The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in a recent German report on the
Egyptian cigarette industry it is
stated that all the tobacco from
which these cigarettes are made comes
from Turkey, Macedonia, Smyrna and
Greece.
-"Stewed snapper" said the proprie-
tor of a restaurant that makes a spe-
cialty of the toothsome dish, accord
ing to the Philadelphia Record, lis al
most distinctly Philadelphia as scrap
pie and pepper pot. Prepared by the
same formula as terraDin, with a lib
eral seasoning of sherry, snapper is
quite as palatable as the diamond
back, provided the meat comes from a
young turtle. In fact, defy anyone
but an eoicure to tell the difference.
The snaDpers that come to Philadel-
phia are mostly caught in the muddy
bottomed creeks that flow into the
Delaware up the Jersey side, and just
now they are coming in very plenti-
fully. The snapper is difficult catch
to handle but the Jerseymen know how
to turn the trick and get them to
market alive. They run in weight from
four pounds all the way up to forty
pounds, the smaller ones being natur
ally more tender and consequently
better meat. Some few are shipped TO
Trenton and New York, but most of
them come to Philadelphia"
Mime. Marguerite Durand. editor
of the wonan's daily paper. La Fronde.
which has just ceased publication after
five years existence, explains the real
reasons for this step in order to pre-
vent neutrality-suspicious.. La Fronde, :"
she says, has accomplished fully the
work for which it was intended at
the outset. We have shown the fit
ness of women for the journalistic
life and their power to handle politi-
cal and social topics equally as well
as the narrower set of questions for
which they have finally won a large
place in the entire Partisan press. Now
the time has come to enter the larger
field side by side with our brethren,
for isolation. even in journalism, has
never been our ultimate aim. Hav-
ing won full recognition, we are join
ing the forces of our paper for action
where we will be associated with the
leading journalists of France in work.
ing on lines of social redemption This
is a sphere of work from which wom-
en- were practically excluded before
the existence of La Fronde." Notwith-
standing Mime. Durand's explanation,
there seems no doubt that financial
reasons, as we'll as the falling health
OF the accomplished editor, played a
part in the disappearance of the uni
que organ of feminine journalism.
One of the largest railroad corpor-
ations in this country has decided that
the female stenographers in it's en-
ploy will not be allowed to qualify for
promotion, nor shall they be eligible
for its pension list says the Balti-
more American. This is a sweeping
decision, and probably represents SEN
tlment other than that of the corpor-
alton. Fifty years ago no one imagined
that woman could be a stenographer.
and the idea of their entering the
ranks of men to compete in heavier
brain work would have been regarded
as ridiculous. 1t cannot be said that
they have conquered every branch of
endeavor, but they have done Won
ders in the third of a century. and
they may even dissipate the prejudice
of this western railway corporation
before the half of the present century
is reached. The reason for their ex-
cluslon may come from the employees.
The aggressiveness of women has in
a number of instances led to combi-
nations of their fellow male workers
against them--a kind of self-defense
movement which can scarcely be crit
lclSed severely, for the women have
pushed the men out of some occupa-
tlons which formerly belonged to them
exclusively. The majority of clerical
railroad positions can hardly be said
TO be beyond the capacity of. bright
pralny women; the management
however, may have inferred that those
selected for the higher offices are Of
ten drawn from these clerical depart
ments, and there have been notable
instances. of such cases.
"A plant for the manufacture of
oxygen to be used in charging it's dis
titled water was put in operation re-
Gently at an ice plant in Los Angeles,
Cal, says the Philadelphia Record.
Oxygenated water is now being pre-
scribed by physicians in certain dis
eases, and hence a cheap and simnIe
method of separating the oxygen in the
atmosphere becomes a matter of i'm
portance. The process employed by the
Los Angeles company is based on the
principle that a certain chemical COM
pound-magnate of soda-readily parts
with the oxygen it contains when sub
jected to the action of a Jet of steam.
A blast of air on the residuum reforms
it into manganate of soda, this chemi-
cal possessing the peculiar property of
absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere
parting with it when exposed to steam,
and being reformed again upon ex-
posture to the air The process may
be continued indefinitely, when the in
gradients are placed in the retort and
the proper connections from air and
steam made. No more chemicals are
required. 1t may be likened to dipping
sponge in water, squeezing it dry
and then repeating the operation indefi-
nitely. Oxygen made by this process,
it is claimed, contains no gas other
than oxygen, and no elements of any
description other than slight traces of
atmospheric nitrogen. Hence it requires
no washing to free it from chlorine,
nor any publication whatever. The
product is oxygen-and nothing else.
The oxygen, direct from the retorts, is
stored in gasometers and then forced
into distilled water by means of a
Twitchell carbonating machine, which
pumps the water and oxygen at the
same time, thoroughly agitating both
before bottling. The bottling is done
under a pressure of sixty pounds.
There are only about 400 of the
Cedars of Lebanon left, says Scribner's.
High up on the rocky slopes Hadrian
sculptured his imperial anathema
against all who should cut these sacred
trees. The Maronite peasants almost
worship them, and call them the Gee
dars of the Lord" and a recent gov
ernor of the Lebanon has surrounded