Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-28

According to the British Medical Journal
there was last year an enormous loss to the
effective force of tho army and navy from in
temperance. In the army 1,40O cases of drunk
enness were tried by courts martial. besides
over 1900 convictions from crimes springing
from excessive drinking. During the year
1891 soldiers. or log in every LOCO, were
mulcted in their paY~for drunkenness.
JOHN r. MCLEAN, Of the Cincinnati En-
qUirer, who has been in New York for a day
or two, is one of the few successful newspaper
men Of the young generation. His ruling
passion IS news. He once SAID to me: "My
business is to buy white paper at the lowest
market price and manufacture it int an ar
tlcle that Will sell for cents per sheet If
make what the people want, they buy and
my profit is great. If | don't make what
they want get left. Well, don't get left
that's ALL
A FRENCH arrangement for boards when
they are just starting is very much used. 1t
resembles a sling made of rubber. The rub
Der is made to fit the jaw and chin. The seam
in the middle goes where the beard is to be
parted. When man uses il he must put q
little wax on his chin whiskers and tie the
strings Of the sling behind his ears. The
pressure OF the rubber pulls back the beard,
so IL sets toward the ears just in the right
shape for q dude whisker. or course the rub
Der has to be worn several nights before the
job is complete.
THE public baths Of Vienna are said to be
the finest in the world. The building is situa-
ted in the heart of the city, and encloses a
basin 57o feet in length by 1855 feet in width,
and varying in depth to twelve feet. The
enormous quantity of water contained in this
basin is renewed three times q day. The
whole establishment has accommodation for
1900 persons. and Is open from Nav to Oct.
There is also bath restricted to ladies, open
from in the morning until /; and the Vienna
ladies are especially good swimmers.
DIR. o. +. DAVIS writes to the Cincinnati
Lancet and Clinic that, having been a sufferer
from blood poisoning until he became total
wreck, he visited Las Vegas, New Mexico,
took the ''mud baths" administered there
and recovered his health. 1t seems that these
baths of mud are made of earth through
which the hot mineral waters of the place
have percolated for ages. The patient is
dropped into q cavity in this earth, and be-
comes really "poulticed." The Doctor should
be familiar with the subject, for he went
through the process sixty eight times.
BANKRUPTCY Is too common nowadays, and
it IS often managed with too little publicity
for the general veal. They manage these
things far better in China, for, If native
dealer fails to pay his creditors. they all as
son; tile at his house, fortified with their pipes
and n roo,'''" store of rice and tea, and there
they sit, calmly smu us'. pIrS anu eatdIs
Iii the money Is paid. II. however, the i de
faulter be European, they a huge
agent at his door and fasten on ;tSs
sheet of paper, on which each creditor wrIv.u
the amount owing to him. 1t is decidedly TN
comfortable to ''fair' in the Celestial empire,
and consequently the occurrence is a rare
one.
The Tribune the other day printed the cal
culation Of the London Echo IN regard to the
number of grains of corn that would be on
chessboard if one grain were placed on the
first square, two grains on the second, four on
the third, and 50 on. The Echo said that the
corn on the squares would fill lSS4s75 barns
each holding 100000 bushels, allowing lCO-
geo grains to each bushel. a clever Brook
Ign correspondent who has figured it out says
that the English paper is aWav off and gives
the following as the true figures: There
would be 1874, 467. 440, 737 O95 bushels on the
squares, which under the conditions named
would fill lS4, 467 $40 barns.
THERE is a man in Michigan who has an in
come of 100000 year who has been telling
somebody what he knows about happiness.
"There are only three substantial things that
you can get out of life," he says, land the
man who has those at the required intervals
Is as well of as the richest. The three reall-
ties are a full stomach, a good suit of clothes
and bed to sleep in" According to this
gentleman an oyster must be as well off as he
is. That delightful bivalve usually has a full
stomach, a suit Of clothes adapted to his resi-
dence, and most comfortable bed to sleep
IN Inc oyster lOe& OF existence, however,
is not attractive to everybody. There are
people who still think that there are realities
in life beyond food and clothes and sleep.
GEN. HAMPTON tells me that while on his
Mississippi plantation he saw a tame crow
that could laugh and talk. The bird would
say "Hello!" ''HoW are you?'' and several
other things of like import. 1t was the most
wonderful raven since the days Of Barnaby
Rudge and Edgar Poe. One morning vast
number of crows assembled in a tree on the
plantation and prepared for pOw-wow. The
tame bird flew among them and, rearing up,
saluted the congregation with brisk "Hel-
lo!7 ''How are y0uY His astonished brethren
scattered in alarm, as II they had been fired
upon from a mountain howitzer. This
marvellous fowl of air was to have been sent
to the New Orleans Exposition, but its sudden
disappearance prevented. Gen. Hampton
surmises that some negro shot him by mistake.
AMONG President Arthur's Christmas pres
ents was a fine piece OF gunsmith workman
ship from Victor Bogy, of Liege, Belgium.
United with carved section of the stock,
cut in minute diamond pattern, is an admir-
able design of Inlaid work in gold. The dec
orations of the opposite sides represent differ
ent scenes Of the chase with stays and dogs,
encircled by a delicate floral bordering
adapted to the form of the plate. ON the lock
Is a harmonious design with little leaves and
stems, like straylng hairs of gold. The double
barrel IS Damascepe work of the most curl
GUS sort, repeating the name Chester a. Ar
thur innumerable times through the script
like design. The name, which is thus wrought
obliquely on the piece, is not distinguishabe
except by close inspection. Being so init
mately blended with the remaining forms of
the design, it Is made to serve for quiet dec
orative effect.
MINNEHAHA, the daughter of White cloud,
chief of the Sitting Bull band of the Fox
tribe of mountain Dakotas, is stopping at a
little hotel in New York. Maj Newell.
who has charge of the little band of Indians
of which she is a member, says Mnnehaha's
mother was a white woman, captured years
ago on the plains and adopted into the tribe.
She inherts her mothers blue eyes and has
much fairer skin than the majority of Indi-
ans. She is 10 years of age, and is said to be
the handsOmest squaw in the tribe. "Her
mother discovered gold dust in the mountain
streams" said Maj Newell, ''and managed to
scrape together a considerable amount as a
dowry for the girl. 1t is $500, think, and
that makes her an heiress, you know. The
singular part of the story is that she desires
to marry a respectable white man, and has
the sanction of her father and her tribe.
While in St. Louis she received four offers of
marriage, one from a noted young criminal
lawyer. She refused them all. She is kind,
speaks fair English, and will marry only after
she has found a man whom she likes