Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-29

prettiest spot on earth. endowed with
every gift of nature, to which all modern
comforts have been added, turned into
the most hideOus and appalling wreck
The same paper says that the work OF
rescuing those who were buried
under the ruins was taken up in fairly
earnest way; tbut it is undOubted that
had assistance been sent at once, and
such as the extent of the disaster re-
quired, great many who persisted under
the weight Of the blocks Of stone, brick
and mortar, or were suffOcated by the
mineral vapOrs, would have been saved"
THE Sanitary Committee of the Phila-
delphia Board Of Health has appropriated
money for building a crematory in which
to burn infected clothing. A physician
writes to a newspaper of that city that if
the retOrt can be so constructed as to al
low the clothing to be burned without the
escape of any smoke from such burning
the object may be attained, but if any Of
the smoke from the infected clothing
escape, it will carry with it the germs OF
infection. and will be most etfectual
method of spreading cOntaglon. He says
that an old house was burned down to get
rid of smallpox cOntagiOn, and that
large number of cases OF smallpox were
developed in that part of the town over
which the smoke was blown. In no other
part of the town did the cOntaglon spread.
THE Anglican Bishops in India have
issued a circular letter ''tO all of every
race and religion in India and Ceylon.'
This circular claims that the Church of
England is the only properly organized
church. and the only one which is au-
thorized to carry the blessings of the Cos
pei to the nations. This letter bewails
the loss that Christianity suffers by the
separation of other Christians from the
Church of England, and makes strong
plea for unity-provided the unity is such
as can be had by throwing overheard
every other preference and association,
and uniting with the Church Of England.
The letter has awakened much feeling on
the part of missionaries of other COM
munions, who consider the claims OF the
Bishops to be in the highest degree AFRO
CANT and bigOted.
PARIS now possesses Russian colony,
Spanish colony, Levantine colony, an
English colony and an American colony.
These colonies have all their own bankers.
doctors, newspapers, parsons, popes and
dentists. The foreigners have already
wrestled from the Parisians the greater
part of the Champs Elysees and the
Boulevard Malesherbes; they are adyanc-
ing and spreading, while the Parlsians
are retreating. repulsed as they are by
the ever encroaching tide of invasion,
and obliged, So to say. to eXpatriate them
selves. They 90 and found Partisan colo
MES in the plains of Pas sy and MOnceau,
in regions which but a few years ago were
not Paris, and which are hardly Paris
now. OF all the foreign colonies the
American is the most numerous, the
richest and the most brilliant.
4 LADY at jackson, Mich, makes the
sparrow nuisance render sweet tribute to
her table. From a basement window of
her house the lower sash has been remOv-
ed, and, instead, wire cOntrivance has
been placed there, which is in the form of
a half cylinder. 1t is so delicately bal
anced that as soon as Il sparrow ahghtS
on a projecting bar its weight carries the
cOntrivance half way around, where 1t is
stopped suddenly by striking projecting
knob. That startleS the bird, which finds
itself carried by its own weight and the
slow revolution of the wheel into large
cage inside the room. The sparrow finds
a score OF its kind in the cage, which are
kept there as decOys to draw thither other
SparrOws i'm the neighbOrhOOd. A supply
of grain is kept scattered near the outside
of the trap, and a well-tilled cup of grain
rests directly beneath the bar on which
the birds hop for the purpose OF procuring
a meal. 1t takes about thirty sparrOws to
make pie, and it is a most palatabie dish,
They are as plump and fat as any bird
known, and their flavor is delicate and
flesh delicious. The lady says 81 learn
ed to make use of them ON the table by
seeing my mother do it in England, where
these cages and reels are quite common"
SOME interesting statistics have been
published regarding the wounds inflicted
upon men in battle, from which it appears
that during the Crimean war, out of to-
tai of 1850 British wounded, 1896, or 3l.2
per cent. received their wounds in the
lower eXtremities. Among the French
troops the ratio was little higher. The
percentage in the FrancO-German war was
BOO or 1860 wounds of the lower eXtremi-
ties out of a total of "A. 1888 wounds. The fol-
lowing record of wounds received in for
eign battles is gwen: Crimean war-34,306
wounded. 1913 wounds lower eXtremi-
ties; ratio, 34.6. Italian war of 1859
1862 wounded, 7,704 wounds in lower eX-
tremities, ratio, 39.1. Danish war of 1861
1907 wounded, 553 wounds lower
extremities; ratio. 2S.9; FrancO-German
war-24, 1888 wounded, 1850 wounds lower
eXtremities; ratio, 800. This shows a
ratio of 1874, or 30, 519 wounds of the lower
eXtremities in total of 1862 wounded.
The conclusion is that the relative fire.
quency of shot wounds of the lower eX-
tremities does not exceed that of wounds
of the upper limbs to the extent that might
be anticipated from the greater size oft
lower limbs. This is, doubtless, due to
the fact that, in fighting in intrenched po-
sitiOns, the lower part of the person is
nartiallV screened from injury.