The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A bride of 20 years and bride Of
! is were the extremes in age named
in the applications for marriage licen-
ses in Chicago one recent day.
The Erie Railroad Company has is
sued an order discharging all employees
over So years of age who have-not been
| promoted since past that age for cleri-
cal work.
The new Missouri State Board of
! Osteopathy, which was created by the
! State Legislature al it's last session, has
licensed 1873 persons to practice under
| it. Nearly or quite thirty of them are
| women.
"A committee appointed at the late
Episcopal Diocesan Convention for the
| Diocese of Western Massachusetts, is
| endeavoring to raise fund of at least
! $780, 900 to build in Springfield a perma-
nent residence for the bishop who is
now compelled to dwell in a rented
house.
The first of the new 16-inch guns
was satisfactorily tested at Sandy Hook
with a charge of 642 pounds of powder
and 2,400-pound shell. The powder
chamber pressure was 900 pounds to
the square inch and the muzzle We
locity 2,306 feet per second. Gen. Gro
Zier said afterward: when gun has
handled the largest charge of smokeless
powder ever put into a gun, as this one
has, it is safe to say that is is an abso-
lue success"
when a man sneezes heartily he
may know himself to be healthy. No
person in poor health ever sneezes,"
says the eminent doctor, Sir Jonathan
-&.,+ xrri1I ha
challenged by those familiar with the
plague, who know that hearty sneez-
ing is its first symptoms. Everyone
knows that a series of sneezes comes
in the first stage of catching cold and
that the hay fever victim sneezes to
his great discomfort.
Proof that the people of Wales and
the people of Brittany, in France, come
from the same parent stock is given
every autumn when Breton boys go
over to England to sell onions from
their home fields. In Cornwall and
Wales their native speech is readily
understood. Armorican, the old Ian
guage of Brittany, the ancient Cornish
and Welsh-and for that matter Erse
and Gaelic-are all closely allied Ian
guages, members of the Celtic group.
Breton and Welsh are very much alike.
In the water fishes see only at
very close range-about half their own
length This will seem, perhaps, I'M
| likely to anglers, although some of
them can cite instances showing that
| a fish cannot see far. Snakes seem to
have very mediocre sense of sight
The boa, for instance, does not see at
more than a quarter or third of its
own length. Different species are linn
tied to one-fifth or one-eighth of their
1aOpth Frogs better off. thew
see at fifteen to twenty times their
length.
Products of agriculture have al
ways formed the largest share of our
exports. In 1880 they formed So per
cent of the total export. and manu-
features formed but II per cent. of the
total In 1900 agricultural products
formed but 81 per cent. of the total,
while manufactures had so increased
that they formed 81 per cent. of the
total. The expectation of agricultural
products has increased less than 40 per
cent. since 1880. while that of manu-
features has increased 300 per cent. in
that time.
The Delaware State Board Of Agri-
culture is paying special attention to
the preservation of the wild birds,
especially the misunderstanding ones,
and it has appointed Charles D. PEN
mock of Pennsylvania to the office of
state ornithologist. Mr.. Pennock will
attend the various farmers Institutes
to be held this fall and will deliver be-
fore them addresses on birds. Leaflets
published by the Delaware Audubon
Society will be distributed at the same
time, and also IN the public schools of
the state.
Gilman owe a Now YorLy n tb1ate
lifted 1,0O6,O 900 pounds in thirty-four
minutes and thirty-five seconds. The
scale was so arranged as to bring the
arm, leg and back muscles into play.
Each lift of the beam under which he
stopped raised 1000 pounds of dead
weight. During the two months
training Mr.. Lowe lived on only one
meal daily, consisting of three eggs,
one-half loaf of whole wheat bread,
fruit, either oranges, grapes, apples or
bananas; cereals and nuts. and one
glass of milk after the meal: also
plenty of cooled distilled water during
the day.
i'm museum attached to two aims
houses at Kirkleatham, England, is a
wonderful carving of st. George and
the Dragon out of a single block of
lockwood, the work of a poor prisoner,
that this piece of carving was the cause
of a wager being once laid in a dispute
as to its entirety. To prove that the
work was one single piece of carving,
it was plunged into pot of boiling oil
and allowed to remain for hours. All
doubts were set at rest when it was
withdrawn and found to be still COM
plete The prisoner who completed this
marvellous piece of work used an Or
binary penknife only.
The poisons of some of the COM
mon and also some of the most loath-
some diseases are frequently contain
ed in the mouth. In such cases any
thing that is moistened by the saliva
of the infected person may, if it
touches the lips of another, convey
disease. The more direct the contact
the greater the danger. 1t is believed
that much can be done to prevent con-
tagion by teaching habits of cleanli-
ness. But if such instruction is to be
effectual it must be continuous The
teacher in the public school should