The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Scandinavians, in their story of creation,
tells us how Odin, Win and Ve the three sons Of
Bor, while walking along the seashore found
| Two sticks of wood, one of ash and one OF elm
and sat down there in the sand and shaped them
| INTO living, intelligent beings, known in the
after ages of the world as the first man and the
first woman.
HERR KLEGE has been studying the eruption
of peat boys and the stream Of dark mud these
give out. The phenomenon is rare and Is gen
| orally preceded by heavy rains, and accom-
panied by detonations and vibrations Of the soil
| He rejects the explanation that It is due to ex
| cessive absorption of water by the peat or that
II Is caused by exploding gases.
In GERMANY the smith, when finishing the
shoe, punches hole in the two ends, and when
| the shoe is cold he taps in q screw thread and
| screws into the SHOE when on the horses foot,
| a sharp-pointed stud of an inch in length, and
with shoes thus fitted horses can travel securely
over the worst possible road, and have never
been known TO slip. and draught horses are shod
In the same way
ONE of the downtown stamp and coin shops
IS exhibiting quite curiosity in the line of odd
| pocket pieces, says the New York Advertiser
| 1t was sent over from England and represents
| the only bet that Lord Falmouth, one of
| Brltalns big racing men, made upon a
| horse. He then retired from the turf and sold
out his stud in 1884, but in his time he was the
| owner OF some of the finest horses that ever
| raced upon English turf He was violently op-
| posed to betting upon the races and it was the
| growth of this custom that contributed largely
| TO his retirement. AT SandOwn once he wagered
| a sixpence upon Lady Bertha, one of his cracks
| with his trainers wife and lost it. Two weeks
| atterward she received the coin tastefully set
| with diamonds. A sworn statement of these
| facts accompanies the siXDence, and any one
| who wishes to carry the same about in his
| pocket may do so by parting with the sum of
| How MANY of my young countrymen who have
| read of the prayer wheels of Burmah, and
| the nj Ia CfhiUaua In hot
| there is mechanical prayer used by thousands
| OF people in the United States? asks G. F.
| Lumdis in 81. Nicholas. The Pueblo PRAYER
stick" is quite as curious device as those OF the
| heather Orient; and the feather is the chief
part of it. Proving in sheltered ravines about
| any Pueblo town, the curiosity seeker will find
| stuck In the ground, carefully whitfield sticks
each with tuft of downy feathers generally
| white) bound at the top Each of these sticks
| is a prayer-and none the less earnest and sin
| cere because so misguided. Around the remote
pueblo of Zuni have counted over 900 of these
| strange Invocations in one DAVIS rambe but
never 1.-THE as many by any other pueblo. Ao-
cordlng to the nature of the prayer, the stick
| the feathers and the manner of tying them
| vary. The Indian who has favor to ask of the
| Trues prepares his feather prayer with great
solemnity and secrecy, takes il to q proper spot
prays to att those above, and plants the PRAYER
| stick that it may continue his petition after he
| has gone home
Col. DAN LAMONT, exPreSident Cleveland s
| former private secretary, has three offices, and
| while in the city can be found at certain hours
of the day at his office uptown as president of
| the Broadway railroad and downtown as some
! thing else, says the New York Herald. There
| are well-known lawyers here who have two
| offices and handle wholly different class Of
| business at each Interested in big corpora
4 ttons, live business man often necessarily has
| office hours at the corporation offices OF the
4 respective concerns This rot only enables him
/ to discharge his mind of all other branches of
l business whlls attending TO one, but it enables
those who have business with him to transact it
without interfering with those who are bent on
something else The mental strain thus put
| upon an active business man soon sends him to
| Florida or some more permanent resting place,
| so that it is doubtful II anything is gained by
| doubling up in this way. The matter is inter
esting however, as illustrating the peculiar
| qualities of brain power and training. Reduced
| TO finer point, friend OF mine has three desks
| in his office and handles three branches of a
| good business his clerks. stenographer etc.
| being In an adjoining room. He never allows
| any work to be placed before him during the
day that does not pertain to the particular
| branch on which ne is at the time engaged. The
| desk at which he sits indicates that. He devotes
| so much time to each desk-enough to keep the
| work clear. Hyou should happen to visit him
i on business he Will Immediately shift his seat to
the desk at which this particular business is
| transacted. By this method he can transact
the business Of two clerks. Real estate and in
surance combined, or something else that way,
impel men to maintain a strict division in their
minds, and this artitce greatly aids the habit of
| concentration of thought on the matter in hand.
ONE of the most delicate surgical operations
ever performed in San Francisco was that to
which A. Baehm, a patient at the city and
l county hospital was subjected recently SAYS
| Electricity. The operation was remarkable in
| tbata endoscope or small electric light was
i used during the process, This was thrust into
| the thoracic cavity, and by its illumination the
| action of the heart and lungs was plainly visi-
| bic. This is the first case reported on the Pa
| cfic coast where the electric endoscope was
used in difficult surgery with beneficial results
Baehm was afflicted with an abscess, which had
formed in the plural cavity and attacked the
left lung. The operation was exceedingly
dangerous one, and in order not to shock the
patient mention of the intention of the
physicians was made to him. The sick man
was quickly ann8SthetiZed and the inflated
breast was exposed to view. A discoloration on
the eft side showed that the trouble ay under
the tissue in that direction. and DR.. Ellinwood
began operations at opc9 by making too deep in
clsions crosswse, from which the blood spurted
in streams. Several of the larger blood
vessels were necessarily cut. but these were
quickly hgatured with DR., Stillmans assist
ance. The flaps Of flesh were laid to one side
exposing the third rib to view This rib was
resected for three inches, and when il was cut
away dark and bloody opening was revealed
through which the thoracic cavity ana the
| space between the lungs could be seen DR.
Hirschfelder inserted the endoscope through
the opening in Baehm's breast and the
light was turned on, Illuminating the inte-
rior of the cavity with remarkable distinctness
The heart worked slowly, owing to the effect Of
ether. The aoria dilated and fell with every
heart beat. The lung was also plainly visible
During the one hour and a half consumed in
making the operation the action OF the heart
was distinctly visible. and the unusual sight was
the subject of much comment upon the part of
| the operators and spectators. When the proc-
ess was completed aud every vestige of pus
| removed, the endoscope was withdrawn, and
| the opening in Baehm's breast closed The