The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The women of Iceland, who have had mu-
nicipal suffrage ever sive 1882, have now been
made eligible to municipal Offices
! While q seine was being dragged az Cedar
| Lake Bay near Velasco, Tex. tarpon five
| or SIX feet long jumped over the net, striking
a negro on the head and killing him instantly
In Brazil not per cent, of the male or fe-
male servants win sleep in their master 5
house. They insist on leaving at the
latest by O'Clock in the evening, and will
not return before or O'Clock IN the morn
| ing.
A Rochester man has devised a plan by
which trolley street car can be stopped
almost instantaneously, or within a
| space of three feet, while the car
is going at full speed. His device is oper-
| atUd by alever in the motOrman's cab
The Russian government has just ordered a
new yacht for the exclusive use OF the tmpe-
rial family in the North sea- Both as regards
| fittings and size it will eclipse every other
| ship OF the kind The new ship is to be 1900
! tons burden, with engines of 900 horse power,
| capable Of giving speed of 20 knots an hour
| whenever required
| David, the painter, drew the design for the
shake worn in the French army. The soldiers
never liked it, but Bonaparte insisted on its
! being worn. It is something like o cylinder,
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| plume or pOmpon. The design has been grad
ually modified, until now IL is to be abolished
in favor OF the kept, which has fat circular
top and straight visor.
The French revolution introduced a new
system of tactics into European armies,
There was no time to drill the new levies, and
as the advantages Of skirmish fighting in
loose order had been proved during The Amer
! can war, this system was adopted with signal
success. The advantage Of the system against
regular troops in broken or wooded ground,
gave the French a reputation for Tap1dtty OF
action that had never been known before on
! the battlefield
OF the fourteen huge masses Of meteoric
iron that fell on a spot less than sixty-four
square miles in area near Fort Duncan, Next
CO. the largest is beehive shaped and is bu-
| ried five feet in the soil and rises four feet
above the surface The second mass in point
| OF size has been moved to the National Mu-
| scum at Washington. 1t weighs over 1000
! pounds, The other twelve pieces weigh from
! s71a to $50 pounds The whole mass OF frag-
| ments as mentioned above are scattered over
| an area Of siXty-four square miles with Fort
| Duncan at about the center Of the point Of
| dispersion.
Almost every medieval monarch claimed
the whole or a part of the dominions of al
most every other, and insisted on inserting
| his claim in his list Of ofncial titles. In
! treaties and all official documents the whole
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| happened that the two negotiating monarehs
had some of the same titles, it became usual
to insert a clause in the list, non prBjudi-
cando, in order to indicate that no matter
how absurd, inappropriate or untrue we're the
titles, they were understood to be inserted
because they pleased the monarch who
claimed them, that they did not confer
valid claim, and so no harm was likely to re-
suit from their use.
Mrs. R. W. Phillips, a young woman of
Salem, Mass, had narrow escape from being
buried alive the other day. She had been i'll,
and to all appearances died The doctor said
that she was dead and all the preparations
were made for her funeral when her husband,
who was Gevotedly attached to her, and could
not be persuaded to leave the supposed corpse
for moment, declared that he saw her eye
lids move. She was examined at once. A
faint flush of color was observed in her cheeks
and it was found that her hands were no
longer rigid. Vigorous measures were at once
resorted to to restore her suspended animR-
ton, and soon she was able to speak She
says that from the moment OF her supposed
death she was conscious and fully realized the
awful situation She was placed in She tried
to make sign to show that she was alive,
but found that any muscular movement was
impossible. After many attempts she sue
cee6 cd in raising one of her eyelids; then her
husbands cries told her she had been saved
from being buried alive. Those who have
seen Mrs, Phillips since her awakening say
she aged greatly during the brief time in which
entombment alive stared her in the face.
A correspondent OF the st. James Gazette
gives an alarming account Of the spread OF
smallpox In Paris. Says he: In France where
cholera seems to have become endemic, we
have grown almost to despise 1t for 1t will re-
fuse the advantages held out to IL by the foul
est OF towns with sanitary arrangements on o
par with those OF an oubliette in feudal
castle: A disease that has beenSfar more terri
BILE this summer in France has been small
pox, Of which very little has been heard out
side Of the district where II has been raging
because the local authorities everywhere
seemed to have come to the determination to
keep the light Of publicity from all such un-
pleasantness. Having moved about some
what could name districts where the popula-
ton has been ravaged by smallpox during
the last few months and at least one large
town where the fumigntinR stove has
been constantly at work in the streets. l
have known cases in which people have died
in two or three hours after the attack and
turned as black as coal before they were
buried, although they were hurried to the
grave with the utmost dispatch. But not a
word OF this appeared in the Paris papers
Now, however, the disease has reached Paris
and it is sufficiently alarming for the munich
pal council to take extraordinary measures
heifer Is led through the quarters where
the infection is most rife and strenuous eff
forts are made to induce people to be vacci-
mated directly from the animal This appears
to be the most practical way of overcoming
the prejudice against inoculation which has
mainly arisen from certain accidents attribu-
ted to the use of human vaccine II may not
De generally known tnat there Is no law in
France to render vaccination compulsory
although the COnscript. when. he Joins the
army, has to be vaccinated whether he likes
it or not.
have on numterless occasions. SAYS
writer in the Fortnightly Review, observed
the common pit viper of Southern South
America, which is of sluggish disposition.
lying in the sun on a bed of sand or dry grass
colled or extended at full length. Inyariahlv
on approaching a snake of this kind have
seen the tongue eXserted; that nimble glisten-
ing organ was the first and, for some time
the only sign of life wakefulness In the
motionless creature. II ] stood still at a dis
lance of some yards to watch it, the tongue
would be exserted again at intervals; Ii
moved nearer or lifted my arms or
made any movement, the intervals
would be shorter and the yibra-
tions more rapid. and still the creature
would not move. Only when / drew very near
would other signs Of excitement follow. At
such times the tongue has scarcely seemed to
me the mute forked flash" that Ruskin calls
it but tongue that said something which
although not audible. was clearly understood
and easy to translate into words What il
said. or appeared to say, was: II am not
dead nor sleeping, and do not wish to be dis
turbed, much less trodden on; keep YOUR dis
lance, for your own good as well as for mine. -