The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


take smallpox after having had cow
pox, just as a second attack of small
pox itself is sometimes met with: but
such cases are very rare. Many OF the
supposed instances are due to improp-
er vaccination in the first place. Jen-
ner himself pointed out that the lymph
from a cowpox postule may produce no
effect at all, or it may even raise erup-
tons resembling those of true cow
pox but that, nevertheless, to the
trained eye, are different, and which
do not give immunity from smallpox
He insisted that doctors should be es-
specially trained in this branch of their
art, and that children should be
brought back TO them, after the vac
cinnation has taken effect, to see il
they have, as he termed them, cor
rect pustules. If not, the vaccination
should be repeated.
"A bore hole which was begun in
January, 1899, with a Sullivan diamond
drill, near johannesburg, South At
RIGA, was recently completed success
fully. The drill hole on the Turf Club
grounds which is nearly two miles from
the outcrop of the main reef, struck
the main reef at 4,S00 feet, or within 25
feet of the depth at which it was ex-
pected formation would be struck. A
sinking of this bore hole was the fact
that the rods were left in the hole for
20 months while hostilities We're going
on. Brazilian carbons, which to-day
are worth SO per karat, or about four
times the value of ordinary diamonds
We're used in the drilling. The weight
OF the rods which carried out this OPP
Grafton was about 16 tons To prevent
such an enormous weight pressing too
10 no ,sl1n III 90 1,-sIl
the rods were suspended on a hydraulic
cylinder, which allowed the rods to
descend as desired in fact, the enor-
nous pressure of the rods could have
been run at a weight just sufficient to
tickle ones hand if necessary.
Temperance people in Europe were
recently much surprised at the discov-
cry that the deadly absinthe was orig
inally an extremely harmless medical
remedy, says the New York Herald. 1t
was French chemist who first used
1t. His name was Ordinaire, and he
was living as refugee at Couvet, in
Switzerland, at the close of the eight
zenith century. Like many other coun-
try doctors at that time, he was also
druggist, and his favorite remedy was
certain elixir of absinthe, of which
he alone had the secret. At his death
hC OCQucdlHeu IHe 10 MS
housekeeper, Mile. Grandpierre, and she
sold 1t to the daughter of Lieut.. Hen
roid. They cultivated in their little
garden the herbs necessary for concoct-
ing 1t, and after they had distilled a
certin quantity of the liquid they sold
1t on commission to itinerant peddlers,
who quickly disposed of it in the ad-
jacent towns and villages. Finally, dur
ing the first decade of the nineteenth
century, wealthy distiller purchased
the formula, and very soon afterward
he placed on the market the modern
absinthe, which differs greatly from the
old medical remedy, since the latter
contained no alcohol and very little alb
sinthe.
"A dispatch from Phoenix, Ariz..
says: One of the strangest cereal crops
that has ever been harvested has Just
been gathered from the ranch of John
Farley, on the outskirts of Phoenix.
From seed which is perhaps a thou
sand years old, MIR. Farley has Just
harvested a crop of corn which is
larger than any ever known in this
valley, and from two acres, he has
sold nearly two hundred bushels. which
has brought him S55. Six months ago.
during the progress of excavations in
the ruins of an ancient city, about four
miles east of Phoenix. a large earthen
jar, filled with shelled corn, was un-
covered, about twenty-five feet below
the surface of the ground The grain
was in perfect state of preservation,
of small size, about the shape of pop
corn. and in color dark yellow MIR.
Farley secured nearly all of the seed
and planted it. He, like other ranchers
had found that modern varieties of
corn could not be profitably grown in
Arizona. The corn from the ancient
seed is not of a sweet variety, suitable
for table use. but while of a rather
tough fibre, and not possessed of the
meal qualities of the corn of the CEN
tral Eastern states, it makes up in its
bearing qualities.
DIR. Martin G. Brumbaugh, who re-
Gently resigned his arduous duties as
commissioner of education in Porto
Rico to resume his work as professor
of pedagogy at the University of Penn
sylvania, made many interesting and
valuable observations among the Phil
llpplneS not directly in line with his
duties as commissioner. Upon his re-
turn to the university in speaking Of
the enthusiasm of the Porto Ricans. he
called them the yankees of the Trop-
les, saying that the ambition of the
Porto Ricans and their ardent patriot
ism to the United States government
are two remarkable conditions in the
island. They seem to be anxious"
said DR.. Brumbaugh "to re-redeem
what was neglected under Spanish rule
and appreciate the efforts we are max
ing for them. They are an apt people
especially so when one considers that
they reside in a tropical CLINE. They
could well be called the yankees of
the Tropics" No section of our own
country can produce people more en-
thusiastic in their belief in our insti-
tutions than they. The American flag
is used upon every possible pretext for
decorative purposes. Some of the school
houses have flags over the doors, in
addition to the one on the fagpole. The
island has adapted itself to our ways in
the quickest time ever known Of any
locality. American ways are beginning
to prevail In the shops, newspapers are
being established and Roadway is be-
ing made in every direction, and the
future of the island is very bright"
The New Science of Living" as
DR.. f. II. Dewey calls the system he
is advocating, may. for the sake of con-
ciseness, be said to be based upon the
followeding ideas: The human stom-
ach needs prolonged rest at regular in
ternvals, like the other organs of the
body. Such rest enables il to store
up the gastric fluids, and to get into
At condition to digest food quickly and
efficiently. Until keen hunger is ex-
perienced this condition of prepared