The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

seas, and that, marshalled Dy q sort of king
hsh. dense shoals of them every season came
south. 1t is known now that herring spawn
on the English coasts, but all Efforts tOWal q
getting at the truth about the migra tOI Y
habits have been unsuccessful. All sorts c.
marking have been tried. Five hundred hsh
were captured and released after d piece of
aluminium wire bearing d disc had been Vt
tached to their dorsal tin, but not one re-
turned TO tell its tale. They fit about the
coasts in the most erratic manner. The one
! thing positive seems to be that they never go
very far away or for very long. If one fishing
town has an occasional lean year. there is
always an abundant harvest for many others.
The Yale Medical School a few days ago re
| cetved little machine that ushers in an in
nOvatiOn among the medical schools of the
United States. 1t Is the first of IS kind ever
brough hit to this country, and the thirteenth
that has been constructed. 1t is called The
Smaller Respiration Apparatus and is one
OF the latest and most famous inventions Of
Prof. Volt, OF Germany. The VoIt machine is
used to determine the decomposition of the
BODY. Dy measuring the amount Of oxygen alb
SorCed and the amount of carbonic acid and
water given of. In this way the decOmposi-
tlon o. different foods in the body can be de-
termlned, and valuable and interesting results
thereby obtained. These experiments at Yale
Will be carried on by placing animals that
nave been fed on some particular kind of
food in glass cases and keeping them there
for tWenty-four hours. and measuring the air
as 1t IS admitted to the cage and as it eSca pes
after having been used by the animal. In
cases Of consumption, for example, this ma
chlne Is OF great value. as II determines the
foods that are most healthy and are least
liable to seriously tnjure such cases.
From western point CT view there is one
great drawback to opium smolung-it takes
too much time, says the British Medical
journal Western hurry seems, however. to
be gradually permeating even the vices
OF the east, and now, the morphine syr-
inge rivals the opium pipe, if we may believe
a, report which reaches us from Hong Kong.
| The practice has been known for some time
| IN shanghai, and, some six months ago, il was
| brought to Hong Kong, where there are now
! some twenty houses in which regular trade
IN 1T IS openly carried on. Each house has, on
| an average, fifty clients, who call in the morn
! ing and the evening and take their doses An
| injection IS much cheaper than u smoke, and,
| primarily, no doubt. that is the reason of it's
! rapid popularity. CurlOuSlV en- )ugh the pre-
| tence is that it is used as cure for the vice
of opium smoking. to which, however, it
| would seem to have about the same relation
as whisky bar has to beer saloon. The
immediate happiness Of an injection. which
can be had without the loss of time, the pub
lie exposure, or the loathsome associations of
tie opium den, is a far mOle dangerous temp
talon than the more slowly acting and more
| expensive pipe. Truly, in this matter, John
| Chinaman is jumping out Of the fryiugpan
into the fire.
In Ohio the treatment of the insane has
| made rapid progress in the past few years.
says the New Orleans Picayune. These un-
the theory that they are diseased not crlmi-
mails, and the new and humane methods en-
plONed are said to result i'll an astonishing
number of permanent cures. DR. Richard
Gundry, lately deceased. about fifteen years
ago first introduced hospitals rather than
prisons for the insane. and to-day strait
jackets muffs, cribs and other instruments
OF torture are unknown III the state hospitals.
which contain over 5000 patients The utter
cruelty Of mechanical restraints has been
Illustrated by many examples. but none is
more instructive than the following
One middle-aged woman had been con
fined to CRIB SO long that She was in
very pltiablc condition from bed sores. and
her muscles had grown so weak from lack of
use that she was unable to walk when first
given her freedom. Her mind seemed to have
given place to utter Vacuity, and she was one
OF the most pttiful objects in the institution
as the nurse helped her. step by step to learn
to walk again. Under wise AMI COnsiderate
treatment this woman not merely regalned
her strength physically but IN six months
after being released from the crib. utterly de
mented, possessing, to all appearances, no
mind at all, she was sent home to her friends
clothed ana in her right mind" The new
system requiresa somewhat larger number
OF attendants, and more constant vigilance,
but the beneticent results of its merclful gen
tleness more than compensate for the extra
expense -.,
No state in the union suffers more from
tramp nuisance than California. An army Of
unemplOy men are attracted there every
year bystories of the salubrity of the climate
and thecheapness of living, but there is a
strong suspicion that the county officers
who profit by the arrest of Migrants en-
courage them to batten on the community
Inc Following excerpt from a Contra Costa
county court record explains itself Making
arrest s.; mileage making arrest, eight miles
Sl6O; mileage to court, 25C. mileage to
county, jail sixteen miles, s.; fare to Jail
Sl.35 meals to prisoner. 75c.; Justices fee.
cost as much merely to arrest and
try tramp as it would to pay his wages as a
laborcr for two weeks and some tramps IN
their peregrnations are good for
Discussing the subjuct, the San Fran
cisco Examiner says: 'lhe tramp evil should
he dealt with by a vigorous and uniform pol
icy. II should be taken entirely out of the
hands of local officials whose interest it is to
aggrayate 1t for fees There should be a rad
lcal distinction tetween the treatment Of men
who really want work, and of those who pre-
fer to dodge it. This distinction would enaf IL
the worthless element TO be kept within man
ageable limits. and to be treated with q riCOr
which public opinion would not sanction if il
pressed on the innocent as well as the guilty
There IS no reason why every man willing to
work should not have some better resource
than the chaingang. When society has per
Iected SUCH arrangements that everybody who
pretendS that he is unable to find emp}oy-
ment, con be safely set down as an impostor
1t Will pe possible, for the first time to handle
the professional tramp as he should be han
die l."
The inscriptions on Oh inese coins, like
those on their tapestries, porcelains and
other artistic productions, are always Quaint
curious and characteristic. SAYS the Collector
A gold coin issued by the Chinese government
during the reign of Wa TSung had upon its
face the inscription: True virtue current
money" A bronze piece issued during the
seventeenth century by ChWany Leih III bears
the words Highest purity. currency money =
The coin issued by Tsung from 1851 to 1862
bore the words prevailing prospective" the
larger also Large money" and on the re-
verse value one hundred times meaning
that their value was 100 cash A rouze niece
issued during the same period bears the
words, Always bright" Another piece Of
the same reign has upon its face, Prevailing
prosperity, heavy money" The brass caSh
OF the present emperor of China bears the
words, bright beginning, current money, -
and the reverse Treasury weight
one mace and the name of the mint al
which 1t was coined. The Korean
coin ge, which resembles the Chinese cash
in many particulars in its INSCRIPTIONS hears
the Inscriptions, Always peaceful cnrren+
money and on the reverse, IAN four -
which means that the coin should be good in
ali four directions of the country. Another
set OF coins issued at the mint in Seoul ko
rea. Is inscribed Great East" one Of the
names given to Korea. as the great cou1try
east of CHINA. Another word OF character
upon coins indicates gate" which nrobahlv
means that the coin is to go out for circula
ton among the people. Still another coin
bears the words Great gate value OF ono
hundred In Japan the coins bear yariors
inscriptions, some after the manner az Cybi
nese CONS. Some of the older ones which
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