The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-18
Fewer India snake Victims.

ACCORDING TO the snake" statistics
for 1907, the total mortality among
human beings caused by snake bite
fell from 22,81I in 1906 to 21,41S in
1907. So low a figure has not been
reached since 1897.
The decrease is noticeable mainly in
Bengal and Eastern Bengal and AS
sam, where the figures fell from 81.
$50 and 2,730 in 1906 to 8,276 and
l, 800, respectively, in 1907. The most
important increases occurred in Mad
ras and Burma, where the figures rose
from 1927 and 1,149 in 1906 to 1877
and 1,348, respectively. The decrease
in Eastern Bengal and Assam is at
tributed to the foods having been low
er. The Central provinces figure (996)
is the lowest returned in any one of
the last seven years
The Lauder-Brunton treatment of
snake bite by incision and application
of permanganate of potash and the
distribution of lancets continues. 1t
is too early yet to pronounce with any
certainty as to the result of the exper-
iment, but number of favorable re-
ports have been received. Eight cases
are reported from the United pro-
vinces of the successful use of DR..
Calmette's antivenene. In two of
these cases the permanganate of pot
ash treatment was also employed
The Times of India.
Since the Days of Noah Webster.
The Century Dictionary contains
about 225, 900 words, the Standard has
over 100000 In it's third edition,
ary offered about ia, 900 words, an
increase of several thousands over the
editions of 1928 and 1S47. For the
speakers who commemorate the 15Oth
anniversary of Noah WebSter'S birth
a language presents itself marvelously
expanded and enriched.
Webster was born on a farm ton the
edge of Hartford. Conn. His famous
spelling book was compiled. however
at Goshen, in this state. and he left
newspaper monument in New York
city through the foundation in 1893
of the Minerva, daily, afterWard the
Comm Advertiser.
Ill fortune at the practice of law,
which he proposed to follow on his
gra duation from Yale, turned Noah
webster to the; teachers profession.
Through the preparation of his spell
err of other textbooks, and of a small
school lexicon, he arose to the task
of compiling the great dictionary to
which his name attaches even in it's
latest revised editions and which is
his chief memorial-New York World.
Picking in Transformation.
For the student of political and ra-
ciaI questions, few places on earth can
compare in interest with the capital
of China today. To revisit it after an
absence of ten years is to realize
something of the forces at work in
and around the Middle Kingdom,
something of the results of the dead
ly struggle for world power which
has made Manchuria and north China
the cockpit of Asia, and of which the
end is not yet. To those who knew the
Picking of the nineties. the contrast
offered by the city of today gives food
for much reflection. There are other
phenomena in this part of the world
equally striking, such as the creation
and growth of the Russian railway
city of Harbin, and the prim. silent
passing of China's sovereignty in all
that region sacred as the birthplace
and cradle of the dynasty, but none of
these strike the imagination so fore
IDLY as the outward and visible signs
of fusion and change that confront
IL. Nav York G10hA