The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| n CALIFORNIA DAILY NEWSPAPER says: ThOSt
who placed mixture of arsenic in their or
| chards some weeks ago, when the grasshopperS
| were so bad, in the hope of killing the insect;
| that ate Of it, have been rewarded for theiI
trouble in way that they did not expect. The
remedy dld not prove effective in all cases IN
eXterminating the gresShoppers, but IL has
proved most effective in killing rabbits. which
are about as destructive to young orchard as
graSShopperS. 1t is said that many rabbits
| have been killed by eating OF the arsenic mix
ture, and in many places their carcasses can be
seen lying thick through the brush adjacent &c
the orchards where the arsenic was used.
A DEPuTATIoN of two hospital matrons, two
sisters and two nurses attended at Buckingham
palace on July 26, and presented to Princess
Louise Of Schleswig Holsteiu a diamond cres
cent and copy OF Lord Tennyson's works The
presentation was mads by Miss Durham, who
wore the Royal Red Cross and the Soudan
medal awarded to her for her services through
cut the Egyptian campaign. Miss Durham
spoke IN the name of all the nurses of Great
Britain, and Lord Tennyson had with his own
hand written their wishes in the volume of his
works given in the following mes:
Take. lady. what your loyal nurses give,
Their full God-bless-you with this book OF
song;
And may the life which, heart in heart you live
With him on love be cloudlesS and be long.
THE figure is curiously and intimately con-
nected with all the great gold mining excite
elements of the nineteenth century. The great
Algerian gold bubble formed and broke in 1909.
Next came the MantaZan mountain craze in
lS49, when solid powders of gold as large as
flour barrels were reported The California gold
fever broke out in 1919 and ragged until counter
acted by the Pixies Peak boom in 1889 Ten
years later, in 1869. "Old Virginny," the cele-
brated miner, struck the lucky lead which made
Virginia City and Nevada famous in the mining
annals of the world. Eighteen hundred sand
teventy-nlne came in on time with the Lead
vile frenzy and the famous "carbonates" of
Lake county, Colorado, Eighteen hundred and
eighty nine broke the charm, but 1899 may
make up for lost time, there being two 9's in
that date.
The late chief offices of the London police
force is said to have derived its name of 'Scot-
land Yard from the fact of its having been the
site of palace in which the kings of Scotland
were received when they came to England The
Saxon King Edgar granted this portion of land
to the south of Cnarlng Cross to Kenneth III.
King of Scotland in $50, and here the latter
lived when he beme to do homage to the Eng
lisn crown. The palace reared on this spot was
for long time tie town house, sol to speak,
OF the kings of Scotland, its last inhabitant be-
ing Margaret, Queen OF Scots, who visited Lon
don after the death of her husband at the battle
OF Flodden Field The palace after this be-
came neglected and during the reign
OF Elizabeth it's existence as a palace termi
mated, and government officials then became its
| inhabitants Here the bard OF Paradise Lost
| lived while occupying the position of secretary
| to Oliver Cromwell, then protector, and here
| Beau Fielding, lingo Jones and Sir John Den.
| ham of Cooper's Hill notoriety, lived and died
| At the beginning of the present century the
| palace court was held In Scotland Yard. When
that came to an end nobody paid much atten
ton to the place until Sir Robert Peel. in 1922
| established the present metropolitan police
| force, the headquarters of which were fixed
| there.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
| CRoUNsE has charge of the payment of salaries
and once a month he sends TO the division of &C
counts a document addressed to the Secretary
| of the Treasury in these words: please cause
warrant to be issued in favor of Benjamin Har
| rson, President of the United States, for the
sum of 81. 166 81, with which he is to be charged
and held accountable under the following head
| of appropriations" The section of the statute
| Is quoted, and the document signed by the AS
| sistant Secretary. The warrant for this amount
! is then issued and recorded in the proper
| books when it is sent TO Treasurer Nebecker
| who issues his draft on the United States treas
| ury in favor of the President This draft is nc
different from that of any other, save that it is
| in the name of the President alone. If the CHIEF
Magistrate is in the city, it is sent to the white
| house by special messenger and delivered to the
) President or his private secretary. After the
| President puts his name on the back of it the
! draft becomes negotiable paper, the same as
any other and is sent by him to the Columbia
! Bank where it is deposited to his credit aud be
comes part of his private account. Ii he is
out OF the city, the draft is sent to the President
| by mail. IL happened that on July Is Gen
! Cook was going down to Cape May, and the
|
convey to the President.
The EXTENT to which the body can be mutt
lated without fatal result Is beyond what
most people think OF course, the removal OF
| the largest limb is a familiar fact and. indeed
| the successive removal OF all the limbs would
result in nothing worse than inconvenience.
| But in the same way internal organs may be
extirpated. This is facilitated by their duality
| One eye may be taken out and the sight remain
practically unimpared. One kidney may be
| removed and the other will ka the l0cS n
| doing double work. The case is essentially the
same when disease has destroyed the functional
! activity of a kidney; and therefore. a person
| IN that condition need not TO be without hope.
! In like manner, disease may have rem
! de ed ole lung solid, like liver and thus
| intentionally useless and yet the person may
! live in good health to old age. Could the half
consumed lung of the consumptive only heal
up the walls OF its great ulcer, and the microbes
: cease to extend their ravages, the patient might
| with care enjoy long, useful and happy life.
| Large portions of the brain may be removed
with no injury to life or intellect. Persons have
| !ved Tor years and have been well with bullets
| In Their brain The liver has been cut in two by
| tight lacing-the pressure causing an atrophy
| OF the part below-without ending either the
| lie or the folly of the fashionable deyotee.
| A portion of the intestines has been cut
| out and the severed ends sewed together,
| ana their normal action and function have
| not been in the least interfered with And
what seems more amazing dogs have had their
| entire stomachs eXtirpated with impalring
SiSOoO.ii ANeCtutIJ Il HAL, % years C'u' hnu a
| large portion of his stomach cut out in conse-
quence OF tumor The piece was nearly q foot
square. The discovered parts were sewed to
| gether. and the patient ate dinner OF hash
| twelve days after the operation, aud was dis
| missed cured at the end OF three weeks. rive
months later he was presented before the medi-
| cal society-the Royal Society of Physicians of
Nienna- wholly well, with no return OF the
| cancerous disease and with digestion perfectly
performed Some experts are led to think that
the stomach PLAYS but n secondary part as q
! digestive organ. its chief service, according to
this view, being that OF a temporary re-