The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-21
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THREE SUCCESSFUL skin grating operations
upon one patient have recently been perfor med
at Bellevue hospital. The patient is Mrs Min
ME Wick, "a years oil, whose entire scalp was
| torn off in her husbands laundry on Dec
70 last. The accident was caused by Mrs.
| Wilck's hair being caught in the leather betting
which revolveS around a pulley worked hy
steam. An ambulance from Bellevue hospital
TOOK the woman away before her hair, which hai
| become entangled in the machinery could be
| released, but later on her husband appeared
with the scalp, which was put back on her head
| and has now grown thereto. The skin on her
/ neck and face was also torn and to save her
| from disagreement the physicians determined
1 10 graft new skin. When Della Eagan, a IL
| year old girl, with plenty of pluck, learned of
1 Mrs. Wick's plight, she volunteered her SER
vices because Mrs. Wick once nursed her
through long Illness Three operations we're
perLormeo, the last one being consummated on
| "Wednesday with perfect success. Miss Pagan
has red hair and blue eyes. and said that it
| didn't hurt because they gave her something to
smell which put her to sleep. She was formerly
| employed iu Wilck's laundry, and said that her
action was entirely voluntary.
THE FRENCH sPoLIArIoN CLAIMS for the pay
ment of which an appropriation has at last
been made, all date back to the eighteenth cen
| fury. The original claimants are all dead long
| ago, and so must be all or nearly all of their
| children. The present claimants are either
their grandchildren and great grandchildren or
toe heirs OF men to whom the claims have been
assigned or sold. Under a law passed in Janu-
AIRY. 1853, Claimants we're allowed to prove their
claims In the United States court of claims ard
all not so proved were barred out The aggre-
| gate was o iginally estimated at Sl2 600 0OO but
II IS understood has now dwindled to about
S2UOO,OOO The claims were originally against
the French government. for American ships
pillaged and destroyed by French vessels be-
tween l7S3 and 1900 Our government presented
| Cne claims TO France, but they were met by
much larger claims set up by France against
| the United States for failing to discharge Ger.
tam treaty obligations. Finally. by c1nven-
ton entered into Sept. 30, 1900. the two claims
were set off one against the other. As the
| United States had thus used the personal
claims OF its citizens to pay off national obli-
Gation, the personal claimants looked to the
| United States for repayment. And they, or
| tnelr heirs and assigns have been looking in
vain ever since. Forty congressional reports
have been made on these claim of which
thirty-eight were favorable. Webster, Seward,
Choate and Sumner have been among the ad-
vocates of payment of the claims. A bill for
their payment has been passed and vetoed
| once II not twice.
Engineering contains the details of trial re-
Gently carried out at Portsmouth, England,
with new six-inch quick-firing gun and mount
| ing under the supervision of the officers of the
| Excellent. The weight of the proiectile was 100
pounds, and OF the charge of powder thirty
| TOUR pounds. Ten rounds were fired for rapidly
In one minute and thirty-one seconds which gives
an average of over six rounds q minute There
| was tried on this occasion, for the first time,
l
| nrlng circuit and primer. This was done by
means OF an instrument fitted to the electric
firing pistol, and which gives forth a ringing
| sound whenever tn" circuit is completed This
| information would be conveyed al once to the
| firing gunner If everything was correct before
he attempted to fire. The instrument also
the gun is loaded, and thus is dan
gerous to approach within the limits
| or range of recoil. The very exhaustive
| trial of firing 100 rounds in rapid succession
| that this tie rir
thoroughly, without bsingin the least disturbed
| by the shocks. A letter recently published in
| the Pau Mall Gazette from their Oporto CORE
| spondent will surprise the enemies of the new
| small bore magazine rifle. The details are
| somewhat sickening from humanitarian point
| or view but as regards effectively carrying out
| their object and surprising the old bore in it's
| ordained mission it has been greater success
than its advocates dreamed of. HeI @ are one or
two points showing its extraordinary advan-
tages as means of butchery: where bones
| have been struck they are perforated being also
pulverized or shattered above and below perfor-
alton The muscular tissues especially in the
| neighborhood of impacts on bones, are disor.
| gained and reduced to a formless pulp"
SHORTLY after the arrival of the first mission
| aries at the Hawaiian islands, says the Prrndise
of the Pacific, small party of them landed
from a schooner at Hilo on their way to visit
the volcano of Kilauea. At that time no mis-
sIonary had been stationed at Hio. and conse-
quently but few OF the people of the place had
ever had the opportunity of hearing preaching
AS the party were detained in the village over
Sunday they appointed morning and afternoon
services. 1t so happened that the only building
| large enough for the proposed meetings vas a
canoe house situated on the beach, Thither the
congregation assembled at the appointed time
| In the forenoon, filling the house to its utmost
capacity. There we're old Scared and white
headed warriors, who had fought in the wars of
| ka nehameha, sitting in their kara k,heis
| through whose quiet dignity of manner there
shone certain expression of expectation:
there were dried-up old crones to whom the
emancipation from the kGpu had come
| almost too late. and there were Younger
| people and children and babies, more
| or less dressed, according to the
| convenience or whim or wealth of each indi-
ylduaL The posts which supported the roof Of
| the house were appropriated by some of the
| more agile boys to elevate themselves above
| the crowd, where, clinging on like MONKEYS
they awaited proceedings with countenances
| expressive OF the greatest triumph and delight.
| Others, with equal in genuity and greater com
| FORT climbed on to the outside of the roof and
| by stealthily enlargiug small holes, which they
| found through the tnatcb, or making new ones,
| had an unobstructed view of the inside and fine
| enormous size of their eyes, visible from below.
| showed how they appreciated it. Under these
| favorable circumstances the meeting COM
| menced; the preaching was listened to with
| great attention by the audience and the mis-
| slonarfes felt that they we're making an impress
| sion. Suddenly, when the meeting was about
| half through, there ensued q scene Of the Wild
| est confusion, men and women rushed out Of
| the building Though the uncovered sides. or
nISleEeE Chere was an aperture large enough
rolllng over each other in the attempt and
| screaming most unaccouutably Bahias
| screeched as they were tossed around in the
panic, little boys dropped from the posts and
rolled from the roof. In less than minute the
| mouse was empty, excepting the missionaries
and an Immense hog, which quietly made its
| bed on the straw on the middle of the floor
At the beginning of the disturbance the mis-
slonaries supposed that it was a sudden attack
from hostile tribe or an uprising against
themselves; but they soon ascertained that the
| black hog which lay grunting in comfort on the
straw, 8 pudd dndnd" Ia six-foot hog) as the
natives call those of that size belonged to
| queen kaahumanu. and was held sacred by the
| natives; that the canoe house was its accus-
TONED resort in the heat of the day and its
abrupt entrance among the crowd, swinging its
| sharp tusks from side to side with perfect con-
tempt OF the common people, was sufficient to
cause the EXODUS described. There is no re-
liable authority that the missionaries made any
satisfactory progress at Hilo till Kaahumanu's
pig died.