The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ago blew down in recent storm. 1t bore apples
TO the last and had considerable unripe fruit on
/ 1t at the time.
i The elephant has more muscles in his trunk
| than any other creature possesses III its entire
/ body. their number being, according to Culver.
/ no less tnan 4O.0OJ; while the whole OF a mao S
/ muscles only number SCI
/ WAVED PAPER BAGS are new idea for hold
| ing coffee, fruits. confections, etc. They are
also useful for packing furs and wOolens away
| from moths, the paraf1ne coating rendering
| them both air and water tight.
J TIE feminine shoulder, which has for some
time been treated by dressmakers in manner
to make il Iook as square as possible is about to
| slope of The pouf will 60, according to the
| Paris fIsbion, and then the curve will again be
! natural and revealed.
| SARA BERNHARDT left several thousand dollars
| worth of diamonds in London cab the other
/ day. Cabby turned it over 70 tn police; but
| when he dem inde1 $685. salvage, allowed by
! the British law, Sara became furious. They
! compromised on S335.
| Boxing SCHOOLS FOR WOMEN are among the
| latest modern Developments 1t is said that the
| exercise is very healthful in strengthening the
arms and the muscles of the chest. The wash
| tub anu broom also afford exercise that is quite
as healthtul, but it is not in great favor with
! some of the sex
front with the first corn story of the season. 1t
re ates that an ear of corn is on exhibition at
that Office, the seed from which it was grown
being painted just siXty-four days before the
ear vas brought in, that contains 1,2S2 grams,
and weighs 216 pounds
BRADY, son of Conductor Taylor, of the
Beech Creek railroad, living in Williamsport,
Pa, swallowed a cherry stone about six weeks
ago. Last Thursday he was taken ill, and,
after several days suffering, he died. A post
nOrtem examination revealed a hole which the
stone had made in the bowel.
JUSTICE DUFFY of New York easily settled a
| dispute over the ownership of a pet dog. He
| told both claimants-a man and a woman-to
| go to corner of tine court room and call the
| dog. The animal rushed to the woman, as
| though glad to see her. whereupon the judge
said Enough; the dog belongs to the woman. >
NEWARK, n. j., is excited over the breakages
| in the great S706,00O flume built across the
meadows to carry away the city sewage. 1t is
| lO,4OO feet long and has two compartments,
| each about four feet square Breaks have Oc-
! CURED at frequent intervals, and new ones are
| being discovered almost dai Y. 1t is feared
that the tume may have to be abandoned
| AFTER DINNER ORATOR, quoted by a London
paper: ITS the wonderful insight inter
uman nature that Dickens gets the pull over
| Thackeray; but on 'tother hand it's in the
| brilliant shafts of satire, t'gether with keen
/
| Thackens It's just this: Thickery is numor-
lst and Dackens is satirist. But after all, It's
| bsurd to instoot any comparison between
| Dackery aud rhickens."
A VERDICT OF DEATH from tight lacng comes
from Birmingham jury, expressed as a YER
| dict of death from pre- sure round the waist.
| The subject was servant girl who died after a
| fright, and her death attributed by the
| medical witnesses to the fact that she was laced
| too lightly to enable her to stand any sudden
! 10 tu0q n Vnfn Ic~hf NOT
| only at the waist. Her collar fitted closely
| that it was impossible to loosen it at the crit
| ical moment. Under her corsets she wore a
| tightly buckled belt.
In Strawberry valley. California, recently two
| young ladies went into the woods to search for
| ferns, accompanied by an English mastiff.
| While seated on a log ia an isolated part of the
| forest quite distance from their home they
| were approached by cinnamon bear. At sight
| of their visitor the girls started to toward
| home, screaming at the top of their voices and
| lowed by Bruin. The mastif was not afraid
and caught hold of the bear by the neck. A
desperate struggle took place and only ended
when two men arrived on the scene and shot
the bear. The dog was so badly mangled that
| it was feared he would die.
LADY Cork, writing of Rebekah, the mother
of Jacob, as type of the worldly wise woman of
the present day says of the latter: "She will
bear us no emulty, wish us no evil; and, it may
be, evince a certain measure of frlendhness but
let the moment arrive when from force of cir
cumstanceS we lie in her path, and from that
moment our doom is sealed Close relationship
Will not avail, long Intimacy will not serv-,
utter hepeSsness not protect us; relentlessly
| and steathiiy the worldly-wise woman will
| glide on her tortuouS way, leaving those who
cOntided in her betrayed like Rebekahs sight
| less husband and ike her eldest SON The
| Countess of Cork seems TO understand it all.
The CASE of William Leonard of Athol, Mass,
who fell from ladder struck
on his head, is proving of peculiar
! interest to medical men. His whole body below
| the neck is paralyzed. except that the arms can
| be moved little This proves, the doctors
| say, that the injury to the spinal cord is some
| where between the fourth and sixth cervical
vertebre as all the muscles controlled by nerves
| starting from the spinal column lower dow are
| useless. Leonard breathes with his diaphragm,
| which is controlled by a nerve originating
| above the point injured The muscles of the
| chest are motioness. The man was hurt more
! than week ago, and his death was expected.
| lie takes nourishment readily, though solid food
| nauseates him, and he complains that his
| shoulders acne He is p years old aud man
| of fine physique.
THE Vienna Gambrinus publishes a table of
| European breweries and their output for the
| year 1856. The whole number of brewerieS in
| Europe was 50SOl, and the production of beer
and ale amounted to about 4 $50, 900, 900 gallons
The taxes collected from this sea of beer
amounted to about $4,000 900 The malt used
weighed 10000 tons, and the hops 900. Ger
many alone contained 26, 143 breweries, produc-
ing 1,1SS,0OO0OO gallons, while Austro- Hungary
mad only 1879 brewerieS producing 354, 900, 900
gallons. The fl cures relating to the prod lction
per capita 8 low that the smallest quantity, one
itre per Lead, the litre being little more than
quart. is in Bosnia and Roumania Greece
shows 21b litreS, Russia 80, France 81, SwitZ-
erlaud 40, Denmark 63, Germany %, Upper
Austria 116, Lower Austria III, Belgium 80
Wurtemburg, 2lS, and the Angdom of bavaria
leads all competitors with 24S Ltres, or nearly
6519 gallons for every man, woman and child in
the country.
NEVER within the memory of the Oldest Brit
ish resident of Odessa has such intolerabe heat
prevailed in this region of Southern Russia
Deaths from sunstroke occur almost daily, even
among the native laoDrers For the last ten
days the thermometer has never registered less
! than l44o at noon. one day last week it was
1909 in the Shade. Out of reach of artificial rri-
cation all vegetation is parched and wituered
The long, Scorching days, uabroken by even a
passing thunderstorm, succeed each other with
perfect regularity Even after shutdown there
is no breeze, and the nj hts are sultry that
sleep is impossible A sunshade is necessary as
carly as octOcA q. m. from what saw and
heard at the Meteorological station one morn
ing it would appear that there is. after all, some
truth in the old theory of the dog days On one
day alone twenty-one cases of bites from rabid
uOgS were received ut the station, and during
tie last twenty days no fewer than thirty-eiS t
cases of hydrophobia occurred with n tn city
and were treated by Pasteur'S system of inocula-
ton