Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SMALLPOX is raging hercely in the district
of Tenango, Mexico.
THE Burmese have popular drink, says an
English temperance missionary, which will
dissolve an English rifle ball in thirty min
utes.
a FOOT RACE will soon take place in Pachu-
ca, Mexico, between an American and a
Spanlard. About $1,000 is said to be staked
on the result.
YELLOW FEVER is prevailing in La Paz and
Mazatlan, Mexico. For that reason Guaymas
Is enforcing her quarantine regulation against
vessels coming from those ports.
A HARVARD graduate writes that Harvard
Unverslty's bad reputation for morality,
though undersigned. deters many poor faml-
lies from sending their boys to Cambridge.
THE Indians residing in the district of
TORN, Vican and COcorit, Sonora, Mex, have
risen in arms against the local government.
Troops have been sent from the City of Ala
mos,
DR.. DIssAND, house surgeon of the Child
ren's Hospital in Paris, performed four
operations for Group in three days, and on the
sixth day died of the malady, which he had
taken from his patients.
THE police in the town OF Laredo. in the
State of Tamaulipas, Mex, have arrested
some pseudo doctors who cured their pa
tlents by burning some portions OF their
bodies. One Of their patients died ON &C
count OF the burns thus inflicted by the char
latans. sa
AT the recent sale in England Of the library
of well known collector. the famous SER
mon preached by John Knox at Edinburgh
in August, 1855, "For the whiche he was in
hlblte preaching for a season. fetched E4l5.
This little book 'is very rare, indeed, if not
unique. 's.'.'. ...
JESUS MURRIRTA Is the name Of noted
bandit who is committing depredations on
the rural population Of the district of Perote,
State OF Vera Cruz, Mexico. 1t seems that he
: Is courageous highwayman, since lately he
gave battle to six Rural Guards and put them
to ignominlous flight.
DURING the last few weeks great tracts OF
the fertile island of seeland, in Denmark,
have been devastated by maybugs. whole
|, fields and meadows having been laid quite
bare. Last year the damage done was very
great, but this year it is far worse, being
estimated at f25,000 The distress among far
mers is In consequence very great.
VERY probably the finest set of suspender
buckles in the South belong to citizen of
Montgomery. Ala. They are made OF pure
California gold. They cost originally $3.50
and contain 5000 worth of gold by weight.
They are the property of Montgomery's wide
awake Chief of Police, Capt. A. S. Gerald.
His father had them made in California.
A YOUNG man at Brodhead, Wis, injured
his arm slightly on barbed wire fence, and
to stop the bleeding he wrapped a red silk
handkerchief about it. In a day or two his
arms swelled. and soon his whole system was
affected by blood poisoning. caused by the
cOlOring matter of the handkerchief. He is in
precarlous condition.
KLUNDER, the fashionable florist of New
York, who failed the other day, has published
a of of 6abt
Stevens, Hon. Perry Belmont, C. A. Living
stone and other prominent society people.
Altogether he has 1900 names on his books
and the bills foot up $35, 900, about Is per cent
OF which only can be collected, he says.
OCCASIONALLY a passing sportsman takes
William Tell shot at a bough, and the Brus-
sells journal of Medicine" relates a case of
lead-poIsoning and collie from the malic acid
of the apple acting on Il pellet OF shot in the
fruit. 1t is well to suspicion when apples
are green, that sUmwhere under the rind the
fatal shot may lie. If the story doesn't.
EARLY marriages is the rule among French
Canadians. Originating in the early history
of the country. when women were few and
the government and Church alike encour-
aged girls IN their teens to become wives,
the practice has become permanent, and for
lads who have not reached their majority to
be fathers and girls of l6 to become mothersis
too common to cause remark.
AT meeting Of the council Of the Scottish
History Society at Edinburgh on July I5lt
was resolved to print as their first publication
Bishop Pococke's Tour in Scotland, $780,"
from an unpublished manuscript in the
British Museum. The subscription list has
been quickly made up to the requisite 400 and
number OF applicants in excess of that mum
Der are condemned to wait until vacancies
occur for their admission.
A PITTsBURG dispatch states that an ex-
Aarip ont frfn
bella furnaces as a preliminary movement
towards introducing natural gas into blast
furnaces. One per cent. of the supply OF coke
was cut off and the ore and limestone imme-
dlately showed signs OF chilling. Coke serves
not only the purpose of furnishing heat in a
blast furnace, but by reason of Its great
strength 1t supports and keeps loose the other
Ingredients so that the b asst has fire action.
EXperimenters fear natural gas can never be
used In the place of coke.
DIR. WIDMARK, Swedish surgeon, having
as patient young girl in whom he was
unable to detect the slightest pathological
changes in the right eye. but who was vet
completely blind on that side, observing con-
siderable defects in the teeth, sent her to NJ
ok0gsborg. dental surgeon, who found that
all the upper and lower molars were com
pletely decaYed, and that in many of them
the roots were inflamed. He extracted the
remains of the molars on the right side and
IN four days time the sight Of the right eve
began TO return, and on the eleventh day after
the extraction OF the teeth it had become quite
normal. The diseased fanRs on the other side
were subsequently removed. lest they shouId
cause return of the ophthalmic affection.
On Feb. 90 last Lewis f. Mann. furniture
dealer of Jackson, Mich, sent the family
washing to Mrs. Amelia Winney. a washer.
woman. The family of Mann had scarlet fever
at the time the clothing was sent. Mrs. Win
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