The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-13

Many a thirsty traveller has been
of the Western deserts. according to
the Springfield Republican. During
the moist season it stores up a large
quantity of water for the subsequent
dry one. 1t is no easy task to obtain
the liquid, however. The exterior skin
of the cactus is more impenetrable than
the toughest leather, and is protected
by long spines curved into hooks so
strong and springy that they remain
uninjured, even though a large stick
be thrown against them. If the spines
be burned off one may, by long and
tedious effort. penetrate the rind with
sharp knife. Otherwise nothing but
an ak will enable the thirsty one to
get to the interior of the we'll arnored
plant. When the top is removed and
a hollow scooped from the inner stem,
the cavity at once fills with water
cool and refreshing, though a blister
ing sun may have been beating upon
the tough skin all day. When first OBJ
tanned, the water has a whitish or
smoky tint, but when settled is clear
as crystal.
A dispatch from Algiers, Nov. 9.
says: The town of Bougie, which was
visited by a shower of rats the other
day, is still busy discriminating its
army of unwelcome guests. For many
years thousands of rats, in company
with many hundreds of monkeys, in
habited the Couraya, high mountain
towering over Bourige The great
storm which swept them from the
mountain arose early in the afternoon
and soon developed into a furious hur-
rlcane. A huge funnel-shaped cloud of
dust and stones hurled itself over the
mountain, destroying everything in its
path Oddly enough, most of the mon
Keys managed to hold on to the pine
trees, although the larger portion of
them were killed; but literally thous-
ands of rats were carried high into
the air and strewn in vast numbers
over the Grand Phare and the suburbs
of Bougie. The Kabyle tribes in the
neighborhood, who are extremely su-
perstitious, were terribly frightened
and fed in all directions, spreading
terror over the district. They believed
that the rats were sent down from the
skies to punish them, and that the end
of the world had come. In the town
the more intelligent Arabs were less
superstitious, and promptly set to
work to kill those rats which were not
Oh NoNJ 0CcAQ. Dul IHeIG were SO many
or them still alive and they found such
convenient hiding places that the hunt
is still going on.
Butter is so common a commodity
that people use it and scarcely ever
think what wonderful value lies at
their hand in the pats of dainty yellow
cream fat, says an exchange. Of
thnU haf > ;e,
many branches of cookery, and that
without its aid the table would be
bare Of its thinly-rolled bread and
butter, its delicate cakelets and its
other usual accessories. Beyond these
uses the value of butter is a thing only
vaguely thought of. But this dictate
rat is as valuable as the dearer cod
liver oil for weakly thin people, and
doctors have frequently recommended
the eating of many thin slices of bread
spread thickly with butter as a means
of pleasantly taking into the bodily
tissues one of the purest forms of fat
IT is possible to get Butter is a car
bon, and all excess of it is stored IN
as fat in the body. 1t gives energy and
power to work to those who eat heart
lily of 1t. So it is not economy at table
to spare the butter even to the
healthy folk. For anyone afflicted with
cAASNiAiPbAOAis GOOhGTY, IL DlentX
OF fat can be digested. is one of the
best ways of curing the disease if il is
IN its early stages or of keeping it at
bay II advanced. Butter is not a sjmple
.tat composed of merely one sort. IT
is mixture of no less than seven diff
ferent sorts of fats, and no more com
pick oil can be taken than this is.
L was amused on looking at the
clergy list the other day to note how
men of the name of Smith seek to oh
scure the fact. says a correspondent of
the Tattler. Under the name of Smith
the reader is directed thus: Smith, vide
Abbott-Smith, or Allis- Smith. or Angel
Smith, or Bowden-Smith, or Rows
Smith, or Clark-Smith or CLEMENT
Smith, or Cowper-Smith, or Dawson
smith, or Finch-Smith, or Harper-
smith, or Hart-Smith, or HILBERT
smith, or Jackson Smith, or Jervis-
Smith, or Kerr-Smith, or Langdon-
smith, or Langdale- Smith. or T,itt-
smith, or Manners-Smitn, or Maynard
smith or Morgan-Smith, or Newland-
smith, or Owen-Smith, or Payne Smith
or Pressley-S smith. or Saumarez- smith
or Scott-Smith. or Spencer-Smith. or
Spriggs-Smith, or Wade-Smith or
Wood-Smith, or Wyatt-Smith, or vivid
bore-Smith. In addition to these tbara
are the following compounds: Smith
bingham, Smith Dampier, Smith-de-
aerH' smith Hertz. Smith, oun.
smith Marriott, Smith Masters and
smith Revise. Smith itself appears in
several forms, as Smyth. Smythe and
even Smith CBowyer-Smijth being the
name OF the Baronet Of Hill Hall. Fs-
SEX. One of the most curious cases
is that of Dorrien-Smith. Their name
was originally Smith, for they came
from the family which was ennohled
as Darlington. The baroneted branch
or the family took the name Of Rom
ley the peers name is now WYNN
Darlington. third branch took the
name. OF smith-Dorrien. while the pres
ent King OF the sullies, as II he felt
that an injustice had been done 10 Inc
historic name Of Smith. added smith
20 his already compounded surname
smith -Dorfien-smith. A not infre-
quent method IL 10 incorporate a
smith with the rest OF the name
Thus Bain-smlth" becomes Balm