The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Prof. E. L. Thorndike has recent
~ been making a series of measure
ments of the mental traits of boys and
girls. He finds that the greatest diff
ference between the sexes is in the
rate and accuracy of perception, Ver-
bal memory and spelling. In these
respects the girls are superior to the
boys, only one-third of the latter
reaching the average mark of the girls.
He also fiIds girls less variable, men,
tally, than boys.
The art of making glass was in
troduced into Japan about one hum
bred and fifty years ago by a Holland
er, who settled at Osaka. For several
generations the knowledge of the pro-
cess was confined to a single family,
and it was not until about 1879 that
the employment of coal, instead of
charcoal and the construction of
brick chimneys enabled the manufac-
turers to introduce Improvements
which placed the industry on sub
stantial basis. Osaka has continued
10 be the center of the industry, and
now manufacturers for export, besides
supplying the home demand.
An almost forgotten mystery of
the Austrian Alps has at last been
cleared up. Thirteen years ago a
guide named Untensteinen disappear
ed from Grossvendiger, and nothing
was again heard of him until few
days since, when his body was found
thickly sheathed in ice. He had evil
IDENTIFY fallen into a crevasse, and the
body, forming round itself an icy cas-
ing, had during thirteen years follow
ed the movements of the glacier, be-
ing at last recovered at its lowest ex-
tremity, where it emerged to view. The
feet bones alone protruded from the
ice. Great difficulty was experienced
in extricating the body. An American
novelist made like incident the plot
of short story some years ago.
The attendants in the art gallery
of a department store in Brooklyn,
says the New York Press, were startled
the other day to see man deliberately
destroy two pictures that he had just
purchased at a cost of SAT- The man
is wealthy and aims to have a collec-
ton of art objects that have no dupli-
cate. He had purchased in the art
gallery that was the scene of his van
dalism a painting for which he paid
$1,000. After it was sent home he was
showing it to a friend, who, knowing
the collectors weakness, told him that
he had seen two reproductions of the
painting in the same gallery, one
priced $35 and the other $12. go and
buy them for me-" said the collector,
land when you get them break them
up. I'll give you a check for SAT be-
fore you go home" The friend de-
clined the task, so the collector went
to the store himself, pointed out the
two pictures and after he had paid
for them destroyed them on the spot.
The same man ordered a table with
a carved top, for which he paid $780,
and after it had been finished he went
to the artist who had designed it and
stood by him while he destroyed the
original drawings from the table That
was part of the contract, and he
meant to see it carried out
The newspapers are telling of the
remarkable feat of a postal clerk who
in a civil service examination, did not
make single error in properly sorting
$4,000 test postal cards, each represent
ing a postoffice in a certain territory
assigned. This was done at the rate
of thirty-three and one-half cards a
minute, says American Medicine Far
more noteworthy is the memory Of an
expert piano player, who will play an
entire seasons concerts without a note
of printed music before him. His
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thousands of notes must be at the or
derby and instant disposal of the will.
And this is combined with a multi
plicity of synchronous recollections of
timbre, tempo, expressions, etc. The
mystery is at present past the hint
ing of any explanation, and this fact
is as beautiful as it is appalling. 1t
shows us how far we are from any real
science of psychology. Physicians note
fIa CT, -
the mechanisms of memory the morbid
effects of some neoplasm or injury to
parts of the convolutions of the brain
whereby some memories are lost tenn
porarily or permanently, in part or
completely while others are unaffect-
ed. Even this leaves us in amazement
at the inscrutable complexity and meth
DDS of the cellular machine. But
through these morbid injuries we catch
tantalizing glimpses which some day,
properly studied and followed up, may
bring some psychologist physician to
an unraveling of the mystery.
The editors of New Hampshire are
discussing the sobriety of Antrim. New
Hampshire has a local option law, and
Antrim voted to be dry" a result
which did not greatly affiict the thirsty,
for Hillsboro, hard by, voted for
license. Now, citizen of Antrim was
in the habit of making up for the def
ciencies of his home town in Hillsboro.
He made himself so Objectionable that
the police of Hillsboro wrote to David
H. Goodell, Ex-Governor of New Hamp-
shire, Prohibitionist, and magistrate
of Antrim, suggesting that the saloon
keeper be warned not to sell anything
to the customer from Antrim. Mr..
Goodell looked up the law. Section Is
forbids licensed liquor sellers to sell
or give liquor ito any person when
notice in writing has been given for
bidding sale to such person from the
parent, guardian, husband. or wife of
such person, or by any magistrate"-
Mr.. Goodell didn't have to read any
further. He promptly sent the entire
voting list of Antrim'to the barkeeper,
forbidding him to Stake the thirst Of
any of them. Tuesday of this week
141 of the 410 Antrim voters concerned
served a written demand on Mr.. Good
ell for the immediate removal of their
names from the list. 1--WE consider
your action in this matter an insult to
our fair town and her people," they
wrote. Some of them have threatened
to sue him for damages. Mr.. Goodell
seems to have the morals of Antrim in
the hollow of his hand. If it had voted
for free rum. he could have restrained
the inclinations of its Inhabitants.
-Piccadflly seems cold and blatant