Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

W. ". MANGUM, Agent q Shattuek Hon
man. OF New Orleans, was severely bitten oy
a pet bear, at the Smedes pace, in sharkey
county, Miss, on Friday.
The traffic throGg h the Me.sey tunnel dur
ing the opening week has been Of an extraor-
binary character, nearly 100000 tickets hav-
ing oeen Issued at the various booking omceS
| along the line.
/ THERE are probably more theatres painted
Whlte In Philadelphia than in any other city in
the world. The idea was started by Haverlv,
VINO thought hat white was a llcky color. ~
Is also said that actors prefer to play in a
theaLre painted white. II thiug go on in TINS
way Fhlladelphia will be knownas the white
! city.
AN INQUEST was held by the Liverpool Cor
oner on the body of a girl named Williams,
aged years, who was struck on tae back OF
| the neck by SNOWFALL as she Was coming
home from school, When she reached home
sue complained of pain. and had q ht the
same night. She remained ill for several
lays, and died from Inflammation OF the
oralh' Ihe jury returned an open vedict
THR natives OF Fiji suffer so much from the
wild pigs getting into their plantations
| through the encroschments of the jungle in
| winch these animals herd caused bv the pro-
nloitlon against burning of, as was their
former custom. that il is now becoming fire.
quenI thlng Tor town to agree to keep
| 'iioh o ldullY Wnllo he Is undergoing sentence
IL ne VIII start a fire on a windy day and
plead guilty to it as an act Of carelessness.
A CORRESPONDENT gives some interesting
instances of herring jumping out of the water
when frightened. He says that he has OBJ
served whole shoals Of this Hsh, in their anx-
lety to escape when pursued by whales, piled
np above the surface Of the sea to height OF
from to o feet. On one occasion the 1sh
| formed mass even with the TO of the m asst
OF fishing boat--viz: about IS feet-and had
! part OF this mass fallen into the boat it would
| doubtless have sunk.
DR.. Farlss, with his uncle, BRYANT Fariss,
paid visit to Nashville Monday. Mr.. Bryant
Farriss has beard 7 feet long, if it is an inch
He stands feet 10 inches, and his beard, as
! he walks, trails on the ground 1t has been
| growing thirteen years, and Is in all prOba-
/ hi1ty the longest in the world. Mr.. Farriss
mas farm six miles from Tullahor a and half
mile from Hurricane springs. He keeps the
major portion of his beard slowed away inside
| his coat while walking on the streets.
WHEN Munkaczys famous picture of
"Christ Before PLATE" was on exhibition in
! Paris one of Nine. Munkaczv's friends visited
the exhibition, accompanied bv her little son,
| some or years old. AS the throng sur
| rounded the picture the mother lifted the
| child in her arm- and held him for few mo-
! ments while he staret fixedly at the fsures
| before him. "Dd you find that nice?" asked
the mother as they turned to leave. "Oh,
yes, mammal saw God all the time, but
couldn't hear him speak"
AN UNUSUALLY BRILLIANT METEOR was
observed at Johannesburg, N. Y, Monday. at
quarter past six while fine snow was falling.
| SO remarkable, however. was the meteor, that
although within twenty minutes of sunrise, it
was plainly visible Its path began at point
about a third Of the way up from the horizon
| to the zenith little north of west and ended
| low down in the southwest, spanning an arc
| of about thirty degrees. Its brightness far
exceeded that OF any star, it being consplcu--
GUS through the clouds when Jupiter had
! paled in the twilight.
L.ENNEC told one of his friends that he dis
covered the principle of auscultation thus:
One day. in the court Of the Louvre at Paris,
he noticed children amusing themselves by
holding a cylindrical piece of wood to the ear,
/ and scratching with pin the farther end.
| Thus they heard louder noise than the pin
| usually produces. At his next visit to his pa
| tients in the Hospital Necker. he made hol-
| low cylinder out of roll of paper and applied
| 1t over the heart Of a patient. This was the
/ first stethOscope- After a time he used one
made from cedar wood. In 1919 he published
HIS treatise on Mediate Auscultation.
DIR. OGLE having expressed disappointment
that the profession did not show com plete I'M
munity from fatal small pox.the Lancet points
out that the rate of thirteen deaths of thirteen
medical men from small pox per 100000 livr
ing implies that during the ten years 1s1s-sa
! only two deaths from this, cause, out of |, S65
| deaths from all causes, occurred IN the pre-
fession in England and Wales: numbering
shout $4,000. There were ia EngiaBd and
| Wales during those ten yesre 1881 deaths
from smallpox. and ii Is fair to assume that
one or more medical practitioners were
! brought into personal contact with each OF
| these deceased persons. Bearing these facts
| in mind, the deaths Of but two medical men
from this disease during these ten years in
duces overpOwermg evidence both Of the value
| of vaccination as protection from smallpox,
and of its general and effectual adoption by
the profession"
"BILL" JONES, the glass eater, arrived
early at the Ninth and Arch Museum, Phila-
delpha, Monday. The Bohemians were just
getting their glass blowing department in
order and the phenomenon became deeply IN
terested in the steam engine OF glass, which
| had just started running. Suddenly the NO
ton OF the ingenious ornament ceased and
the man IN charge heard an Ominous crunch
| ing. Looking up he beheid Bill demonstrat-
| ing his fondness fer the engine bv eating il
MP. 1t took the united efforts of Impressrio
Bradenburg, Press Agent Perley, and Prof.
| Hoffman TO prevent blood being she'd but
| "Bill,' when his anger cooled. made an
| apology, saying his appetite not his will had
offended. and astOnished the bartender where
they drink each others health by chewing up
| the tumber. To the wonder of the crowds
who thrunged the Museum he ate up tumbler
chimney after lamp-chimney.
TEE LATE DR.. SAMUEL WoLcoTT, the emf
nent COngregatiOnalist minister, in his later
life wrote many hymns. and has left on re-
cord an account of how he began to do so. He
WAS So years old, and had never put two
rhymes together, and had taken it for granted
! that he was as Incompetent to write hvmp.
or even a stanza. as to work miracle How
ever" he says. II resolved that would try
| to write hymn of five stanzas, and pro-
ceeded to plan lt, prec sely as | would plan a
sermon. ] said. the first stanza shall be a re-
cognition Of God the Father; the second a re-
! cognition Of Christ the Redeemer; the third a
prayer to God the Father; the fourth PRAYER
| TO Christ the Redeemer; the fifth shall blend
the two in one address. A more per-
| feet recipe for wooden stanzas it would he
difficult to Frame" The result was the HYMN
| beginning Father, | own Thy Voice." and
| the author was much surprised to find that he
| had written what could actually be sun9.
Many of his hymns have become favorites
throughout the country.