The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Hitherto Tyndall's theory that the
azure tint of the sky is due to minute
ccrpuscles in the air has been accept
ed. Prof. Springer of Liege has prov
ed that the blue Of the sky is purely
electrical in origin, and is an essential
quality of the air.
"A cistern on the river bank OPP
posite to Chester, ILL.,, was recently
washed out bodily by high water, and
fioated, upright and intact, for eight
miles down the river, where it landed
on a sandbar. 1t was partly hlled
with water at the start, and this acted
as ballast and kept it in its upright
position
"A Philadelphia victim Of the tea
habit is described in Good Health,
which quotes from a local paper: This
young man visits Chinatown regularly,
and drinks the special tea which is
brewed there at Is cents a bowl. He
will put away, in an evening, fifteen or
twenty bowls, becoming finally as bois-
ferrous and silly as though he had put
away as many cocktails, though he will
not stagger. He says he remembers
nothing after the ninth or tenth bowl
of tea. and that on the day after one
of his sprees he has a wretched head
ache and sore, parched mouth"
"A veteran of the Spanish War re-
Gently applied to the Secretary of the
Interior a case in which he claimed a
pension on account of corns that he
had contracted by wearing army shoes.
The department, after an exhaustive
course of reasoning, comes to the con-
clusion corns are not a pensionable dis
ability. The decision says: "Corns are
inconVenient, but are seldom incapaci-
tating, and when they are, the remedy
is simple and within easy reach of any
one. The soldiers patriotism ought not
to terminate with his military service.
1t should prompt him to go to a CHR
ropodist rather than to the pension
bureau"
when we consider what an impor-
tant adjunct the telegraph has become
to the railroads." says the Electrical
World and Engineer, sit is hard to get
oneself back to the time of the Balti-
more and Ohio experiments of 1874 and
to take seriously Prof. Morses sug-
gestion that if a break were found in
the telegraph wire, the train should
stop long enough to repair it. But this
is what he said: Every little Interrupt
ton would take place if the train that
discovered break would stop not more
than five minutes, and, being furnished
with pieces of wire already prepared
for the purpose, any one could simply
unwTap and scrape the broken ends and
unite them by twisting the ends of the
pieces of wire to them"
To prevent badness, says the Scots
man, avoid tight-fitting hats and col
lars, also close-fltting caps, unless these
be OF some porous material. The two
former prevent due supply of blood
to the parts; hence the hair papillae are
put, as it were. on short commons all
the time the hats and collors are worn.
All headgear which is not porous should
be ventilated at the top and sides to
allow a free current of air. Never
sit or stand with the top of the head
near the gaslight or lamplight The
heat thrown out is apt to paralyze the
scalp tissues. and dries up the hair it
self. Don't wash the hair oftener than
| once a fortnight, when first rub in the
| yolk of an egg and thoroughly rinse
| out with warm water, into which has
| been thrown a pinch of borax. Dry
| carefully and apply a little pure olive
oil Beware of the common practice of
| dipping the comb in water when ar
ranging the hair. 1t promotes decom-
position and rancidity of the natural
oil, and so leads to "rotting." If the
hair is naturally dry, apply little olive
oil occasionally.
BY a decree of nature, says the
Royal Magazine, one-half the wrold
flourishes at the expense of the other
| half. The sparrow chases the butterfly,
| but the hawk chases the sparrow. The
roach feeds sumptuously on the
swarming May flies, but the pike is
| every ready to make a meal of the
| roach. For the problem of life is two
| fold. 1t is not enough merely to eat;
| 1T is necessary to avoid being eaten.
Yet nature detests killing for killings
sake. Massacre forms no part of her
| great plan. So we see that every crea-
| ture is provided with some more or
| less effective quality of defense, by
means of which the attacks of it's nat
ural enemies are rendered less fire.
| quent or less deadly Thus, the ante
| lope, by means of it's superior speed
| at times escapes from the lion. The
| armadillo, rolled in it's wondrous coat
| of mail, lies secure among a score of
hungry, gnawing foes; while the white
hare, scarcely distinguishable from the
snow on which it crouches, is often
| overlooked by his foe, the fox But of
all creatures, none has received more
ample protection than the insects
Some of them possess stings; others
| bite, and a few puff out clouds of
| poisonous vapor to stupefy or blind
| their pursuers. Again, there are in
sects clothed in impenetraible armor,
| insects covered with sharp spines and
| prickles, and others whose means of
defense consist in nothing but a like
ness to the objects which surround
| them.
Smallpox, says the New York
Medical Journal, is by no means an in
nocent disease, though the ancient sta
tistics of mortality have been long
since done away with. Yet a mortal
ity of from Is to Is per cent. is not
rare, even in vaccinated persons, and
| various complications are often met
with. Hubert QS99) found that re-
| peated vaccination was useful in the
treatment of smallpox, but only in the
| prodromal stages of the disease. Ko-
| towschikoff went further than this. He
| found that repeated vaccination, per-
| formed daily for a number of days.
| had a marked significance upon the
course Of smallpox, not only in the
prodromal stages, but also in the be-
| ginning of the disease. Since then va
| rious authors have written on the SUBJ
| ject. In order to test the therapeutic
| value of repeated vaccination in small
poX, the author tried this mode of
treatment in eight cases. The major
ity of these patients entered with a
smallpox rash fully developed-five in
the popular stage, one in the puru-
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