The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dutch West Indies. The fruiting pow
ers of the trees are remarkable. They
start fruiting when about twelve years
old, and yield regularly for sixty or
eighty years. They carry blossoms
and fruits without intermission through
every month of the year.
"A New York Jew was greatly OPP
posed to the suggested Hebrew colony
in Central Africa until he examined
the Psalms and read that Ethiopia
shau soon stretch out her hands to
GOD" Here was a clew, and, follow
ing it up, he was amazed to read in
Isaiah that, before the restoration of
Israel to Palestine, five cities must be
built in Egypt, land they shall speak
the language of Canaan" and lin that
day there shall be an altar to the Lord
in the midst of the land of Egypt"
lnasmuch as the Egypt of the Old Tes-
lament meant Africa, and as Hebrew
was the language of Canaan" it is
evident so the New York Jew now be-
lieved, that the proposed Jewish colo
ny in Uganda has unimpeachable
scriptural authority in it's support.
Lord Jersey, who is a man of 49,
rich, popular and respected, is princi-
pal proprietor of Child's bank, rule
of which establishment is that one
partner should always sleep on the
premises. In addition to this a head
clerk is constantly on duty keeping
citizenship" as it is termed, and sew
eral junior clerks also live and sleep
in the house. Another quaint relic of
past days is the habit of calling the
front of the bank 1.-The shop" and its
back premises the 'counting-house. D."
Much is written of the modern business
woman, but she existed as a social fac
tor nearly century ago. From 1906
till 1867, Sarah, Countess of jersey
ruled Child's bank as head partner, and
signed the FIRMS books and shared
profits until the day of her death.
The worlds first school of dentistry
and its first dental society were estab-
llshed in America. Philadelphia dem
list pointed out this fact the other day.
we get our American dentristy from
France he said. "A French dentist
came here to fight for us during the
Revolution, and he taught all he knew
about his profession to an American
soldier. The soldier afterward estab-
lshed in Baltimore a school for dem
tists-the first school in the world-and
it still flourishes. The great-grandson
of the man who founded it, the Revo-
lutonary soldier who learned the prin-
clples of his profession from French
dentist beside a camp fire, is practicing
brilliantly in the suburbs of Philadel-
phia to-day. Every generation of the
family, from the founder of the worlds
first dental school on down, has had a
dentist in it."
In the Lancet recently DR.. Yaddell
showed that ammonia, even when
greatly diluted is fatal to larvae of
mosquitoes, and suggested the nitri-
fication of the soil and water of ma
larious regions by the use of manures
and by the cultivation of clover and
other leguminous crops which increase
the effects of mere drainage. In the
farming operations in the malarious
Agro Romano conducted by Prof. Cell
of Rome, excellent results have been
obtained as respects fever and ague,
to say nothing of the light crops of
clover cut from the same field in
twelve months. TT is certain says
the London Times, that mechanical
precautions against the mosquito will
permit of the cultivation of infected
land, and that, in one way or another,
the mosquito vanishes before the plow,
the sower and the drain. Drs. Stephens
and Christophers declare that the
word climate as a cause of disease
may be omitted from our vocabulary
and, by legitimate inference, that the
whole world will be open to our indus
try if we will but seek out our enemies
and destroy them"
The penny-in-the-slot machine de-
signers and makers have long realized
that such device on street cars would
be a great source of profit but they
have not heretofore been successful in
meeting the conditions peculiar to
street car service, says an exchange.
These devices have always been of
such size and proportions to make them
unsuited for this service, for the first
requirement must be that they should
be entirely out of the way of passen-
gers making their way in and out the
car. These machines, which have filled
the requirements as far as size is con-
cerned have been of design too frail
for the purpose, but the desired object
has been recently arrived at in a slot
machine on entirely new lines. This
consists of tube less than three inches
in diameter and about thirty inches |
high, which is a shape that will per-
nit of it's being tucked away conven-
iently and without any liability of its
getting in the way of passengers. 1t is
designed to dispense candy of various
kinds, gum, matches and chocolate. To
operate the device in the ever-gaping
slot and push button, which operation
releases the desired article.
A solitary Tonkawa Indian arrived |
at Stroud, l. T., some time ago looking |
for friend. Every one of the re- |
manning fifty descendants of the can
nibal tribe of Tonkawas is, according |
to the Stroud Messenger, Stunned and |
despised by the members of the other |
Indian tribes. The remnants of the |
man-eaters who deVoured thousands of |
other redskins always hunt for u
friend, which they seldom find. The |
ancient Tonkawas were the Ishmaelitcs |
of the red race, and their fifty still liv- |
ing descendants are utterly hated by |
the other redskins for the human flesh |
eating committed by their ancestors. |
Tradition relates that the last big |
feast on roasted human flesh caused |
the death of several thousand of the |
voracious canniba1s in~Texas. Having |
gorged themselves on the tender flesh |
of several hundred captured young |
Kiowas they INDUCED in their last |
sleep Twenty thousand Kiowas and |
some other children-robbed Indians ap- |
preached the unguarded wigwams Of |
the gluttonous mar-eaters and slew all |
they could find. Only a few, the pro- |
genitors of the fifty still remaining |
Tonkawas, escaped. Our solitary Ton |
kawa visitor felt very lonely; he failed |
to find single "secone' or friend.
Big Is is New York civ writes Tai