The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-04
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says the Boston Globe. In order
TO cover his embarrassment he was
compelled to retire from command under the
plea OF illness. The fugitive sentence came
10 his mind when he reached his rooms. A
stlll more singular case is that of a we'll
known and esteemed merchant. whose mem
orY SO treacherously failed him one morning
after leaving home that he was totally unable
TO locate his offices and was actually com
peueq to inquire as to their Whereabouts
another interesting example is that of pop
ular novelist who had nearly finished an i'm
portant work upon which he was engaged
When sudden failure Of memory deprived
MIN OF his plot and necessitated the laying
aside OF the book for more than a week then
an association of ideas recalled the missing
plot the novel was brought to a successful
Issue and enjoyed ! wide circulation.
The English sparrows have proved a
nuisance in the cotton country for as soon as
the pods open they pick out the cotton and
carry it OFF. and some planters have lost, as
theg claim, hundreds of pounds in this way.
i here is one man, however, on the Mississippi
that has not lost much, says the St Louis
Chronicle. When he found the spaTrows
were committing depredationS he procured
quantity of wheat, soaked it in sweetened
whisky. and Strewed it along the rows. The
sparrows found II and thought they had
a picnic. So they had, but in fifteen or
twenty minutes was the tipsiest lot of Eng
lish sparrows ever seen on the face of this
earth. They rolled about on the ground. fall
ing on their sides and backs and kicking their
all the while uttering the most comical
squeaks They did not have long to squeak,
however, for the boys gathered them up and
threw them into bags. The first day they
gathered two bushels of drunken sparrows
Tn ee or four days later tie experiment was
repe ated with almost equal succ ess, and from
time to time since. They made excellent
potpie, but the survivors have evidently
come to regard the plantation as hoOdooed
for now very few come about it.
The most remarkable piece of underground
London will ere long be found beneath the
most crowded of all spots in the city, says the
London News. We refer to the large space in
front and about the Mansion House. including
in this the wide entrances to Queen Victoria
street AMI Mansion House place, together
with the corners of Princess street, Lombard
street, King William street and Cornh.N and
the paved open ground with the trees in
wooden boxes, and the statue of Wellington
in front of the western portico of the Royal
Exchange. Here will shortly be comm nced
a vast excavation of oval form to MAKE way
for great underground electric railway sta
ton, an extensive and complex system o. IN
dergrOund ways, lighted and open at all hours,
for the use both of railway passengers and
pedestrians, and still more elaborate sys-
tenn or what are called pipe SubWayS." deS-
| tined to receive our extensive and ever
growing lines of gas and water mains, pneu-
matte tubes, electric wires and like services.
! There was time when the engineers of the
Central London railway, which is to run
from this cOngested spot right away west to
Shepherd Bush, thought it oSsible to coax
the directors of the Bank Of England into
yielding little space for a consideration,
out OF the somewhat extraYagant slice of our
crowded city that their establishment. which
has swallowed up more than N entire parish
now enjoys, but as with Nj. Jules FaVre on
memorable historical occasion, their reply
was: Not an inch of territory" The city
authorities, on the other hand recognizing
the paramount end increasing importance Of
rapid communication between the ii ' and
the suburbs, have extended the scheme
helping hand. only STIMULATING for certain
things which they have judged it right to Sc
cure in the interest Of the public.
The New England cod fishing industry is
threatened with competition on the Pacific
coast. says the New York Post Dried fish is
already being shipped by the car load over a
tranScontinental railroad to New York and
thence to the West Indies and South Ameri-
can markets. reduction Of 40 per cent. in
rates has made this enterprise profitable A
Puget Sound packer of the fish being asked
what were the prospects of taking away the
market from New England, said God can
be caught in Be ling sea, brought to the sound
and dried or cured for cent pound less than
on the New England coast and at the pres
ent rates we can compete with the New Eng
land fisheries right in their own territory.
SO far this year have shipped two carloads
twenty tons, of dried cod to New York where
they are sold to brokers for shipment to the
West Indies and South America. and
the business can be done at a
good profit. I have had schooner
in Boring sea this summer catching cod and
have put up $50 tons so far Dried fish are
the only kind suitable for hot countries a1d
they are put ID in drums casks holding
from $50 to 400 pounds. Cured fish are sold
almost entirely in the United States We
should be able to work up a market in Ha-
vail and Australia, for there are no cod south
OF the equator, as well as on the west coast
OF South America. AS fast as the fish are
cau9 hit they are cleaned and sailed on board
the ship and slowed away until there is a f,;ll
tot 1,o IrrrS,
and curing works, dried in the sun and tied
up in bundles for shipment. The pickle
cured fish are soaked in tanks of brine for a
month or so. l have Deen using Carman Is
land salt from the Gulf of Californla as il is
the best on the coast and does not discolor
the fish. A similar business might he worked
up in shipping smoked halibut east. Glou.
cester' Mass now controls the trade. but fish
are more abundant on this coast and can be
caught and smoked more cheaply."
The fortitude and endurance of a Chinaman
under the surgeons knife have long been
known, says the New York Telegram. The
traits are, of course, less noticeable now than
IN the days anterior to the age of chloroform
but even now they are frequently put to the
test In circumstances where the surgeons in
Isolated situations are compelled to under
take operations unaided, or where otherwise
tne exhloltlon of chloroform is cOntra-in-
dtcated and in the minor operations of sur
gerry. When so tested the Chinaman will
endure without 1inching Z degree of pain that
10 the more mighty developed nervous system
OF the WeSterner would be well nigh impossi-
be The fact is to be discounted that in the
case OF the poorer Chinese. a prolonged course
OF low living and pra 'tical starvation have
frequently added their results to the
original trouble while The native D a titiOn-
ers are doing the best or worSt) uefore the
case Is submitted 10 the western surgeons
and this materially affects the Irorress of
many OF our patients DR.. John G. Thoion-
son OF Hong Kong, writes in the China Medi
cal Missionary journal: But other thinGs
being equal, recovery ana conva escente ara
much more rapid and com lete in the ayerlpe
Ihlnaman than in the average Englishnnan
Reasons for this difference are not entire o
obvious, but the opinion may tie hayaroed
That the simpler feeling habits OF the Chin )
ana their eql q lie constitution form nj inast
some or the causes OF the higher vitality Of
lnelr tlSste5. The popularity accepted notion
Jnat the Chlnaman lives on rice is i1deed
very FAR from the truth, since even the
poorest manage to add few 5reen
vegetables and a little hSh or pork In
me rice, which is the staple national diet,
but, taken all around, the Chinaman food il
certainly more simple and prouabIv more mn
trltlous that the food OF an Englishman undar
analogous circumstances His use OF aIcoboi
Is also nuch less injurious to his Tissues than
Is lJs use by large proportion of Europeans
Inc natlVe spirit, SamshOO. is very er,an
slVeiy consumed, but it is inva iaIIv IN |
minute quantities, and never excepting Win |
out meats, lntoxicatlOn eng a thing Drarti |
Cally unknown in China. The TRANQUILITY Of |
ihe Chnese mind is proyerbial. A Chinamsn |
IS never IN hurry Provided he be given \ !