The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-30

between Buffalo and Syracuse in 145
rninues. including a two minute stop
at Rochester, says the New York TTi-
bune. Isn't that just about as fast as
any reasonable person should care to
travel? Will the world be much bet
ter off If it gets electric cars running
at the rate of a hundred miles an
hour? AS to airships-well, nobody
knows what they may do at some time
in the future. They sail and soar, are
not tied to metal trackways, and the
widest Imagination can sail and soar
and roam at will with them up among
the clouds.
The little Pygmies of the Congo
Forest do not themselves cultivate or
till the soil, but live mainly on the
flesh of beasts, birds and reptiles, on
white ants, bee grubs and larvae OF
certain burrowing beetles. Neverthe-
less, they are fond of bananas, and to
satisfy their hankering for this sweet
fruit they win come at night and roi'
the plantations of their big, black ag-
ricultural neighbors. If the robbery
is taken in good part, or if gifts in the
shape of ripe bananas are laid out III
a likely spot for the Pygmy visitor
who comes silently in the darkness or
dawn, the little man will show himself
grateful and will leave behind him
some night a return present of meat,
or he will be found to have cleared the
plantation of weeds, to have set traps,
to have driven off apes, balloons or ele-
plants while his friends and hosts
were sleeping.
in the electrical transmission of
power a curious instance is afforded
of the manner in which familiarity
takes out the wonder of things. The
public are now familiar with the cleo
trio light and have ceased to be amaz-
ed that an invisible energy should be
conveyed on a slender wire and trans
formed into luminous vibrations. With
regard to electric traction and power
the same thing has occurred. There
is nothing really more marvellous than
that hundreds, or even thousands of
horsepower should be borne by a cop
per wire or a moderate cable and dis
patched to a distant point with the
speed of lightning; but without know
ing what the nature of the force is,
we cease to be astonished at IL. In
point of fact, it is not more occult than
heat or light, the attraction of gravity
or cohesion; but those who know most
of these things wonder most at their
effect.
The utility of three classes of foods
should be borne in mind. says DR.. Nc
Conachie, in the Clinic. The proteids
are the true tissue builders. They EN-
ter the alimentary canal as animal or
vegetable proteids and are transform
ed into peptone after passing through
various stages from alkali albumen TO
acid albumen, to albuminose and pep
tone condition necessary hpfOra ~
can be taken up by the epithelial cells
lining the alimentary canal; only a
portion of the proteid material-possi-
bly, one-third-is so changed in the
stomach the balance passing into the
Guodenum therein to be acted upon by
the trypsin of the pancreatic secretion
and the proteolytis ferments of the bile
and intestinal secretions. The poptone
being taken up by the epithelium of
the intestinal wall, it is altered by
them and passed on to the liver circu-
iation, not as peptone, but as serum
albumen, Serum-globulin or fibrinogen.
In normal conditions, peptone, as such
is not in the liver and intestinal circu-
lation. After these proteids are passed
through the liver they are taken up by
a process of absorption and changed to
form the various tissues and glands of
the body. Water and the Inorganic
salts are purely mechanical in their
action, as they pass through the sys-
tenn, entering and leaving the system
unchanged in composition.
The igneous rocks come first be-
cause they have been the originals
says Mines and Minerals. By igneous
rocks We mean those that have been
thoroughly fused or melted like lavas,
porphyries, etc. The heat need not
have been a dry heat like that of a
furnace, but an aqueo-igneous, or fire
and water, or steam heat; sufficient in
some cases to reduce them to a pasty
condition; in others, like volcanic la
vas, to a fluid one. Even lavas pouring
from Vsuvius show evidence of an
aqueous, as well as of an igneous con-
dition, for they give off volumes OF
steam. Metamorphic rocks are those
that have been altered by heat ''in
place" to a semiplastic condition like
some GRANTEES. or simply recrystallized
Ike marbles, or only partially crystal
lied like quartzites. The igneous rocks
are the originals from which all others
have been directly or indirectly de-
rived. Examine any one of the thou
sands of feet of sandstone that under
lie our prairies and build up our foot
hills and you will find them either
composed of large or small fragments
or granite, or, of crystalline grains de-
rived from the constituent minerals of
granite viz, quartz and feldspar, or
else from similar material derived
from igneous lavas. Limestone is al
most the only exception being an Or
Ganicaily formed rock, yet if we were
to go back into the ultimate origin and
history of limestone we might find
that even the lime utilized by the
corals and other organisms was deriy-
ed from the material of some igneous
rocks. We were fireborn world before
we became born again in part by wa.
ter.
Not an ounce of wintergreen of any
sort is used in manufacturing the oil
which is the basis of the extract. SAYS
an exchange. Wintergreen is made
from plain black birch brush. A New
England distillery which makes the oil
Is substantial two-story wooden
building, laid out with big watts occu-
plying nearly the entire first floor. Just
outside is huge cutting machine con-
slstlng of revolving drum of knives.
The brush is run through this, exactly
as ensllage is run through a cutter.
cropping INTO pieces not more than two
inches long, which fall into an eleva-
tor of the grist-mill pattern, This
conveys the clippings to the upper
floor of the building, where they are
dumped into piles directly over the
five watts underneath The watts are
emptied every twenty-four hours, and