The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

obtained from a sample of snow that
had beer lying on the ground ten days,
and has found an equivalent of 107
pounds per acre, or three tons per
square mile. AS the sample represent
Ell the condition over at least 200
square miles, the chimneys of Man
cheSted are convicted of throwing cut
not less than 300 tons of SCOT in ten
days. Analysis showed 4.86 per cent.
Of carbon, SO of heavy oil and grease,
ard 45.5 of ash, from which 1t APP
pears that each days thirty tons OF
SCOT is given adhesiveness by about
two tons of oily matter.
A curious and interesting peach has
turned up among the collections of
fruit trees growing on the grounds of
the Massachusetts Agricultural College
at Amherst, says the New York Tri-
bune. This is the fruit known to po-
biological experts as the Peen-to peach.
The fruit is about the size of a tan
gerine orange, but much more oblate.
In fact, it is almost as fiat as the pro-
verbal pancake. Good specimens
diameter but were flattened endwise
to thickness of less than three-quar-
tiers of an inch. The Peen-to peach
comes to this country from Southern
China, and in its former home has been
known to grow as far north as Pekin,
matte range about as far north as
Massachusetts. Until this specimen
turned up in the horticultural grounds
at Amherst, the Peen-to peach had
never been known to bear fruit in
America north of Florida, and the trees
had been grown only precariously and
as curiosity as far north as Della
ware.
Travellers find much to interest
them in the peasants of Brittany. The
rising generation will probably almost
all speak French, as it is being taught
in the schools; but one often still
meets man or woman to whom it is
wholly unintelligible, whose language
is the strange Breton tongue, with it's
marked resemblance to Welsh and the
old Cornish, which owe their deriva-
ton to one Celtic origin. Much has
been said of the dirt of the people of
Brittany, and the well-known prov
erb, "Ninety-nine pigs and one 8re-
ton make hundred Bretons," and the
still more scathing saying, THE Bas-
Bretons and pigs sleep together
should not have thought the pigs so
filthy will serve to keep up this repu-
tation, though the land should be
secured with soap. The interiors of
the homes of the people are by no
means always dirty, and the brass or
naments upon the cupboards, the pots
and pans are invariably scrupulously
clean. The caps, too, of the women
are always snowy white upon Sundays
and week days alike.
In South Africa the mail carts con-
vey passengers for long distances. The
drivers of these vehicles are usually
Cape boys" men of mixed parentage,
Hottentot, Cirque Koranna, with a
dash of the white man Superadded.
They are first-rate drivers and man
age their teams of six, eight and even
ten horses with extraordinary skill and
dexterity. Another colored boy sits
alongside the driver, welding an
enormously long whip, which imple-
ment he manages as deity as a first
rate fytisher does his rod and cast
ing line. Nevertheless, these Cape boys
are reckless folk, much addicted to
drink and inordinately vain of their
performances as Jehus. 1t is the fash
ion with them to start away from and
make the approach to the village inns
or batting places. where they make
their halts, at hard gallop. In this
way and owing to the drivers drink
ings habits and the ordinary risks of
bad places, where they make their
halts, at hard gallop. In this way
and owing to the drivers drinking
habits and the ordinary risks of bad
roads, accidents often happen, the cart
and its passengers are occasionally
turned over and broken bones result.
The cart itself is a two wheeled tent
ed carriage, having two or three seats
placed on behind the other, the passen-
gers invariably looking toward the
horses. Luggage and mails are strap
ped on behind or, if a regular coach is
used, upon the top.
DIR. Steiner observed in Java a.
method employed to induce sleep, says
the New York Sun. The operator sits
on the ground behind the patient whose
neck he seizes with both hands. The
index finger and middle fingers are
pushed forward into the carotids which
are compressed toward the spine. The
patients respiration becomes more
relaxes backward. The method is alb
solutely harmless, anaesthesia is rap
idly obtained and the patient wakes
promptly with no symptoms of nau-
sea of malaise. DR.. Steiner declares
the method to be we'll known in Java.
where it is used to relieve headache.
sIeeplessness, ETC., and points out the
fact that the carotid artery was known
TO the ancients as arteria soporifera.
and that its name in modern Russian is
artery of sleep" He does not seem
~ hiIOW lilel lIie H1etHO0 is WIDELY
practiced in India. Kipling's Kim" for
example, is put to sleep by a process
OF the sort. DR.. Steiner experienced
upon thirty Javanese and was success
tul in all but five cases. He sat in
front of the patient placing his right
hand on the left, his left hand on the
right side of the patients neck. When
the ends of his fingers met at the back
OF neck he placed his thumbs back of
and a little below the angles of the
lower jaw. The beating of the caro-
tld was felt, and then a moderate pres
sure toward the spine was applied. The
loss OF consciousness was connlete
ana, IN one case, an abcess was lanced
without sensation on the patients part
The average performance of a loco
motive in this country, says London
Engineering, is a little over twenty
thousand miles a year, but an engine
OF the London and Northwestern Rail
way Company, designed by Mr.. F. w
Webb, has just completed it's second
million miles, equal to 100 years SER
wee on the ordinary basis. This is the
Charles Dickens, we'll known to most
travellers who journey between Man
chester and London. For years il has
taken an early train from Manchester |
starting first at 7:45 a. M, then at S.15 |
a. m, and since 1889 at $50 a m
from Manchester, and returning from |
London at 400 p. m. Early this month |
1t completed its 5,312th round trim in |
addition to 1S6 other trips and durin1
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