The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


their official positions. Each member
gets $1,000 a year, railroad passes any,
where and free luncheon at the PaIais
Bourbon. And the members spend
most OF their time at the latter place.
"A queer sort of fire engine has been
invented in Paris. 1t is formed of
two tandem bicycles placed side by
side and between them are the hose
coils and fire extinguishers of various
sorts. -Four men run the affair, and
tight the fire at the end of their ride
There is a little village in Japan
which is situated in the crater of a
volcano, which may some day become
active without warning. Americans
who have visited the place say that
all the sensations are to be had
there which one gets on the line of the
subway at New York.
An Atchison (Kan) man present.
ed an Ehingham friend with a bath
robe on Christmas, and the Globe
says he received the followed note of
thanks: Thank you very much for
the bathrobe. The nearest bathtub is
twenty miles away, but 1 feel that
with a bathrobe in town a step has
been taken toward city waterworks
and bathtubs."
"A woman in Kansas woke UP one
morning to find that she was totally
blind. She had the use of both eyes
the day before and the opticians who
examined her were at a loss to find
the cause. About two weeks ago the
sight of one eye returned as suddenly
as it went, and now the experts think
that she may regain the use of her
other eye.
Richard Grant White, the philolo-
gist, was asked once upon a time to
conjugate the verb kiss" He be-
lieved and maintained that English is
a grammarless tongue, hence he felt
no compunction when he gave this:
''Buss, to kiss, rebus, to kiss again;
plurobus, to kiss without regard to
number; sillybus, to kiss the hand in
stead of the lips; blunderbus, to kiss
the wrong person; omnibus, to kiss
every one in the room; erebus, to kiss
in the dark"
There must be a well-organized
Board of Trade at Bayonne, N. j., or
else the place would hardly have re-
ceived the advertising which has been
given it duTing the past two weeks.
First came the news of its wonderful
increase in population, and then the
vow of the grocery clerks not to re-
ceiVe neckties from their employees was
made public with great glee. Now
comes the news that during the recent
cold snap the bay froze over, and the
ice reached nearly a mile out to sea.
And when this happened a swarm of
New Jersey mosquitoes was Matched
out in the town and spoiled the whole
thing.
The sermon of a British vicar
charging great immortality in the pot
terry towns in Staffordshire has caused
discussion of life in the potteries. A
curious feature is speculation on the
lives of others. The business of the
insurance companies there is largely
directed to persuading people to insure
the lives of others as a speculation.
Wives are urged to insure their hus-
bands, and sons and daughters to take
out a policy on their parents lives. For
q penny a week a girl insures her faith
er for f5. No medical examination is
required, and it is simply a gamble
on death. This was amusingly shown
by a recent case. A doctor in one of
the pottery towns was reported to be
dying of cancer. The rumor was false,
and the doctor, completely recovered of
his fitness, was surprised to learn that
his char-Wornan had staked two pence
a week on his death.
Consul Bordewich of Norway, re-
ports that unfavorable fishing seasons
in the Lofoten Islands have raised the
price of cod liver oil 600 per cent in
the last three years. Whereas the
standard 30-galIon cask sold for sis in
1901, the past year witnessed the I'M
IF Of no, NTnt
only did the fish fail to appear in the
usual numbers and at the customary
spawning beds. but they were so poor
in quality that the yield of oil per 1000
was appreciably less than during pre-
ViouS seasons. As every one knows.
cod liver oil is extracted from the liver
of the winter Goldfish. the fish being
sailed and the livers being pressed for
the rich, clear oil that has been so long
a faVorite in the medicinal world. 9th
er years the annual catch at the Lof-
oten Islands has been 30,000.000. while
i'll 1908 it was about 100000. The ma
tive fishermen blame their poor luck
upon the presence of the Greenland seal
in the Norwegian waters, which, they
claim. frightened the shoals of cod so
that they did not return to spawn, as
they have done for so many years
Mrs. Wolfe. the mother of the great
general. kept comprehensive cookery
book. still preserved at Squerries Court,
Kent. One of her recipes, says the
London Chronicle, was for "A good wa
ter for consumption" Take a neck
Of garden snails.' says the prescrip-
ton. wash them in beer put them in
an oven, and let them stay there till
they've done crying; then, with a knife
and fork. prick the green from them.
and beat the snails. shells and all, in
a stone mortar. Then take a quart of
green earth worms, slice them through
the middle, and straw them with salt;
then wash them and beat them, the pot
being first put into the still with two
handfuls of ANGELICA. a quart of rose
mary flowers. then the snails and
worms, then egrimony, bears feet, red
dock roots. barberry brake. biloney.
NORWOOD. Of each two handfuls. one
handful of rue-tumoric. and one ounce
of saffron, we'll dried and beaten. Then
power in three gallons of milk. Wait
till morning, then put in three ounces
of cloves (well beaten), hartshorn
graed. Keep the still covered all night.
This done. stir it not. DistilI it with
a moderate fire. The patient must take
two spoonfuls at time"
If an active product of radiun1 is
shut up in a closed space with other
substances and they are left together
for q certain time, it will be found
that such substances have acquired an
activity analogous to that of radium