The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Health that rabies is very prevalent
| in the state. This report is Endorsed
| by the board.
approximately 25O,OO0 cases of Tas-
manian applies will. during the next
| three months, be shipped from Hobart
for the English market. Last year
the total shipments were 1900 cases
less. These shipments will be made in
sixteen large ocean-going steamers.
The highest inhabited house in
England is Rossineys house, in Cum
! berland, which stands 1880 feet above
the sea. The highest inn is the Cat
and Fiddle, near Buxton, 1,765 feet
above sea level. The highest coach
road in the kingdom is that which
crosses the Grampians through Cairn
Well pass, 1000 feet in hight.
The most extensive farm in the
British Isles is Whitehall farm, South
Lincolnshire, England. 1t takes in the
whole parish and seventy acres of the
next one. There are 2,066 acres of
arabic land, 430 of pasture, 60 of plan
tation. There are SO cottages on the
farm. The largest orchard is at Tod
dington, in Gloucestershire, where Lord
Sudeley has over 500 acres of fruit
trees, chiefly apples and plums.
John w. Robinson, a prominent
contractor of Marshall, ILL.,, spent
week on the rock pile at the Terre
Haute Qnd) Jail because his pride
would not permit him to let friends
know his Whereabout He was SEN
fenced for drunkenness. During his
absence his wife, who has been an in
valid for some months, was stricken
with paralysis. He had not been in the
habit of getting drunk and no search
was made for him in police circles.
Mr.. Irwin, wishing to determine the
amount of SCOT which falls in Manches-
ter over given area, took a sample of
the snow after it had been lying on the
ground for ten days. The sample was
taken in a garden three miles north of
Manchester town hall, and was melt
ed and the dry residue extracted,
weighed, and analysed. 1t was found
TO contain an amount of SCOT which
was equivalent to 1917 ID. per acre, or
three tons to the square mile. The
sample represented a condition which
prevailed for at least hundred square
miles in circle round Manchester
town hall, so that three hundred tons
of SCOT had been precipitated from the
chimneys of Manchester during the ten
days. The analysis showed that the
sample contained 4S.6 per cent. of car
bon, SO of heavy oil and grease, and
40 of ash. DR.. Knecht of the Techno-
logical School gave the results of an
analysis of the snow made by him from
a sample taken in Whitworth street on
the 9Th day after the fall, showing
three times the quantity of SCOT found
in Mr.. Irwin's sample.
The wedding ring, says the Ladies
Home Journal, is the subject of quaint
historical facts and endless supersti-
tions. 1t was probably chosen as the
symbol of marriage more for conVe-
nience than anything else. 1t is sup
posed to be symbol of unbroken love
and of power, and to carry special
curative virtues with it. The old good
luck saying about it is, GAS your we'd
ding ring wears your cares will wear
away" The ancients, Pliny among
the rest, believed that a delicate nerve
ran directly from the "ring-finger" to
the heart, and that the ring placed on
that finger was very closely connected
with the heart. In early Christian mar
riages the bridegroom put the ring
first on the brides thumb, then on the
first finger, then on the second, and,
last of all, on the third, saying as he
CT the Son. and of the Holy Ghost.
The thumb and first two fingers rep
resented the Trinity, the next finger
was the one the ring was left on, to
show that, next to God, a woman's
duty was to her husband.
The consensus of the best medical
opinion of to-day, says the Journal of
the American Medical Association, is
hot al IL
cine in some conditions-and here many
would include a limited dietetic value
is not properly a food. 1t is not
what the German call a Nahrungsmit-
tel, but is a luxury, and a perfectly
| nOn-eSSential one to the healthy nor
NAL individual. The need of modera-
ton in the use of alcohol and the diff
Guilty in drawing the line between mod
Grafton and excess, together with the
habit building tendency, have all to be
| considered. The worst thing about the
| present tendency to say a good word
| for alcohol is the certainty that what
! ever may be said will be utilized I'M
| scrupulously by advocates of the liquor
| interest. Give them an inch and they
! will take a mile. 1t will be safer for
| medical men to stand on the facts cp-
| posing the general use of alcohol than
| to even qualifiedly advocate it's usage
| except exclusively as meQlclne and
under medical prescription. Its cause
is not one that requires any fostering
! by our profession.
DIR. E. S. Reynolds, who was the
first to discover the cause of the out
break of alcoholic neuritis in Manches-
| ter, in 1900, has presented some inter-
esting information before the Royal
| Commission on Arsenic Poisoning.
| Since the epidemic the Manchester
brewers have taken infinite pains to
| the end that no arsenic shall be found
| in the beer, by the most delicate tests,
| and in consequence alcoholic neuritis
as understood for years in Manchester,
has nearly disappeared, and herpes and
skin fermentation have greatly dimin-
| ished. Alcoholic heart, to which much
| attention had been directed formerly
| in that city, several monographs haV-
ing been written on the subject, can no
| longer be found. DR.. Reynolds drew
| attention to two symptoms which he
| considered especially indicative of ar
MISREPRESENTATION and keratosis, and
| also to the fact that large quantity
| of arsenic is sometimes present in re-
| duced iron (ferrum redactum Br. PHI,
! in some instances as much as / per cent,
and suggests that the benefit some
| times derived in anemia from admin
| istration of iron may be due to the ar
senic contained in it,
During our Civil War says the Bal
timore Sun, typhoid fever was the
| principal cause of mortality, and with