The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The New Hampshire Sanitary Btu
letin, in summarizing the work of the
New Hampshire food laboratory in con-
nection with the recently enacted Pure
Food law, declares that of $40 samples
submitted 31.3 per cent. were found to
be adulterated.
Several projects are on foot in Eng
land for honoring the memory of the
late Charles H. Sturgeon, the great
Baptist preacher. One is the plan to
buy the large and beautiful estate of
Westwood and convert it into home
of rest for ministers and missionaries.
The French government in Algeria
proposes to establish a woman doctor
in every village where the native pop
ulation is large enough. the native
women being prevented by their social
customs from consulting men physi-
clans. In Algiens dispensary has al
ready been opened for women.
The Paris Academy of Medicine, in
view of the excellent results obtained
in divers countries by the mechanical
protection of houses against mosqui-
toes, has resolved that the military au-
thorities should adopt similar precau-
lions, more especially in the French
colony Of Madagascar, where mosqui-
toes which spread malaria abound.
The total dividends reported by
Colorado mining companies, for the
year 1903, amounted to $5,4S2, 179. Add
10 per cent. for close corporations,
mines owned by individuals, etc, $685.
217; the dividend of the American
Smelling and Refining Company, $4,-
$4,000, and the dividend of the United
States Refining and Reduction Com
pany, $480,000, and the Colorado mines
show profits to investors of $40, $685.
for the year 1903.
According to DR.. P. B. Hawk, who
has been testing the blood of athletes
before and after exercise. the increase
In the number of red corpuscles is
greatest after swimming. The actual
figures showing the percentages OF
gain after different forms of exercise
are: 1O0-yards dash, 24.S; 12O-yards
hurdle, 21.5; half-mile run, 179; mile
run, 1873; two-mile run, S.S; broad
jump, six jumps, 1870; three-minute
game of water polo, 1914.
-Giraffes are the most difficult of
all animals to take by surprise. No
matter from what direction you may
oPPAOACA Tie StTdile IL sure 10 0lS-
cover you. 1t has been called the
original "rubberneck.; 1t is not gen.
orally known that nature, because Of
the hight of its eyes from the ground
has supplied it with a talent peculiar
ly its own for making observations As
a matter of fact, a giraffe can see in
all directions at the same time with
out moving its head. The eyes are large
and prominent and so placed at the
side of the head that they are capable
OF seeing backward as well as forward
Milestone" or galalith, is manu-
featured in the following manner: BY
chemical process the casein is pre-
cipitated as a yellowish brown pow
der, which is mixed with fornalin
Thereby hornlike product is formed,
The substance, with various admix-
lures, forms a substitute for horn, tur-
tie shell, ivory, celluloid, marble, am
Der and hard rubber. Handles for
knives and forks, paper cutters, cray
ons, pipes, cigar holders, seals, marble.
stone ornaments and billiard balls are
now made of skinned milk. The in
solubility of galalith, its easy working,
elasticity and proof against fire make
1t very desirable. Already 10000 quarts
OF skinned milk are daily used for
this purpose in Austria.
Generally speaking, races living at
high attitudes have weaker and more
highly pitched voices than those living
in regions where the supply of oxygen
is more plentiful. Thus, in America.
among the Indians living on the pla-
teau between the ranges of the
Andes. at an elevation of from IL. 600
TO $4,000 feet. the men have voices
like women, and women like childre,
and their singing is shrill monotone
According to Consul Daigoro Cob.
the japanese child calls its father
"Gempu," which means strict father. :"
while il addresses it's mother as "Jibo. .
that is. benevolent mother" Mr..
Cob quotes a Japanese lad who. per-
haps in "sehoolboy composition. &"
classified the Japanese father as one
among the -four fearful things of the
world" these four terrors being "eath-
quake, thunder, conhagration, and
father"
According to DR.. Graham, OF Bel
rut another disease is to be set down
against the mosquito, namely, dengue
fever, variously called African fever
break-bone fever giraffe fever, dandy
fever, and so forth. The disease is An
acute eruptive fever. rarely fatal hut
leaving various disagreeable sequeale-
paralysis, insomnia, marked mental and
physical prostration and the like. II
occurs in hot climates and I'm the South
ern States; during the last fifty wears
several serious epidemics have occur
red, DIR, Graham fotnd that ~ 1890