The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-02
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consult her physician, talked on and on with
such voIubil ty that the latter could not get in a
word ed ,eways trpwiDg inpatient. he 10
length rold her to put out aer tongue, which c
did He then said: Now p.ease keep it Their :
till you have heard what have got 10 say TO
you"
The QUEEN OF ENGLAND never sends her pe--
sonal correspondence through the regular NAL.
as her subjects do. Ever trivi communica-
ton, ether of personal or private natufs,
is deligere at It's destination oy queens mes
sen err Queen Victoria the only living SOW
reign who ind Ilzes in liz little pI ce of
eNUravagance at the expense OF her subj cts.
P. iyate and unimportant letters from other
potentates are 1T il eplstleS from more
ordinary mortalS by the post.
The OPPONENTS of vivisection, the London
Daily Ners correspondent at Vienna tele-
graphs will be DISCUS ed to hear of an expert
ment which took place at the hospital of Prof
Stricket'S class Yesterday. A lit dog was
made insensib.e, fastened to board. when
his near had been laid bare an instrument
called The epiSco- q was Applied wnie threw
the magnifi-d picture of tue dogs heart on the
wall opposite revealing to the eyes of all prs
rnt CIV ~ movement u the b art. The tx eri-
ment lasted ait an hour. Accord g to the
professor, the succes ;ful demons reti- Of the
NOV meuts If a Iyin heart IS of tue greatest
valueto the stule4t of med che.
A COMMERCE., Il TRAVELLER went into one of the
hotels in Columbus, O., recently. and. walking
up to the desk, picked upa pen and CONNIE ced
" aking some perpendicuI marks. resembling
capital Is with tae shoulders cut off. After he
ha made a few of csc dasht with his pen
he threw it down, remarking that it was of no
accou {. H then eraobet another pen AMI
made some more dasues the register. By
this II ne the clerk was considerably incensad
and told the man that the register was for 81 2
natures. and not t. be defa ell in that manner
The drummer remarked that the clerk reed n t
get mad about it, and, making some horizontal
dashes on tie register, he sh wed, the as
Uonishment OF the clerk, that he had only been
writing his me. which was II. H. Hill. The
clerk ackn wedget he was caught, and regis
tired" for the crowd.
HERE Is A GOOD STORY of Jowett, the eminent
Oxford scho ar, says the Troy Times. His
study windows lool; into the "3roa - at Ok
fori. Everybody kro that Re is always at
work. Comin< with his party (chi -fly Ameri-
can tou Is s. under these windows, { e local
guide would uegin: This, ladies and gentle
IN. is Balliol college. one of The very eldest in
the ''univer 'itY, and famous for the haredition
OF It's Schol re-. Tne cad of Balliol college is
called the master; the present master of
Rallo is the ce eb ated Prof. Benjamin Jow-
eti, regiu professor of reek. those are
Prof. Benjamin Jowe;t'S study windows, and
there here he man would stoop down,
take no a handful of gravel an ] throw it up
aust the paneS, bringing the poor professor,
IVA with Jury. 10 the wlndow-'ladieS AMI
gentlemen, is Prof Benjamin Jowett himself"
a CONTRIBUTOR TO one of the leading English
magazines describes Anne lean humor as the
result Of sh ewd, and for the most part, half
educat minds acting upon mat ers of every
DAY interest, and speaks of humorists gener
ally in somewhat displraging vein, and of
tIeir productions as in erior to the pure
humor" OF English scholars. Now, we under
stand legitimate humor to be that which COM
peIs m n 10 laugh without causing women to
blus 3. and no people on earth are so prolific of
such hurnor as Americans. Highly refined
facetl usness, which the English too ften mis-
UaNe TOT lnur, IS not Il e shaking. Ii does not
make people TO r. or endanger the integrity of
their blood vessels. II is rather wit and humor
pun that satisfies the taste may not tickle The
fancy An igram that is mo lei of complete.
ness may, neve theless, fail TO provoke smile
Tie mot irresistible jokes have ever ard
nave been e petrated ny americans of ordin nv
educatl n. There is hardly a yiil4ge in the I'm On
set the table ar" The truth of he
matter is, American humor is seldom fnical
and never stupid, but always humorous.
THE CAREER of the American navy strictly
spaak n p, began with its reorganization under
Wa kingdoms seconl administration in 1894.
At the close of the revolution tie vessels that
had been built or p released for that struggle
bad all been ca 'tur d, lost or sold except tue
Alba &c, 81 Guns; the Dean, 80 guns, and the
George Washington. 20 guns, and on after the
announcement Of peace Il csc vess Is were also
sold. AT TIL time Wa shington assumed tn
reins of government in 1875 the affairs of the
navy were placed in the hands Of he S cretary
OF War, and 1t was not until the 305h of April.
| lI96, that navy department was aide to the
Presidents cabine', Benjamin Stoddard OF
G 'orgAtown. D. q, o-ing the first secretary On
TIE 9th OF March, 1894, law was passel for
| the establishment of a permanent and organized
navy. BY this law six frigatt s, rating OF less
| tfan 81 guns, were ordered, but 1T is more than
probable that even his step would not have
been taken bad it not been for the seizure of our
merchant ships AMI the ems avlng of their
ere by the rovers of Barbary These six
frigateS were the Constitution. President United
tates, Chesapeake, Congress and Constella-
ton.
THE IMPORTANCE of the study of microscopic
| cal petrog apply as an integral part of modern
geology is now widely recog nized. It's progress
mas for long time been impeded by the elem Mt
which Is opposed TO innovation per Sc, and will
| fight to the last ditch rather than become rec
onciled to new order of things Another of
the reaso why microScopical photography is
making little or no Roadway in this coun ry is
the want of t. a hers who are able to make this
science attractive. In Germany there is now no
university so small or so posr out It has its re-
gu i str lctor of ltholDgy, who in' IDLY
succeeds in gathering around him numo-r of
eager di ,ci les. A good teacher of petrogrs ply
is hard TO find, for no 9th r department. of
modern science embraces SO wide rang OF
difficult studies. W at is needed, per APPS,
mora than anything is a truly el ,mentary
text bOok r primer book which can b I'M
de God without difficulty by every well
eQuC LED D0rS On, ana WQlcn GOES not preSup-
pose more scientific Knowled re than the average
| hi III school graduate is likely to posse g. 1t
ould free fro n technicalItieS and al tedious
deta /: indeed, its chief aim should be he pu-
larization o. photography by Ell deavorng to
r n1er its study as attractive as possible Such
work could b. written in simple language
wit out a ~ sacr,fi e of scientific acc lracy or
precision. and, although it light be TOO much
| lacking in thoroughnesS and completeness to
an er as text DO, X for the advan ed student,
yet it would be IF incalc, lab va ne to DegiI :
nerS. by afordin them an easy Introduction 60
Photography, aud smoothing the way for more
serious STUDY later on
The PAPER rea by Koch at the Berli con
grtss on tn treatment of consum ption, of
which I spoke at some length in one of my re-
cen articles, says a writer in the Paris edition
OF the New York he, q d. gives a certain value
to publication by MIR. Reuttr, and l THINK it
quite pr babie that it may become the starting
POINT for new treatment of tuberculO isis Mr..
.euter has been for several years director Of a
fac ory in which all sorts of metal obi cts are
manui actured In some of the work rooms the
gIldn< and silvering is do by toe galvan-
| opiastic process. Mr.. Reuter- not Cal that
a ong the workmen employed in tn part OF
the factory os9 who had The appea ance OF
consunpuves, and who presented symp-
toms of tuberculosis, we're considerably
| benefited by their work. that t. eir
| cough diminished as well as the
expectoratio4 and dyspnea. while they in
! crea sd in weight. He noticed, furthermore
that the condition of tlese patients WREN they
| pass d into otler parts of the factory grew
| worse a ,ain, though their new occupation