The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-26

doubtful standing, says the Springfield
| republican. The ordinary English vo-
cabulary may be sai6rto contain from
$4,000 to $4,000 words, the latter esti-
mate being large. No single writer of
literature has used so many as the
| lower number named. Shakespeare,
whose vocabulary is larger than that
OF any other English poet unless it be
browning, used about $4,000 words,
while Milton, whose range was narrow
er, employed only about half that num-
Der. The common estimate of the
average vocabulary of educated peo-
pie Is from 5000 to 5000, but in this
case the number of words which are
known but not used is enormously in
creased. A well-read college graduate
should be familiar with perhaps 1O0,-
600 words. while in the course of a
year he might not use 5000 of them in
his writing or conversation. Shorthand
reporters find about $500 word signs
and contractions ample for represent
ing the words which are commonly
used in public speaking.
1t is enough to make all the old
Mississippi river men who have passed
away and gone to their reward stir in
the tomb could they know that Hun
garians are to be substitute for negroes
as roustabouts on the river, says the
L
last tradition. We cannot imagine
these silent, taciturn little men of Cen
trail Europe making the moonlight
nights vocal with their minstrelsy on
the lower deck, or scrambling with
each other for nickelS thrown by
sportive passengers. Nor shall we be-
lieve that the mate dare unwind that
panorama of picturesque profanity at
his long, wavering, undulating line of
roustabouts as they move from deck
to shore with the cargo. The darby
roustabout hears these objurgations
with a joyous and appreciative ear
and welcomes a burst of originality in
it by rolling the whites of his eyes ex-
pressively at his fellows, or if it is
particularly moving, by loud yah,
yah, YAH" that is reward enough for
the objurgator. What will the Hun
garian care for the expletive wit that
stirs the responsive negro heart so
deeply? He will not understand it, and
if he did his perception of the humor
of swearing is not of the open and
ready nature of that of the sons Of
Ham. He would get mad about it.
Everything is changing on the river.
The passengers are not the same, the
boats are smaller, the table fare Is
sadly scant, and luxury has long since
departed.
Paris, says a Paris letter, as we'll as in
public opinion, sensation has been
produced by DR.. Doyen's announce
ment to the Academy of Medicine that
he has discovered a method of cancer
treatment by incubation, whereby out
of 126 cases twenty-one absolute cures
have been effected, while a number OF
others appear to have been set, at all
events, on the road to recovery. Fur
Their particulars of the treatment are
eagerly sought, but the doctor himself
declines to furnish any for the pres
ent. However, some fresh light is
thrown upon the important subject by
the published statements of a friend OF
DR.. Doyen. These explain clearly the
broad principles of the treatment. DR..
Doyen has been studying cancerous
diseases for eighteen years. In 1850
he discovered the bacillus named by
him "micrococcus neoformans," and at
the time made communication to the
Academy of Medicine of Paris on the
subject Whether this micrococcus IS
or is not actually the bacillus of can
Ger is an acute controversial subject
and doctors have strongly disagreed
with DR.. Doyen, who, nevertheless
went on with his researches. In the
first place, he compounded a concen-
trated virus of the bacteria which,
when inoculated on animals, produces
various tumors, some undoubtedly can
cerous. Further, by means of other
NEGOTIATIONS in animals, and also oy
chemical processes, he obtained a virus
of a different and attenuated charac-
ter. 1t is this liquor which he Is en-
ploying as a serum, not for preven
tive, but for curative treatment, ana
with which the results recorded have
been obtained.