The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-10
ITEMS OF interest.

T the curative effect OF kola 10 tue SUCCESSFUL
treatment OF sea-sickness. Half 10 one drachm
OF the powdered fresh sesd, cheHed slowly. was
follow ed in the cases in which he tried the drug.
by complete cessation OF the various symptoms:
the depression, vomiting aud gddineas disap-
pesrsd. and the hear : action was sirenst hened
aud regulated-
DIVIDE MrsIs. the yi0iinist was ths victim OF
an odd accident last week. His concert com
psny was about 70 begin the evening entertain
. meot at the Marcy Avenue Baptist church. in
/ Brooklyn. saws the New FORK World. and nr.
I Musin, arrayed 10 faultless evening dress,
/ thought that he would view the audience with
| out being seen. To accomplish his purpose he
I stepped behind q curtain which hung back of
the platform There was q splash ana the vio-
Z lnist found himself IN three feet Of
( water He emerged very wet and
angry man. Mr. Musia had inadver-
Z tently stepped into the baptismal
font. Ii was after o'clock. and the concert had
[ begun. 4 younZ man came 10 the viOlinst's res
cue, however. and said that he would provide
1 Mr. Musin with q cry outfit But it was half aR
I ho1r before be did. and MF Musin was several
minutes la.e Ia making MS appearance The
/ new trousers fitted him rather awkwsrdly. and
I be was not in pleasant frame OF mind, but he
got through with his part Of the prog ranlne
ami TIE audience probably is still ignorant of
/ the tset that he had fallen into toe font.
For SOME TIME PAST as many as twelve 10
! eighteen suicides have been registered daily at
! the Paris prefecture Of police On Sunday the
/ total was eleven In the Rue Berthe woman
/ suffering from a nervous anect1on put an end 70
/ hef existence by Swallowing uncture of iodine.
( A diamond merchant. named Cohen in the Rue
I MauOeuge. blew out bis brains for reasons
! which have not been aScertained. An old man
/ Of 90, in the Rue st. Martin, committed suicide
/ IN similar fashion In the Rue des Bouets q
I man hanged himself. leaving behind him a
| paper on which was written; NO work no
! bread. / have not eaten anything for two DAYS
Enough OF this En- route for the turnip field "
Starvation also induced a widow in the Rue De
Paikao TO suffocate herself and daughter aged
H. with CHARCOAL fumes. Two young women
drowned thsmse YES in the Seine and al ind.
vldual in the Rue des Pyrenees poisoned him.
self with laudanum. The annual statistics
show that an epidemic OF suicides takes place
regularly at the commencement of spring and
autumn, Last April the morgue was coca.
sionally filed to overlooking with the bodies of
suicides Drowning in the Seine is most gen
crafty selected in spring; in autumn preference
is given TO asphyxiation by means OF charcoal
fumes.
LIEUT. LAWRENCE GOODWIN OF the British
army, now in New York, says the World, knew
poor peidy Barttelot," as he calls him we'll iu
Egypt, and has been himself an African ex-
plorer OF no mean accomplishment. "Bartte-
lot" says he, was one of the British officers
wno went out to see service in Egypt during
and lust aft n the war Of 80. He was known as
strictly honorable but rather peevish and iras.
cibie fellow, and his treatment Of the black
Soudanese, a regiment of whom he trained
ana commanded at suakin was not
calculated 10 make them admire or
love him. though II may have con.
duced TO make good soldiers of them As for
the motive of the black chief SaDgs in shooting
poor BartteiOt it certainly does not seem posi-.
bic, from my knowle ge OF African customs.
that that motive could have been revenge for
an attempt on his wife's honor Such thing
is preposterous. When q white chief such as
Barttelot would be considered, comes into an
African tribes territory, their chief at once
offers him a string of fifty or more female
slaves. But the wives of the African chiefs are
as ia thful 10 them as white women would b.
and the marital tie is respected by those people
aud their white visitors as we'll as matter of
course"
THE PUBLISHER Of weskly paper is alleged
TO have shown the following letter to a Duus-
muir Nelcs reporter: Dear Sir-Your letter
asking me 20 act as your agent and substitution
solicitor has arrived l thank you for this con |
ndence you place in me when you say that you |
trust in me 60 do big business IN getting sub |
scriptions, including the 12x2S copy of The |
Angelu5 as premium to every subscriber
From perusal Of your sample COPY consider |
your paper 10 be a dicknailer OF the first water
but. owing to the fact that the crops were |
failure last year, and the blizzard in |
January wiped out the cattle. and |
that the population in this place is |
only two families and water tank |
and one OF the families is away at the hot /
springs, and the other one, which was only Jed |
Roach himself, is dead since December and as, |
desr sir, am going east, because have no So |
cieUy except freight trains and telegraph mes |
sages, that do not stop as they pass by, l do |
not think it would pay me to make much OF a |
Doom for your paper here, even If you increased |
the commission and threw in three bladed
pocketknife You asked me to hand our let |
ter to some other person in my town, provided
cannot Work for YOU myself. / have no one
to hand it to- but will nail it on the water
tank when leave"
a TRIO of young coiegia1s entered a north
bound train few days ago, says the Albany
ATgus. The central figure Of the group was a
finely dressed youngster with three strips of
court plaster across his nose and his arm in a
sling. Both his eyes were as black as the ace
of spades, and q series Of Chinese puzzles had
been laid out in scratches on his face. He
lmped along betweeT1 bis mpanions lively
as possible. They appeared to be as proud and
careful Of him as connoisSeur Is of fayorlte
bit tof Dresden china. Railroad accident"
whispered one man to his companion. Prize
fig said a hard-lookinS customer in the back
pew. Two or three other passengers started TO
offer reasons for the young mans physical d.
lapidaton, when another party OF college boys
entered and they had specimen III their midst
who was almost raw meat, The parties met
and hand shaking occurred on all sides. Intro
auctions followed, and the poem in bandages
was announced as Our left tackle. Brown
| Gazeiy.' Ga2ely shook the unbandaged hand
OF Brown with nothing short of reverence
| Then the raw meat was introduced as Center
rush Beefey," and Beefey and Brown became
! the center OF attraction for the entire party.
There had been no prize fight or sIna shup, or
! accident Of any kind. The smashed collegians
were only members of football teams.
AMONG the su bjects OF interest presented
| the recent international medical, congress, ct
/ Berlin, was a paper by Thomas A. Edison
giving an interesting account OF bis expert
me ITS in the treatment of equity concretions by
electricity. He learned that the salts of
lithium we're used in such cases internally, with
| the theory of forming the urate of lithlum
/ which was s0luabie aud could be dissolved and
| excreted from the body, and that the difficulty
! met with was the practical one of getting the
salts in the system. 1t occurred to him that the
principle of e.ectric endosnose. or the principle
I 10y which the transmission Of solutions through
| membrane Is accelerated by tha steady appli-
| cation Of current of electricity, could he
successfully applied IN such cases. He made
! an exhaustive series of ex neriTnents with this
! end in view FIRST 20 prove that the TRANSMISSION
| of one solution to another could be accelerated
( by the electric current, and after that had been
| successfully established, on the living patient
I The first subject that be took, was a perfectly
| healthy man, and the continuous 81 ctrIc cur.
| rent, as strong he conld bear was passed
| rough him for two hours daily The patient 8
| hands were Immersed In two jars. and these
! connected with the poles Of the electric current
In the positive jar was solution of the salts of
| lthium, and in the negative jar d solution Of
| common salt. The result showed that the
/ fluid excretions were strongly impregnated with
thiun. Another patient then taken,
| who was suf n z from an aggravated form
| of equity connections. The fl ger joints were
| swollen 10 an enormous size, those of the little