The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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A NAPoLEoSIc VETERAN has Just returned t
st. Petersburg from Siberia. This old gentle
man, who Is a Pole by birth and a native OF
Wilma, is named lmitsetzky, and has attained
TO the age OF 1913 He was NAPOLEON Is adm
tant, took part in his famed expedition &C
Russia, and was decorated by the emperor with
the Legion of Honor at the battle OF Wagram
He was taken prisoner at BereSina, and re
ceiving pardon from the car, remained for a
time in the Russian service But, for having
taken part in the Polish rising of 1881. he was
condemned 10 twenty years Imprisonment in
the mines of Siberia. On the termination of his
sentence he was free to quit Siberia, but has
been forty years in taking advantage of his
permission.
BEWARE Of the beds, There is a sanitary en-
thusiast at Huddersheld who is warning the
world Of the frightfuI conse1u ences Of neglect
ing this maxim. It has been es timated, he says
that 100000 beds are in use in this country,
OF which l0.O0J,000 have not been opened for
Ten years ana have during that time remained
wholly unpurified. AS this apostle of bedroom
sanitation puts it, ali sorts and conditions of
psope have used them " Sometimes they have
been beds of sickness; deathbeds a vast number
OF them have been, some many times But, as
! be mourntuUy observes, ''aS soon vacated
they are again ready to do their insdious work. y
| Seriously the common neglect of the duty of
| opening and cleansing beds can hardly fail to be
| productive of dit ease. We might DO worse in
| TINS regard than follow the practice on the con
| tlnent, where the bed cleaner, with his two
| stcAS Tor beating tn contents of beds ana mat
tTesses, after exposing them to sun and air, is a
| regular spring visitor in all well-regulated
| households.
HALL CAME tells this story of the late Sir
William Kirby Green, British minister to Nor
ecco. A recent stroke of paralysis aud a threat
of serious trouble with his heart led Sir William
to regard with special impotence the dilatory
and eyaslve recep ion given by the sultan TO
Of har inicf
! length, in the midst of one of his ceremoniouS
| interviews with that potentate, while Mulai
| Hassan smiled and smiled, and waved his
hand, and said for the twentieth time
| that the matter could wait until tomorrow,
| Sir William lost all self-control, and broke in
! upon his Shereefian mai sty with words like
| these. My lord, listen. You don't know what
| you are doing, but will tell you. You are kill
| ing me. Yes. and any of these DAYS | may fall
dead at your feet. might fall dead at your
feet now. And if that should happen, remem-
Der one thing, my lord, my country will call
! you to account As Muai Hassan listened, his
! face twitched slightly, and he said: "Let US
/ finish the matter Immediately" II was settled
there and then. In the middle of that night Sir
| William died, and when the sultan heard of his
| death in the morning he seemed to quake with
| fear.
IT Is NOT often that Gen. Horace Porter is
embarrassed, but he recently found himself in
tlat predicament. The occasion was dinner
at the New York Union League Club Gen.
| Porter sat between an English engineer and an
! American railroad president The converse
| ton turned on the habits of Americans abroad,
! and the general exclaimed somewhat impul-
! sively that he had thorough contempt for
| those Americans who displayed disposition TO
| be ashamed of their own country. The English.
| man. who wore a monocle turned and fixed the
| cold, CLASSY stare of that instrument on the
| famous post prandisl orator without say
ing word The general colored trihe,
! but thinking his neighbor had not
heard him distinctly, repeated the re
mark; then, finding that the impassive
gaze Of the Englshmau was still fixed on him
without word of assent or dissent. he colored
again and added: Don't you agree with me?"
Well, yes, > said the Engshman refectively,
but l was Just thinking t1at have never met
such an American The next day the railroad
president met the EnRlishman and said: DO
you know that l thought l would burst with
laughter al That answer you made to Gen.
Porter last mighty How said the English
man with the naivete that only an Englishman
can display where a joke is concerned, did |
make very bad break, thought"
THE WOMEN formed good portion of nv
clientele on Derby day" said a big Chicago
bookmaker at a cafe. 1--WE run a book on the
Washington park races for four years now," he
continued, 'and the female spec Ilation has al
ways been big, but its growing, growing year
by year. OF course the lad.e never come into
the ring and put up their own stuff at least [
never knew bat one to do it, and she had evil
IDENTIFY had bit too much of champagne The
women are meat Tor the 'UOutS when thew 90
to the races. That is. they do all their betting
bymessenger. They don't take tips very readily
either but, on the contrary, have way of picking
their own horses. They II pick horse not on
his form, or record either, but nine cases out of
ten. because he has a pretty name or because
they admire the coors he carries, or because
they know somebody who knows his owner
Thus Valera. Strathneath and lot of other
arstOcratIcally named horses carried big
money for the ladies on Dsrbyiday when Kings.
man, hlgn Tariff and SNOWFALL didn't. The
'toutS tell me the women are liberal when they
win, ana viii give up pretty present when the
returns on long shot are good" well |
saw one woman out at the race track who was
observed OF all observers" put in another man
who had been out to the great annual
event. 'She slrove out in an omen
victoria and had pretty, well-dressed boy of
about 10 with her She wore pretty loud COS
tune of light blue and white, with turban To
match. and when she drove into the field every
body looked and commented. We all thought
the boy was her son, but guess he wasn't She
had him chasing from the carriage to the bet
ting shed like an automaton. She played every
race and apparently won. 0, but she was an
all-arOunder. She had SIX bottles of champagna
under the seat and the coachman had a cork i
screw. Say, she sat there by herself never left
the victoria al! afternoon, and during that time
she drank four of those six bottl les Of wine with
out assistance. That's what l call playing a
lone hand on good time, l do"
IT IS now GENERALLY ADMITTED that consti.
patton is productive of serious disorders, that
IL dSSTaFales OtneT ailments, increases the
susceptibility of the system to infectious dis
eases. and produces a state of genera physical
disturbance. The nervous system is especia lly
Affected, and it must be rememb cred that the
nervous centers are in the brain. The deleteri-
Gus effects of constipation were formerly ex-
planned by the pressure of the hardened mas on
the blood-vessels and nerves Of the intestiDes
But different view is now taken. II is believed
that they are due TO powerful poisons ,ybicb
have been proved to be developed in m. |
process of inclplent decomposition. There is |
reason to believe that extreme cases of consti
patton may result in Insanity. The tljenjst
and NeuroL)1,St, journal devoted to mental
diseases, gives three marked cases. which seer, /
without any nervous tendencies, hereditary or
acquired, and every way healthy, began to Suf-
Ter from constipation, with loss Of appetite and
general debility After awhile she had attacks
OF fainUlng and vomiting. AT length then
were developed marked symptoms of in
sanity-restlessness, sleeplessness. lncoherence.
Authorizations and decisions of a melancholy !
character. The skin was of a dirty brown
and covered with branny scales IL took ten |
daily INFECTIOUS o bring away the accumulated
mass OF hardened f8cas. After this was done,
the bowels began to act regularly. the mind be- |
came clear, and the patient entered on full con- |
VaeScencs. The second case was that of man
with suicidal tendencies, who had refused food
Tor months. Re was restored to mental sound |
ness, after being relieved of immense
quantity of accumulated faces. The third case
was that of a young man who had become
moroSe, suspicious and quarrelsome. He
was similarly treated and restored. In
some Of the worst cases of constipation, there
is free passage through the compact mass, the
latter adherlng in thick layers to the walls of
the 1ntestines, while the patient has no suspicion
OF his real condition That grave diseases do