The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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| healing. This has for some time pre-
vailed in aristocratic circles in Berlin
and Potsdam, and it has also invaded
the ranks of the financial aristocracy.
| A pharmacopeia of prayers to be used
against special forras of disease has
! been prepared. However beneficial to
! patients this new method of spiritual
| therapeutics may be, it does not ap-
| pear to be likely to enrich it's profess
sors. The practitioner of prayer heal
! ing most in vogue is a lady doctor
whose fees are at the rate of two marks
! an hour.
-Messrs. I.ortet and Hugouneng
have recently Investigated the num-
mffied remains of Egyptian fishes to
| discover the different ancient species,
| and now Messrs. Lortet and Gailard
| have done a corresponding work for
the birds. These mummies fall into two
! classes. the mummies of the ibis and
| those of birds of prey. The mummies
| date, some from the Roman, some from
/ the Ptolemaic period. Thirty eight spe-
| cies have been recognized and named,
| most of which have not been pre-
! viously known as mummies. 1t is in
! teresting to note that the white ibis
| of ancient times was very much larger
| than the corresponding bird of our own
| day whose habitat is the upper Nile
/ region.
The special correspondent of the
| Cologne Gazette, who was sent to Chi
ma during the Boxer troubles and the
| occupation by the allied troops, has
| made trip through Korea, which
| country he describes in the Gazette in
very interesting manner. He hired
d caravan of 1S horses at Seoul, and
| went into the interior to the German
| golo mine at Jang Kogae. He says
| that OF all the Eastern countries
| through which he Travelled Korea was
the only one where the horses got Il
| not Dinner. 1t consists of a kind
OF Dean soup, creased with talloW and
mixed with potatoes and various herbs
| Ihe whole is cooked for about three
hot. 'ei'
Since the discovery of the new
magnetic steels, says a German scien-
tinc Journal, we have been enabled to
| make permanent magnets which kaen
constant moment for a whole year
] Wlthln | per cent. The question as to
| inc pest means of storing them when
| not IN use is raised and answered nv
/ L. klemencie. He incloses the magnet
| IN a glass tube filled with cotton wool
which in it turn is embedded in an
IRON pox with sides three m. in thick
ness. inns prevents both disturbance
Dg Jdrrihg ana by an external mag
netic field. He finds that the protection
ratio is three. This is not very high
| put 1t can. of course be indefinitely
| increased by increasing the number of
| boxes. -
The medical world is just now
particularly interested in 'heroin,' the
| new substitute for morphine in bron-
| chial troubles said Mr.. A. RaIston
Jr., OF Boston, at Barton's. according.
TO the Washington Post. He is a chemi-
lcal expert, employed by one of the big
| gest proprietary drug houses in the
| Moiiu' ana is in Washington making
| Original researches in his line Hero
IN, he continued. lis the ethyl HYDRO
chloride of morphia. 1t is administered
| IN the form OF an elixir, and has proved
| a great success in treating bronchial
directions 1t has all the soothing pro-
prletles. of morphine applied to a sim
liar trouble, without any of the disas-
| trous eHects ON the nerves. OF course,
1t was discovered in Germany. where
all the great medical discoveries are
MADE by the government scientists. 1t
| was Introduced in this country about
| hve months ago.
In New York when people have
occasion to visit their uncle" at the
sign of the three gilded balls they gen
orally do SO in d furtive sort of way,
and do not make their visit a topic
| OF conversation among their fashion
able friends afterward, says the New
| York Press. But they do these things
better IN Vienna. In the Austrian cap
lpal they have new and handsomely
| appointed paWnshop, where there are
cosy tea rooms, reading rooms and
| every lnducement to spend an hour
or SO in chatting, reading or walking
| ABOUT the spacious premises 1t has
| become fashionable resort, and quite
the "swagger' thing to do is to meet
ones friends there of a morning. The
street before the pawnshop is filed at
| the fashionable hour with handsome
carriages with armorial bearings en-
/ blazoned on their panels, and society
meets in the luxurious rooms 10 talk
and gossip. Inquiries are made as to
what articles have been pawned, the
amount received, and there is a erea
! comparing of notes on the subject of
| pawnshops generally. 1t has been a
well known fact for years that large
| part of Vienna society frequently had
10 resort TO uncle" but it is only re-
| SNHNAJ mat bHt practice mas become
a social function and the pawnshop a
! fashionable resort. Once the carnival
| is over, the family jewels, which if
| would be lacking in piety to wear
| through the Lenten period are packed
| up and taken to "uncle's," and when
summer is come there go all the costly
| furs, which are well taken care of
| during the warm months. With the
| money borrowed on them their owners
| are able to augment their hilarity dur
| ing the season of roses and wine -
leaving the reckoning day to take care
! of itself.
The Presidents address to the an
nual meeting of the British astronomi-
cal Association, notes the New York
Sun, quotes some views of Lord Kel-
wins on the collisions of celestial bodies
that have direct bearing on the out
| burst of the new star of 190l-Noya
! Persei. Imagine two cool solid globes.
| each equal in diameter to half the So
| lar diameter and of the same density
| as the earth. Suppose them to be at
rest at distance apart equal to the
| diameter of the earths orbit Let gray
! itation now act and they will collide in
half year; and will be converted into
a violently agitated incandescent mass
of fluid flying outward. from the line of
! collision 1t is impossible to say ex-
| actly how far outward the fluid will
be projected, but an approximate call
| culation shows that the extreme dis
lance reached by the circular fringe of