The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

trip across Asia for scientific study.
says that there is scarcely a town of
10000 inhabitants in all Siberia where
a museum devoted to anthropology is
not to be found. This he regards as
Of special significance and interest, as
Asia is looked on as the cradle of the
human race.
One of the most remarkable cities
IN the world is Kelburg, near Cracow,
Poland, for, besides being situated I'M
foreground, it is excavated entirely in
rock salt. The inhabitants, TO the num-
Der of over three thousand, are, of
course. workers in the famous salt
mines, and all the streets and houses
are of the purest white imaginable. One
of the most famous features of the city
is the cathedral, carved in salt and
lighted with electric lights, and when
the late Car Alexander visited it, elev-
en- years ago. he was so fascinated with
the magnificent effect of the light upon
the crystal walls that he presented the
cathedral with a jewelled altar cross.
Such thing as infectious disease is
unknown in Kelberg; in fact. the ma
jority Of the inhabitants die of old age.
The people have given singular and
amusing. names to many neighborhoods
in Missouri says the Kansas City Star.
In Caldwell county are Zion, Lickfork
and Polo. Echo Dell, Gabtown and
Dawson City are in Worth county. In
| Nodaway county are Toad Hollow,
Sunrise and Postum Walk and in
Henry county is Coal Pigeon Creek
and Centennial are in Atchison coun-
ty; River Dots, Splawn Ridge and
Civil Bend, in Daviess county; Sleepy
| Hollow and Ivy Hill, in Sullivan coun-
ty,. and Esrom Echoes, in Butler coun-
ty. These are just few names picked
at random from the country CORE
spondence of the county seat press.
Sometimes a pretty or suggestive name
is given a neighborhood, but generally
| the aim of the christener seems to
have been to confer the harshest or
most amusing appellation he could
think of.
"A very interesting portrait, dating
from the seventeenth century, of Will
last week at a London art auctioneers.
1t was discovered about the year 1850
by the late Charles Buttery, the pic
| ture restorer, and was at once recog-
| nized by him as a portrait of Shakes
| peare 1t was sold by him to the late
| Mr.. William Russell, a well-known
! connoisseur, and at his death it was
repurchased by Mr.. Horace Buttery. 1t
was exhibited at the Tudor exhibition
| in 1890. and six year later at the
| Shakespeare memorial, Stratford-on
Avon; it is painted in oils on a panel
| 1917 by 91s inches, with his coat-of-
| arms and motto, Non sans droit (NOt
| without right, in the upper left-hand
| corner, and from its resemblance to
| the engraving by Droeshout it is con-
| jectured that the painter of this pic
| ture and the engraver must both have
| worked from a common original. 1t fell
to Messrs Sotheran's bid of $3.50.
One of the minor, but picturesque,
results in New York of the coal strike
is the disappearance from 'circula-
| ton" of large numbers of beer kegs
| and packing cases. Heretofore the
brewers have not found it. necessary to
| take any special precautions to insure
! the return of the empty kegs after the
saloon keepers have disposed of their
! contents; but since the present scare
| ity of fuel has arisen the temptation
| to keep the kegs and break them up
| to make fires is said to be too strong
| to be always resisted. Beer kegs make
| good fires. They are built of oak and
are coated inside with pitch to make
| them alright. and when split UP and
| used for fuel they will roast a turkey
| or warm hot water radiator with the
! best anthracite that ever came from a
mine. To prevent this convenient but
somewhat irregular use being made of
the kegs, brewers in New York and
other cities are preparing to take ex-
ira precautions to insure the return
of their property.
| Graham county Jail, at Clifton,
Ariz., is unique. 1t comprises four
large apartments hewn from the solid
| quartz rock of a hillside. The entrance
is through a boxlike vestibule built of
heavy masonry and equipped with
three sets of steel gates. The floor of
the rock bound Jail is of cement. and
| the prisoners are confined exclusively
in the larger rooms. Some of the most
| desperate criminals on the southwest
| border have been confined in the Cliff
| ton Jail, and so solid and heavy are
the barriers to escape that no one
| there has ever attempted a break for
| freedom. The notorious Black Jack
was there for months. The wall Of
| quartz about the Jail is fifteen feet
thick. Clifton is one of the great cop
per mining camps in Arizona, and has
the reputation of being as depraved a
community as yet exists on the 'front.'
] Ter of civilization. In summer the mer-
curry there frequently rises to 12o in
the shade. and in the winter it never
goes below 40 degrees.
An ordinary cut will stop bleeding
upon the application of hot water or
| ice, says an exchange. If the blood
shows signs of drying, let it remain.
as nothing will stop bleeding more eff
| fectively. If blood spurts from a cut it
| is evidence that an artery has been
| severed. In that case take a handker-
| chief or a strip of cloth and tie 1t
| around the limb an inch or two above
| the wound-"above" meaning between
| the wound and the heart: the band
| age being put on loosely enough to
admit of inserting a stick or cane be-
| tween the bandage and the 4imb.
| Twist the stick so that with every
turn the bandage is drawn tighter.
| This must go on until the bleeding
either stops or materially diminishes.
Then the bandage must be held in
place, and similar one, perhaps not
| quite so tight. applied below the
wound. In this way the bleeding from
the other end is controlled. Some
| times the wound is in a place where
| 1t is impossible to apply a bandage: in
that case press the lips or sides of the
| wound together with the fingers and
Keep them firmly closed by pressure.
Birds, with all their acuteness Of
ten fail to move out of their accus-
toned groove, says Bird Lore" The
chirping sparrows have persisted in
building their nests in the roof-gutters