The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-20
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THE lower orders of Irish are, as a rule, rather
hypochondriacal, and they are fond of trying
peculiar remedies for their ailments A favor.
tie poultice for wounds is a paraffin candle
scraped and some cabbage. all boiled together
A simple but rather unpleasant remedy for a
cut leg was recommended to an old man-it
was TO sit with his leg in bog hole all night.
This he tried with perfect success. His leg got
quite well; but. as he died of bronchitis a few
days afterward, he did not long enjoy his per
feet cure. "
THE salary of the British ambassador ct
Paris lord Dufferin) is $4,000; at CONSTANT
P9o2ple; $500; at St; Petersburg,
B Pogst at az Vienna Rome me- GO 6o cCo 81, Mo.
at Berlin, 81 SEQ; Sir f. c. Ford, at Madrid,
$500; Sir Horace Humbold, at The Hague,
1900; Sir George Petre, at Lisbon, S3 $50; Sir
Henry Drummold Wolff, at Bucharest. Cd, $50:
SIR 4 j. Monson, at Athens, t3. 500; Sir F. r,
Plunkett, at Stockholm, IS 100; Lord Vivian, at
Brussels, $3.50; Mr.. st. John. at Belgrade,
t205O; Mr.. Scott. at Berne. 91.45O. while at
Munich Mr. Drummond has &l7OO, and Mr.
Strachey, at Dresden, 1850.
NJ. MERCADIER, one Of the directors OF the
Paris Ecole Polytechniaue. has invented tele-
phone Of reduced size, which is said to be more
efficient in every way than the ordinary instru-
ment now In use. 1t is called the "bitele-
phone" and has been tested successfully
between Paris and London. The inventor has
also made light receptors, which can reach the
ear without being held. This will be of great
utility to persons who have to take notes at the
telephone. An infantry officer, Capt Charol-
lois, has also invented bi-metallic telephone
which obviates the use of insulators The in
strument was used effectively during the recent
army manPuvers in France, the inventor be-
ing afterward complimented highly by the
minister Of war on his useful discovery.
THE New York Medical Record, with char
acteristic enterprise, has com missioned a mem
Der of its staff, DR.. WeDdt, to visit the Riviera
and the health resorts of the south OF France
In order TO study and to report on the healthy
conditions and the sanitary Tor unsanitaryl ar
engagements municipal and domestic, Of the
towns and hotels at such places as Cannes
Nice, Pau, Hyeres, Mentone, Monaco, San Reno
Alasslo, Bordlghera. Florence and Naples. He
will find much to exercise his industry
and acumen-much to blame, some
thing to encourage. and many causes for
warning to his countrymen. American visit
ors TO the continent are particularly liable to
typhOid-of which the frequently recurring and
sad examples are probably the main cause Of
this journalistic tour of inspection. Part Of
this special liability probably arises from their
habit of drinking Iced water So long as, fol-
lowing the advice of DR.. Herman Weber they
cOnfne themselves TO natural mineral waters Of
recognized purity, they are safe. But these are
not always at hand, and all do not vet under
stand that icing or eerating polluted water de-
tracts nothing from its risks, and that even ice
Itself made from impure water is a source OF
danger. Nher5 only local drinking water is
20 had in the Riviera or anywhere on the
continent of Europe, it should be first boiled
and then filtered, as Dr.. Covers advises.
IN ALL BOOKS on geography published during
the latter part of the last century and the first
two decades of the present, it was plainly
stated that Mount Chimborazo, a peak of the
Andes in Old Peru now Ecuador, with an alti-
tude of q APO feet, was the most lofty peak in
ha vrnY pha rfofiy
ceived a severe shock when Mr.. Pentland a
British scientist, be gan his explorations in the
Bolivian Andes, where he soon found two
peaks, Sorato and lllimani, whose respective
attitudes were $4,000 and $4,000 feet. But,
while MIR. Pentland was making his
historic observations in the Andes, others
with observing minds were exploring the cloud
capped peaks OF the Himalayas and measuring
the nights of the principal SUBMITS. Forty
peaks Of that chain were measured none Of
which were less than q, 900 feet in hight. One
OF these, DhawalaReri (White Mountain) has an
altitude of &c, e62 feet, and, till the hight of
Mount Everest was computed, was believed to
be the highest peak in the world Three others
In this same range besides Everest and Dha-
walagen are higher than the highest noun
tain in America They are: Jawahir 25-
749 feet; Chamalari. 5000 feet even, and
Gossingthar, 24740 Add Everest to the four
above enumerated and we have five mountain
peaks in one chain. almost IN sight of each
other. which are all over q, 900 feet high Ever
est being the most lofty, its height being reck-
oned all the way between 30 002 and q, 800. For
nearly half q century Mount Everest, or Gauri-
sacker las it is known in Europe and Asia, was
thought to be the apex of the world. In 1881
however, a Capt. Lawson, sent out by the Brit
ish Geological Society, discovered a peak on the
Isle Of Papua which is SO, 773 feet in height. He
named it Mount Hercules.
In these days of smokeless powder, says Sir
Charles Dixie in the Contemporary Rerie,v.
eyesight has become more important than IL
was before, or eyesight tempered by the DOS
session and skill in use of a good field glass
The field glass will now be indispensable TO
every officer OF whatever rank. | had much
opportunity of hearing the manner In which
their orders were delivered and reports made
by members of the various stats detached for
duty, and this was modelled on Prussan usage,
and was in all cases admirable. The nom
commissioned officers employed as cy-
clists were as good in every way as the
mounted staff officers for conveying news
clear, collected, respectful, prompt They are
largely used, but used solely for taking
messages, and not as fighting cyclists or as
scouts. No privateS, so far as | saw, were en-
plOyed as cyclist messengers and non-commis-
stoned officers employed were without their
arms for greater speed in movement. Cyclists
will be more and more used each year Flag
signaling was not employed at all, although the
flags existed, and the French are hostile to it,
as they are to our mounted infantry and our
machine guns, The helograph was employed
but somewhat unsuccessfully, although the
sun was bright. 1t was not so well managed
as it is by us in India, and failed
TO perform those services in which I
have seen it most useful in Beloochistan
and in the neighborhood of
Peshawur. Pigeons are carried by the cavalry
divisions each of which had a special cage-cart
full, but the officers seemed to share the view
of the men that in war the unhappy doves
might without danger be cooked on the first
evening on which supplies ran short. It was
with this idea, rather than on account of its
supposed usefulness as regards the transmission
of news that the travelling cot was generally
cheered by the men of halted regiments, whom
singing had sufficiently occupied while on the
march. The voice of the turtle will, however
no longer be the voice Of peace, and the cooine
Of many pigeons will mark the march of hostile
armies in the early days of war.