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

are Always perched on the top or
steep sides of 2, hill. They are built
in stages connected by abrupt pas
mastiffs. These dogs are almost as
high as donkey and are so fierce that
it goes hard with a stranger who at
temps to enter without an attendant
lama.
The earliest instance known of
penalizing smoking in the streets is
in the court books of the Mayor of
Methwold in England. There is the
following entry on the record of the
court held Oct. IA, 1895: 1--WE agree
that any person that is taken smoak-
ing tobacco in the street shall forfitt
one shillinge for every time so taken,
and 1T shall be lawful for the petty
constables to distraine for the same,
for to be putt to the uses above said.
We present Nicholas Barber for
smoaking in the street, and doc
amerce him one shillinge."
"A trackless-or automobile-trolley
line is now in operation at Scranton,
Pa. The cars, or omnibuses have
bodies similar, although much shorter.
than the ordinary trolley car, and will
carry twenty passengers seated and
hfteen standing. Power is obtained
from two wires overhead, by means of
trolley poles which allow a turnout
OF nfteen feet on either side, so that
the car can travel along anywhere on
a space thirty feet in width. Accord
ing to the Electrical World, this is
probably the only trackless trolley line
IN the United States, and as such a
Iree-runnlng car requires twice as
much power as trolley car on rails,
1t does not seem probable that the
system will be widely adopted.
Consumption of earth as food is
said to be common not only in China,
New Caledonia and New Guinea but in
the Malay archipelago as well. The
testimony of many travellers in the
orient is that the yellow races are
especially addicted to the practice. In
Java and Sumatra the clay used I'M
dergoes a preliminary preparation,
being mixed with water, reduced to a
paste and the sand and other hard
substances removed. The clay is
then formed into small cakes or tab
let's about as thick as a lead pencil
and baked in an iron saucepan. When
the tablet emerges from this process
1t resembles a piece of dried pork.
The Javanese frequently eat small fig
ures roughly modelled from clay which
resembles animals or little men turn
ed out in pastry shops.
Among the notable centenary cele-
brations of this month was that of the
establishment in London of Nine.
Waxwork Exhibition, which
took place on Thursday last. Nine.
first exhibited her collection
in the Boulevard de Temple, Paris, in
1885. She brought it to London in
1903, while Napoleon and his legions
were camped over at Boulogne soaring
the British with threats of invasion
The exhibition opened at the Lyceum
the present one-and af-
terward went to the Hanover Square
Rooms. Her success was immediate.
In 1914 she took her waxworks to Ire
land. The vessel was wrecked and she
and her sons Landed in Dublin PEN
nlless. Funds were raised for another
collection, and in 1927 it was large
enough to need q catalogue of de-
scrlptive matter which filled thirty
eight pages. Nine Tussaud died in
1850 at the age of 80.
In dairy kept in 1916 it is assert
ed that ALLEN Bridges has been chose
to wake the sleepers in meeting. and.
being much proud of his place, must
needs have fox taile fixed to the end
OF a long static, wherewith he may
brush the faces of them that will have
maps in time of discourse" This ener-
getic individual was likewise armed
with "a sharpe thorne," for the benefit
OF those who "be most sounde.' There
is record Of the use OF this imple-
ment upon Mr.. Tomkins, who was
sleeping comfortably in the corner of
his pew when Allen thrust his staff
behind Dame Ballard to give him a
grieVous prick upon the hand, where
upon Mr.. Tompkins did spring much
above the floor and with terrible force
did strike his hand against the wall
and also to the great wonder of all pro-
phanelie exclaim in a loud voice: 'Buss
the woodchuck!' he dreaming, as it
seemed, that a woodchuck had seized
him and bit his hand
The recent sale in London of a pair
of canaries for $40 has directed pub
lie attention to the BOOM now rag
ing in London in these diminutive
pets. Since King Edward took up the
hobby of canary breeding prices have
been steadily rising, and in many in
stances birds have changed hands for
four times their weight in gold. The
most expensive variety are those with
crests, or topknots, of feathers. Per-
feet crested canaries are very difficult
to breed and they are subject to
blindness, the crest being cultivated to
such an extent that it grows over the
eyes and hides even the beak. Prices
for good "crestS" range from 65 to
$40. Norwich plainhead canaries are
far more popular, but do not realize
such high prices. At Huddersfield
show recently young bird, in it's first
season, was sold by auction for &15 los.
Plainhead Norwich are bred almost ex-
-, g.. h.
highly colored specimen invariably
heading the list.
The artificial, or as it is technically
called, synthetic, production of CAM
phor, on a commercial scale, is in oper-
alton at a manufacturing plant at Port
Chester, N. Y. Camphor has hitherto
been obtained from the sap Of a tree
in Formosa, and the industry has been
in the hands of a syndicate. The
product costs the consumer from fifty
five to sixty cents per pound. The new
artificial camphor is made from tur-
pentine Camphor is turpentine plus
one atom of oxygen. BY a somewhat
process this atom of oxy-
gen is forced into turpentine, and arti-
fetal camphor, which differs in no
way from the natural product, is OBJ
tanned. 1t is said that by this process
camphor can be produced and sold con-
below the prevailing price
for the natural product. The yield of
is ~ per cent. of the weight
Of turpentine used; that is from 100
pounds of turpentine twenty-seven
pounds of camphor can be made.
That women never invent things
is a fallacy pretty generally accepted.
Women, as a matter of fact, are great