The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are PA lifesaYing stations. 1S2 being
on the Atlantic forty nine on the lakes, twelve
/ on The Pacific coast and one at the falls OF
/ the Ohio. During the last fiscal year the
number Of disasters to vessels within the
| field Of the service was AZ. There were on
/ board these vessels 1885, persons of whom
3.542 were saved and twenty-three lost. Value
! of property imperiled was SS,0)SO.5 and the
amount saved was S6,442.5O5. The number of
| vessels totally lost was eighty-eight The
| cost of maintenance of the service during the
year was 81 2}l ,S93.
a tin can filled with melted mass of silver,
weighing about eight pounds, was found last
week by quarrymen near Ronda Texas,
buried about two feet below the surface in
the banks of a creek. some twelve miles from
lsh province, a road known as the santa te
trail ran along beside the Red river, and it is
| surmised that the silver was buried by some
! traveller who was hard pressed by the In
! dlans, and who either was killed, or who
| could not afterward locate his buried treas
ure. The trunk of an old saddle, found near
the same place a short time ago, was proba-
| bly, part OF the same Wayfarcr equipment.
The National Rice Manufacturing Company
| Of New Orleans has just completed the cree
ton Of the first rice elevator in the world.
says the ST. Louis GlODe-Democrat The few
| trials so far given it have proved the success
of the experiment, and other elevators will he
erected 9th at New GREENS and other prin'
| cipal rice points in this country. The effect
will be to revOlutionize the rice trade. Under
the old sl stem the cost of handling and sell
ing the cereal was very great, besides the IN
convenience Of sending out samples of each
shipment and the lmpossibility of concentrat-
ing shipments, owing to the difference in
grades and contracts for particular grades.
| In the new elevator system the rice is brought
| in car lots, dumped into the elevator. is
cleaned, weighed and autOma tically assorted
into one of six grades by delicate machinery
| and is then loaded into sacks, which are de-
liyered on the warehouse floor ready for the
D-1-of Nrf.7 80
ling, the establishment of grades will facii-
| tate and syst emize the sales, doing away with
| delay, cost and Inconvenience and establish
| ing the rice industry on the same basis as
| wheat and other cereals The opinion of the
| rice men heretofore has always been that it
was impossible to grade rice.
Bank notes have curious histories attached
to them in the way OF human comedy, tragedy
and melodrama, says the New York Home
| Journal A collector at Paris of such curosi-
ties got hold. some years ago, of d e. Bank OF
England note which had somewhat of a tragic
interest connected with it. Some sixty odd
years ago the cashier OF Liverpool merchant
mad received IN tender for business pay
ment Bank Of England note which he held
up to the scrutiny of the light, so as to make
sure of its genuipeness. He observed some
partially indistinct red marks or words traced
out on the front of the note beside the letter
ing and on the margin Curiosity tempted
him to try to decipher the words so inscribed
| With great difficulty. so family written
awere they and so much obliter-
ated, the words were found to
form the following sentence II
this note should fall into the hands OF John
Dean. of LOnghill. near Carlisle. he will
learn hereby that his brother is langulshiny
prisoner at Algiers. - Mr.. Dean. on being shown
the note lost no time in asking the govern
brothers freedom. 1t appeared that for
eleven long years the latter had been a slave
to the dey of Algiers, and that his family and
relatives believed him to be dead. With
piece Of wood he had traced in his own blood
on the bank note the message which was to
procure his release. The government aided
the efforts OF his brother to set him free, this
being accomplished on payment of ransom
to the dey Unfortunately the captive did
not long enjoy his liberty, his bodily suffer
ingS while working slave in AlglerS having
undermined his constitution.
A prescription written by a well-kuOwn
physician in New York recently gave the fol
lowing directions: First day take three
pills at intervals OF an hour second day take
Two pills az intervals of an hour third day
! take one ald then stop" This is cerla My
| obscure. and as a matter Of fact the wording
| Of the pres criptiOn came near causing serious
Trouble. says the New York Tribune. The
| direction for the third day would be likely,
| OF course, to make any one pause to consider
what was meant by the whole, but if that
last direction had not been given it would
! have been easy for some people to interpret
| tine directions as take three pills every hour
during the first day ard two pills every hour
/ during the second day" What was meant.
Of course, was that three pills were to lie
! taken on the first day. one pill at a
time, with an hour between every pill two
pills the second day, one at 4 time
| with an hour between each and one
pill only on the third daJ B 1T there GER
tafnly WAS danger in the directions to people
who were either not quick to grasp a point or
where careless in following the whole mean
| ing. Suppose, for instance some one mad under
taken to read the directions on the iustalment
. / p an, so to speak-that is. suppose he had
thought Sufficient to the day is the evil
thereof and had considered that il would be
time enough to study the directions for the
! Sc Ond day when the second day came. Then
he might have taken three pills every hour
for twentyfOur hours. and the coroner Gould
have done the rest. But to be serious. it is
desired here to impress upon physicians that
no room should be left for doubt as to their
meaning, and upon those who read the dirce-
!. ! tons OF physicians prescriptions that they
should read the whole carefully, and then
hesitate if they are in doubt.
George c. Hunter OF Oakland has lost his
memory as completely as if he had never had
a brain says the San Francisco Examiner
He is alive ana well, goes about Just like any
ordinary person. but can recall nothing of his
past life His mind is a blank. He does not
remember his wife nor his mother. Iboueh
he had good education he has forgotten how
to read and write, and the multiplication
table has fed into regions from which he can.
not recall it. He remembers that a face is
familiar but that is all The name or any
thing about the person he cannot recall The
on Oct 10 Young Hunter was working on n
locomotive in the railroad round house in
West Oakland when an iron plug was blown
from steampipe and struck him on the head
/ fracturlng the skull. He was removed To
DR.. Woolseys hospital in an uncon-
scOus condition and placed under the
care of DR.. Dunn. A large part of Tho
J skull, where the iron struck it, was sulintered
and pressed inward against the brain So
serious was the case that it seemed almost
! hopeless to attempt TO save she mans life
| Ncverthcless the attempt was made and from
the surgeon standpoint it was a most sue
| cesstul operation. Hunter lived. The
splintered portion of the skull. measuring
| ABOUT two inches in width by four inches in
| length, was carefully removed and the pres-
| sure upon the brain relieved, 1t was then
| seen that the splintered hone had lacerated
| the membrane of the brain. ] he doctors then
! began to cultivate the injured brain and lis
| coverings. i he process Of Eranulatlon has
! gone on day by day until the entire mem 1ranc
s has been restored. The gap in the scalp will
, ! now be repaired by the difficult operation
. which involves the use Of skin
= gratis taken in long strips from
+ | some other portions OF Hunfer.s
! body. For period of four weeks after The
. accident Hunter lay in his cot in the hOsnitaI
! | unconscious. he gave no sign OF life save
that he breathed suddenly one morning
Y consciousness returned and memory was
gone All his past was blank. Dr. Wool,
r Sey asked him his name, but Hunter only
shook his head and looked at him wonder.