The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A curiously awkward word, if it be word,
says Sala's Journal is Mrs" II is not spelt
as it is pronounced-no one but a Welshman
| or Pole would be equal TO pronouncing II as
| II is spelt-and its pronunciation is clumsy
! contraction OF the good old English deSlgna-
| pation-mistress In days Of old. when, as
Austin Dobson has depicted for us in
so many graceful verses, leisure had not be-
| come, as IL is now, almost forgotten luxury,
and people were less anxious to clip their
| sleep, the full pronunciation was OFTEN USED
| and mistress" was not altogether elDoWed
out Of existence by the vulgar 'missis." But
| nowadays mistress" has become as much
| term of opprobrium of honor, and conse-
quently the contracted pronunciation OF
| Mrs has prevailed and holds the field. An
| other point worth noting in the history OF the
| designation is that about $50 years ago and
| earlier Mrs" was applied quite impartially
| to unmarried as well as married ladies'. Even
children were sometimes styled Mrs" The
| burial of an infant daughter of John Milton,
4 who died at the age of months, is recorded
/ in the parish register of st. Margaret, West
minister, and her name is entered as Mrs
! Katherine Milton followed by small &C 70
| indicate that child is meant. But this may
be regarded as an exceptional use of the title
| A physician who had appendicitis and was
| operated on several years ago said to New
York Sun writer that he knew of a number Of
recent cases among women well known
| socially. Women are apparently less subject
| to appendicitis than men, but this exemption
| is more apparent than real for appendicitis
| is often mistaken for peritonitis. Append
| c1tlS is far more common than is generally
! supposed. surgeon in West Thirty-fourth
| street said recently that nearly every case Of
supposed peritonitis in men and boys, or very
young girls, was probably appendicitis. In
! 1856 of forty-seven operations for appendicitis
| forty-siX we're fatal. but only four of forty
| eight operations by the surgeon in question
| have resulted fatally The modern surgeon
| expects to save nearly every case that is
| taken in good time. The Inflammation of the
vermiform appendix may be excited by
| number of causes. The appendix may have
! been of use originally, but If it is of any use
| now to the physical system the doctors do not
| know what that use is AS an element in the
| uncertainty of life ii is not without import
ance in another field. Prof. Wilder of Cornell
| thinks the vermiform appendix should be cut
| out of children, just as they are vaccinated to
| protect them from smallpox and just as wis
dom teeth are sometimes draw from the
| mouths of the children of wise fathers.
An account has been received at St. Peters
| burg of a remarkable experience that befell
young girl named Alexandria Schitkine, II
years of age, who was recently discovered
| lying in a state of complete exhaustion near
| the village of Bogorodska, in the province OF
| Moscow. She relates that she fell asleep one
| evening on heap of straw, and on waking
some hours afterward found herself lying
under mass OF snow that had fallen during
the night and enveloped her to the depth of
| some three feet. All the girls attempts to
| extricate herself proved unavailing, and she
| T6IUdl06Q DuIleu among snow ana SJTdW lOE
| fifty-one days, her only nourishment during
| that time being a few morsels of
| bread that she happened to have with her.
| When at length rescued the girl was, of
course, found to be in state of most com
plete hamilton, and required several days
| of constant care and nursing to restore her
| strength. On recovering she stated that she
had not experienced rny excessive cold, and
| had only occasionally been seized with shiv-
| ering. She suffered much, however from
| hunger, and after her few crusts of bread
! summarized
| snow. The girl also described the anguish
| which she felt on finding that no one heard
her piteous. half stihed cries for help when
| ever the sound Of footsteps in the neighbor-
hood of her living sepulcher fell upon her
| ears.
| Every one must have noticed the recent
change of fashion in regard to writing names.
1t used to be that only the initial of the mid
die name was given, as George G. Tulking-
| horn or Emily M. Jones' now II must be writ
| ten George Grimshaw Tulkinghorn and Emily
| Macintosh Jones. The idea seems to be that
| it is somehow important to preserve Mr..
| Tulkinghorns and Miss Jones' identity by
| completely d1nerentiating them from other
| persons of the same name, or perhaps, sug-
gests the Indianapolis Journal. it is intended
| as notice to the world that they are the sole
prOprietOrs of a middle name which belongs
! to them exclusively All authors NOWADAYS
| give their full names on the title page of their
works. II is no longer John ID. Smith but
! John Dillingworth Smith, as much as to say
| that the Smiths are connected with the Dill
| lingwOrths. Perhaps John S mothers maiden
name was Dillingworth or maybe his
! great-grandmother. if he had one, was q
| Dlllingworth before she was married Prob
! ably the world does not care any more about
i the Dilliugworths than II does about the
! Smiths but it looks fine to write the name
out in full. We venture the assertion that of
thousand novels published during the last
/ year 800 have the name of the author spelled
out on the title page in full. as if it were q
| matter OF real Importance for the world to
| know his or her middle name. What is tho
use OF middle names, anyhow? George Wash
ington did not have any, neither did Thomas
| Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. William Shakes
! peare, John Milton, Ben JOnson, Francis
! Bacon Napoleon Bonaparte, or thousands of
other great mer. What lucky thing it is we
40 not nave to write William Hollingbrook
| Shakespeare, George Harrington Washing
ton or Abraham Hanks Lincoln.
According to all probability notwithstand-
ing all the circumstances which threaten it.
our planet will die, not of an accident but
| natural death, says Camille Flammarion in
| l. Astronolnie. That death will he the conse-
! quen OF the extinction of the sun in twenty
| million years or mOre-perhaps thirty-s;noe
its condensation at a relatively moderate rate
Will give 1t on one hand 17O00O00 years of ex-
lsUence, while on the other hand the newt
able fall of meteors into the sun may double
this number. Even if you suppose the dura-
ton of the sun to be prolonged to 40.OO0OOO
years, 1t is still tncontestable that the radia-
tlon from the sun cools IL, and that the TEN
perature Of all bodies tends to an equilibrium.
Inc DAY VIII come when the sun will be ex-
tinct Then the earth and all the other
planets OF our system will cease to be the
abode of life. They will be erased from the
great book and will revolve, black ceme-
teries, around an extinguished sun Will
these planets continue to exist even
then? Yes, probably, in the case of Jupiter
and perhaps Saturn No, beyond a doubt
for the small bodies, such as the earth, Venus
Mars, Mercury and the moon Already the
moon appears to have preceded us toward the
final desert Mars is much farther advanced
1 than the earth toward the same destiny
| Venus, younger than us, will doubtless sur
Vive us. These little worlds lose their ele-
Il ments OF vitality much faster than the sun
loses It's heat From century to century
from year to year from day to day. from
hour TO hour the surface of the earth is trans
formed. On the one hand the continents are
Srumbling away and becoming covered by the
sea, which insensibly and by very slow de
grees tends to invade and submerge the entire
globe; on the other hand the amount of
water on the surface of the globe is diminish
ing. A careful and reasonable calculation
shows that by the action of erasure alone ali
the land on our planet will be covered by
water in 100000 years
| A Legislators Nickname.