The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

STA are made up of the remnants of
many ancient nomadic tribes. Accord
ing to Russian statistics only $500, COO
are Russians, 1000, 900 are Armenians,
/. 500 900 Tartars and Georgians, While
the rest are principally MOhammedan
tribes. 1t is asserted that there are
thirty different languages and dialects
spoken in Caucasia.
The fisheries of Northern Norway
have come to a standstill, owing to a
tremendous influx of seals along the
coast and in the fjords. The seals,
which come from the White sea, have
been fought without avail. The large
fishing population has petitioned the
government for help to eXterminate
the plague, which is partly eating and
partly hunting all fish away.
The largest pair of shoes ever man
ufactured for actual wear have just
been forwarded to their destination by
a firm Of shoemakers at Rockland,
Mass. The size is labeled III" and
they are nearly 16 inches long. Four
common shoe boxes were required for
packing them-two for each shoe. The
buyer is Harvey Murray, negro
working in a saw mill at Tirrell, Ark.
The Eskimos possessed the most
remarkable place of worship in the
world. 1t was a sealskin church. For
ty sealskins We're stretched over light
framework, and in this tent, eighteen
feet by twelve feet, services were held
every Sunday. But the church came
to an untimely end. One hard winter
the Eskimos' dogs, being half famlsn-
ed dined on the sealskins, and only
the frame was left. The Eskimos have
now erected a dog-proof tabernacle.
The board school of Brony-foel, in
Carnarvonshire, is the highest in Brit
ain from a geographical point of view.
1t is situated on the side of the Snow
don range, at an altitude of over 1000
feet above the level of the sea. Not
withstanding this His Majesty's inspec-
tor, in his last report, declares: THE
attendance has been extremely salts
factory for this stormswept locality. "
Last year the attendance was So per
cent.-higher than the average
throughout Wales.
Charles Thinert, fairly well-to-
do Long Island farmer, wants wife,
but imposes certain conditions on can
didates for a corner in his affections.
For instance, the lady must be a good
housekeeper not over 80 years of age.
He is willing to buy his wife two gowns
every year, to cost not more than $40
each. with shoes, hats, ETC., to CORE
spond. The future Mrs. Theinert
must agree to forego high-heeled slip
pers, open-work stockings, cigarettes
and poodle dogs, the would-be bride
groom thinking such frivolities are not
suited to a farmers wife.
"A novel and ingenious monument
by Bartholdi to the aeronauts of the
Siege of Paris is to be erected in
Montmartre or it's vicinity. 1t will
stand about 60 feet high, and be capped
by a balloon of bronze and glass or
transparent mica. It's diameter will
be about ten feet, and inside will be
an electric lamp with a reflector, so
that by night the monument and the
surrounding place will be illuminated.
The balloon will be guided by a SYM
bolical figure of the Genius of Paris,
and under it a mother with her dying
children will represent the city of
Paris.
"A short time ago the French Min
lister of Public Worship informed Mgr.
Turinaz that his stipend as Bishop of
Nancy had been withdrawn on account
OIL. a lelI6F WIItle1 Dy nftil 70 NJ N~OillpSS
protesting against the attitude of the
government toward the religious con-
gregations. The prelate has now ad-
dressed an open letter to the Premier,
in which he states: 81 am receiving
compliments and encouragements from
all parts of France. l have never cared
for honors or money, but 1 care for my
duty and my honor. You threaten me
with other measures. Carry them
out; 1 have never been afraid of any
one"
The physicians of the Leipsic Hos
pistal have just discharged a patient
with bullet in his heart. The patient
was taken to the hospital last autumn,
suffering from a revolver wound in the
| chest. AS the nature of the wound
showed that the bullet was in the re-
gion of the heart, it was not probed
for. The wound healed rapidly, and
the patient was discharged in due
time Later he returned suffering ter
rible agony He was placed under the
X-rays, and it was seen that the bullet
had lodged in the interior of the heart
and had produced a slight infiamma-
ton there. The patient was made to re-
cline in a strictly immovable attitude
for several weeks. A second examina-
ton then showed that all Inflammation
had disappeared and that the bullet
! had passed to the outer wall of the
heart, where it had become definitely
lodged. On his discharge the patient
returned to his occupation as drayman,
and has since suffered no evil conse-
quences, while the physicians expressed
the belief that his cure is absolute.
Prof. Marquand of Marburg, Ger
many, who has accumulated the largest
number of brain weights ever known,
has published a book which gives a
| thorough analysis of 1859 cases. The
| average weight of the brain of a male
child at birth is $50 graDlmes and of
a female 1853 grammes. Though Prof.
Marchand shows a certain relation be-
tween stature and brain weight, the
relation is inconstant. He concludes
that the lesser weight of a woman S
brain is not alone dependent on her
smaller stature, as a comparison of
persons of both sexes of the same stat
ure shows that the male brain is inva-
riably heavier in growing child. I'm
til the stature is 70 centimeters the
brain weight increases proportionately