The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1 ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TORONTO thinks the late dominion census was
a Porter affair. and the city officials are de-
| batting the advisability of following New Yorks
example and taking ipal census. The
| mayor thinks the city has been buncoed on: of
| about 10000 and instead Of 1S2, 000 he believes
Tore INTO has more than 100000 inhabitants. 1t is
| probable that the police force and fire
| department will make count of the city.
| From the records of Yale College during the
| past eight years it is shown that the non.
smok RS were 20 per cent. taller than the
| smokers, Is per cent. heavier and had 60 per
| cent. more lung capacity. II the last gradu-
| ating class at Amherst College the non smokers
| have gained in weight "a per cent over the
smokers; in hight, 81 per cent; in chest girth, ~
| per cent, and IN lung capacity 36-100 cubic
| inches.
; FROM the inquiries that have been made at
Paris, it appears that last year there were or
foreign students there. and this is Representa-
as fair average. The Germans amount to
only nineteen, while the Austrians numbered
one less. There were 154 British students and
296 Russians and Poles. The Balkan peninsula
sent the large contingent of 3l5-Greeks Turks,
Roumsnlans Servians and BIlgarians being in
clu ed In this category. The school of medi-
cine and lew appropriated by far the greater
number, for. while 70 attended the former, 1872
attended at the latter. The faculty of theology
only had one foreign student.
A CLERGYMAN of the Church of England, a rss
ident of Warwickshire, England, the Rev. 0.
Mordaunt, has k p a public house for fourteen
years, says the New y urk Observer. He pays
the managers and allows them profits on what
food they sell. They are not permitted TO press
the sale of drinks, and be gives them no profits
on what they do sell. The only drink sold is ale,
| wine and spirits being eschewed, but the ale is
unaduiierated. The result is said to be profit
| to the clergyman, which ne spends in sinking
| wells IN the village, and an almost disappea :
| ance of drunkenness from the village. Some
Will think that there is a suggestion in that ex
| perience for tenn 9erance WORKERS elsewhere.
| We hardly think that any clergyman in our
| own country would care to make the expert
| ment.
AT OLDEN. Mo, there is fruit farm of 5000
acres, which was started in the spring of 1894
| by the planting of 10000 peach trees In the
| spring OF 1885 some 1900 apple trees, Il, 900
| peach trees and ten acres of berries were
planted. In the spring of 1885 ten acres of ber-
| rieS, 1900 apple and 10000 peach trees were
planted In 1887 five acres OF berries, i. 900
| pear, 1000 apple ana 5000 peach tres were
| planted. In 1888 five acres OF berries. 5000
apple and 5000 peach trees were planted; and
| in the spring OF 1889 ten acres of berries, SEQ
, cherry, 1O0J pear and 5000 apple trees were
| planted. TIE total fruit plant of the farm up
| TO March |, 1896, covered 200 acres, of which
800 acres were i'll peach trees, 800 acres in apple
| trees and 100 acres in pear, plum and cherry
| trees. raspberries and blackberIies This year
| between 5000 and 100000 bushels of peaches
have been picked. The entire crop was sold
| 20 the New York firm Of Wing Bros. for so
cents a bushel The peach crop this year will
almost pay the original cost of the farm.
J THE French man-of- war Naiade, now in New
| York, serves as object lesson showing how
efficient it is possible for sailors to become as
infantrymen. The Naiade carries a crew of
about 400 men. There are no marines aboard.
| This statement applies to all vessels of the
French navy. The navies of Great Britain and
| the United States alone employ soldiers to
| guard their sailors. The French, Germans and
Russians refuse to subordinate their seamen.
! Instead or having marines to watch and do
| pollc9 duty over the seamen. the latter are
made efficient infantrymen. All guards and
sentinels aboard French, German and Russian
| ships come from the crews IN the same manner
! that infantry details are made. The seaman
| infantry of the French is deemed superior to all
| bat few infantry organizations of the French
| army. This high standard has been brought about
| by hard and assiduous drill. In the Franco
| German wa r. in Algiers, at TonQuin and Da-
! honey, the French seaman infantry has done
| good work In the defense of Paris the French
| naval brigades were, on the authority Of Ger
man general officers, the most stubborn and de-
| termlned bodies the German troops enooun-
| tered. Attempts have been made from time to
| time to abolish the marine system Ia the United
States navy. Much prejudice has been aroused
on this score among the older officers. They
argue that it is impossible to train soldiers to
DO steady. They fail to recognize that Ste6di-
ness is simply question of drill, and that the
responsibility for the absence of sufficient drill
rests with the officer in command. In view of
Iu6 IdCI JQdl Lnb English nave LiaO6 steady ana
efficient soldiers out of SepOys, Zanzibaris,
Soudanese, Egyptians and Chinese, it is an
asperson to declare that bright American lads
cannot be trained to become efficient infantry
men.
! IL the columns of two of the most widely
read newspapers in this city, says letter from
London, there is at present raging a contro-
versy on the subject of the drinking Of alco-
holic liquors. II begun With the TeIeqrnDh
which inva iably inaugurates the silly season
with some topic for public discussion, and
which for the last two weeks has been devoting
two or three columns per day to CORES pondence
under tle heading: The Slavery to Drink"
This week, however, the Times has begun
new phase of the discussion, which has been
participated in by many eminent medical and
scientific men. It is stated by DR.. Mortimer W.
Granville. the great alienist OF Hanover square,
who, apropOs to Sir Wilfred Lawson's
quotation from Lord Althorp: THE cause
boldly TO the front with the assertion
that drunkenness is in no other sense the con
sequence Of drinking than the destruction of a
house by fire is t. e consequence of a cooking
range on the premises, and goes on to say
1t is not to engage in the puerile play of words
with Sir Wllfred Lawson and the advocates of
what believe TO be one OF the weakest and
most miSchievous crazes of the nineteenth CEN
tury-l mean teerotaism-that / ask you to
give me space in your columns, but because l
think the time has arrived when it is desirable
that some one who has strong views
on the subject of what is the fashion
OF the day to denounce as 'drinking' should
speak out honestly. | have never shared the
opinions of many in my profession on the drink
question, and have not Intentionally yelled my
view of the issue so repeatedly raised and so
holly discussed. but the moment appears op-
perfume for plain speaking, and trust this may
be permitted not only to those who seek 10 con
vince the public mind that alcohol in all its
forms is needless TO the health and OF only
questionable value 70 the sick, but to those who
hold that IL is TAR better that the healthy should
be moderate drinkers than abstainers aud that
the great value OF alcohol In the treatment and
] will go further and say in the prevention.
Of disease should DO clearly reco gnized y
Further than this, Dr. Granville says that ne be-
lieyes that the propagation OF teetota doc
triues is exercising a destructive influence on
tbs moral, mental and physical health OF the
people, ana that those who have rational views
on the matter are doing great wrong IN giving
way. step by step. before the aggressive policy
Of the tertOtal advocates OF course Dr. Gran.
VllieB challenge Was az once taken uD, anu IL
VII please The anti-alco1Olites ~ know that a
large faction 81 the medical fraternity Of Eng
land has fallen upon him 10 q body. HOweyer.
the battle Is only begun, ADD seems likely % iu.
b remains - 10 seen.