The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are only three Engllshmen lee
[ turing in America this season-COnan
/ Murray.
I OF the British army in India, reports that
only seVenty-three members OF the army
temperance societies were involved in the
| zoso court martials held during 1898
/ A number OF cases OF sudden loss Of
sight have recently been reported from
Cairns, Queensland. II IS generally be-
I hevd that this was brought about after
persons had eaten OF a peculiar berry
| known as native lOquat." which grows
plenutully in the district. The colonial
Z botanist has found them TO be badly in
tested with fungus, but there was no trace
Of poison.
/ As showing the value Of the Jewish regu-
lauons with regard to the animals slaugh-
tered for their food, the chief rabbi of
! New zealand states that amongst the POS
! cancer cases treated in the Wellington
/ hospital during the last eight years, there
has not been single Jewish patient. Out
| Of the 6.767 deaths registered in New Yea
l land during 1888, there were l,O6l caused
/ by cancer and tuberculosis diseases
two ailments which are very prevalent
I among cattle.
a Swiss statistician has taken the trou-
bic TO count the number of steps he took
in walking during a whole year. The
! number he finds to have been 100000 or
/ an average of 26,74O steps a day, Going
/ still further into detail, he declares that
over 100000 of these steps were taken in
/ going up and down stairs. on an aver
/ age he estimates that he walked nearly
/ ten miles day in order to bring about
/ these results.
! Eugene Field is unusually kind-hearted
/ and impulsive. and is ever ready to help
/ those in distress. During a recent visit
/ 70 New Orleans, while engaged one day in
his favorite pastime of hunting up curios,
| ne saw in a shop a rag doll one of the
! staring, blue-eyed. rosy-cheeked kind.
| Upon learning from the proprietor that an
\ old invalid woman gained her entire sup
/ port by making them, and that they only
/ sold them to help her, Mr. Field bought
/ all they had on hand and left word for her
/ to make as many as she could during the
| ensuing two weeks.
That even the kings who prosecuted
/ the Jews in the middle ages were obliged
| to employ Jewish physicians is well
/ vista de Ciencias Medicas now shows from
/ the vatican archives that the pope also
/ employed them, and in return protected
| them in holding their faith. Angelo de
| Manuele, jew, was appointed physician
! to Boniface TX. and the conclave of car
dinals in 1892 Julius II. had for his doc
/ tor Spanish rabbi. The popes Of the re-
/ Nuisance Leo X, Clement VII, Paul III,
all employed Jews. As late as 1850 the
/ religion of the doctors was not interfered
with.
THE Uncertainty of Life" was the sub
i 1ect of the sermon of Father Fldelis
| Noigt, in the Catholic church of Our Lady
of Angels at Albany, n. Y, Sunday. and
| 1t was strangely exemplitied in the death
/ of Mrs. Peter Bichel, who was present.
/
| mo man knows the hour or day when
| the Lord cometh" when the woman fell
back in her seat as If in a faint. Father
| Gehring went to her side, and, realizing
that she was dying, administered the
| sacrament of extreme JUNCTION, while the
congregation repeated prayers for the
| dying. The scene was an impressive one.
i A physician was called, and pronounced
| life extinct.
Nowhere are old soldiers so distin-
guished as in China. In 1890 the Emperor
paEt @ o TES& fbanR heaven Faf dba
! il has allowed us to reach the age OF 20
/ years, we herewith raise all active soldiers
! of the eight banners of Manchuria and
/ Mongolia to the rank of the nobility. To
| those who have passed forescore we give
| in addition a piece of silk, ten measures of
| have passed their 90th birthday are to re-
ceiVe double measure in each case" When
| the crack regiments of the Chinese con-
| tain men almost century old, 1t is not
| so difficult to understand the successes of
| the brave Japanese.
When the potato is grated on the toma-
! to- which can be done by reason of the
/ close relationship between the two
! plants, says Meehan's Monthly. the pota-
| to roots continue to produce potatoes,
while the tomato grated on the potato
stalk continues to produce tomatoes. This
| is considered in some of the agricultural
! papers as remarkable, that one plant
| should produce two different kinds of pro-
| ducts; but 1t is no more remarkable
| than all other experiences in grating
pear may be grated on the ounce but the
| roots are still ounce roots, although pears
| come from the grated portion. There
| have been some cases known where the
| graft will influence the stock, but to such
| a slight degree as not to materially alter
| its character.
A correspondent in Berlin says of Ca
/ priv that he is the very contrary Of a
! courtier; his back has never learned the
! courtier's curve 1T is possible that like
Lear's faithful Kent he was too little of
a courtier, for he lacked the art of yield
/ inc -. ttu1 1nfu tic n.a1
| dangered the essential heart and root of
| the matter. The widespread opinion that
he was mere obedient tool in the emper-
| ors hands, obeying him as soldier
| obeys his officer, is utterly erroneous. On
| the contrary, he obstinately opposed the
emperors wishes in little details of quite
subordinate Importance, and irritated him
thereby On the other hand, he was a
| very kind and considerate chief, and
shrank from hurting the feelings or in
juring the interests of even unserviceable
subordinateS."
The officers of Neptune Line steamer
now in port at Baltimore tell of a queer
experience in a gale on Nov. %. They say
that at O'Clock in the morning g gale
was blowing northwest, accompanied by
snow and rain, thunder and lightning
At that hour loud report was heard
in the air and an immense ball of fire APP
peared overhead. Suddenly two explo-
sions, louder than the first, were heard
After the first of these explosions the ball
became mass of forked streamers of
light. AT the second scintillating particles
spread over the ship aloft and shot in ali
| directions. Large Jumps of fire fell on the
deck. Several Of the men ran to pick them
up, but it is said they seemed to disappear
and left the men astounded.
1t is said that a German electrician has
invented a wonderful electric light, which
operates in the line of Nikola Tesla's hieh
potential and high frequency experiments |
but far surpasseS anything yet produced
by the wizard" The practical utility of
Tesla's work has often been doubted on
account of the cost of the production of |
the current necessary. but the German in I
Ventor, Prof. Ebert has made a lumines- /
cent lamp, using a sort of luminous paint
which gives a serviceable light with one |
milllonth part of one watt of electricitv |
Prof. Ebert says that his light costs bnt |
l-2OOO as much as an ordinary lamp These |
high frequency currents are not danger
Gus, and give but the smallest quantity |
Of heat, so the new light will probably be- |
come popular.
-, The Boston Transcript recalls the fact
that so recently as Nov a. 1880. a large |
pack OF wolves took possession of n hin |
near Tamworth, N. H. The farmers
alarmed by the depredations of the beasts' |
formed themselves into an army, 500 |
strong, under the command of an old |
officer, Gen. Quimby. The hill was sur-