Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-10

deep study OF the surgical outfit of Jersey
mosquito, asserts that he carries four distinct
uocls-a lance, two saws and suction pump.
THE olive crop OF Italy is estimated TO be
worth 200, 000, OO0f.; of southern France, 81,
00,000f. In SPAN it is varIOusly estimated at
st,UOO,0oof. TO l0v,0o0. 0o0f., and in the Ottoman
Empire at A,0CO G00f. annually.
BARONESS RoTHscHILD gave a ball In Lon
don recently at which the ladies wore gowns
OF either gray, BLACK or white material, the
court being now in mourning. The effect
though sombre, was peculiar and not without
richness.
HENRY SUTTON, while walking along the
road in New Jersey with his little child,
picked cucumber from vine to please the
baby. For this atrOciOus crime he wa SEN
fenced 10 pay fine and costs amounting to
?ls W. In default of payment he WAS sent to
jail.
IHE Italian government has just published
an official report of the cholera epidemic of
last year Eight hundred and sixty three
communes, with population of 5.77l 900, or
about 0ne-hfth OF the Kingdom, were visited
b the scourge; 1857 cares we're reported,
li,No Of which terminated fatally, mortali-
" or about 90 per cent. In Naples, with
population of $4,000, there were 1927 cases
aud 1883 deaths.
MONTH or so ago the wife Of Jacob Be-
rean, of Marlboro, N. Y, on account of can
Ger. had her right leg amputated. week
ago she complained two of the toes of the foot
buried IN the ground Overlappt each other.
and that II panied her dreadfully. Unknown
80 her. MIR. Berean dug up the leg and
Strengthened out the toes. He then went
home and asked his wife how she felt. when
she told HIM that she suffered no more.
SAYS a New York letter of Undertaken
Merritt: 1T was he who buried Jim Fisk,
and when the widow got an itemized bill.
footing up an amount which | am at the mo-
nent unable to recall, she sent copy 10
Amos Cummings, then managing editor of the
SIN. It WAS published next day without com
ment, and 1t filed an entire column with It's
EXPERIMENTATION of materials and services.
something truly wonderful may be looked for
now"
NOBODY ever heard of an antediluvian doc
tor. According to the traditions of the Jew
lsh rabbis, there was no physical illness
among men before the flood. Naturally no
medicine man was required. But how. if
Jnere was no sickness among the antedilu-
VANS, dld they manage to die? The answer
Is very simple, If we may believe the rabbls.
\ man Just sneezed and expired, and that
was all. TheDceforth sneezng ranked as one
OF the most important of human phenomena.
IT Is the general opinion that the Grant
funeral ceremonies should have been cOnclud-
cd within one week after his death, Senator
Palmer, the Michigan millionaire. said the
other uay that an English criticism at the time
81 the funeral of Peabody, the phllanEhrOplst,
might apply very well now. Ii Will be re-
membered Lhat the ceremonies over Peabody
were painfully prolonged until it began to
look al one time as if he never would be
buried. This English friend Of Senator Pal
mers SAID AZ that time: You Americans are
great people, but you run everything into
he ground-eNcepU Peabody"
A NOVEL death certificate was put on re-
cord at Register Bagg's Office, Utica. n. Y.
1t reads as follows: "DIed-Aug. 8, 1856
e-RollO-Occupation-- Dog - Resi-
dence-8l Cottage street. Nativity,
Amerlcan; Duration Of illness. one
sician-W. Il, HOllingwOrth, ID. V. s." An
undertaken was employed in the case and a
buriat permit given. The remains were
taken to Holland Patent for interment, and
| The prOper transportation permit, signed by
the Health Officer of the city, was given.
THE dread disease called the "sIberan
plague" has made its appearance in three
different villages within the immediate dis
,rict of Odessa. Among Russians cholera has
comparatively slight terrors to those aroused
by the presence OF this disease, which is ali se
ioathsome, fatal, and terribly contagious. The
aDnOrmaly hot summer, such as mas not been
experienced during the last six years in the
soutn of Russia, is propagating in an alarm :
ing degree many opIdemics. The nights bring
little or no relief from the heat OF the uay,
lHG CfOp5 are Deilk eCOrCH6u IOI want OF ram,
and apprehensions are entertained for the
harvest.
THE expenditure of Europe in srmaments
amounted last year to f 1873, 5l9.997. Russia Is
easily first witha total of more than 10000
/ 300, France is second with more than f33, :
10000, Great Britain third with nearly f9
JO0,GeO, and Germany fourth with over
E2A50O,0O0. France is first with a national
| ebt of over f0SG COS 900. Great Britalp second
Ruaa 10 fhrr .
| tBO3,500,O0 and spain fourth with fJOl, 0JO,-
! lJl. This Is surprising prominence for
! spain. which has an annual expenditure of
| only f85, 000. 600 and a military expenditure of
| only f6, 10000, AS for Germany, her debt Is
| 4 comparative tritle.
! UNDERGROUND RAILROADS are destined to
become feature in all the great and crowded
| cities. The elevated railroad idea has much
| 20 recommend 1t. but ITS noise and intrusive
ness are insuperaDle obiectiOnS. Paris is now
| mo ing TO have an underground system, N uch
I like that OF London, and 1t is only a matter Of
I time when New York will follow suit The
| chief drawback TO subterTaneAn lines ia The
| bad air OF the tunnels. but this objection bids
fair 10 be obviated by the use of electricity Us
| a motor, or by other lmproyed means of l1ro-
motion. one inc ldentAl benefit of the tun - el
| system is chat 1t furnishes an easy solution Of
| the question of how best TO bury the telegrapb
! wires.
ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS on the heads Of
guillotned murdercrs have been the fashion
Of late IN France Sensational accounts OF
the results have sometimes been published
and at Caen doctor protested TO have pro-
duccd movements Of the tongue by electric
action on a nerve. Paul Bert, who has been
held up TO odium by English anti-vIvisection-
late, denou2ces these practices. The distin-
guishCd psychologist and Deputy holds tn t
such experiments have no scientific interest.
and that they ought to be prohibited. Ifthey
| succeed In making the murderer live again
! for an instant, which, however. he regards as
! impossible. tho law Of 1891 winch foTbids the
tortuilng OF criminals, would be violated m
Us spirit II not in its letter.
THE number OF residents in Paris between
the ages Of 10 and 80 years is greater than IN
any other part of the realm People 20 TO the
city to seek work; at 90 they leave TO spend
their declining years in the provinces on their
savings. Inc mean average number OF births
IN chris Is $4,000, or - per 1000 inhabitants
/ IN 1851 thls percentage was 3S. In the Dro
/ vlnces the numberOi Legitimate children per
/ l.OO1 women between IS Bnd 30 years of ans, a
! u per cent? the ratio il 65 IN PARIS rypboid
lever Is the most dangerous illness OF the city.
| ana geaerallv attaeas the Young up TO 81
| years. in 1926 there were i,557 lunatles IN
tue city asylulns. IN one In eleven ca O. the
multdy was caused by alcoholism. or the
2,HV inmates at present IN the asylums one
iourth nave become mad through drink.
Two mEE have lust di covered in cave
near Victoria, b. c., what seems to be the