The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE biggest port wine sale ever known in
England is arranged for next month. Twelve
million bottles will be offered, and to get these
bottles out of the auctionesr's hands will cost
over s., 100000 Yet this amount OF port does
not represent more than seven months ordinary
consumption of this wine in the United King
dom Messrs Burnay, for whose account the
wine is TO be sold are not wine merchants, but
nnancltrS in high standing in Portugal. The
government OF that country desires them to
buy large amount of silver in order to replen-
lsh the currency of Portugal, which is to day
mostly paper with forced circulation. Bar
silver can be bought cheaper in London than in
any other market. but has to be paid
for in gold. To send gold out
of the country was exactly what the
Portuguese government was trying to avoid. In
this dilemma MeSSrs. Burnay devised brilliant
financial, commercial and political operation.
They engaged an experienced wine buyer In
London, who visited Portugal quietly, bought
more than half the visible supply from the port
wine growers, his purchases including all the
wine of good quality that was to be had. The
result of his labor produced the astonishing
total af II 400 pipes, an amount of wine in one
purchase never before known in the history Of
the wine trade Of the world Ten thousand
pipes or Burnay'S speculationS have already
rived at the London docks. Each pipe holds
lis gallons, and each gallon is supposed to fill
six bottles.
A TRAVELLER in Kansas who has been studying
the operation of the prohibAon law, comes to
the conclusion that sit is q most extraordinary
travesty." He went into 100 or more towns,
and always found way, without much diff
Guilty, to get what he wanted to drink. In Par
don the sa Don masqueraded as barber shop.
1t was equipped with one large chair, several
common chairs, two small tables, about twenty
cases of beer and two wel-thumbed packs of
cards. This barber shop" was open day and
night. and especially Sunday" In the next
town, with population OF 500, the drug store
was the general loungng and drinking place.
On the counter stood bottle OF glycerne, the
use Of which the traveller could not guess at
first. But he was soon enlightened. A native
came in with flask and looked" at the
druggist, who slipped a teaspoonful OF gly-
cerine into the bottle aud filed up with whisky.
The result was supply OF rock and rye. mostly
rye. The applicants for this remedy formed
procession all day long. The traveller had been
cruelty deceived, IL seems. for he says: From
now on, whenever shall hear any lecturer, male
or female, descanting on the advantages and
glories of Kansas under the bene6cent and fos-
terlng care or the prohIbGory law, shall be-
leve that either they simply lie or are fools, and
consequently are to bs ptied." He adds 81
have made it a point be ore leaving town to in
quire; Can | get anything TO drink hereg l
have yet to be intro iuced to the Kansas town
that liquor could not BE- obtained in"
VERY INTERESTING bird once an inhabtant
of Britain, but now everywhere utterly extinct,
| is known as the great aux. 1t was about the
| size Of a goose, but, having very small wings,
was quite unable to fly. Being powerful bird,
with strong bill and most accomplished
aver, IL would nave continued 10 i've on In 1ull
| security but for mans reckless destruction.
| Unable to rise in e Dir like other water fowl,
| and deposit its eggs in security on high lodges
| OF rock, it could only shuttle along some gentle
| slope TO lay its eggs at @ safe distance above
| high-water marx 1t was formerly very abund-
| ants and hundreds at a time were taken off the
| coast of Newfoundland in the first quarter of
| the seventeenth century In 1913 it was still
| abundant on the rocky islands off the coast of
| lcelaut; and in 1874 a couple were caught on an
| island called Eldey. Since then It has disap-
I
| our islands caught in a landing net in
| Waterford Harbor in 1894, aud is now preserved
| in Trinity College. About seventy-siX skins and
| nine skeletons, with sixty eight eggs and a few
bones preserved in collections are all the relics
| we have of the now extinct species. The Lab
| radOr duck is another bird which has disap-
peared, though it lived on till 1852. A very
| curious handsome startling has become extinct
| in Maurltus, though, fortunately. a well-pre-
served skin OF it was acquired by r. Bowdler
! Sharpe, and carried by him TO the British
| museum, where 1t Is most carefully preserved.
| The name of this island naturally brings TO our
recollection the dodo so genenerally known by
name as bird which has become extinct in
of the seventeenth century Another bir d
which inhababited the island of
Rodriguez, and waSlarRer than a turkey, has
! also become extinct. 1t was known as the
solitaire and lived to a somewhat later day
than did the dodo. The oeprornis; noticed with
reference to its enormous egg, may have ex-
listed in Madagascar till less than 200 years
ago.
HERE we have something of prime interest
from New York letter in the st. Louis Repub-
lie: Several physicians of this city are in
vestigating the potency of music as an auxiliary
IN the treatment of nervous complaints and one
of them, Sebastian J. Winner, president Of the
Med cal Musical Society, has gone so far as to
suggest that the soothing language be embodied
in the trsatiseS on materia medica. He believes
that music is remedT of powerful force for
neur6sthenia, insomnia and many other nervous
diseases that cannot be, cured rapidly He is
able to explain the action of music on the
nervous system of the human body scientifically
and he is in enlisting many prominent physi-
| clans in the ranks of the Medical Musical
Society. DR.. Winners conclusions are as fol-
| lows: That there is music which has a special
| action on the intelligence and OF the motor
| nerves. that there is a music which Influences
particularly the nerves of sensibty
! and the sentiments;s that there is a
| music which acts all at once on the
moter nerves and on the sensitive nerve; on
| the in Intelligence and ON the sentiments He fur
| Their believes that between the effects of music
! and those OF the ailments which modify the
| nervous system there are such analogies that
tins laws which regulate the one and the other
may be arranged in the same terms. 1t is es-
| sental to the ultimate success of any endeavor
| 70 bring the brain under control that the music
| should first arrest the attention either by its
power or sweetness, and then gradually CON
duct the organism into harmony with itself
| Unless measured cadence begins with a now
| erful appeal to the brain in a key which accords
with that in which the cerebrum is at the mo-
ment itself working, negative result will en-
sue, and instead of allaYing irritation the irri
| tation is more likely to be augmented To
arouse the spirits by musics plaintive sound ia
/ is required, and this must be in the KEY of mel
ancholy which blends tn harmony with the state
| of the patients brain The study is exhaust
| less. The general condition of the
| patient, his temperament and moods. must
be understood before the desired result can be