The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


An advertisement in the London Times offers
70 cure nervousness aud timidity in bashful
young men who design making proposals Of
marriage"
THERE are in London 65 theaters and about
800 music halls, providing entertainment for
SIS. coo people every night, or 100000 900 in the
| course Of year.
No LESS than four doctors will be always on
duty at the Paris exhibition and viii be found,
when wanted. at the fixed points at which it
has osen arranged 20 post them
ARNOLD LAKE. Of St. Johns, Mich. has colt
that was born without eyes, and that portion of
| the head where the eyes should be is as smooth
and f1rm as any other part of its skull
THE OTHER MIGHT" says the New York sam,
when the most fashionable drinking place in
America was crowded, every man except two
| mad glass OF green mint before him The rage
| for this detection Of sugar tinctured with the
juice OF mint leaves-which tastes very like oil
OF peppermint. by the ways approaching a
madness in town.
As MOTIVE POWERS, steam and electricity are
threatened with new rival. N. de Susini,
| Corsican doctor, has, it is asserted, after 20
1 years perseverance, constructed motive APP
| paratus or propeller, of 20-horse power, which
| Is worked by sulphuric ether, a result which
| the doctor anticipates will realize saving of
| 30 per cent of the combustible material at
| present employed Tor setting machinery in mo-
| ton. Experiments with the apparatus have
| been made before scientific men at Paris. To
pronounce any decisive verdict on the merits Of
| the new agent would as yet, however, be evil
| IDENTIFY premature.
ADMIRAL PORTER lately held state dinner In
Washington, and All Sin, a Chinese servant,
was assigned to duty in attendance at the door.
III MS country Visitors rank is indicated by
the size OF the card, and a huge yellow one
means the presence of prince. The small bits
nd vra4 ntar 40
from All SIP, but when the gas col
lector presented his bill the Celestial's
demeanor underwent a change The
long yellow slip captured All Sin. and with
profound salaams he bowed the astonished gas
man into the presence of the amazed family
| and irate head Of the navy.
A LONDON LADY lost a diamond earring Of
| great value A gentleman who had just re-
| turned from the east professed his ability to
discover the missing gem by means of an Indian
drug. Accordingly, he asked all the company
| 10 De seated. and pres nifty, after leaving the
| room. he reappeared with colored glass bowl
containing liquid. He then announced thaC he
should ask all those present to dip their fingers
| into the vessel and declared that should any
one have secreted the Jewel for a joke the
testers hand would be tinged rich blood-red
AtIer the ordeal was gone through everyone's
| dlg1ts came out perfectly white, but the ear
| ring was found at the bottom of the bowl.
FOURTEEN CARRIER PIGEONS were taken to
| New York from Newport on the United States
steamer Juniata on errecent trip The birds
We're trained to fly only from Point Judith, and
the Intention was to iberate them off that
point on the day of the ships departure, but, as
1 the weather was thick, they were not flown,
being taken on to New York While the ship
was there one of the birds escaped and a Mr.
Bolton to whom it belonged considered it lost
| 70 nm, as 1t had never flown from a greater
distance than Point Judith and hence could not
De expected TO know its way from New York
Great was Mr. Bottoms surprise, therefore
when the bird subsequently, arrived at his loft
III newport sale and in good condition.
A Mr. YANcEY met with his death in a strange
manner down in a town in Texas called MiIler's
Ferry. 1t appears that several horses had
broken into field adjoining his residence, and
MIR. Yancey mounted horse in an effort TO
drive them out. The intruding horses while
pursued by Mr.. Yancey dashed into the yard at
the rear of neighbors house. and Mr.. Yancey
in trying to turn them back ran against wire
clothes line, which caught him under the chin
and cut his throat He fell off his horse seeing
which Miss Smms ran TO his assistance She
succeeded in lifting him to his feet and led him
INTO the house, on entering which Mrs. Simms
inquired: MIR. Yancey what is the matter?'
Mr.. 1ancey, in reply, waved his hand and then
dropped senselesS on the lounge blood flowing
from his nose and mouth. The next moment
he was dead
The cottage of ex-senator H g. Davis at
Deer Park (l!d.), which win be occupied by the
| family of President Harrison during the sum-
HST IuOHbHS, Is an unpretenJlOuS little frame
house, painted sage green, with red shingled
roof. 1t IS two stories and half in hight has
frontage of forty two feet and is entered from
| a broad piazza, upon which open three long
French windows. The paror occupies the en-
tire width of the dwelling, in which huge fire.
places are built in the middle section of the
wal which partially divides the room There is
neither hallway nor reception ROOM An anart
ment in the wing Will be used by the President
as library snug retreat for his private use
and beyond is small dining room finished in
red. On the second floor are four sleeping
rooms, reached by narrow and steep stairway.
Above are the servants quarters. The kitchen
is supplied with large hot water boiler for
heating the bath. Every room is freshly covered
with mating and supplied with bamboo furni-
ture.
A WRITER ON POPULAR SCIENCE in the Boston
Herald recently took up that much discussed
subject The Tobacco Habit" He doesn't en-
courage the use of tobacco by laymen, but ad-
vises every general practitioner of medicine to
smoke. He who does is much safer from in
lection than he who is strictly temperate in that
respect. Clothing well impregnated with the
fumes of tobacco is poor conductor for dis.
ease germs Aud what is more important,
tobacco breath is decidedly uufriendly TO them
The germs of many diseases infect through the
air passages He who smokes does not furnish
favorable conditions for their Judgment. Ac-
cording to Science, DR.. hajek of Vienna has
declared that smokers are less liable TO diphthe-
ria than non-smokers in the ratio of about one
TO three, and DR.. Schiff says that smoking is
|
because it is known to hinder the development
of bacteria in the various culture media We
think DR.. Hack does not go far enough and
believe that the physician who takes a good
smoke before he is exposed to a diphtheria
patient, and another as soon as he leaves him
is practically safe from Infection"
A RUSSIAN journal, devoted to the in
dustrial Interests of the Caucasus, de-
scribes the cultivation of the pyrethrum
plant in that region The flowers Of
the pyrethrtn are ussu In making the powder
which is sold suader various names-"insect
POWDER" death to insects ETC. In Europe
the flowers are only found in Dalmatian bnt
these are waite, and not rose violet, like those
Of the Caucasus The Dalmatian pyrethram is |
greatly appreciated, and When its crop is scarce
the Caucasian flowers are eagerly sought for
and their price increases by from 200 to 800 per |
cent; this was the case in 1897 and 1888 Prices |
which had varied between and roubles for
tn previous ten years, reached, all at once, in
1887, Is and l6 roubles at Tits. Formerly a Ger
tain quantity of pyrethrum in powder was ex
ported from the Caucasus, but Europeans were |
not Statistic with receiving this delicate Article
in this form, because it was discovered to be |
mixed with foreign substances, At the present
sary that they be cut short as possible at the
stalk gathered when ripe. dried in the shade |
and in current of air, because in the sun the |
bloom and rose color are lost, and, lastly, that
they be not mixed with other herbs when being |
gathered.
SAID prominent Cincinnati knight of labor