Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-19

should be a regular physician attached to
every school of Importance to overlook the
physical development Of the pupils. The
system has already been adopted in Paris, the
physicians making regular tours Of inspection,
being paid by the municipality.
TIE name of Suakin, the seaport of the
sOudan, is said TO mean "built by the devil"
and hitherto suakin ''has been chiefly famous
for its connection with traffic that justifes
its diabOlical appellatiOn." Suakin Is the
chief port on the Red Sea from which African
slaves are carried across to Arabia.
WHAT is now called Holdroge, town in
Nebraska, was, four months ago. nothing but
a treeless plain. On October last the first
house was brought there on wheels from a
nearby county. Since then sIxty-twO busi-
ness houses and proportionate number Of
dwellings have sprung up there, and HOldroge
is busy and thriving town.
a CALIFORNIAN planted eucalyptus tree
in his yard ten years ago. For seven years he
noticed no Improvement or growth. At the
end Of that time, however, the tree shot up
rapidly. Recently, while cleaning his we'll,
he found the bottom matted with eucalyptus
roots, which had forced their way through the
brick wall of the we'll so as to get at the water.
The well was fifty-hye feet distant from the
spot where the tree stood above ground.
TIE absence of all surgical attendants in
the field does not add to the satisfaction OF
| service in the Chinese army. The theory ad-
vanced to explain this brutality is not so much
callOus indifference to human life rs a super
sttiOn. akin to that Of "the peculiar people,
who refuse all medical advice to their chill
dFen. The man who gets bad wound Is
regarded as one whom the gods mean to die,
For like cause the Chinese are reluctant Ia
rescue the drowning.
AFTER all the talk about the translation Of
the Queens book it is now stated that it was
written originally in German, really the lam
| guage in which Victoria is most at home. But
/ 1t was badly rendered into English. The
| book has been well ''bOOmed' on the CONT
| nent and the Queen is now so assured of its
successful sale that she has consented to per-
nit the publication of the letters and memoirs
| of the Princess Alice in the first week OF
/ April.
VISCOUNT D'ECQUEyMLY, of PCsth, mem
/ Der of a French family long settled in Hun
| gary, is a man Of the type of the notorious
| Col. Charters. whom Pope has handed dOwI
| to nfaRy. The NiscOunt, having had to leave
| Vienna by reason of a 'difliculty,' has fol
| some time been running three gambling
/ houses in Pesth. 1t was his custom to rope
! ingenious youth into these places by employ
| ing allurng damsels at theatres as his agents
| and charming French woman presided OYel
/ his chief hell, on which the police lately made
| a raid. A number Of sWells are said to be
| seriously compromised by their connection
with the place.
IL October last two respectable Englisi
| physicians performed the operation of insert
| ing tube into the trachea Of a child, as las
| resort in a case diagnosed as Group. The tube
| becoming Obstructed, the father sucked GU
| the 0ccluding membrane, but the child dice
| two days afterward. The father was attacked
| by diphtheria. from which he recovered
| when he brought suits against the doctors
| one for manslaughter and the other for dam
| ages. lie was unsuccessful in both Of these
| but was much pleased to know that in theil
defense the doctors had incurred an expense
| of $1,000. But the profession, headed by Sit
| William Jenner, took the matter in hand, ant
| each of the doctors has been lately presented
| with $500, a silver salver and complimentary
| address ''richlY illuminated"
THE Black Watch. mentioned so frequently
in the dispatches from Suakin as having
borne the brunt OF Gen. Graham's last en-
| gagement, is the name given to the Forty sec
| Oud Regiment, Highlanders. Into this regi-
| mcnt were enrolled, in 1877, the companies
| dressed in black or dark tartans, that haC
| watched the Highlands during the war fOl
| the restoration of the Stuarts. Nearly all OF
| the older regiments of the British army have
| familiar names, sometimes derived from some
| feature of their uniform and sometimes
| from some incident in their history. The
| name of the Black Watch is significant and
| pOetfcal enough when its origin is understood
| but without an explanation is somewhat mis-
| leading, and it is probable that not many
| readers of American newspapers have had
| the faintest idea what it meant.