The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a Cape Town telegram says: News has been
received here from ZuluIand to the-enect
that twelve Zulus have been sentenced
10 death for participation ia a murder which
was discovered by their peculiar practice Of
smelling out. When the chief Is aiIing or
cattle sick. or any unexplained misfortune
oYertakes the kraal, the Inhabitants are
made to seat themselves in a great circle. and
the sorcerers Of the tribe, after the perform
ance Of certain hideOus rites, discover that
one, who. by means Of charms or the practice
/ Of black magic. has brought evil upon them.
Him or her they touch with wand. and the
touch is equivalent to a sentence Of death. IN
this case the murderers smeiled out are al
legged 10 have put their victim 70 death by
means OF slow poison.
DR.. Lancaster finds in old newspape ad-
vertisements which show that smallpox was
50 common that people advertised for ser
wants who were over it. in much the same
way as we now advertise for a dog over"
dlstemper. He quotes the following
Wanted. nan between 90 and 80 years Of
age 70 De q IOOtn1an and undeT-buIler IN q
great family; he must be Of the Church OF
England and have had the smallpox in the
natural way. Also woman, middle aged, to
wait upon young Lady Of great fashion and
fortune. the woman must be OF the Church Of
England, have had the smallpox in the natu-
raj way, very sober, steady and well behaved.
and understand dress. getting Up lace and
a young lady that goes into all public places
and keeps the best oompany.-lnquire OF the
printer Of this paper-October /, III"
There isn't a better simple cure for nose
bleed known than bit Of toadstool thrust
into the bleeding nostril. says Harrison
Monthly. ToadstoOls make excellent dress
Ing for certain kinds Of wounds are highly
valued By surgeons, and are in big demand in
hospitals. Germans use tOadStoQls extern
stvely as pipe lighters also The dried fun
gus makes perfect finder It Is cut in long
strips. and these IN turn are clipped at the
cage IN a sort OF fringe and tipped with phos-
phorous and sulphur Just like match heads
BY rubbing the fringe against any rough sur
face II ignlteS just like a match, and burns
like punk il you thrust a bit into the bowl
OF your pipe you can light the tobacco with
ease n the highest wind in the biggest storm
In fact the harder il blows the better your
pipe will light. Hunters and fishermen ind
this sort Of q match much preferable to any
other.
One Of the most beneficial features of sea
bath, says a medical practitioner. in the
Pittsburg Dispatch. is the salt water mad
Yertently swallowed by bathers. It's won
dertul tome for the liver, stomach and kid
neys. In many cases it will care biliousneSs
where all drug preparations have failed it
IS peculiarly Elective in ordinary ca ses OF in
digestion. disordered stoma Oh and insomnia
and has been known 10 produce excellent re-
suits IN many cases Of dyspepsia. Sea water
is full Of toxic and seiative properties Il
won hurt anybody. Two or three big swal-
lows Of il would he OF positive benefit 10 nine
bahers out of ten 1t ism { palata he or tempt
ing, but neither is qClnine nor calomel You
/ never see an old sailor who IS bilious. dyspep-
tic, or victim OF insomnia, and Why For
the reason that an ocean Of good medicine
| spreads all about his ship. and he doses him
self copioUsly with it wherever his physical
Ele -hanism becomes the least bit derauRed.
The enthusiast in science says the Pitts
burg Dispatch is much given to the methods
Of the mighty hunter, who delights to sud
denly disappear and be lost to human ken
wandering away to the Temotest corners of
| the earth. and returning after many days with
the trophies OF his prOWeSS and skill. The
scientist will go on the still hunt for months
and years together. and then suddenly con
/ fronts the world with some strange result of
his delv!ny in the bypaths Of science that
falslhes our most cherished beliefs and revo-
lutioniZeS cur most classic standards OF such
is DR.. CrOChley Chaplain. who seeks with a
formidable array OF statistics, to sweep away
ali our genel ally accep ed IDEAS Of the beauty
and significance of the intellectual brow. 8"
He maintains that the smaller your head
and the more prominent your OcCiput. the
greater is your sanity--at least. the mad have.
as rule. good heavy frontal lobes. He shows
by facts and figures. based on the examina-
ton OF humsn skullS-4CO0 of them-chat the
heads OF insane men have larger average
size than these OF men of sound intellect
\ characteristic feat ire of Mashonaland
the kopje, is frequently mentiorel in the dis
patchCs reporting the engagements with the
Matabeles, says the London News. Some de-
ScrlptlOn OF these curious elevations is giNea
III Il ItlLtE ~ IEOI. NIElkt6, DIV y. y Don, IOr
merlv one Of mis- pupils. A uniform granite
form alton is. he says, by far the most prCmi-
nent geological peCullarity Of MaShonaland.
and, indeed, of most Of the interior OF South
Africa Sometimes it rises into mountains
but usually the general level is only broken
by low kopies, ard in those parts where the
bed rock and surface are ftatUest the kopjeS
present the NEST singular appearances The
whole country seems dotted with these curb
stones and in whichever direction YOU look
they gradually close in the view, as the
trunks OF trees would in forest. Some of
these curbStoneS are 300 feet or more high.
sheer all round, and apparently Of smaller
diameter than hight. Sometimes the original
mass has teen so broken up as to form the
most marvellous steeple-like structures spring
ing out Of the rich foliage that gro rs in all
the crevices. Native huts are built on these
kopjcs in the most inaccessible positions
A Pail Mall Budget correspondent. who
visited a London opium Joint" says; Imade
point Of watching the effect OF the successive
pipes on myself carefully. AS before. the
first pipe had no effect at all, after The second
pipe l found / was beginning to pcrSpire
gently, and the skin was soft and relaxed
exactly as II had been taking Dover's now
der. From this ii struck me that opium
smoking might be useful in muscular rheuma-
tlsm smoked FIVE pipes. one after the
other; and fancled that the action OF the heart
was signify depressed but beyond this felt
nothing whatever. had been chatting with
my most as he managed my pipe
i0r me ana had ascertained
cooking being done in the boarding houses
nor was there public joss" house; nv
most had his JOSS in special room in his
own house AS time was getting on rose to
leave, and received several friendly mods and
grins from other men there After had left
the place about quarter Of an hour | he
gan to find that the opium was taking effect.
My limbs felt as If they did not belong TO me.
could control them, but they seemed 10 he n
part OF some one else. NY brain seemed
quite clear and very active. but | pecame
aware that 1t was doing the thinking on its
own account; could not govern or direct the
chain OF my thoughts, which proceeded in the
most groteSque order the most irrelevant ideas
following one another and getting mixed M
with the ideas called up by external surround
lngS. MY sight. too. was affected: [ fancied
there was very faint haze over everything
and 1t seemed as II the power Of adjustment
was lost, and size and distance were dim nil
10 determine. l had slight hallucir ations
also; for instance was. for moment Ger
tam that ceutlpede about four or five inches
long. with chain round H. was walking nm
my leg: al the same time I knew il was only
vision. ana 1t arose from my having seen
curing the DAY man in the street selling one
OF the reptile toys which run along and are
held by a string. Soon after I fonnd tbo
greatest difficulty in keeping my ewes omen
though my brain was still al1uornnaii,,
active; this passed on and I felt no iii
effects of any kind; and [ NAV mention
that next morning had neither Observation-Disclosures
the least feeling of discomfort of anv lind
Certainly this will not be my last trial, M
experience was sufficiently interesting IA
MAKE me curious to carry il a point fnrthes