The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

For several years past oOANA4Co
have been increasing in Chicago at a
ratio far in excess of the increase in
population. Three hundred and fifty
six suicides in 1900 were followed by
399 in 1901 and 439 last year.
I'm the field of astronomy the spec
troscope is often more serviceable than
the telescope for by it's means have
been discovered dark, planet-like
bodies which revolve about the stars,
and which a telescope thousands of
times more powerful than any we now
possess could ever reveal.
Henry C. Moore of Sioux City be-
lieves that it is possible to interbreed
the Arctic musk OK with cattle of the
temperate zone, and that the stock
so produced would be able to with
stand the severe winters of the United
States. He has been in communication
on the subject with Peary, the Arctic
explorer, who is favorabIy impressed
with the idea. The vast loss of the
present season among herds on the
Western ranges" said Mr.. Moore, EN-
phasizes the necessity of trying to in
fuse harder blood into American cat
tle."
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the dogs as well as the daughters of
rich and fashionable folk will be sent
to Paris to finish their education, says
the New York Tribune. A school for
dogs has been established there. Many
society women already employ a maid
or man as a dog attendant, whose
duty it is to train and to accompany
their pampered pets. But II is now
possible to send them to a school where
they can be taught to bark properly,
to bow in greeting and farewell, to
pick up a fan dropped by the mistress
and present it to her gracefully, and
to walk with proud and prancing steps.
The differences in degrees in ma
turity between boys and girls in the
freshman year is fundamental rea-
son for segregation, according to
statement just issued by DR.. w. r.
Harper, president of the University Of
Chicago. DIR. Harper says when
thrown together in a new environment
on entrance to the university boys and
girls become conscious of differences
before unnoticed, and the personal ele-
ment creeps in too strongly for the best
work. In the secondary school this is
not the case. for the reason that the
boys and girls there have been grow
ing up together and do not notice that
one group natures earlier than the
other"
The salt mines of Russia are noted
as among the richest in the world. The
principal deposits of this important
household article are in the Khirgiz
steppes of Southern Russia, where
there is a strange settlement named
Hetzk, from which 24,S99 tons of salt
come every year. This salt, 1t has
been shown by recent borings, extends
face of the earth. At present the
workers have dug down to a depth of
399 feet, where they are taking the salt
out of an immense and beautiful
chamber that is 7S4 feet long and IT'S
feet high. When seen in the radiance
of the electric lights this underground
cavern shines like a fairy palace, for
walls and roof and pillars are snowy
white and beset with myriads of crys-
tails. The great pieces of salt are
blasted out with powder just as if the
mine were stone quarry. 1t is very
hard to use metal in the mines, for the
salt eats it away quickly. On the con-
trary, wood is hardened and preserved
beautifully by it.
Most animals are afraid of fire and
will fly from it in terror. says the Chi
cago Chronicle. To others there is a
fascination about a flame and they will
walk into it even though tortured by
the heat Some firemen were talking
the other day about the conduct of
animals during fire. A horse in
burning stable, they agreed, was wild
with fear, but a dog was as cool in
a fire as at any other time. A dog, they
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where the air is purest, and sets him
self calmly to finding his way out
Cats in fires howl piteously They hide
their faces from the light and crouch
in corners. When their rescuer lifts
them they are as a rule quite docile
and subdued, never biting or scratch
ing Birds seems to be hynotized by
fire and keep perfectly still; even the
loquacious parrot in a fire has nothing
to say. Cows, like dogs, do not show
alarm. They are easy to lead forth
and often find their way out them
selves Rodents seem never to have
any difficulty in escaping from fires.
The men said that in all their expert
ence they had never come upon the
burned skeleton of a rat or a mouse.
1t is the common impression that
one suffers keenly from cold if sud-
denly immersed in lake or stream
covered with thin ice. Such does not
appear to be the case of the expert
ence of a Philadelphia who get such
a wetting the other day when skating.
He said Il was skating on ice that
kept cracking, and then-smash!-all
of a sudden 1 was overheard. 1 was
in the water, holding on to the Jagged
edges of the ice My first thought
was a feeling of surprise at the wat
er's warmth. had gone clean under,
head and ALL and now / was immersed
save for my head, arms and should
ers; yet l wasn't cold the water ac-
tually felt a little warmer than the air.
! guess that l was in for six or seven
minutes. A plank had to be brought
before l could get out. During those
minutes the only part of me that suf-
fered was my poor wet hands that
clutched- the ice. After a minute or
two they began to ache with the cold.
My body in the water gave me no dis
comfort and perhaps if l had kept my
wet hands in the water they wouldn't
have troubled me either. But l
couldn't do that or I'd have been car
ried under the ice.''
-Hamlin Garland is busy at Wash
ington revising and changing the names
of the Indians on the government rolls.
The dispatches do not give clear in
formation on the details of Mr.. Gar
lands work. but noble red men who
are soon to be full-fedged citizens of
the United States will no longer be