The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


teresting description of an ingenious
method of milk adulteration practiced
in Athens. The residents have 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
"Galai 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 thin
tube which runs up his sleeve and con-
meets with an india-rubber receptacle
full of water, which is carried under
his ample blouse. At each pressure
of the fingers on the udder there is a
corresponding compression of the wa
ter sack, and milk and water flows
side by side into the milk pail.
A merciless school of PRISONERS once
fourished in Venice. During the If
tenth century even the government
of that state used poison without any
disguise as a weapon. A body called
THE Council of Ten" was appointed to
determine who should be dispatched
and they dealt with the lives of princes,
kings and popes as one would deal
with superfluous trees in wood. A
curious document is still extant in
which the proceedings of this council
are recorded. 1t shows that one John
of Raguba prepared a selection of pois-
ons and a scale of fees. The fee va
ried with the Importance of the victim
and the length of the journey to be
made for his dispatch. For poisoning
the duke of Milan he charged so ducats,
for the Pope 100 ducats, for the King
of Spain $50 ducats, for the great Sui
tam 500 ducats.
Indian railway station masters
have their peculiar trials. Many per-
sons have heard of the agitated tele-
gram sent by one of this class in the
early days of railway construction to
the traffic manager at Bombay: ''Tf-
ger dancing on platform, pointsman
run away; please arrange" Now 1t
appears that a station master in Mad
ras has been much troubled by the
presence of another visitor happily I'M
known on western railways. Here is
his letter to the district traffic superin-
tendent: "Honored Sir: beg to bring
to your kind notice that a fearful CO.
bra is very often come to our sight
from the aloe fencing which is very
close and opposite to my station. There
fore 1 beg your honor to kindly ar
range with the engineering department
to remove the aloe fencing as early as
possible, in order to prevent the dan
ger to us and as well as to the pub
lie" 1t is pleasant to be able to add
that this reasonable request has been
allowed.
Accidental electric shocks seldom
produce death, says the Electrical
World and Engineer, unless the victim
is left unaided too long. In rendering
aid the first step is to remove the
body from the circuit. A dry stick of
wood may be used to roll the body
away or to brush aside a wire. The
victim may be seized by the coattails
or with any dry piece of cloth. After
that the body should be placed on its
back. A coat should be rolled up and
placed under his shoulder. Artificial
respiration should follow, lifting the
arms above the head at least Is times
a minute. AT the same time with a
handkerchief the tongue should be
grasped when the arms are above the
head and allowed to recede when the
chest is compressed. This should also
be done at least 16 times a minute.
Unless natural respiration begins
sooner the process should be continued
for an hour. Cold water dashed in the
face, ice rubbed on the spine, and al
formation applications of heat and cold
to the region of the heart will some
times start respiration.
The "trackless trolley" is employ
ed in Europe to some extent where the
amount of traffic is not sufficient to
justify the expense of laying the or
binary track construction. Up to this
time there have been no systems of
the trackleSs trolley kind installed in
this country, but it is reported that
two Lowell capitalists will build line
of this kind between Franklin and
Franklin Falls, N. H. A twenty
horsepower omnibus has been ordered,
capable of carrying thirty-two pasen-
gers and freight, and this car will be
run by overhead wires on a macadam
road. 1t is nowhere claimed that this
system is as cheap to operate as the
ordinary trolley system, or is in any
respect more desirable than the latter.
except that by it the expense of laying
a track is avoided. The records of
power consumption on the roads in
stalled abroad indicate that about
twice as much power is required on
good road to operate an omnibus of
this kind as would be needed to propel
trolley car of about the same size.
One chief essential for success is that
the highway be a good one, and sufi-
GENTLY broad to accommodate the traf-
fic.
Lick Observatory reports the dis
covery recently of over 100 pairs of
double stars. These double stars APP
pear to the naked eye as single stars.
but through the telescope their biuary
character is seen. 1t is known that
In most cases these double stars are
not simply two stars that lie in the
same direction and appear to the eve
to be close together while in reality
being far apart; but they are actually
associated together, and revolve round
each other. In some cases four or five
stars are so grouped round a single
center of gravity. The periods of rev.
olution of many of the double stars
have been noted. These periods run
generally from 25 to 100 years. and the
relative position of the two stars
changes so slowly that observations
covering many years, and sometimes
several lifetimes, have to be made be-
fore full date can be had. For a long
time it had been known that the Giant
star or Sun Sirius periodically moved
aside little, just as if he were swing
ing small companion in the celestial
dance. The Washington 26-inch tele-
scope was pointed at Sirius and it was
plainly seen that he did indeed have
a mate, which, however, is so much
smaller than himself as to be rather a