The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-14
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| beating off leaves as if they were fruit
| and not a straw is allowed to lie idle
on the ground. In ordinary houses a
| dim light which costs almost nothing
will be placed in a hole in a dividing
wall so as to light two apartments. An
| old woman who was hobbling along
painfully was asked where she was
| going. She explained that she was
| going to the home of a relative so as
| to die in place near to the family
| graveyard and thus avoid the expense
of coffin-bearers for a long distance.
The number of those bearing the
name of Lister who have been eminent
in medical science is remarkable. Ed
| ward Lister, educated at Elton and
| Cambridge, was a physician to Eliza
| beth and James l and his younger
| brother, Sir Matthew. filled the same
| office to Anne of Denmark, James 1
| and Charles I. Martin Lister, son of
Sir Martin. and nephew of Sir Mat
thew, was a famous Zoologist and sec
| Gnd physician to Queen Anne. Lord
Lister is now seventy-five. His wife
was a daughter of the late Prof.
Symme of Edinburgh, a surgeon of the
first eminence. She died a few years
ago. But for Lord Listers great dis
covery in 1867, known as the antiseptic
treatment, the operation on King Ed
ward could not possibly have been at
tempted. Lord Lister has the distinc-
ton of being the first medical peer.
-Ominous as it may seem, the Post
Office Department is soon to issue 10
cent stamp. 1t will be the first in the
history of our postal service, and the
department officials state in mitigation
that it is intended entirely for foreign
use. 1t is demanded by the increasing
registration of foreign letters, and the
denomination is intended to cover the
postage of cents on letter matter sent
abroad and the cents required for
registration fee. There were 1850, 900
pieces of foreign registered mail mat
ter last year. The new stamp will
bear the likeness of the late President
Harrison, and the designers say it will
be one of the most artistic bits of en-
craving that has yet been produced for
the department. There has been a de-
mand for a new IL cent special deliv-
cry stamp, the idea being to embrace
in one stamp the 10 cents charged for
the special delivery and the cents for
regular letter postage. A number of
changes are contemplated in the var
ious stamps used for special purposes.
The memory of the Oldest inhabitant
of Boulder county does not recall a
time when the snow on the mountains
was as scarce as it is now, says the
Denver Republican. At the headwa-
tiers of the various branches of Ispulder
creek heretofore large beds of snow
have lasted all summer, but this year
they had dWindled into small ones, and
where there are. usually small beds by
the hundreds in the latter part of Au-
gust there is now no snow at all. I'm
Lake, Arapahoe Pass, Arapahoe Peak,
Mount Audubon, Longs Peak and in
tervening points. These basins rise at
such an angle that the melting of the
snow is gradual. At the foot of these
basins are lakes of various sizes and
In these the creeks virtually take their
rise. There are in Boulder county
many of these lakes in usual seasons,
fed by hundreds of small streams. but
now the small streams are not running
because the snow banks have disap-
peared and the consequence is many of
the lakes have disappeared. The gla-
cier in the armchair" or Arapahoe
Peak, is much smaller than it has
been as far as anyone knows.
One of the most wholesome and nu-
tritious articles of diet is olive oil, and
it is as beneficial for external as for
internal use, says the Vegetarian. 1t
was the custom of the ancients, who
were most luxurious in their bathing
habits, to anoint the body with vege-
table oils after the bath. Athletics
and gladiators also anointed their
bodies with oils. Roman athletes were
IN the habit of using the freshly ex-
pressed oil of the olive to give agility
and suppleness to their limbs. Some of
the greatest beauties of whom history
tells have also been prone to the use of
oil. Mime. Recaimier was in the habit
OF partaking freely of olive oil with
her food and using it also after the
bath. Her beautiful skin and clear
complexion were doubtless due to this
rather than powders or paints. Tradi-
ton says that both Cleopatra and Ze-
nobia ,partook freely of olive oil and
used oils after the bath. In the coun-
tries where the olive hourishes. such
as Italy, medical practitioners use the
OIL very freely for a host of ailments.
IL IS maintained in the Levantine conn
tries that the external use of oil pre
vents rheumatism, govt and other kin
dred maladies which are aggravated
by external chihs, and that the inter-
nal use OF the oil removes the toxic
condition of the blood which leads to
the generation of these maladies.
Men of thought have always been
distinguished for their age, says Cham
ber's Journal. Colon, Sophocles. Pin
oar, Anacreon and Xenophon were oc-
togenarians. Kant, Button. Gothic
Fontenelle and Newton were over go.
Mlcnelangelo and Titan were 80 and
~, respectively. Harvey, the discov-
erer of the circulation of the blood
nVed to be 80. Many men have done
excellent work after they have passed
81 years; Lander wrote his lima pinar,y
conversations" when SIS. Izaak Walton
welded ready pen at go Hahnepoann
married at so and was working q OF
Mlchaelangelo was still painting hic
giant canVasses at SO, and Titan 81
20 worked with the vigor of his early
years. Fontenelle was as light-heart.
ed at SO as at 49, and Newton at %
worked as hard as he did in niddIe
lie. Cornaro was in far better haaIth
at 20 than at 80 and as hapnv &C
sandooy. At Hanover DR.. On RoIsv
was stlll practicing as a physician in
1881, going his daily rounds at the age
OF luz. William Reynold Salmon NJ
H. =. s., OF Conbridge, Glamorganshira
oleo on March II, 1897, at the ace ~
1oo. AT the time of his death he was
the Oldest known individual of indisnu1
taply authenticated age, the Oldest |
physician, the oldest member of ~
royal Aollege of Surgeons. Eneland
ana the Oldest Freemason in tha S1oyi5
-One OF the most interesting traces
OF the mound builders ever found near |
.lqua' ONO, was unearthed nv Iohr
A, haynor on the Kiefer farm q hale
nille north of Piqua this week NJ
Rayhor is a collector of curios ana |