The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


bach, being then 81 years old, was in
very bad health, and his physicians
gave UP his case. Then he decided to
doctor himself and has done so ever
since, absolutely confning his diet to
milk. Now he is one of the healthiest
and soundest men in town.
Several thousand copies of an Off
cial cook book for the navy have been
issued by the paymaster general of the
Navy Department. The book is bound
in canvas. is entitled General Mess
Manual and Cook Book. United States
Navy" and a copy will be placed on
board every vessel in the service. The
new cook book has a number of rules
that must be kept by the men. The
cook may receive no extra pay and
tips are prohibited. The cook cannot
strike or resign. Half of the volume is
devoted to recipes only.
"A story is told of the late Prof.
Smell of Amherst College, which re-
lates how he once asked fora definition
of the solar corona from a member of
his class in astronomy. The young
man, after a good deal of hesitation,
and dread consciousness of impend-
ing failure, plunged desperately into
the statement that he did know what
the COIOIld WdSs OQl HdQ IOTSell0Il. Inc
professor turned to his class with a
tragic gesture, What an incalculable
loss to science!'' he exclaimed, with
emotion; that the only man who ever
knew what the suns corona is has
forgotten"
Tim, a well-known and popular
collecting dog of Paddington station,
London, is dead. About eleven years
ago he arrived, waif, by an early
morning milk train, was adopted by
an inspector and soon made himself at
home on the passenger platforms. He
had box attached to him in which
travellers were wont at their will to
drop coins, and Tim, though no para
site, had happy knack of looking aft
er first-class passengers, to many of
whom he was introduced. With the
late Queen Victoria he was a great
favorite, and she always had a dona-
ton to give him, which was for the
most part of gold. King Edward and
Queen Alexandria likewise subscribed
to the fund he collected, which was
for the benefit of the widows and or
phans of persons who had worked for
the Great Western Railway. The dog
collected thousands of dollars.
The London sewer hunter before
self with bulrs-eye lantern, a can
vas apron and a pole some seven or
eight feet in length, having an iron
attachment at one end somewhat in
the shape of a hoe, says Chambers
Journal. For greater convenience the
lantern is invariably fixed to the right
shoulder, so that when walking the
light is thrown ahead, and when stop
ping its rays shine directly at his feet.
Thus accoutered he walks slowly
through the mud, feeling with his maxi
ed feet for anything unusual, at the
same time raking the accumulation
from the walls and picking from the
crevices any article he sees. Nothing
is allowed to escape him. no matter
what its value, provided it is not value
less. Old iron, pieces of rope, bones,
current coin of the realm and articles
of plate and jewelry-all Is good fish
which comes to the hunters net.
"A Russian artillery officer and
chemist, named Imschenetzky. has in
vented and patented new fire-proof
material called uralite. which is COM
ing into use in Europe, Uralite is COM
posed of asbestos fiber. with a proper
proportion of silicate and bicarbonate
of soda and a small amount of chalk.
1t is supplied in various finishes and
colors, according to it's ultimate pur-
pose. In soft form the sheets are
like asbestos board: harder, they re-
semble finely sawn stone and have a
metallic ring. Uralite can be supplied
in a plastic, form for pipe covering if
required. The principal advantage of
the material is undoubtedly it's fire-re-
sisting property. 1t is a nom conductor
of heat and electricity, is practically
waterproof (and may be made entirely
so by paint and is not affected by at
mospheric influences, nor by the acids
contained in smoke in large towns.
which rapidly destroy galvanized iron.
THE Cherokees were the only tribe
of Indians who had a written language,
says the Knoxville Sentinel 1t was in
vented by Tahlequah or George Guess,
half-breed native, who lived at Ross
Landing. The Cherokee tongue is a
beautiful one with soft vowel sounds
and Tennessee inherits from it some eu-
phonious geographical names, includ-
ing that of the state itself. What we
have lost by the substitution of Eng
lish names may be seen from a COM
parisorh The Tennessee river was the
kallamuchee uD to the mouth of the
Little Tennessee. From this point to
the mouth of the French Broad it was
called Cootela, and from thence to the
mouth of Watauga and perhaps to its
source in Virginia the Holston was
known to the Indians as Hogoheegee.
The French Broad was Agiqua, and re-
ceived the Swannanoah and Nonichun-
heb. The present barbarous CIinch''
had the more euphonious name, Pelis-
Stppi. Little river was the Canot. Lit
tie Tennessee was the Tannassee, and
its continent, Tellico, has been changed
from Ptsaliko, or Saliko. Hiawassee
was pronounced Euphassee; Cumber-
land was called by the Indians, Warlo-
TO. "Loushatchee, Hatchee, Sequat-
chez, Ocoee, Conasauga, and Watauga
have happily" Ramsey says. "escaped
the vandal mutilation or corruption
which the unfortunate Holston, French
Broad, Clinch. and Forked Deer have
suffered"
In England, says Ainslee's, a mans
wife is in reality his partner; and
whether or not the two are in harmony
with each other in affection, in all ma
terial things they recognize that their
fortunes are irrevocably bound -, to-
gether; that the interests of both are
quite Identical, and that each has lust
as strong a motive for making things
go well as has the others since thew
share equally the labor and the reward
of labor. They may have their private
disagreements, but they front the world
together. The wife takes the keenest
interest in the most minute details of
everything that affects her husbands
welfare. She knows his income to a
penny. She manages her household as
a chancellor of the excheoller rnano eag