The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in it is about IS per cent, but the new
analysis shows that it is only "A or 20
per cent. The percentage Of common
salt is $50, whereas in ordinary sea
water it is only 2S. A gallon of the
water weighs u pounds, while gal
Ion of sea water weighs 1OA and
gallon of distilled water 10 pounds.
1t is stated that the sum of $685.
sT5 has been inserted in the estimates
for the continuation of the railway and
telegraph from Swakopmund to Wind
hook. The railway has now been con-
structed as far as karibib, 120 miles
from the coast. The cost of construc-
ton of this section amounted to ST.
516,S39. 1t is estimated that the remain
ing section, Karibib- Windhock, will
have a length of 12f miles, and will
cost S1,s24,93S. The total cost of the
entire line from Swakopmund to Wind
hook will accordingly be s3,341,7T7.
In the homes of Balkan peasants
nothing is priced so highly as the fire
on the hearth, for it is regarded as
sacred and is never allowed to go out.
Tradition says that if it is extinguished
misfortune will surely come, and that
in many cases the death of the fire is
sure token that some member of the
family will speedily die. Another time
honored tradition says that the sa-
cred fire is able to cure many mala-
dies. and this is supposed to be the
main reason why it is guarded so care
fully throughout the Carpathians and
the Balkan peninsula.
Some copybooks issued in the
French schools, according to the New
York Tribune, contain pictures of
English troops suffering defeat at the
hands of the Beers, and the letterpress
is written in this vein: THE English
army is not a national army
like that of France. Kidnapping Is the
sole method of recruiting employed on
the other side of the channel. 1t is
chiefly in London, at Trafalgar Place,
that this abOminable white slave trade
is carried on" 1t goes on to describe
the recruits as "vagabonds, beggars
the scum of great cities" allured by
promises of gin, 1.-The national English
drink and it concludes with the state
ment that the English soldiers are a
set of drunkards.
Talking about big schemes, says
the Washington Post, Senator Turner
of Washington has a constituent
whose mind is no pent-up Utica. The
whole boundless continent is his. Out
in Washington the western side of
the Cascade range is covered with
heaVy forests, while the eastern side Is
practically bare. On the western side
the people have more rain than they
need; on the eastern side the people
have not enough. Snator Turner's
constituent proposes that two passes
or artificial valleys, each 1000 feet
wide, shall be cut through the Cas-
eade range, one at the northern and
the other at the southern end
Through these passes, which should,
of course, be on a level with the plain.
the moisture laden winds from the
Pacific Ocean would be expected to
make their way to the eastern portion
Of the state, bringing fertility in their
path. The man who suggests this
Improvement upon nature thinks that
the valleys would make admirable
highways for the railroads. So far
there is no suggestion of a govern
ment appropriation, which is more re-
markable than that the scheme should
have been suggested.
Coffee cigarettes are the newest
sort of smoke here. says the Paris cor
respondent of the London Telegraph.
They have been invented by intending
benefactors of the human race who
consider that nicotine is deteriorating
the modern man, and wish to cure
him of the supposedly nefarious habit.
1t should be explained that the new
cigarettes contain not a compound
made of the ground bean, as might
be imagined, but of the leaf of the
tree, fine, coarse or navy cut or ma
nipulated after the bird's-eye method.
according to taste. Coffee leaf smok-
ing is said to be not only perfectly
harmless, even IL INDUCED In to the
widest excess, but to possess the prop
erty, deemed by the inventors an UNI
quest ionable advantage, of imparting
to those who practice it an intense and
lasting dislike for the flavor of tobar-
co. Your correspondent, while freely
admitting that perseverance with the
new weed may very possibly breed dis
tastes for the old, has not made suffi-
GENTLY prolonged experiments in cof-
fee smoking to pronounce from per-
sonal knowledge on the question, but
can at all events Vouch for the fact
that the hygenic cigarette is not un-
pleasant. 1t draws satisfactorily, and
can be smoked with comfort, if not
with intense delight, to the end. The
scent and flavor are sui generis, though
vaguely reminding one of some Bel
gian tobaccos. The owner of the chem
lists shop where the coffee leaf cigar
cites are to be had says that there Is
quite run upon them, and that he
Aoo SOlhC ullHCuAty III keeping ABREAST
with the demand. The fact that the
new smoke is chiefly favored by wom-
en-, however, hardly points to the con-
clusion that the most abject slaves of
my lady nicotine" have vet entirely
fulfilled the expectations of the in
ventors by welcoming thankfully the
coffee cigarette as an instrument of
deliverance from their bondage
Tears have their functional duty
to accomplish, like every other fluid
of the body, and the lachrymal gland
is not placed behind the eye simplv to
I'LL space or to give expression to
emotion, says the Dietetic and Hygie-
mic Gazette. The chemical properties
of tears consist of phosphate of lime
and soda, making them very SALTY but
never bitter. Their action on the eve
is very beneficial, and here consists
their prescribed duty of the body
washing thoroughly that sensitive or
gan, which allows no foreign fluid to
do the same work. Nothing cleanses
the eye like a good salty shower bath. |
and medical art has followed natures |
law in this respect, advocating the in !
Vlgorating solution for any distressed |
condition of the optics. Tears do not |
weaken the sight, but improve it. They |
act as tonic on the muscular vision. |
keeping the eye soft and limpid. and |
1t viii be noticed that women in whose |
eyes sympathetic tears gather quickly |
have brighter, tenderer orbs than |
others. When the pupils are hard and |
cold the world attributes it to ones |
disposition. which is mora fo,,ro of /