construction has 24S
pieces, not including sticks, hooks, and
belt. All materials must be of the
best quality for the things from which
a drum is constructed are what give it
its tone, and as the drum is subjected
to rough usage it must be strong
enough to stand the strain.
1T is nice question how long
new tenant of a store or office ought to
keep the address of the former occu-
pant posted up on the doors and Win
dows,' said a Broadway tradesman,
according to the New York Times.
when l moved into my present quar-
ters my predecessor asked permission
to put up sign telling his old Gus
toners and the passers-by that he had
removed to a certain street up town,
and of course l said it would be all
right. l kept the card on exhibition for
about four weeks, and then, supposing
that everybody who had any desire to
keep track of him had found out his
present address, l took the notice down
A few days later he came in hopping
mad Two or three old customers had,
it seemed, been put to considerable in
convenience in locating him, because of
tn removal of the sign, and he was
out for satisfaction. l am afraid, though
that he didn't get it, for while | am
willing to do good deal to help fell
low-worker along, / am not willing to
advertise him indefinitely, to the detri-
ment of my own business, which in this
case happens to be the same as his"
The success of the Young Men
Christian Association in Japan has
called into existence a Young Mems
Buddhist Association. modelled on the
same lines, and aiming to inspire not
only religious but patriotic sentiments
in the minds of it's members. Although
it was founded almost a score of years
ago, the leaders in it belonging to the
highest nobility of the empire, its
membership is rather limited though
more numerous than that of the Chris
tian order, and asserted to be growing
more rapidly. 1t is not at all hostile
to the Christian society, and seeks the
same ends, which are to give the young
men of the country higher ideals of life
and conduct, and to make better and
more useful as we'll as more pious and
patriotic citizens of them 1t is a
token of the liberality and catholicity
of their principles that they promote
lawn tennis and ping pong among their
members, while they censure and for
bid dissipation, careless living, neglect
of the Buddhist tenets and all actions
which are contrary to good morals, as
well as good manners, the two being
closely united according to Japanese
ideas. There is room in the populous
island and empire for both societies,
and neither need be jealous or afraid
of the other.
1t is popularity supposed that
smoky skies are chiefly due to those
huge manufa curing chimneys which
from distance give London the ap-
pearance of some monstrous dock filled
with Titanic steamers, says the Lon
don Globe. But it has been shown
that the ordinary domiciles of London