The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A patient investigator proves for
the public by an examination of Who's
Who in America" that America is rails
ing it's share of famous and successful
women. OF the 1851 Americans whose
lives are thought of sufficient import
ance by the editors to include in the
manual, 997 are women. The average
age of the successful ones is 50 years
and months, though, of course, many
there are who refused to give their
ages. The journalists and actresses
number about so EACH the educators,
81; the artists 104, and the authors,
nearly 500. Women who start out to
make a career usually lack capital,
and the trade of authorship is espe-
cially inviting to this class, since all
that is required is a modicum of pa
per, a good pen-and brains.
A wonderful anaesthesia under ter
rible injuries has just occurred in
Paris. A young married woman, Nine.
Deplats, fell in her room in a fit of
giddiness upsetting "A lamp, from
which her clothing caught fire. The
lady's husband found her unconscious,
and suffering from very severe burns
about the lower limbs. At the sound
of his voice she recovered conscious
ness, but seemed to suffer no pain,
and to be quite unaware of her con-
dition. She merely urged him to see
that the soup does not boil over. At
the hospital she displayed similar free
dom from discomfort, to the utter be-
wilderment of the doctors, consider
ing the extent of her injuries. Death
took place within a few hours.
-Ou4 whole foreign trade last year,
exports and imports, was close to ST.
500, 100000, the largest ever known.
December showed the highest record
of monthly exports; cotton sailed away
into the air, and stayed there, like
Gilderoy's kite, it's exports during the
year amounting to $37S, 100000, a figure
never reached before, nor anything like
it. This huge aggregate was not in
consequence of more cotton going out,
but higher prices for it coming in.
In shipments of grain the falling off
was quite heavy at the Atlantic and
Pacific ports, aggregating in the total
90, 100000 bushels. But in the face of
this shipments from the Gulf ports in
creased, not very much, but enough to
point a significant moral. In the
matter of the export of provisions,
cattle, hogs, sheep, ETC., New York
still holds its own and sends out more
than half the total export. The ten
dency of wheat seems to be to go more
and more to the Gulf and through
Canada, but the equipment of ships
and railway arrangements so far hold
the bulk of the provision export trade
to this port. The natural current of
this traffic is eastward from the plains
through certain established centers,
and it is not easily shifted. The inl-
port of the whole showing is that
eternal vigilance is the price of New
York's commercial primacy, and if she
relaxes it at any time it is at her peril.
Since Jean Nicol discovered nico-
tine, tobacco has had a hard name, but
recent chemical investigators tell us
that the world has been on the wrong
track for generations, and that nicotine
has nothing to do with the tremors, the
nervousness and the other ills which af-
fiict the habitual smoker, says the Phil
adelphia Ledger. The injurious prop
erty is, it seems, carbon monoxide gas,
which is the very constituent that is
dangerous in common water gas. The
smoker should know, then, that in con-
Stunning one ounce of tobacco he pro-
duceS one whole pint of carbon monoX-
ide, which is a very fearsome thing.
The cigarette, the object of execration
by all good men and women, especially
women, produces very little of the
monoxide, but if the practice of inhaI-
ing is followed the deadly gas goes
straight to the blood in the lungs, turns
1t pink and poisons it. The cigar is the
great producer of the obnoxious gas
and would be more harmful than the
pipe were it not for the pipes incurable
hlthiness. Nicotine, according to some
investigators, is not present at all in to-
bacco, but the scientists are agreed that
there is something bad about tobacco,
whatever its name may be. While the
scientists quarrel about the effects of
TOBACCO, the sales are growing at so
rapid a rate all over the world that the
people seem to be rushing blindly to
their own destruction, unmindful and
regardless of their doom. And the har-
dened smoker believes that this is a
case where ignorance is bliss.
Lord Harrington, the new Governor
OF Bombay, has awakened to the ne
cessity of making more determined
effort to stamp out the plague, from
which Bombay has been suffering since
1895, than any of those adopted by his
predecessors, says the New York Post
His first step on reaching India was
to make a personal inspection of the
plague infested quarters of the CITY
and the plague hospitals in order to
grasp the nature of the problem be-
fore him; and since then he has presid-
ed at public meeting for the organi-
cation of a sanitary association for
Bombay. AS is well known, the plague
is simply a filth disease, having it's
origin in dirt and low vitality. It's
chief enemies are sunshine and fresh
air. The objects of the association.
therefore, are to educate public opinion
in sanitary matters, to diffuse a knowl-
cage OF sanitation, to promote sani-
tary research by means of rewards. to
introduce sanitary conditions into
dwellings, of the members of the asso-
citation, to give periodical lectures to
the people in the vernacular, to ex-
plain matters to them informally in
their own houses, and finally to train
female students as nurses and male
students as sanitary inspectors. The
measures run along the common sense
lines of the sanitary associations i'm
Manchester and other large cities in
England, and have nothing expert
mental about them. The only question
is whether the native mind can be in
duced to realize the Importance or
utility of them.
In Russia altogether there are
about $4,000 thousand elementary
schools. the total cost of their mainte-
nance being 5O,OOO,OOO rubles, or about
$270O00OO. OF this amount the Zemst-
vos, or provincial assemblies, which
contain representatives of the peas
antry, contribute % per cent, and they
exist and operate in less than half the