The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-25

| Qld something TO deserve 1T.
Incense is the resinous pear or
tearshaped gum that exudes from a
tree found in British Somahland, from
| near Berbera to Cape Guardaful.
Some incense comes from a region
adjoining Maskat, near the Arabian
coast. Inferior incense is found in
India, but the best and greatest quaint
| ity comes from British Somaliland.
| The incese tree is squatty, thorny and
unsightly-like the myrrh and acacia
| and seldom reaches a hight of fif-
teen feet. Incense is not only used in
| worship but many Orientals use it to
| sweeten the breath and burn it in
their houses to kill disagreeable odofs.
! The crop varies from 2,240,000 to $780,
900 pounds and is gathered in the au-
tumn and brought to market by the
Somalis during the winter months.
The price ranges from two to six
| annas (four to twelve cents) per pound
| according to quality. Incense is eX-
| tenSively used all over the Orient, and
| last year 1,493,744 pounds were shipped
to Bombay, which is a great distribut-
ing point, and 1,425,SS0 pounds to Eu-
rope, the greater portion going to
| Marseilles and Trieste.
| Carbon is the basis of all organic
| products, and a striking discovery of
| Julius Walther, a st. Petersburg chem
| ist, is that this element may be made
| to enter into various combinations with
| oxygen and hydrogen by simple cleo
| trolysis of water charged with carbonic
| acid gas, the results being several SUI
| gars and vegetable acids from one
| form of simple apparatus. The water
was charged with the gas evolved on
| pouring hydrochloric acid on marble.
| The anodeS of the electric apparatus
| welie brushes of platinum and the
| catholics were preferably of clay or sill
| icates of aluminium with large sur
| face. The solutions about anode and
| cathode were enclosed in separate clay
| receptacles, that of the anode being
kept degrees centigrades warmer than
| the other by lamp. The current was
| gradually increased both in power and
| intensity, and at volts and 0.75 am
| pere oxalic acid appeared, being soon
| followed by tartaric acid, and by citric
acid at 4 volts and 2.25 amperes. Fruit
| sugar was produced at volts and 8
amperes, then grape sugar. The rich
| ness of the products in carbon seems
| to increase with increase in current
and intensity.
-Prokor Selenitch, the hairy man
! of Archangel," has at last been dug up.
| A month ago Eelenitch, for semi-reli-
| gious, semi-patriotic reasons, planted
! himself up to his knees in the earth
! en- floor of his hut, where he remained,
| being worshiped by large numbers of
| pilgrims as the human tree" During
the great fast the human tree fed
| sumptuously, being supplied with the
best of everything by religious devotees
| from all parts of Northern Russia. The
observant noted that during Easter
week the human tree ate large quanti
ties of butter, thus violating the regu-
| lation of the church. The peasants
! began to regard Selenitch as an i'm
| postor and turned back all pilgrims
| who came with offerings of food and
! drink. For three days the hugry human
| tree remained without food. On the
| fourth he made desperate efforts to
| free himself from the earth, but owing
to his great age, the attempts proved
unavailing. Last week the human
tree was dug out of the hard earth in
| which he had been planted" for over
a month. 1t was found that his legs
from the knee downward were in a
terrible condition, and had lost all
sense of feeling. He was taken to a
hospital, and is not expected to re-
cover.
In the May number of the National
Geographic Magazine is an interest
ing story of the deep-sea explorations
of the steamer Albatross, under the
| direction of the United Staets Bureau
| of Fisheries. While carrying on her
work the Albatross has made more
than 10000 soundings and more than
1000 dredgings. The greatest depth
from which the Albatross has secured
any life was Alb fathoms. This was
in the South Pacific between Tonga
and Ellice Islands. The dredge
brought up silicious sponges, radio
larians and brown volcanic mud. The
greatest depth from which she has
brought up fishes is about three and
one-third miles in the edge of the Gulf
Stream off Virginia. The deepest
sounding made was at Station 401O.
near Guam, where the enormous depth
of nearly five and one-half miles was
found. The deepest sounding ever
made by any vessel was by the u. 8
S. Nero while on the Honolulu Manila
cable survey with apparatus borrow
ed from the Albatross. When near
Guam the Nero got 91,614 feet, only
sixty-six feet less than six miles. IF
Mount Everest, the highest mountain
on earth. were set down in this hole
it would have above it's summit near
| ly half mile of water.
The habits of people in general
says Health, do not seem so bad whom
| Oilc CouSlueIS tue average lndiVidual's
limitations as to knowledge and
thought. The fact is that most peonIe
don't know, don't think and hence
don't care. Let them read more sol
| ence. think more sensibly and act moro
seriously, then their habits will be nors
satisfactory. The alimentary recepta-
| Cle-the stomach or vat in which foods
and liquids are received and mixed
is habitually converted by many per-
sons into a chemical retort of ali sorts
of drugs and remedies with the view,
of reaching and relieving the ills of
the various organs of the BODY. from
dandrun to corns The writer beliavaS
that he can give no more and battar
! reasons for his confidence in tbe
therapeutic value of remedies +ban
most other physicians, but he wishes
| to emphasize here the transcendent
element of common sense in their ad-
mlnistration. Before and above all
| things however, what is wanted is n
clean gastro-intestinal canal. and his
claim is that water. properly used a.
the best agent to effect that cleansine,
| On par with this canal in innoT-
lance are the eliminative tissues and
organs of the system, the kidneys The
mucous membrane and skin. WHAT
! therapeutic agent, properly used is
| better than water? After all the as
| similative and eliminative organs sna
| tissues have been thoroughly rfnsad
with pure soft water then. If If he
| still necessary to administer a cberai
| cal agent one may be selected tba+