Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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that prig besto~s on the rest of his species.
WILLIAM II HUNTS frescoes IN the Albany
Capitol, which cost many thousands of dol
lars, have been seriously damaged by leakage
and other causes.
THE COAL MINES near Egypt, N. C., are to
be reopened next summer. One of these
mlAes mas a shaft 800 feet in depth. 1t was
this coal thai was used on blockade runners
al Wilmington dur the war.
THREE SION, STATUES have lately been
found under the London Law Courts. They
are supposed to have been statues of Charles
l., Elizabeth md Edward VI. TheV are said
10 nave 3een r-eseryed IN excellent co dition.
A REGULATION BY railroad company pro-
hibiting pa--engers from ''drumming" for
custom on its trains is reasonable. according
TO The decisiop of the Texas Court Of Appeals
IN the case of the Texas, etc., Railway Com
pany VS.. Pearle.
SHORTLY before bis death King Alfonso or
dered that every article Of the Infanta Eula-
he's trousseau should be procured in Spain,
Including ace and jewels. This was dsap-
polntment to the French tradesmen who fat
ten on such Jobs.
TIE "oRDEAL BEAN'' of Madagascar, which
innocent people are supposed to be able to eat
with impunlty, though it is sure death to cri-
mnals, is described as being a very poisonous
'tIuA WHlCn kills by dff6BLlnR respiration.
Nevertheless, the chemists are working it up
into new medicine, and one investigator
hopes to make it useful in palsy and other
nervous troubles.
LAKE GLAzIER, the newly discovered
source of the Missssippi,Iis a sparkling little
lake, which nestles among the pines of a wild
and unfrequented region of Minnesota, just
on the dividing ridge which forms the great
watershed of North America. 1t IL about
mile and a half in greatest diameter. The
waters of the lake are exceedingly pure.
coming from springs.
IL A COURSE OF LECTURES ON FOODS, Prof.
Sterling, of Aberdeen, showed "a beautiful
collection of compressed vegetables and an
excellent solid pea SOUP" The British Aedi-
cal J0UrRaI expects to zee much material con-
verted into human food which has hitherto
been vaiueless. IL cites preparation of
whale soup" which its representative found
extremely palatable
A RED LILY twenty feet high is the latest
flower marvel. a silk thread three feet long
can be taken from it. 1t is really an Amaryl-
lis OF the genus Doryanthes, and grows in
Austraa a, the land of wonderful blossoms. A
horticultural show of Australian plan Is would
he worth d weeks journey TO see. The can
nibal Hover might draw as great crowd as
did the white ephant.
AN AsTUTE RASCAL has been playing what
the Americans would call the disinfecting
and some birthstone, saving that the health
board has sent him to disinfect the house.
Then he blows up his furnace, and creates 50
outrageous a stink, that the servants leave
the house, ard he soon follows them with
everything he can lay his hands on.
SILVER QUARTER OF DOLLAR was
found in the lntestines of a 4-pound trout
which was peing dressed for table at Virginia
City, New. a short time ago. 1t was covered
with q black coating nearly an eighth of an
inch thick. and had evidently been in the
trout's stomach tor 4 long time. The coin was
probably dropped by some fsherma an, and the
u.s., seein7 the glittering coin, darted at and
swallowed it.
A CIGAR-sMOEING DOCTOR gays that when
other smoker, ask HIM for a light he offers
| them box Of matches, but never his cigar.
! "Gentlcmen SUPPOSE said he, "that do this
| because my own cigar Is not well lighted. The
! real reason is that with TO avoid the risk OF
/ cOntagion from any one disease out of the
! dozen or more which may be transmitted by
putting into the mouth an article infected
/ persons have handed"
/ REFERRING to the decision of the Roman
/ Church declaring the operation of cranioto-
my to constitute homicide, DIR. Melziner
writes that according to the Mishna-the
/ earliest co lection Of rabbuicAl decisiOns-i.I
| Is justlfable to i'll the uabOrn infant in order
( to save the mother, as her life precedes his
! life If the child be partially born, how
/ ever. the rule does not apply, as lone human
| 'ila must not be set aside on account of an
other"
! IN the Chinese maritime reports it is stated
that the Amis savages of South Formosa
harden their children" by bathing. The in
/ FAINT is thrown into tub Of cold water on the
| day OF It's birth, and month afterward ID
! taken to The river or sea ami allowed to strug-
! gle until tired out The Amis children can
! swim Tong before they are able to walk. 1t is
said that the "hiriened" ones become strong
/ because they were born 50; the treatment
! knocks out tae weak ones.
! WRITER tells OF a debilitated patient who
| did not do at all we'll on beef tea, but was
easily restored to health on a diet OF bean
soup. The only remarkable thing about this
| Is that he patient ever expected to derive
! strength aud nOurishment from beef tea
alone. Considering that we have upwards of
! l00,' o. doctors, and that very large propor-
| ton OF Them are fully agreed that beef tea is
almost valueess except as a stimulant, il is
surprising that people continue to look upon
! it as food.
! a CONNECTIcUr DEACON received slight
injury to one OF MS eyes, which gave that organ
! a peculiar nXed expression. Hence when he
aske' the village drug clerk for soda water
/ that experienced person believed he recog-
nized the mute request for superior old male
which preva.'a n many temperance lagos
! Tie acted on this belief. The deacon was really
| surprised, Rud flushed slightly as he drained
] the glass. Dul ne mas DFco me n Regular CustO-
mer for soda" and the salary OF the clerk
! has been raised,
TIE LATE LORD RANELAGH left three ille-
] ultimate daughters by u woman Of great
/ beauty, but obscure birth. One Of them mar.
| ried the Hon. Marx Napier second son of
/ Lord Napier, remembered us q boy in Wash
| iugtOn when his father was British Minister
| there. Immediately preceding Lord LYONS
| AMI who j. now he very able barrlster who
COud dCtcd Arabi's defence Another is wed
! ded in Australia and the other is Mrs, Lang
/ ry 5 ter-in-law. having married Mr. Ia
Breton, her brother. OF Jersey island.
THE London MedtcGl Press learns that San
American lady in driving in a carriage and
six horses through our provincial towns. Al.
tracing people by means OF ner brass band. TO
accept her advice aud medicine as from the
world-renoWned Amerlcanlady doctorD The
same paper tells Of an English quack ssnow
travelling in America. with very lovely
young woman, whom ne EXHIBITS as the result
of his medicine, which, he decl ares causes the
perfection OF Ger com plexion. He cells "A tonic
too, TO when he attributes the abundance OF
her hair, and drugs, for the increase or reduc.
ton OF flesh 10 her standard"
The Regue dAntbroD0Io0ie reports an in
ve-tigation upon the relation OF intelligence
TO the size OF the brain The main conclusions
are that there IA no absolute relation between
the factors. though the brain proper may pc
come voluminnus proportlonately with the