The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tenarX OF r ldNlO NTlOJdf 4iiNShhNt'
so say the Amaifans, of the mariners
compass. They have found the man,
says the Electrical Engineer, and hXed
the date: it was Gioja, and about 1907
or 1903. There are people who doubt
that there ever was such person
as Gioja, and many who incline TO the
opinion that the mariners compass
was doing good service many centuries
before his date.
The London Chronicle tells story
of an incident in Donegal village
showing the friendly Irish habit of
giving a pleasing answer in preference
to the bald truth. Il want some pep
permint lozenges," said the Saxon VS.
itor, coming straight to the point
Sure We do" smiled the Irish shop
man. Keeping off it. How much are
they?" pursued the Saxon, as the man
did not move" And isn't it two
ounces a penny they are?'' answered
the Irishman, still without moving.
"Well, have you got any,? persisted
his customer impatiently. sure, not
any at ALL" said the Irishman, COM
ing reluctantly to the point, with ms
sweetest smile of all.
All progressive physicians are
agreed in the opinion that the average
American city dweller eats too much
meat, just as the average rural Amer
lean eats too much pie, says success
I'VE are now, as race, suffering from
an excessive meat diet" says e. Ell
mer Keller, M. D., in the Clinic. ASK
any well-informed physician as to the
cause of Bright's disease, rheumatism
and obesity, and see what he has to
say. People in general think they do
not have a dinner unless meat is on
the menu. They must have cold meats
for supper, and what would breakfast
be without chops, ham or sausage
DR.. Keller is not a vegetarian, but IN
regard to a widespread fallacy among
opponents of Vegetarianism that one
must eat meat to develop strength, he
says that he can point to those who
for half a century have not tasted
meat, and who to-day present sound
muscles, sturdy limbs, keen eyes and
clear brains" He concludes with the
emphatic warning: Eat less meat.
Trial by jury in civil actions in
the county courts in England has long
been declining in popularity. On one
circuit, in which several thousand
cases of some Importance were dis
posed of during 1902 not a single ac-
ton was tried with a jury. This is
certainly not surprising, If county
court juries often behave as did the
five good men and true whose strange
methods in arriving at verdict were
described by a county court judge in
the London Times the other day. The
case, which arose out of an accident
lasted two days. The jury of five re-
tired. Said No. l: oil, Grease & Oil
are my solicitors; my verdict is for
them Oddly enough, No. and No.
8 also employed the same solicitors,
and so the three were solid for Oil,
Grease & Oil For hours Nos. and
held out. Night was far advanced;
they were cold and hungry, and sub
mitted." This is bad enough, but what
the county court judge adds is even
more calculated to make all htigants
flesh creep up spake No. l: Let
me see, were Oil, Grease & Oil for
plaintiff or defendant But, alas! none
of the five knew"
"A curious little print has come to
light through the publication of a re-
port in the French Bulletin official
of the number of people who have prof.
ted by the public baths to give them
selves an elementary wash. 1t is need
less to say that the number is not
startlingly large in proportion to the
population. The use of the bath makes
but slow progress among the French,
except in the upper classes, among
whom it is an honored institution
in Paris, at least. The proVincials are
a little behindhand in their love of
water outwaTdly applied and still
speak of a balm de proprete" or a
"bain de sante" as a remedy to be
used but sparingly. French working
men are more apt to adopt habits of
personal cleanliness than working won1-
en-, who are strictly conservative in
these matters, and look upon these
farG NIT ~
theless, they are in one respect more
enterprising than the men. Only one
man in every thousand, according to
the Bulletin Official, takes swimming
lessons from the bath-keepers, while
one woman out of every fifteen does
her best to acquire the art. But this
only proves what the philosophic OBJ
server of mankind has long suspected
that women are even more anxious
than men to be always "in the swim"
"A very ingenious electrical type
setting machine is briefly described by
M. Tavernier in a recent issue of the
Complies Rendus of the Paris Acad-
envy Of Sciences. The apparatus is
similar in principle to the familiar limo
type machine, but the operations of
tipping the copy and casting the type
are separated. The operator works at
an electrical typewriter, which pro-
duces perforated type, and at the
same time an ordinary typed copy of
the manuscript which enables correc-
tons to be made in the tape before
the type is set up. The perforated tape
is passed automatically through the
typesetting machine, which is also
operated electrically. The advantage
OF thus dividing the two operations
is that the casting machine can be
worked at a uniform maximum speed
and is independent of the skill of the
typist. A further modification of the
machine allows it to be used tele-
graphically. The perforated tape pro-
duced by the typewriter is passed
through a transmitter, which sends
signals over the line and reproduces
in receiving apparatus a duplicate
of the tape, which can be used in the
typesetting machine. The details of
the various pieces of apparatus are
not given, but there can be no doubt
that the invention is likely to prove
of great utility.
"A novelty in the construction of
marine craft is shown in a recent pat
ent grant covering the design of a. boat
propelled and steered by jets of water
Instead of engines to drive screws and
propelers, pumps are employed, and
the boat driven by the action of lets of
water taken in at the bow and elected
at the stern. These pumps are suita-
bly, located within the hold of the YES
sci, and each is provided with an in
take-tube, which runs forwardly to a
point near the bow of the vessel, where
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