The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

San Francisco has one saloon for
every % adult male inhabitants.
When a storm is approaching glow
worms are far more brilliant than at
other times.
I'm Colorado last year sugar beets
grown on irrigated land averaged $50
an acre, and on non-irrigated' land
only SIG an acre.
The University of Paris has 245
professors, seventy-six of whom be-
long to the medical faculty, while
ffty-two teach literary branches, forty
nine natural science, etc.
The gold medal offered by the
Paris Council for the most numerous
and best behaved family of children
has been won by a couple named Gal
lez. parents of thirteen youngsters.
The cheapest grade of Spanish olive
oil goes largely to Russia, where the
demand for it is created by the religion
| of the country, which requires that
! olive oil shall be burned in the lamps
used for Illuminating the images of
saints in nearly every Russian house.
-one of t&<deepest interests of the
late George Fiske of Boston was the
study of old English church monument
tai brasses. His collection of rubbings
was regarded as the best in the coun-
try, and his knowledge OF this form of
ecclesiastical art was that of an au-
thority.
"A Japanese auction is a most SOL
emn affair. The public do not call out
their bids, but write their names, to-
wit IA will
ing to pay, on slip of paper, and put
it in a box. These are looked through
and the article awarded to the person
who has made the biggest offer.
Upon the graves of the dead in the
Turkish cemeteries little vessels of
water are placed for the benefit of the
birds, and some of the marble tombs
have basins chiseled out for the same
purpose, the superstition being that
birds carry messages about the living
to the dead, and, like everybody else in
Turkey, are suspected of being Spiteful
unless something is done to curry their
favor.
Two remarkable historic relics have
lately come under the auctioneer's
hammer in Europe At the Falken-
hayn sale in Vienna the pen used by
and King Frederick William III of
Persia to sign the "Holy Alliance"
treaty, was sold for $3.50. In London
the pale blue silk undershirt that King
Charles l took off and gave to his
doctor before stepping upon the scat
fold, brought $1.022.
A dispatch from Ithaca, NY, says:
Elmer E. Manning of Lake avenue to- |
do 70 hafr
loom in the shape of a watch which |
was made about 1860. 1t is the work |
of one Michael Gruber a German me- |
chanic, who lived at Nuremburg, Ger |
many, and who died about the year |
1900 1t was entirely made by hand. |
The watch still runs, keeping perfect |
time. 1t is about the size of an ordi- |
nary watch and extremely fiat. The |
cases are made of silver while the |
works and the hand, for it has but one, |
are made of gold alloy. 1t has three |
levers instead of the balance wheel, |
such as is used in the watches of to- |
day. The valuable relic descended to |
Nathaniel Jacobs of Canandaigua from
his uncle, the Hon. Charles Sumner.
At the death of Mr.. Jacobs it fell to
Mrs. James Race of Elmira.
"A book published in English in
Java, called 1.-The West Java Travellers
Guide" says of certain sanitorium:
"At the establishment is a physician.
The sick may invoke the physician for
daily treatment, with use of medical
ments Children below ten
years pay for lodges half of the price"
Under Addresses and Announce
ments" is politely recommended "the
hotel prigin, with occasion for warm
baths, where till now all reconvales-
tot nd
particulars and officials have found
back their health. Cures malaria,
complains in the chest and
other fairness, green sickness, cutan-
eous disease, etc." and we are assured
that this healthy abode for reconval-
escents has also occasion to many de-
lightful idylic excursions to which
saddle horse and tandees are stationed
when before timely ordered"
"A large frog was removed from a
womans stomach in st. GATHERINGS
Hospital in Williamsburg the other
day, says the New York Sun. The |
woman is Mrs. Charles Burtis of Hop
we'll Junction, near Matteawan, N. Y.
She had been suffering from a trouble |
which baffied her physicians for some |
time. 1t was finally decided that an |
operation for appendicitis would be |
advisable and she was taken to the |
williamsburg Hospital. A Fishkill, |
N. Y, doctor performed the operation, |
which revealed that she was not suf- |
fering from appendicitis. But the doc |
tors did discover and remove from her |
stomach live frog, said to have been |
five inches long. 1t is supposed that |
she swallowed the frog, when it was |
very small, while she was drinking |
water. 1t was said at the hospital last |
night that Mrs. Burtis had already re- |
turned to her home and had recovered /
entirely from the i'll effects of her I'M
pleasant experience.
Considerable attention has lately |
been given in France to the old ques-
ton as to whether death follows in
simultaneously upon decapitation, |
says the London Times. A
French physician asserts that it does
not. In his opinion the blood which |
flows after decapitation comes from |
the large vessels of the neck, and |
there is hardly any call upon the cir
culation of the Uranium. The brain re-
mains intact, nourishing itself with
the blood retained by the pressure of /
the air. When the blood remaining |
in the head at the moment of separa-
ton is exhausted there commences a
state, not of death, but of inertia,
which lasts UP to the moment when
the organ, no longer fed, ceases to ex-
list. 1t is estimated by the physician
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