The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09

He belongs to a family distinguished
in the religious annals of America.
One of his brothers, Rev. DR.. Rufus
Clark, was for many years pastor of
the First Reformed Church at Albany,
n. I. Bishop Clark himself began his
ministerial service as a Presbyterian,
but only remained in that denomina-
ton one year. He was made Bishop
Of Rhode Island in 1854.
At the Aquarium there is a doorrnan
who may be called a human turnstile,
as he is expected to count every per-
son that enters the building, says the
New York Sun. The average daily at
tendance is about $4,000, which gives
an idea of the nature of his Job. On
one day the attendance reached 10000
in round figures. A machine is not
used to count the visitors because none
has been found suitable. The use of
turnstiles is precluded by the fact that
the number would require an entrance
big as the building itself. So the
doorman is supposed to count the peo-
pie one by one as they enter. He
does this with the aid of a little add
ing machine like a street car register
reduced to the size of a watch. For
every person who enters the building
kelleher-that is the doorman's name
presses little spring, which adds
one to the number already recorded.
He has to do this on an average once
In every two seconds. Kelleher has
been doing the counting for three
years and has stood the strain pretty
Well. No one who observes him stand
ing just inside the entrance would i'm
agine he was keeping count of the peo-
pie coming in. All the time he has
to answer rapid fire of such questions
as is this where the animals are?"
can leave my baby here?" SIS this
where the sea serpent is?" Some day
Supt. Spencer hopes that a means may
De devised to relieve the doorman of
thls task. But Doorman Kelleher, who
has counted quite a few millions of
people in his three years service. saws
he's got used to it now and that the
job isn't half so hard at it looks.
An alarm clock for deaf mutes is
the novel invention of Eliza Cretzer, a
deaf mute in the employ of the Wa
shoe smelling plant. who resides at Is
siren street, says the Anaconda
standard. How to awake at a certain
hour has long been a problem among
these unfortunate people, and in Mr.
Cretzer's invention the solution has
been found. OF course, the ordinary
alarm clock has been useless Mr..
Cretzer, who Is an ingenious fellow, is
a water and fiume tender at the Wa
shoe smelter. His work necessitates
his rising at an early hour in the
morning, and as he has no means of
awakening he has lost many days of
work by being late. He accordingly
set about inventing an apparatus by
which he could always be on time. The
dropping of a pillow on the sleeping
person is the awakening agent, and it
is operated so that the pillow falls at
the desired time. An ordinary alarm
clock is placed in a cigar box which
hts 1T closely. 1t is then nailed to the
wall at the head of the bed A string
connects the clapper of the alarm
clock with an ordinary spring mouse
trap fastened to the top of the cigar
box. By system of small pulleys
and screw eyes a pillow is fastened to
the end of string and pulled to the
ceiling directly above the bed. An in
geniouS arrangement connects the
other end of the string to the mouse
trap. The clock is set, and when the
alarm goes off the string attached to
the bell clapper springs the mouse
trap and releases the pillow, which
drops on the persons sleeping in the
bed beneath. when it does not hit
me it hits my wife, Mr.. Cretzer wrote
on a piece of paper, and so never
miss day any more"
Prof. Lohnberg publishes in the
Vienna Clinical Review an essay on
cold in the head. He states the "ordi-
nary cold is no individual complaint,
but only a collective name or a kind
of family name for a large number OF
different complaints" He says: 1.-THE
attempt to discover a universal rem
edy against a cold is just as absurd as
to search for a generally efficacious
y-cF VII fNr do -
lar complaint of which the cold" is
the symptom can only be ascertained
by careful examination of the nasal
cavities and neighboring parts" Hence
sufferers should be circumspect in the
use Of remedies. The professor saws
only that which is true, but of which
the mass of mankind is ignorant. Colds
are of innumerable varieties, but the
most common one is that which is per-
sistently misunderstood. 1t is attrib-
uted to anything but the right cause
which is microbe. All it's symptoms
are those of a highly infectious fever
and the public, instead of blaming the
microbe of infection and striving to
kill it. will persist in denouncing
draughts, wet feet, low temperature
etc. They exclude air, the enemy Of
the microbe. from their rooms they
supply temperature in which it can
multiply. and, having become thorough
~ inoculated by breathing the germ
laden atmosphere, they find that a cold
current of air causes them to shiver.
The shtvering to the ordinary mind de-
cides the question of causation. 1t ia
significant of every fever that il be-
gins with shivering, and cold" is
no exception. Cold, wet feet, draughts,
etc., are at most only accessories. Bv
putting a greater strain on the animal
economy they decrease it's resistance to
microbial injection. Colds" are not
known in the arctic regions.
speaking of catching snakes"
says an old timer in the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. "the snake fang in
dustry used to yield a good revenue
here and in other parts of the South.
That was in the palmx DAYS of YOU
dooism. Snake fangs are supposed TO
have peculiar charm when IL comes
to the business of fore-casting and H.
vining things, and no thoroughbred
voudoo doctor could afford to be with
out them. They were supposed to be
necessary In the business, and If tho
voudoo doctor could not corral a snake
himself he would simply have to nav
the price in the snake fang market.
and get the goods. Then there was the
'hoodoo bag" a peculiar contrivance
now extensively used by negroes in
the South. The 'hoodo bag is a curious
combination of things. All Of them do
not contain snake fangs, yet fangs are
believed to add much to the power
which a possessor Of one of these
fbinrrg NAV gat ff-oSr, tbav,, rrLx.. -