The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| tried ana sentenced to IMPRISONMENT for term
o 81 various duration up to four months for de
| h6erately disinterring the body of a woman
| VINO had died of intoxicatiOn, and floating i
| down the NolRa as a means of causing rain. l
seems TO BE- quite fixed belief among thu
| RUSSIAN peaSantry. says a correspondent tina
throwing the dead body of a drunkard into thu
river is sure cure for want of rain.
Two YEARS AGO, or thereabouts, a writer fl
the Worth Amertcdn ReUieo called attention T.
the therapeutic value of refrigeration, AM
| ventured the PREDICTION that climatic fever
| would be successfully treated in artificial.
| cooled hospitals. IL seems that the prediction
| has been verified by experiment. According Il
| Inc Havana papers physician of Santiago d.
| CUBA has been treating, and with invariab'
| success, yellow fever patients in ''camari
| polar polar chamber), / e. in an apartment
| whose temperature Is kept by artificial mean
| at about sos Fair With our ice machines every
| where II would be very easy TO provide such &
hospital in this country when need requires.
WITH the possible exception of the Emperor
Of Austria liam is the most betited man il
Europe. Besides being German emperor anC
| king of Prussia he is margrave of Brandon
| burg and the two Lausitzes; grand duke o.
| lower Rhneland and Posen; duke of Silesia
| Glatz, Saxony, Westphalia, Engern, Pomerania
| Lunebnrg, Holstein- Scbleswig. Magd burg
| Bremen, Gedern, Cleve, Julers aud BERG
| Crossen, Lauenburg, Mecklenburg of the Wendi
| and or the Cassubes; landgrave OF Hess anC
| Thuringia; Prince of Orange; Count p ince OIL
Henneburg; Count of the Mark of Ravensberg
| of Hohenstein OF Liugen and Tecklenburg, o.
| Mansfield Slgmarngen, Verngen and of Ho
| henzollern; Burgrave of Nuremberg; SeiRneul
| of Frankfort Rugen, East Friesland and oil
twelve other places
THE monkeys of Java are very fond of crabs
and catch them in a very funny and at the
same time painful way. The Javanese crabs
live in holes near the sea- and the monkey. in
order to catch dainty dinner, drops his long
| tail down into Mr.. Crabs dwelling and waits
| with open mouth for what he knows will sooI
| happen He never waits long. for Java's crat
| is always hungry, AMI soon Mr.. Monkey s
! mouth closes W tn a snap and tears of anguish
| roll down his cheek crabby nips him But
the torture must be borne till the latter ha,
| taken a firm mold, and then. when the monkey
| feels that the crab has him fast, he Jerks his
| tail out. whirls it around two or three times and
| brings his crab down the ground with crash
! that never fails to break the hardest she'll. HIS
| dinner is gained now, and he goes to work
| eagerly to pick out the meat. Norris it a very
| cheap dinner, as the victor plainly shows by
! frequently taking his wounded tail in his
| mouth and licking 1t as We do a wounded
| finger.
How THE population of the United States is
distributed according to altitude is indicated by
a census bulletin just issued. Below 50J-feet
line sre the people engaged in manufactu ring
| foreign commerce, aud most of those engaged
| in the cultivation of cotton rice and sugar.
| Inc prairie states and the grain producing
states of the northwest are located on the in
terval between 800 and / 800 feet East of the
ninety eighth meridian 800 feet is practically
the upper limit of population. The area be-
tween 2.OO0 and 5000 feet constitutes almost
everywhere the debatabe ground between the
arid region of the Cordilleran plateau and the
humid region of the Mississippi valley. In the
altitude of 5000 feet irrigation Is necessary for
agricultural operations. The occupation OF the
people living above 5000 feet is mining The
movement OF population is toward the higher
attitudes and is most marked between 900
and 5000 feet. The greatest density is on the
seaboard, and increases uniformly until the alti-
tude of 1000 feet is reached. At this point it
becomes quite sparse.
IT IS SAID that Postmaster General Waua-
maker spends his entire salary on his private
secretary and the various agencies furnishing
newspaper clippings, He is a subscriber to
three separate agencies, AMI they are expected
to supply clip 1ings from all the papers which
publish anything, good, Tad or Indifferent about
the postmaster General or the postal service
When new line or policy in connection with
any branch of the serv ce is announced the
Postmaster General likes to soc the editorial
comments OF the leading papers of the country.
In that way he often receives valuable sugges-
lions and frequently acts upon them. Any refer
ence TO postage stamps or the finances of the
postal service Is marked and referred to the
third assist ant. Comments upon die railway
mail service, subsidies. mail contracts etc are
sent TO the second assistant. All matters re-
seFTlHn 10 appointments, the free delivery
vice, ana all questions relating to postmasterS
are laii before the first assistant, and by this
means the postoffice officials are kept pretty
well informed what the press of the country is
saying about WanamRker.
THE CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Herald at
Bar Harbor, describing "Stanwood," Mr..
Blaines home there, says: Tine hall is hand
somely furnished with the usual appointments
of rugs and screens and louncing chairs and
HfATlE IN nd 10
door double doors open o. to tbs piazza which
runs on two sides of the house and has its own
complement of tables and chars, among them
a rooted chair in which the secretary sits shell
tered from sun and wind, until he prefers to 20
indoors and sit by the wood fire. ON the right
of the doors which open on to the piazza is the
wonderful oval window, fourteen feet long
which gives, when looked into from without
two reflections of everything in the bay below
Two yachts appear to be sailing by, when really
there IS but one and two pairs of lovers
paddle their light canoe in the win
dow when there is only ono on the bay
Inside beneath the window runs broad, low
seat made INTO soft, luxurious couch by means
of pillows and rugs. Back of the little morn
inG-room, which is so daintilj' furnished in white
and peleSt blue brocade, is the library. On the
right # the entrance is the dining ROOM and
above stairs are the sleeping rooms, dressing
rooms and bOudoirs. The house. ike the other
Blaine residences in Augusta and Washington,
Is very handsome in all its appointments and
furnishings, and contains mUca beautiful china
many pictures, and various objects of interest
Hanging upon the walls of tbs library are pho-
graphs Of h late Empe ors Frederick William
and Frederick of Germany, with their auto
graphs beneath, which were presented to Mr..
Blaine when he was IN Europe some years ago.
aud TO which, naturally, pleasant and interest
ing "reminiscences ATTACH"
WHILE SCIENCE has carefully felt with busy
hands after the best interests OF countless
things upon the sea and land. our good friend
the oyster has been wofully neglected He has
been conn elled to shift for himself think for
himself and legslate for himself; but il the
scheme described by the Philadelphia Press ia
carried out these days of neglect are at an end:
New days for the oyster will dawn when the
University of Pennsylvania 8 mariIe labora-
tory at Sea Isle City is in active operation The
laboratory Is expected to do much for the sci
ence OF things marine, but the most practically
important and interesting will be- to promote
the study Of the ways of the oyster The cult
walton of this bivalve is now largely in the
hands OF unsklilet and unscientif3c fisher
men who know how to dredge, but have
no idea how to develop an oyster crop
or TO grow large and healty oysters
There IS good reason for the marine labor
atory S laoorS. Ine oyster crop is on the wane
oyster beds are disappearing, because the
ofeugers seek Tor larger crops without looking
10 the future. Oysters are luxury in England
ana france Tor this very reason, and the condl
lions IN this country Fastening in the same
direction. Now it is the plan of DR.. Dolley of
the university and his colIaborators at Sea Isle
CITY TO put the oyster under the microscope and
LOOK into every nook and corner, so to speak, of
ms being. The scientists will ascertain what the
Oivalve eats and on what he best fourishes
they will learn how to prepare beds for the re-
c-ptlon OF young oysters, how long the oyster