The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Between 1896 and 1903 the United
States decreased the number of COM
mercial failures from 150SS, with LA
bilities of $226, 900 900 to 1908, with la
bilities of $4,000, 900, a decrease of 3,Ol9
in number and $71,OO0,OO0 in liabili-
| ties
Census Bureau figures Indicate that
in 1902 this country produced more
than a quarter of a billion tons of BIZ
| luminous COAL valued at nearly $780,
100000; anthracite coal worth more
| than SIC, 900, 900, copper with a valua-
| ton above 81, 900 900, gold of a coming
value exceeding S67,000,e00; iron ore
reached a total of nearly $751;, $780, 0O
silver at coming figures surpassed $7O.-
| 100000, and the petroleum total was
more than 81, 100000. Mines and quar-
ries and oil wells, together with smelt-
ers reducing and refining works, turn
ed out the almost fabulous total of
| 1884 040, 1853. This wonderful republic
will not go into the hands of receiver
until the stars grow cold.
"A prominent Portuguese naval con-
structor is now on his way to the
United States for the purpose of Wis
| iting the Brooklyn navy yard and eX-
ugal is going to build number of
ships and add to her navy. In order
to obtain admittance to the navy yard
the Portuguese visitor will have to
apply to the Secretary of State, and
if the latter approves of the same the
| application will be turned over to the
Secretary of the Navy, who will grant
the necessary permit 1t is said that
1t is only of late years that such a
of nrn0nH1Ira hac
sary, while 1t has prevailed in Europe
for many years back.
Daring operations of surgeons
which would never have been attempt
ed in the last generation now have no
terrors for the foremost experts with
the knife, says the New York Tribune.
In Chicago an enterprising member of
| the profession has taken six stitches
in the outer edge of the heart of a
boy who had been wounded by bull
| let, and it is thought the patient may
| recover. Before the thorough use of
| antiseptics so bold an experiment
| would hardly have been thought of,
| but in this century surgery has gone
| forward with giant strides, and in des-
| perate cases in present conditions radi-
| cal measures of the EXTREMIST type
| have proved frequently to be success
| full.
The projection at the summit of
Mont Pele-it is no longer spelt Pelee
which rose to a hight of 600 feet
| above the old summit of the mountain,
| promises to be one of the most inter-
| esting features in the study of that
volcanic vent, says the Engineering and
| Mining Journal. According to He'll
prin, Hovey, Lacroix and other OBJ
| ~
crater at the rate of as much as forty
| one feet per day, until it stood up as
| a sharks tooth or obelisk far above
| the old cone. Prof. Lacroix, who head
| ed commission from the French gov
| eminent, decided-nearly a year ago
| that it was an exceedingly viScous acid
| lava which had solicited on eXtrusion,
and rose vertically, instead of flowing
| out of the crater in the normal manner
of lava streams. Now, however, Prof.
| Angelo Heilprin states that this tower
| ing mass is none other than the ancient
| core of the volcano looSened from place
and pushed up bodily by the energy of
| the volcanic orifice. When access can
be obtained to the crater so as to OBJ
| tain fragments of the rock off which
| this huge projection is built up, it
/ should be possible to decide by micro
scopic investigation whether the rock
| is a rapidly cooled viscous lava or a
slowly cooled volcanic plug. The solu-
| ton of the problem will throw much
light on the physiology of volcanoes.
Did you ever go to the morgue to
| identify a relative or friend? If not,
it is impossible for you to understand
| the difficulty of making an accurate
| judgment, says the New York Press.
Men fail to know their own wives and
children. A woman forty years the
| constant companion of her husband
| does not recognize him in a reclining
| posture, because 1t happens she, stand
| dng, never was accustomed to looking
| at him in just that way. Then the
gray-blue pallor of death is misleading.
A pleasant evenings amusement mot
unaccompanied by Instruction. is to
! play dead" Let only two or three of
the guests into the secret. Have some
one he down fiat on his back on a ia
| BILE, and at his feet place a lighted
| candle. Turn out all other illumina-
| ton and invite the crowd into see. 1t
| it the most CHASTITY thing imaginable.
| But it gives an impression of what
actual death is like. The effect is
| caused by shadows cast by one feature
upon another. A very fetching photo
graph of yourself is taken while you
| stand erect with "a lighted candle be-
| tween your feet. A bird's-eye view of
| distinguished men in a legislative hall
Is most confusing, unless you know the
| shape of each mans head from high
| ly elevated viewpoint. Most men look
| ed at from above resemble animated
warts, with excrescences for heads.
| You must travel a road both ways in
order to know it thoroughly. We sell
dom look at a man except when, stand
| ing or sitting, he us about on a level
| with ourselves. How many ludicrous
situations occur in BARRIERS chairs,
when men lying down for a shave are
mistaken for their supertors, interiors
| or equalsl
the world is science itself. Never was
a "cure" in all the world which did not
claim science as at least it's godfather
says Field and Stream. In the past,
learned physicians found the hairs from
the tail of a black cat, brased in a
mortar with toes from bat and mixed
with the blood of toad, to be an ex-
cellent thing for phthisis. Later ON
there were those who preferred pow-
dered gold for the same ailment There
have been many cures, from time to
time, from the blue light cure to este
opathy and the barefoot cure, all of
them founded on science. Recently,
however, a cure was suggested for pull
monary complaints which appeals to
US, perhaps by reason of our oversu-
perstition, as offering a certain amount
of reasonableness. DIR. w. A. Evans of
the city of Chicago, had as a patient
a gentleman of the Hyde Park suburb
who was afflicted with tuberculosis