The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! EdgEIUE RdsTIIy DraaTn.
Finally she managed to make her trouble
| known and the teachers carried her to dis
pensary, but the physician in charge was IN
able TO locate the pin. Meanwhile her throat
| commissions from pain. With her apron and
dress covered with blood. which flowed from
her throat, she was taken home. Since then
| leading surgeons have made examinations but
| are unable to locate the pin. The child pre-
| sents a pitiable appearance. and during the
night means with pain. The doctors fear that
| the pin is Embedded in the lower left hand side
| OF the throat, with only the head exposed and
they are therefore unable to find it. Unless the
pin Is soon removed the girl will die.
| A UNITED BRETHREN PREACHER, Rev. John
R. Eberly of Lewistown, Pa, has been con-
| Quoting revival meetings at the Bush Ridge
school house, in this county. for three weeks.
/ Inc countryside for miles around is represented
| nightly and intense interest is shown. The
| other night an amusing climax occurred
| during the delivery OF Brother Eberly's opening
| prayer. The venerable minister has shown a
| partiality for the phrase 20 Lord, shower Thy
! blessing down upon u.s. ~ which is Incorporated
IN all MS prayers. When this period of his in
vocation was reached the audience was thrown
| into a condition of extreme excitement bv the
| coplous fell OF water from the trap door
directly over the minister, drenching him
through and through; A temporary check was
| given TO the services by this sudden fulhlment
ment of the preachers prayer, and the tran
| guilty OF the meeting was not re-esteblshed
until an investigation revealed the cause of the
| unexpected downpoIr. John L. Smith, a 15-
| year-old boy had secreted himself in the attic
OF the school house In advance of the meeting.
and given practical effect TO Mr.. Eberly's in
vocation with two buckets of water.
A CONSIDERABLE PART OF ali the gold that goes
to India never returns. Having been obtained
in the west by the sale of exported productions,
it is retained in the east as realized profits
wealth stored up, and. to a moderate extent
Tor use in the arts; for the rest, representa-
tive of value on the credit of which traders buy
and the book credits they open, and settle up
the differences with the silver money of the
country. But the vast stock of gold accumu-
lated there undergoeS no dlminution; there is no
eoo and flow under the reciprocal action which
commerce iuforces in the case of countries
trading together on common metallic basis.
Inc ID, 600, or thereabout, of gold bullion
which India annually adds to her store, are
under the monetary law of that country, Just
as much lost to the nations of the west, by be-
ing Withdrawn from the general commerce of
the world as If the money had been lent TO a
South American republic. Between the years
OF 1888 and 1889 ApriD this depletion amounted
IN value to &130, 29275S. Between that date and
the month of September of this year a further
accumulation to the value of 1868, 272 has
taken place. bringing this portion of the gold
treasure OF India up to a value exceeding $685.
100000.
THE best impulses of human nature are graft
fed when a bully meets with ignominious over
throw at the hands of his victim. The triumph
is more appreciated still if the victim be old and
when
civilian and the other a professional fighting
man, dramatic propriety can go no further.
Gen. Boulanger collapsed on that fatal morn
ing when the elderly VI. Floquet ran him through
the throat, though the consequences-beyond
bandage round the generals neck-were not
distinctly visible for some time after. Another
such pleasing case is reported from Hungary.
says the London STANDARD. The editor of q
journal made some remarks critical but not Of
fensive, upon the conduct of some officers
who had threatened TO horsewhip the
they were garrisoned Forthwith those war.
riors held meeting and drew lots which should
challenge the cauminator. Fate selected a cap
tain who was married, whereupon it re-
solved that bachelors only should expose their
precious lives A young lieutenant then drew
the lot, proceeded to Pesth and challenged the
edi or. He was not only married, but the father
or nve children also, which exempted him. &C
cording to the officers own rule. Disrexarding
this, however, the gallant veteran acquiesced
HIS first thrust laid open the youths forehead;
his second made wound from mouth to ear
which will be a memorial of the incident for
life. We may hope that honor is now satisfied
In the dramatic point Of view, the story could
not be improved.
THERE is something very pathetic about the
heroism of childhood where we mean by her,
oism something of really independent daring
ana presence OF mind, something beyond mere
steadfaSt trustfulneSs which is in sense nat
ural to childhood. The inQust held Thursday
week before DR.. Macdonald, NJ. p, coroner for
W.
aged : years, illustrates precisely what we
mean. Mrs Brsbow, who lives at Walthamstow
had left the little boy alone in room with a
younger sister of only years of age in order
TO go on an errand, from which she returned
before O'Clock to find that the little girl had
climb on chair to reach a small paratf1ne
lamp and had upset il over her clothing, which,
OF course, caught fire at once. The boy
Immediately tore them off her, and
laid her upon the bed; but in lifting her
on the bed, his own clothes caught fire. and it
firrnA 70 H.
which, however, at last he succeeded in doing
but not till he was so seriously hurt that
though taken at once to hospital, he died
within week from the result of the injuries
His little sisters life he had succeeded in saw
ing; at least she was said to be doing well at the
time OF the inquest on her brother. The coro-
ner very justly spoke of the boy as quite a little
hero, and he was hero in precisely the sense
i'll which it seems to us that the word as an
piled to child Of 8, carries profound pathos
with 1T, because it implies presence of mind,
a promptltude OF purpose, self command and
torttude and steadfastness which are usually
quite beyond a child's imagination, much less
It's practical achievement.
AT the April meeting of the Natural History
Society in New York, DR.. Thomas S. Stevens
entertained and Instructed the members by an
illustrative paper on a rotifer-a microscopic
animal that is among the rarest in The group
IL was first discovered by Russian microscon-
lst, next found twice in Philadelphia, once in
illinois, and some years ago in Trenton. 1t has
x. Great
ure Is unique in several particulars that would
be of but little interest TO the general reader.
but which fill with inexpressible Joy the heart
OF the devoted microscopic, who is happy
when he is prying into the little brain or the
larger stomach of the animal. Toe little
creature is blessed above the human beast in
having two stomachs, which it can fill
with other animals, and apparently enjoy
itself by digesting them, in spite of their wriy-
CLING But in connection with one of the
animals stomachs a discovery has been made
In Trenton that has never before been made in
any part of the world, otherwise it would not
be a discovery. This pouch is internally lined
with dense and woolly coating of vibrating
hairs. These strange internal appendages an
pear to be unknown in any other than the Tren-
ton rotl1er, and are therefore, of great interest
In scientific way. Another pleasing point
pleasing both to the animal and to the micros
copist-is that the rotifier has no means of seek
ing its food nor of creating currents in the
water that shall bring food to its double
stomach 1t can only rest on a small leaf or
other object. hold its mouth widely open and
wait for Providence to fill it by means of some
wandering animal that shall bunder into the
trap and be done for, because once in those
jaws there is no escape.
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
~~->>~-----~>-~-~~-->@-- >-~----~~--~~~-~--~-~--