The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

suffrage had been granted TO women
was quickly followed by the news that
/ the Legislature had passed bill
whereby women teachers in the public
schools were to receive the same pay
as men teachers, provided they held
certificates of the same grade. These
are among the practical results of
| equal suffrage.
Carrie Nation has come down an
Using herself as a street fair attrac-
! ton in Missouri. Several managers
have received her literature, which
bears a half-tone picture of the old
| lady, beneath which is this line:
Americas Most Famous Woman" The
| fair season not being fully open yet,
she is going about the state making
| speeches, selling hatchets and solicit
ing money to build a home in Kansas
| City, Kan. for 1.-The destitute widows
Of drunkards."
Indiana may not be in it with Kan
sas for gold, says the st. Louis Star,
but she can go her one better in the
matter of diamonds. In Moran coun-
| ty only the other day, farm laborer
! picked up a fiawless blue diamond,
which the state geologist said was
brought to that county by the first
|
as that state. 1t was stingy old
| glacier, indeed, that would only drop
one diamond while passing over so
rich a state, and therefore a general
diamond hunt is being organized.
There is an ancient and more or
less substantially founded tradition
that no woman can write a letter with
| out adding a postscript of more import
| nf he
witty Frenchman contributes the latest
| story on this fruitful topic. One morn
| ing he received long and charmingly
written letter from woman whose
handwriting he failed to recognize. She
was evidently acquainted with him,
for she wrote of persons and things in
which he was interested. At the end of
| some dozen pages of feminine prattle
came this postscript: You will see by
my new signature that 1 am married"
Fatigue is one of the greatest enc
mics of the human race, says Aims
lees. Modern physiology shows that
it is the cause of nearly half and per-
| haps more, of the several hundred cat
alogued diseases that prey upon man.
In our age. with it's high pressure, its
hot and bitter competition, and the
| unrelenting struggle for survival, its
moral and physical ravages are
steadily increasing. Cities, in which
an ever larger proportion of our peo-
pie dwell are biological hot houses,
| and, for some, furnaces, forcing de-
velopment prematurely, and encourag-
ing late hours and excitement and
; consuming nerve and brain.
The inhabitants of the town of Car
amet, near Brest, have had very ex-
citing experience, says the Paris Daily
Messenger. While the warship Bou-
| granville was having gunnery practice
in the bay a dozen or more projectiles
fell in the town, terrifying the inhabi-
tants, and a shell pitched among the
fishing boats in the harbor, close to a
busy quay. The semaphore at Pen-Hat
had to signal to the Bougainville for
| nearly an hour before the firing ceased.
The last time Camaret was bombarded
was in 1894 by the British. On the
present occasion there was no loss OF
life.
The increase in the contributions of
the tropics to the daily life of man has
been general throughout the countries
where prosperity or an activity in
manufacturing and commerce is the
rule; but it seems, says the Forum, to
be especially marked in the United
States, which now imports more than
a million dollars worth of tropical and
sub-tropical foodstuffs and raw mater
ials every day in the year. The in
creased reliance upon the tropics is
| probably greater, proportionately, in
the United States than in most other
| countries since much larger share of
cur sugar Is drawn from the tropics
than is the case with other, and espe-
| cially the European countries, which in
most cases now produce their own SUI
| gar from beets. The United States has
during recent years consumed nearly
one-half of the cane sugar Of the world
which enters into international COM
merce, and more than one-half of the
coffee of the world In the year just
ended, the importations of goods US
ually considered as of tropical or sub
tropical production amounted to $780,
100000 or considerably more than ST.
100000 for every day in the year, in
Guiding Sundays and holidays, while
thirty years ago they amounted to but
s143,0OO.000, or less than 100000 per
day.
At what point does life begin? So
far as regards space of time, the
question is unanswerable says the
London Telegraph. Only a few years
ago it would have been said that in
regard to that seemingly essential con-
ditjcn of life temperature we did know
pretty nearly superior and inferior
limit Little of life is there below
the freezing point or above the boil
ing point of water, and far above or
below these critical points we should
expect even germ life to be destroyed.
When our greatest physicist in 1871
suggested that seeds of plants might
have been borne to this world in a far
distant age, the hypothesis seemed in
credible, because the temperature of
space, being at least as low as minus
140 degrees Centigrade, would be fatal
to life in any form. This Is not so.
Recently at the Jenner Institute bac-
terra have been frozen in LIQUID air
had even in liquid hydrogen, and on
the a7plicatio of heat and placed in
proper media have terminated. The
processes of life were arrested, but
the nasceht life energy was not de-
stroYed at 200 degrees Centigrade, say,
3eO degrees Fahrenheit of frost. Ex-
periments are now being made to find
whether long continuance for months
or years in such cold takes away the
vitalism of these lowest forms of life.
If they are looked at in a proper
light, says the London Globe statistics
are by no means dull reading, and may
supply some most interesting facts and
subjects for speculation. The returns
of the imports into the kingdom of tea
and coffee open up some very curious
questions. The average Englishman
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