The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT VIRGINIA CITY big black dog recently
committed suicide by jumping down shaft
into mine. The mercury was Pc below zero
and the dog was tired Of the world
T. J. HARDY. OF Hart comfy Kentucky, lent
a 81 TO pay for admission to show twenty
three years ago. Las week the dollar was re-
turned with an extra dollar for interest.
A sQUAw living near Mitchell. D. T. who evi-
IDENTIFY possesses some Of the characteristics of
her pale-face sisters. has the very suggestive
name OF Woman who-g oes-out-of-rhe-h house
five-times "
THICK coating Of -four Of sulphur over
the affected limb for one night is said TO cure
the sciatica. The skin should be thoroughly
cleansed first. The remedy Is simple enough to
warrant a trial
HENRY HUcKHs, of Nebraska City, Neb., in
fit Of passion several years ago made a vow that
he would never speak 10 his wife again, and,
although he lives in the same house with her
and has seen her every day since, he has Kept
ais word
IT is easy enough for colored folks to grow to
great age. All they have 20 do to forget
when they were born tell few yarns about the
wan OF 1872 and begin TO remember some
thing about George Washington and then they
are all right.
WHILE cleaning out some rubbish in an old
drug store in Brocton, Mass, a man threw an
old bag labelled wild turnip'' in the stove.
Instantly there was an explosion that sounded
like the report of cannon and completely de-
Inoiished the stove
A SMALL TROUT with two heads has been dis
covered recently in the fish hatchery at Ionia.
Mich. The heads are each perfectly formed
and the bodies unite at the back fin. The little
fellow is described as looking like an animated
bOotjack, and is as lively a wrigger as any fish
in the pond.
A NEW BEDFORD, MASS, citizen has cat that
goes sliding on the ice After picking out
nice, tmoOth place the cat would go back and
take good run and slide twenty feet or more.
II would return to the starting point again and
again and go through the same performance.
II would be a great boon if some of the cats
in the neighborhood would devote more atten-
tion TO tobogganing and less TO operate sing
ing.
SETH KINHAN, pioneer hunter of the Pacific
coast, died al Humboldt, Cal, recently, at the
age OF y years, He crossed the plains from
Pennsylvania early in the ffties and had passed
the greater part Of his life since then in hunting
and trapping. He presented President Buch-
anan with buckhorn chair of his own manu-
facture in 1857 and made a similar gift to Presi-
dent Lincoln in 1864. President Johnson and
President Hayes also received presents of a like
nature from him.
A REWARD Of 500 for each coyote scalp having
been offered by sheep owners in the Capay Val
ley, Cal Frank Hambeton made grand round
up or tncSe animals ana VIII present a claim Tor
$500 He had an old straw stack that had been
standing for years. and he had noticed numer
Gus holes in the side OF it. So after this reward
offered, he set the stack fire night
and about forty coyotes, old and young. were
burned to death. The stack was completely full
of them and several escaped.
LEGRAND writes ON "Narcolepsy'' in the cur
rent number of the France uedicdIe. This
consists of sudden attacks of deep sleep lasting
some minutes; not days like trance or seconds
like petit NAL. Moreover the condition is enc
apparently of simple sleep, from which the
patient may easily be aroused. Brain conges-
ton resulting from deficient heart action gas
trio troubles, or arrangements of the liver, and
such diseases as govt diabetes, and rheumatism
Joe, " of the ''Pickwick Papers" will OCCUR to
the reader as typical case Of narcolepsy as
ISOLATED with gastric trouble
RECENT RESEARCHES by Prof Brown Sequard
demonstrates that liquid obtained from the
vapor Of air from the lungs is so poisonous that
a dose of twenty centigrammes Qess than four
grans) suficed to kill dog in seven hours.
From his researches the following conclusions
may be adduced: /. In respired air is found
volative principle, most deadly in its effects,
emanating from the lungs and much more dan
gerous than the carbonic acid which is also met
with in it, 2. Human breath well as that of
animals thus contains a Loison which is most
powerful. 3. The hygenic requirement of free
ventilation, especially of sleeping rooms, is well
founded.