The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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locomotives and other rolling stock.
New York traction companies have
revoked the old-established rule of al
lowing smoking on the last four seats
of open cars. Hereafter smoking will
be prohibited on all street cars. wheth-
er open or closed.
AS a direct result of the Zossen
highspeed electric traction experiments,
the Royal Prussian State Railroads
Commission now has under considera-
ton two schemes for the installation
of high-speed system on the Berlin
Hamburg line, a distance of 149 miles.
Both schemes contemplate making the
trip in an hour and half, which would
cut down the best present running time
by one-half.
This is what the Japanese censor
forbids the publication of: % Details
or accounts relating to tactics; 90
what relates to future war move
ments; 90 damage done to the Japa-
neSe warShipS and transports; "a the
range of guns in action and the guam
tity of shots used; CD the positions
and names of the bases of naval oper-
atoms; go the whereabouts of war
ships and transports, and "a partic-
ulars with regard to coal, fresh water,
munitions of war, etc.
In New Britain a missionary, in
translating, was seeking some native
idiom to convey the idea of a bind
ing oath, when a chief suggested that
the desired phrase was, 81 would rath-
er speak to my wife's mother than do
such and such a thing" In British
Columbia missionary wanted his
catechist to translate "A crown of
glory that fadeth not away" This
was done to the satisfaction Of all con-
cerned, but ultimately the missionary
found to his horror that it had been
rendered, "A hat that never wears
out!"
-Spokogee. a town in the western
part of the Creek nation, is the only
town of 1000 population in the terri
tory that has no town officers. The
people there say they have no need of
officers and do not want any. They
pay no taxes, and whenever they want
any public improvement they call a
meeting OF citizens and raise the
money. A deputy United States mar
shall is located there, and is all that is
needed to keep the peace. There is not
gambler or gambling house in the
town, and the people will not permit
them. A school house was needed, so
the people got together and built a
good two-story building for that pur-
pose.
The chief procurator of Russia; in
a late report to the Car on the state
of Russian religion, brings out the fact
that the power and wealth of the
Greek Church are immense. There are
66,7 of these churches in the en-
pire. During the last year 1873 new
places of worship were consecrated. In
connection with these churches there
are 1868 monks and SO, 146 nuns. There
are 1850 head priests and 42,743 ordi-
nary priests. These, together with S.
1856 deacons and under deacons, make
a grand total, along with seven other
divisions, the figures Of which are not
given exactly, or 10000 persons in off,
cial positions. A sum of nearly $780,
100000 was paid by the Russian peo-
pie last year for the support of this
vast organization.
The great growth of hotels, apart
ment hotels, even of fats, over single
family houses makes for change in
Moman's status. says an exchange. The
community life of girls in colleges and
the women's hotels creates a, perIf1a-
nent taste in women for hotel life. The
quick lunch, which is taking hold even
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cation of homework. The domestic sci
ence courses in the technical schools
prepare young women for the organi-
cation of house work. The kindergar-
ten is taking away the care of chill
dren from their mothers. There are
1856 day nurseries at the present time
in New York, and these are increas-
ing steadily. Hospitals for training
infants nurses build up the system
of taking away the care of infants
from unframed, unskilled mothers. The
public parks, with their salaried wom-
en- supervisors, and the social settle
ments take the child at the only time
of the day it is out of school or dur
ing its play hours.
There has recently been published
in Copenhagen a summary of the re-
suits of six years experiment by Prof
Nils FinSen in the cure of lupus by
light rays Lupus is a form of tuber-
culosis localized in the skin, particu-
larly on the face. Its favorite seat is
in the cheeks, and it attacks also the
nose, eyelids and lips. The old form
of treatment by which the diseased
skin was removed and replaced by a
healthy skin afforded only temporary
relief because of the failure to remove
the contagion. In 1895, after expert
ments with the effect of light on small
pox, Prof. F'inSen treated his first case
of lupus, the patient being an engi-
neer who had suffered from the dis
ease for eight years. The treatment
with light was entirely successful.
Down to November, 1901, during the
six years covered by the published re-
port, 800 cases had been treated by
this method. OF these one-half were
completely cured, although they in
cluded many old cases and several in
which an extensive surface was at
tackled. OF the rest the most are con-
siderably improved or almost cured,
and only per cent. Of all the cases
have withstood the treatment COM
pletely or resulted in only a tempo
rary improvement. AS most of the old
resisting cases among patients in Dem
mark have now been cured, Prof Fin
sen hopes for still better results in
the future, when only comparatively
fresh cases come to be dealt with.
These yield much more readily to the
treatment.
I'm two recent letters to the Sun,
DR.. Austin Flint has impaired two
pieces of interesting information.
Apropos of certain attendants of the
Manhattan State Hospital who have
been committed to prison, pending in
vestigation as to their responsibility
for the recent death of an insane per-
son, DIR. Flint points out that they are
entitled to a suspension of judgment
on the part of the public. For il is
well known to alienists, he says, that
the chronic insane. especially those of
advanced age are subject IN dfscoloro