The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-22
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make up for the time SO occupied. A caution is
given against indulgence in too long sleep at
such time. under a penalty OF disagreeable
relaxation There has been much discussion
regarding the afterdinner nap, many believing
II 10 be injurious, but IL is nevertheless natural
and wholesome.
TIE FOLLOWING is Prince Bismark's account
of his conversion to protection principles: up
to the seventies was. by conviction, an
adherent OF free trade. and 50 TO speak, born
and bred In 1t. Until the year 1870 was SO much
occupied by foreign affairs that was not able
70 devote myself with energy to economic
questions. After 1870 foreign affairs became
quletcr. and, when in the course of time saw
one blast furnace after another being put out
and the national Industry retrograding more
ana more, became convinced that some
chenge was necessary
A NEW theory of seasickness has been recently
offered by Monsieur Rochet. Accepting the
view that the symptoms are those of cerebral
ansemia, he accounts for this anRmia by the
disorder brought into muscular contractions
through not beng used to such sudden move
ments as those OF vessels. Monsieur Rockets
advice is, not to look to an9sthetics, soothing
drugs, etc. for relief, but rather to muscular
excltants, and, above all. to seek in voluntary
movements a compensation for the reflex
movements which are not produced. He recon-
mends strychnine, veratrine, ergot of rye and
drinks charged with carbonic acid
IT is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to estimate the cost
to Londoners of such fog as that which
spread over great part Of the metropolis yes
terday. To take the case of lighting alone il
has been calculated that on a foggy day the
receipts or one only OF tie large gas companies
are increased by more than $4,000. Besides
the increased receipts of other companies and
the numberleSs lamps and candles burned
allowance must be made for the great falling
off in the shepkeepers' business for the day, no
small item in what ought to be the busy times
preceding Christmas. In the neighborhood of
Hyde Park corner locomotion was absolutely
GTrrfnur ha oft
use or torches and lamps.
BIsMARCK's LATEST STORY concerns Nicholas
l. of Russia. The car suffered from disease
that his physicians told him could be relieved
only by rubbing Of the spine. Nicholas was
anxious enough to try the prescription for ne
was IN great pain, but in all his court he had no
one whom he would trust TO give him the treat
ment. So, eventually, he sent courier all the
way TO Berlin with written request that Fred
erlck William II. should send him i've non
commissioned officers of the guards to rub his
back The officers were sent, rubbed the cars
back for a few weeks and were then dismissed
to Berlin with presents of 81 500 each In
speaking of the matter to the Prussian king,
subsequently, the car said: II trust my Rus
slams as long as can look them in the eye but
TO let them go to work at my own back-thau is
more than care to risk
THE TRIALS of Brother Talmege on account
of his inability to raise money Outside of his
personal resources) for rebuilding his tabernacle
says the New York Sun, are growing apace.
Tae contractor stopped work on the building
some time ago because his money was not
Forthcoming, in spite OF the loan of Sl25 600 by
russell sage. Contractor Charles T. Wills
agreed to put up the building for $685. 600 but sub
sequent changes were made in the plans which
raised the price to S127 600 He has received only
Sos, 200. Instead of SEQ 0O0 which was due him
last August, he received from the trustees of
the church two notes for S., 600 each and four
for 81 500 each, all due in four months These
notes, Contractor Wills says, have not been
paid; He now brings suit against the church
for the balance due him on his contract and
asks that his claim be made first lien on the
property, superseding even Russell Sage's
mortgage. He will seek TO have the unfinished
tabernacle sold to satisfy his claim.
THE WAR has developed some fine shots in the
army, as the large percentage of fatally
wounded Indians show. The finest shot l ever
saw. says writer in the Chicago Neups. was
mace by a little German, who worked a Rotch-
KISS gun. A wagon containing three hostiles
was passing along ridge 1880 Yards distant
The Dutchman sighted alongside his piece and
cut loose. The shell struck the wagon lust
under the seat and the whole outfit apparently
exhaled. 1t was there and it was not The
hostiles never knew what caused it. Then /
saw soldier with Springfield kill an Indian
at SOO yards. The buck was horseback and was
dropping bullets in among us from Winchester
quite too frequently to be wholly pleasant,
private took sight at him and knocked him
from his horse with the first shot The Indian
| attempted to rise and the major who was con
Quoting the affair advised the soldier to try
| another. The second did the work. for with a
rev contortlons the Brule spread himself out
on the prairie. dead
THERE is family in Liberty, Me-, who live on
a farm, with mountains on three sides. and with
no highway leading to it. There was a rough
road up very bad hill but il accommodated
only them, and that not very much as the man
comes out but two or three times wear To oh
tain supplies. So he asked to have this road
discontinued and his taxes abated by reason
thereof, and as this was a good trade for the
| town it accepted his proposition, and now when
no wishes to come out with his cart and oxen
ne comes across pasture. If you wish to find
perfect content pay a visit to this family The
man disposes of a pair of big oxen every year
or two, and sells few lambs every year This
is more than enough to supply all their needs
He has pension, but apparently has no use for
it. as he makes no investments and is known
to have quite large sum of money, which is
kept between the leaves Of book They use
an old-fashioned fireplace made of stone, and
are surrounded with plenty of wood, and appear
to take solid comfort in life.
ONE popular fallacy prevalent m any years
ago in Goshen, Mass, was that hernia might be
efectually cured by putting the patient through
living ash-tree, cleft and parted SO widely as
TO alloy the person to pass through without
not allowed to be cut down afterward lest the
Telling the tree should be the killing of the ma
TENT This method of treating hernia received
taken negro boy to bring up who was affected
with the above mentioned trouble and the
cleft-tree remedy was mentioned. An ash
tree was cleft, wedges were inserted
to keep it open. and the boy started to 20
through. Unfortunately, at the moment the
poor little fellow was fairly within the cleft
the wedges suddenly flew out and the parts of
the tree sprang together. The negro was crushed
to death. King ran for help, and cried out to
the first man he met: Cato is kilt Cato is
kilt! I've brought death to Cato, but l never
thought to kill Cato no more'n did yersilf Mr.
Dresser" The honest simplicity of the Irish
man saved him from legal trouble; but the
tragedy killed the popularity of the ash tree
remedy for hernia.
LIEUT.. FIsKE, in lecturing before the New
York Electrical Society, at Columbia College.
described the part that electricity would play
in case of an attack upon New York. Prominent
among the various appliances that would be
called into immediate requiSition would be the
various systems of torpedoes. which would be
launched from the preparing stations at Coney
Island, Sandy Hook and elsewhere against thu
ironclads of the approaching enemy. The oues-
ton OF ballooning, for observation and for the
dropping OF explosives on the decks of the
enemy, would be agitated anew over the cues
ton OF balloon propulsion by electric
ity. Electric launches, arranged to carry tor
pedoeS. would steal noiselessly out at night on
their errands OF destruction. Electric picket
boats of smaller size would scout the waters in
pursuit OF information or to convey dispatches
numberlesS; electric submarine boats wouId
spring INTO being and, secure from detection