The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-06
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eTly prevalent IN that country. To ward on
fevers one might refrain from eating meat or
eggs at Faster and on other festivals, or carry
about piece Of human bone. or pluck ami eat
the first daisy found in the field. II fever ha
been contracted the best cure was for the sut-
ferer to rise early in the morning and 20 out
into the fields, walking backward all the time
pluck haudful of hegbs, throw it behind him
without looking at it, and then go home as
rapidly as he could. Earache WAS cured by the
touca of a skeleton hand; headache by bindiLg
the temples with rope by which some one had
been hanged, and tOothache by contact with
! dead mans tooth.
| The Medical Era relates the case of a girl
aged about 8, living at Fortress Monroe. Va,
who was some months ago. attacked by scarlet
| fever, the disease running a typical course
| For long time no possible source of contagion
| could be discovered The child had not been
| absent from home, had been with no one lately
| exposed, and no other case was known to exist
| anywhere in the vicinity. Subsequently Dr.
| Brooke learned that one of the house servants
had nursed case of scarlet fever in a distant
| city about year before. After the case had
| terminated she PACKED some of her things, in
| Guiding some clothing then worn, in a trunk
and LETT the place. A year later she had the
trunk sent to her, opened it and took out the
contents, the little girl being present aid hand
ling the things. Very soon after the child was
attacked as stated.
OF ALL MEASURES, those Of time, in the opinion
of Nature, are most frequently and accurately
GuOllC CLOCKS, Juab journal goes ON 10
say, ''are far more numerous than public
standards of length on mass and in 1880 the
value of the clocks and watches imported
amounted TO 8SSO,000 Few persons carry
foot-rule costing say l shilling, but many a
watch costing more than e.. Even among
engineers but little attention is paid to lengths
less than Ga Of an inch, and few common bal
ances indicate a difference of 1-100 of the load.
But, according to Mr.. Rgg Canton Lectures on
Matchmaking. 1881, watch that does not
hal diaD or
l-l72SOO is frequently met with, while an ac
curacy Of two or three minutes per week,
3-lOOOO, is attained even by cheap articles. 1t is
no uncommon occurrence to meet with a
chronometer which does not vary one-ffth of a
| second in twenty-four hours, or by about
10000 Of the time measured out"
A WRITER in the Los Angeles (Cal) Tribune
| gives. upon positive authority" this account
Of Henry NJ. Stanleys Omaha love affair: 1T
was when he was a newspaper correspondent at
that place. He was young, handsome and fond
| Of adventure. He fell in love with an actress
| who was then on the boards of the old academy
| OF music-a vaudeville actress. She was a CO.
| quette and fiirted with young "bloOds'' of the
| city who had more money than Stanley. When
Stanley got perfectly crazy II his affection for
! her, she arranged a meeting with him after the
performance and posting her friends, among
| whom was an Omaha Herald reporter had
| them stationed behind the scenes to observe the
| results Stanley, honest in his infatuation
| knelt before the woman and protested deSpe-
| ratey. She amused herself at his expense for
| some time and then called in her concealed
! friends. much to her lovers surprise and dis
! gust. The reporter, fearing the consequences il
| he venturet TO relate the incident in his own
paper, went over to Council Bluffs and inserted
| highly colored account in newspaper there
| Mr. Stanley met him soon after it app Jared and
| gave him sound thrashi4g."
| A WRITER in the Boston Post relates this dog
story: Not infrequenty observe dog stand
| a wi he afa Of ba
two animals makes call at some down town
| place of business, but I seldom see the canine
| groom put in so unpleasant a situation or ex-
| tricate himself so Cleverly as he did in case
| which happened to witness lately. 1t was a
| cold day, and the dog, sitting on his launches
| most of the time changed his position pretty
| often S one who found his seat unconlfor. able.
| bat he never for moment took his eye from
| the horse. Presently the latter me nber Of the
party, which also began to find the weather a
little chill, started down the street at a fast walk
| This Mortified the dog; he le3pad and barhed In
| front of the Offender with grea vehemence but
| failing to stop his companion in this manner, lie
| ran up to a gentleman whom he observed on the
| sidewalk, and then back to the horse. This he
| repeated two or three times, barling all the
| while, until his request was needed, and the
| stranger led the horse back to his former place
at the curbstone The dog thanked the man
| with wag of his tli and resumed bis seat
d, Oh the sidewalk with an evident air of relief.
THE prosperous Queensland squatter, whose
| landed possessions are estimated at 5000 0OO =
mentioned in the late Lady Brassey's postum
Gus volume, is James Tyson, at once the wealth
| lest and the stingiest man in Australia. Almost
every second individual you meet in the col
| onies has an anecdote to tell of Hungry
| TYSON" to give him his unenviable sobriouet
| A colonial prelate who was in London recently.
| Attending the Lambeth conference narrated
J how, in voyage along the Australian coast
| Tyson, who was felOW-pasSenger, slept on
| deck, and munched sandwiches the whole Of
| The way, a meal and berth from tine ships
| resources not being in accordance with his ideas
| of economy. Hitherto Tyson has bean but
little known or heard of in the home country,
| and Lady Brassey Is the first to prominently
| call attention to the existence OF an emigrant
| who has become Weather than either the Duke
| of Westminster or the Duke Of Devonshire and
| who owns more land than the two of them
| together. Lady BraSsey localizes him in Queens
| land but he has enormous landed interests in
! Victoria and New South Wales as well This
| five-times millionaire is now about 20 years of
| age, unmarried, and goes about like day
| laborer, IN the comnoneSt clothes. No one has
the remotest idea into whose hands bis vast
wealth and estates will fall upon his decease
ONE OF the striking features Of the New York
dog show last week was Ivan Romanoff, Con
sui General Ways Siberian wolfhound Ivan
came from the imperial kennels at st. Peters
| burg, his breeder being the Gar Of Russia and
his catalogue prcs was $1,000 He was en-
tered for exhibition by Edward Kelly, W o mad
| forgotten his pedigree who IS said 10 be un.
! kno"n Ivan cod.i not be induced to harm a
| human being, but it il in his ma ure to destroy
| every other living ere gture that crosses his
| path. His first adventure in New YOrl, was al
| the u;enagerie in Central park. where he tried
to eat up the buffalo. Half tie policemen at
! the old arsenal were after him with clubs and
| r@volvsrs, but he paid not the slightest atten-
| ton to them. 81 Tvs made him only tie more
! eager to get at his Trey. At last his master
| reached the scene and at n word from him
Ivan gave up the chase. When snow came ne
| was almost wild. lie roll 81 in il, PLAYED with
| it, ate l., ana then rushed about Tor Somethiny
to Kill. cats disappeared by the Dozen Ia
| Sixth avenue he snapped the chain that held
| him and attached a stuffed bear that stood
| hugrng pole in front Of fur store. For this
| unseemIy conduct he was locked up with his at
| tenlant at a police station. His owner bailed
| him out, but after that Ivan had TO wear a
| muzzle lie is a superb beast, built somewhat
| on the ines of greyhound, only heavier and
! wirh longer hair. He has q tail like q collie and
| the softest eyes that ever dog was blest with.
| The left side u his face il black Including the
| hair around the eye, and he has black patch
| on his right flank. Elsewhere he is as white as
| the snow of Siberia.
THE SOCIETY for the Prevention of Cruelty to
| Animals in New York is nov enga red in work
| ing up a case against Edwin d. Morgan, the
banker, who is accused Of docking the tails OF
| his thirty horses. When asked if he had already
| procured any evidence in regard TO the alleged
| deed MIR. Bergn, the president Of the society,
| said: My knowledge was at first gained
| through the press, but gentleman has since
| told me that Mr.. Morgan admitted to lin that