The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Official statistics for 1904 show that
there are 1852 Catholic churches, chap
els and mission stations in England
and Wales, and 1,056 Catholic element
airy public schools under government
inspection.
In a recent novel Georges Ohnet
called one of the products which his
principal character placed on the mar
ket, "Abrictonine. He was not aware
at the time that liquor of that name
actually existed, but it's manufacturer
promptly brought an action for dam
ages. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine
gave it's decision against the novelist.
While it exonerated M. Ohnet from
malicious intent. it held that ignor-
ance was no excuse. and that 1T was
the duty of writer's to satisfy them
selves that products to which they in
tended to refer did not exist. In this
case, added the Court M. Ohnet could
easily have consulted the Register of
Trade Marks. Consequently the court
ordered the passages objected to be
erased from the book. under a penalty
of 10 francs a copy, while the plaintiff
was awarded 500 francs damages, and
the right to have the judgment in
serted in two newspapers.
Geological experts here think it
quite probable that within the next 100
years several well-known animals,
which are now to be found in certain
parts of the world. will be added to
the extinct" species, says the Boston
Advertiser. The principal types, which
are rapidly decreasing in numbers, are
the elephant camel and giraffe. The
buffalo of the West is almost extinct,
and although the few herds that re-
main may keep the race alive for many
years yet, its disappearance from our
fauna is not remote. 1t is argued now
that only such animals as man chooses
to keep will survive. The elephant
has been SO thoroughly hunted for his
ivory in both Africa and Asia that
wild elephants are becoming very
scarce. The smaller animals of the
jungle do not show the encroachments
of man to any appreciate extent, but
the rare species, the elephant the
camel and the giraffe, will not survive
many generations if present conditions
continue.
Japanese ladies' have been known
to do without stockings to maintain
the harmony between beautiful French
slippers and magnificent French even
ing dresses, says a writer in Queer
Things About Japan. l have been
served by a Japanese hosier who did
without everything he did not supply
himself-he had a shirt, a collar and
tie, and scarfpin and studs, but no
trousers. And the effect of their abb
sence was heightened by his wearing
braces, because he sold them. The
japanese do not kiss-if a Japanese
girl knows how to kiss it shows the
work of foreign instructor; she does
it as an accomplishment, not as an
enjoyment. The Japanese have no
pens and ink, but they make very
good shift with a painting brush. The
Japenese houses have no chimneys,
and you are never warm enough ur-
til the house catches fire. The Japa-
nese have beef and no mutton; the
Chinese have mutton and no beef. ia
panese bells, like japanese bellies, have
no tongues. Japanese snakes have no
poison Japanese music has no har-
mony. The Japanese alphabet is not
an alphabet, but a selection of seventy
useful kilograms to dispense with the
10000 in ordinary use by the Chinese.
A matter of practical science to
which legislation must be directed
much more seriously than has yet been
done was brought before the Con-
gress of medicine recently held at
Madrid, says the London Telegraph.
DR.. Brouardel of Paris spoke strong
ly of the dangers arising from the adj
dition of antiseptics to wine. beer,
cider, milk, syrups, butter. fish, pre-
served fruits and other commodities
which are in daily use as food. 1t is
we'll known that salicylic acid, salicy-
late of soda. sulphites, boraX, boric
acid, formalin and a variety of other
chemicals are employed to make the
substance in question keep" the pre-
tense being that they are used in such
small quantities as to be innocuous.
TO this allegation, DR.. Brouardel OPP
posed two indisputable facts. deter
mined by analysis and experience
first, that the personalities employed
are used in far larger quantities than
the users admit, and, secondly, that
the continued consumption of alimen-
tary substances containing these an
tiseptic materials. even in very small
proportions, becomes gravely detrimen-
tai to the human organism, amounting
in the long run to slow poisoning.
Mans constitution has not been made
for the daily elimination of minute
doses of poison. In this insidious form
of mischief may lie some of the blame
for our physical degeneracy. Appar-
emily the evil is of such sort that
international measures may be neceS-
sary to check it. Treatment of food
in this manner should not be called
adulteration, but poisoning pure and
simple.
According to the researches of NJ.
Emile Yung, says the Scientific Ameri-
can, the sense of smell in the snail
seems to be located not only in the feel
ing organs, but all over the body, as
experiment proves that the snail can
perceive. odors by means of SEN
sorry cells which are placed
in different parts of the body,
quite apart from the special or
gans which might be supposed to be his
only means of sensation. The idea of
over the body of an animal is an inter-
esting one, and is clearly brought out
in M. Yungs experiments, which form
the subject of a paper read before the
Academic des Sciences. He observes
the large snail CHelix Pomatia), which
is common in France. 1t has been gen.
orally admitted since the observations
of Moquin-T andon that the snail has a
good sense of smell, and the organ is
sealed in the terminal button at the end
of the large feelers. Hence the term of
nasal organ which he gives to the lat
ter, and the expressions olfactory gan
liza or phinophoric, ETC., which a num-
Der of scientists now use for designat-
ing these nerves and ganglia. The
writer explored the body of the Helix
with camel's hair brush dipped in a
non-corrosive odorant, such as essence
of chammomile. He finds that if the
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