The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tendance, recently met at BiarritZ,
| France. Thalassotherap is the science
| Of curing diseases by sea climate, sea
baths and sea voyages.
1t is said that Patti wrote to an
American song writer asking for
new ballad. In prompt response he sent
her a copy of his latest composition,
which bears the somewhat opposite IL
tie of The Last Farewell"
DIR. Calmette OF Lille, France. by
immunizing horses with a mixture of
snake venoms, of which cobra venom
is the principal ingredient, has pro-
duced an anu-venomous serum, which
is reliable in cases of cobra bite.
The United States imported from
China last year s27, 1Se ,2SS worth. The
large items are: Silk, $1O643, $50; tea,
$l,447, $50; goat skins, 2127, 267; wool.
$2039,S95; mating. $1,303,S81. Some in
teresting items are: Firecrackers s10S,-
92S; dog skins, 81, 1862; bristles, $780,
962.
Commissioner Greene of New York,
has caused much connection in the
police department by announcing that
officers and men will be expected to
keep away from race tracks the COM
ing season. For a number of years it
has been the custom for nearly all in
spectors and captains to deadhead
| their way into the grandstands when
big races We're to be run.
Large deposits of stone suitable for
photographic purposes have been dis
| covered and opened in Thessaly. Greek
experts report that this stone is far SUI
perior in quality to the best lithograph-
ic stone heretofore known in Europe.
Magasinitis" is a new word coined
by a French physician to describe the
state of mind, similar to intoxication,
produced in kleptomaniacs when they
use the tempting display of seemingly
! unguarded articles in department
stores.
At the recent meeting of the anti
Alcoholic Congress in Berlin it was
! stated by Herr Delbruck of Bremen,
the president of the Congress, that beer
drinking as a means of combating al
coholism has been clearly shown TO be
failure. 1t leads often TO the use
OF distilled liquors, but in itself it pro-
duces all the evils of whisky. "Of 40
patients who were treated in a North
German private asylum for drunkards,
Al had been alcoholized," said DIR. Del
bruck by drinking spirits, 80 by wine
drinking and 7S-or more than half
by the excessive consumption of beer.
The belief that delirium tremens' was
unknown among beer drinkers was a
mistake 1t was impossible to convey
by statistics the extent of the misery
caused by what he described as beer
| alcoholism Prof. Cramer of Goet-
| tingen, held that the alcoholic habit
is durable if taken in time and treat
ed at a suitable drunkards' asylum.
A c,,rio,,s 5iaSo,,1@-r 49, os;.o.. -
Llandudno Wales. where the lessee Of
a theater had undertaken to produce
| historical drama written and per-
formed in Welsh. The play is based
on the career of the last native Prince
of Wales. The company had conclud-
ed the final dress rehearsal and
Welshmen were looking forward to
the reproductions of Welsh life and
language of six centuries ago-when
the British censor of plays stepped in.
His protest was that he cannot license
a play which he cannot understand.
So "Llewelyn elm Llyw Olaf Chat is
its title is hung up. But even If the
censor cannot be expected to learn
Welsh before May %, the advertised
date of production, one would think
that he might find some one able to
judge play written in a Language
spoken by over 100000 inhabitants
of Great Britain.
Statistics of mortality of British
| troops in South Africa during the Boer
war show that officers, being much ex-
posed, suffered most in action where
as the non-commissioned officers and
men suffered most from illness. The
| deaths of officers per 1000 averaged
from wounds BAL, from Illness 1911. the
total loss being 58.2. The yeomanry
lost most heavily, being mounted men
and constantly active, recording an
average loss of 61.3 per 1000. on the
other hand, the n-commissioned Off
GERS and men lost 1876 per 1000 from
wounds and 25.6 from illness, or 1872
altogether. The death rate per annum
in the recent war for all the forces
engaged, officers and men, was 3S7 per
cent. Taking officers alone, it was SO
per cent, and taking on-commissioned
officers and men alone it was 3.S per
cent. In the first months of the war
the loss of officers of the regulars and
volunteers averaged S76 per 900, while
in the last months it was but 442. But
the yeomanry increased their losses
during the last months of the war.
increasing from 50.3 in 1900 to 77.2 in
1902, having been very active in the
later operations.
In the British Parliament the an
nual speech of the chancellor Of the
exchequer explaining how the revenues
are to be raised during the ensuing
year is a very great event Mr.. Rit-
chle's budget speech was made this
year on April IS. Figures are as dry
speaking as reading, and a cup of
soothing liquid for the chancellor of
| the eXchequer is almost an inevitable
/ accessory to his budget statement It
was in his famous budget speeches
during 1896 that Gladstone intro
duced pomatum pot of egg and sher-
ry which is now historic Disraeh
usually primed himself for big
speech with pint of port, but called
brandy and water to his aid for budg-
ct nights. This also was Lord Ran
dolph ChurchilPs oratorical pick-me-
up. Goschen sustained the best ira
ditions of the old school of statesmen
and his own voice with a tumbler Of
port In shifting papers in his budget
of 1890 he upset the wine over the ia
bic. The shortest budget speech on
record was that of Ward Hunt, whose
limpid powers were reflected in the
soda water which he slipped "Ah."
said Bismarck, "English statesmen are
not what they We're since they no
longer have the heads for wine They
are too cautious; no longer make bold
strokes"
1t is reported in the foreign papers
that English capitalists and engineers