The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-09
rTEMs or INTEREST.

ITEMS or INTEREST.
A Boston newspaper calls for the orraniza-
tion Of a society for the suppression OF people
who have been 10 the worlds fair In the in
tcresi Of tho three remaining great classes Of
the Commuuity-thosew who have not vet been
10 the fair but intend 10 20, those who have
not been and are not going because they can
not go. and those VINO have not been and are
not going because they do not want to go. IL
Is frankly admitted that these three classes
. aggregated are ia the minority
In view o the epidemic Of suicide which
seems TO have set in Of late. ii is interesting
10 see how different countries stand IN this
respect. The following figures give the num-
her Of suicides 10 the various armies Of
/ Europe per 10000 men: Austria, l3l; Ger
many. g. Italy. 40; France %; Belgium, p;
England, %; Russia, 20; Spain, II. This is
somewhat curious list. neither race nor eli
mate having apparently much 10 do with the
relative figures, else why should Austria
have nearly twice as many as Germany, and
Germany nearly three times as many as
England The two Mediterranean countries,
Italy and spain, differ as 40 to IA. The one
certainly noticeable point about the list is
that IL is virtually case Of three countries.
Austria. Germany and Italy, which are par
ties to the triple alliance being first and the
others nowhere. That Austria should be at
the head. "lOngo intervallO,' OF the three Is
perhaps in part accounted for by the Austria
suicidal record in high places
Fire insurance circles are deeply concerned
in the study of moral hazard in FIRE under
writing and the great losses during the past
year or two seem to justify the attention
which this aspect of the subject Is receiving,
/ says "a New York letter According to figures
/ recently compiled in the Chronicle Fire Ia
/ bles nearly 60 per cent. of fires in country
/ and general stores in 1872 were set down as OF
! incendiarY origin. In dwellings and ten
/ ements there were $3.50 fires in 1892, of
/ which 3 1874 were inCendiary. .45i retail gro
| Gerry stores were burned, and 3SS were OF IN
| cendiary origin, l96 hotels were destroyed
! and 347 Of the fires are ascribed to the same
/ cause, while Off III fires in liquor stores and
l saloons 353 we're of like criminal origin, In
! ten of the twenty-six classes cited the fires by
! incendlariSm exceeded 2o per cent.
/ of the whole From these figures some IN
! derwriters conclude that the depression of
| the times present and prospective, IS likely
| to aggregate the moral hazard above the de
| gree apparent during 1892, and 1t is by the
same persons urged as the part OF wisdom
! for managers to insist upon most complete
analysis of the moral conditions prevailing IN
each risk before accepting 1t.
An American girl in London writes to the
| New York Press: Il saw Mr.. Gladstone
crossing Piccadilly Circus about 4 o'clock
| this afternoon. The crush was tremendous
buses, cabs, vans and struggling humanity on
foot stopping the way But everybody,
from Bobby on guard to the ganmis crying
| the evening papers recognized the Grand
Old Man. Instantly hands were raised and
! trafic suspended until the premier OF Eng
land had safely passed the London RubicOn.
Every eve was centered upon the octogena-
rtan. The man about town withdrew his ar
dent gazing monocle from the passing tailor
made girl; the city man turned and for the
moment forgot his stocks and shares; Lady
Clara We're de We're deigned to bestOw pass
ing glance from the soft cushions Of her arts
| toCratic rolling barouche--I even fanced l
saw a turn Of the eye from her powdered
| footman; Tommy Atkins of the Grenadier
! Guards was for once obliyiOus Of the charms
of the Dlushing nursery maid, and raised his
| hand in respectful salute, while the rag tag
! and bob tail in wild excitement thronged in
! procession like the colored population of
Washington after brass band and every
| now and then beer-cracked voice bawled
forth: Hi, boys, there goes old Gladstone!'
The use Of coffee as dtsinfectant lis gener-
| ally known, but it is doubtful If the majority
Of the people are aware of its true value in
this direction, says Good Housekeeping.
They probably know that it is handy and
! harmless: but besides these Qualities it is
4 really one Of the most powerful and effective
/ agents known, as has been shown by re-
peated experiments. In one case quantity
/ OF meat was placed in close room and al
! lowed TO decompose. chahng dlsh was
then introduced and 500 gramnes OF coffee
were thrown on the fire. In few minutes
/ the room had been entirely dIsinfected. In
{ another room, the fumes Of sulphuretted by
I drogen and ammonia were developed, and the.
smell-which no words can eXpresS-was de-
stroyed in half minute by the use OF 80
grammes Of coffee. AS a proof that the noX-
ious smells are really decomposed and not
merely Overpowered by the fumes of coffee. it
Is stated that the first vapors Of the coffee
| are not smelled at all, and are therefore
| chemically absorbed, while the other smells
| gradually diminish as the fumigatiOn con
| tinues. The merest pinch OF coffee is
usually sufficient to cleanse a sick room, even
| in aggravated cases. The best way to EN-
ploy it is to freshly pound the coffee in a
| mortar, If no mill is at hand, and sprinkle it
on red-hot iron surface.
The following account Of a mirage" near
the seashore is given by the Konigsberger
Allgemeinc Zeitung. On Monday afternoon
| q number OF fishermen were in their fleet of
fisher boats about half mile distant from
! Great HeydekruR. The water was calm, the
| temperature high, and the suns rays beat
! hotly upon the wide expanse of sea. The fish
| ermen at about in the afternoon had their
attention drawn to peculiar phenomenon.
On looking about great was their
aston shine in not being ABLE al,, to
was visible but an immense trait Of wat r.
| Presently above the water shadCwy
! outlines appeared; then, taking more definite
form the villages of Great Heydekrug, Mar
! gen. Widitten, together with the fores.s, ap-
! peared to G swimming about 5ut these
places did not holl their usual positions for
1 the villages ana forests were upside down.
! This picture. to the fishermen, was a pulling
| arrangement, and bothered them much.
| While wondering how ii would all end, they
! saw the people OF Great Heydekrug and sur
rounding districts mOTing about, but not in
their usual way-they were walking upside
down. Stewards the steamers and sailing
| boats were careering in precisely the same
manner and the whistle Of q distant steamer
was twice heard. Under this inverted ar
| ranCement was still to be seen the well
| known villages as firm as ever. The fisher
| men saw the people on the shore and else
where feet dOwuwards. whereas in the upper
picture they stood upon their heads. This
| illusion continued for about quarter of an
| hour; then the sun was obscured by a rain
cloud, and the fata morgana vanished.
CT the soa-cow bird a writer in Chambers
| Journal says: This diminutive little creature
| only about six inches long-is neatly ar
rayed in brown upon the upper parts. black
and white underneath, upon the throat ap-
pearing the three distinctive collars-frst of
black, then of white, then OF black again
Sea-cOw. or IN Boer Dutch. 'Zee-koe, -" is the
colonial name for the hippopotamus and the
trCble-collared plover takes its colonial des-
ignation (sea-cow bird) from it's frequent
habit Of attending the unwieldy Behemoth.
Running about the back and head of that am
phiblan, picking off insects and other odds
and ends, this little plover seems per
| fectly at home. while the sea-cow ap-
parently accepts its offices in good part.
This friendship between wild and often
fierce quadrupeds and small birds is of com
mon occurrence in Africa and other countries
the rhinOcerOus. the buffalo aud the Bur
| chpli'S zebra among others all having tbair