The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.



stories. chiefly bulls and undecided
metaphors. Some gayety might aIso
be found in the little misadventures
of foreigners preaching in English, out
these take place mostly in Roman
Catholic churches, and are not so Wen
known. One, for example, told by Inc
London Chronicle, was the lot OF an
anxious Italian priest, accustomed 70
| a language which, in one instance, mas
a single word where English mas Two,
I'VE have three enemies to overcome,
he said; 1.-The first, my brethren, Is
the world; the second is the meat =.
There are about 5000 miles of rail-
way in Greater London, and it is estl-
| mated that something like 60O,OOoO OO
| separate Journeys are made by pas
| sengers annually says Tit-Bits. Inc
| number of journeys on an average
weekday is over 100000. An idea OF
the vehicular traffic in the streets
may be gathered from the statement
| that in twelve hours 1904 vehicles OF
all kinds passed a particular spot IN
| Piccadilly, and a full service of $50
| buses pass the Bank of England IN
an hour. The number of passengers
carried by the London trans in year
| is over 800 900 000 A census taken OF
| the number of pedestrians who crossed
over the London bridge on certain
day showed that they totaled 1l69O2,
and in nineteen and a half hours dur
ing a day in April last year 24S,Ol5
people crossed the rOadways at the
bank.
Walter H. Page in the July Worlds
Work says that the industrial era has
made more men cultivated. Before the
diffusion of well-beings the proportion
of men of culture to the whole popu-
lation was very small in any country.
With the growth of industry and the
coming of physical comfort, this pro-
portion has grown beyond calculation.
We are within sight of a time when a
majority of well-to-do persons will be-
come. to some extent, cultivated. 1t
has brought physical comfort, for the
first time to a large mass of mankind;
and there is much cultivation in sheer
physical comfort The most pathetic
chapter in human experience is that
long chapter which tells of mems try
ing to thank God because He had de-
prived them of ease, and had made life
hard and insanitary. 1t was equivalent
to thanking God for bad food and
dyspepsia, for bad beds and rheuma-
tism, for foul air and tuberculosis.
When we first got running water in
our houses, great impulse was given
to culture.
Tea cigarettes, physicians declare,
have taken the place of the morphine
tablet with many women of the smart
set, says a London cable. The result
is summarized by a well known ply
stefan, who said: Il have at least a
dozen women on my hands under cure
for the tea cigarette habit. Once let a
woman begin to cultivate a taste for
this compound of the flavor of Sou
chon and Hyson and she is doomed
Souchon and Hyson are simply blend
of black and green teas. The after eff
fects are that ones head swims
there is a desire to clutch at things
to prevent falling, dazed condition of
semi-Stupor, and then visions of an
extravagant nature" Many physicians
of the West End are seriously consid-
ering the advisability of preparing a
petition to the House of Commons
recommending the introduction of a
bill providing heavy penalties for those
who retail these cigarettes to their
customers. Within the last two weeks
upward of twenty women have been
taken to the private sanitariums suf-
fering from the. effects of tea cigar
cites.
C
capable of so many uses or are as COM
pletely. used as corn. says the New
York Times. The grain is used for
food both for human beings and cat
tie, while the stalks are used as cat
tie feed. The pth of the cornstalks is
used in the manufacture of smokeless
powder, in the manufacture of high
grade varnish and in the manufacture
of paper. The woody portions are used
in the manufacture of a cheap quality
of paper. AS a food corn is supplied
in many forms. The most familiar
are as meal. hominy and grits. Prac-
tically all the starch that is used in
the United States is made from corn.
Immense quantities are also used in
the manufacture of glucose, which,
among other things, enters largely into
the manufacture of beer, as substi-
tute for malt. A large quantity of
corn is used annually in the manufac-
ture of whisky, and nearly 100000 900
bushels are used every year in the
manufacture of cologne spirits and al
cohol. Even in the manufacture of
these products nothing is lost. The
glutinous and other residues in the
manufacture of starch, glucose, whisky
and alcohol are used as cattle feed.
Some of the Indian tribes of the
United States still cling to their primi-
tive forms of food. says Golfers Week
ly. A notable instance of this is the
continued use of .wokas by the klamath
Indians. This tribe occupies the Kla-
math reservation. which is part of
the territory originally occupied by
them before the arrival of the white
men, and hes in the southern part of
Oregon. The land has but a small
annual rainfall. but. on account of its
situation at the foot of the eastern
slope of the Cascade Mountains, 1T is
well watered with steams and contains
two considerable bodies of water. One
larly rich in plants, and consequently
ir animal life. Occupying about TO-
600 acres of this marsh there is a solid
growth of the large yellow water lily,
Nymphaea polysepala. In the old
times the seeds of this plant were col
lected by the Indians, and under the
name of wokas, furnished their prin-
cipal grain supply, filling the place of
corn used by some other tribes. To-
day these seeds are still collected and
regarded by the klamath Indians as
a delicacy. The lily seeds are harvest
ed in August; the wokas gatherer uses
a dugout canoe, and polling herself
around among the dense growth of
stems and leaves, picks off the full
grown seed pods.
Ponds are drained for one of two
purposes-either to be cleaned and re-
filled, or else to be abolished alto
gether, and built over or cultivated. as
the case may be, SAYS London Answers