The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

emit ne reporter eVtdently UNDERSTOOD
little about women's fancies, and made
the dress of the czarina, by his descrip-
ton, one long out of fashion. The result
was ukase from the censor of the press
one OF the most powerful men in Russia
that Russian newspapers in the future
must refrain from describing or attempt
ing 10 describe the dresses OF her majesty.
IDS naturally deprivesr the Russian
women of an interesting subject for dis
cussion and criticism, and they are ex-
tremely angry at the censor.
The Chicago tug BIackbaIl which was
htfed with oil burners. some weeks ago,
is still running on the river doing good
work to the satisfaction of its owners.
City Engineer Artingstau received an
official report last Saturday of a recent
test. 1t says there was practically no
smoke during the trip, and the steam
production was ample at all times. This
report Mayor Hopkins has been wanting
for some time. Several weeks ago he
ordered proceedings stayed in smoke
cases against tug owners on their state
ments that the tests made up to that time
We're by no means practical. They prom
ised the mayor that when another test
could be made and the city could offer
the tug owners something in every way
practical they would be glad to substi-
tute 1t for the present soft COAL dense
smoke arrangement The mayor probably
will inform the tugmen soon that the
city has now shown them something
practical and expects the tugs to dis
continue the violation of the smoke ordi-
nance.
The Emperor of Russia, says the Lon
don Road, has four separate Services of
horses and carriages-the gale set, and
the French, English and Russian sets.
Each set comprises at least fifty horses.
Inc Russian set accompanies the emperor
Wherever he goes, and at CATCHING it is
used together with the English set. The
gala and the French horses and carriages
are housed at St. Petersburg in the winter
palace stables. The gala horses are Han
oVerlan, and of the breed of which a
specimen figures in the legend of the
white horse of Charlemange. The horses
are perfectly white, with blue eyes, and
anything more magnificent in the way of
trappings than their harness can hardly
be conceived. The state carriages are of
the Louis XIV. style, and the one which
carries the sovereigns to their weddings
or coronations has circles of diamonds
set inside, among the cushions and the
root The imperial crown surmounts this
state carriage, which is drawn by eight
white horses, each led by position
dressed in white and gold.
In the year 1887 a patent for 10000 acres
of land in the forests of Virginia was sur
Veyed, and the usual mark-probably by
a big knife-was blazed on the trees, says
the Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record Mayor Hotchkiss has
found five corner trees thus blazed, and
has cut out blocks showing the mark made
at the time of the survey, and also show
Ing the rings of growth from the point of
the original mark, which rings correspond
in number with the 107 years which have
passed since the patent was surveyed The
average in white oak is only about one
are as sharply defined where two different
kinds of wood are Joined, and yet the out
side of the tree scarce shows the trace
OF the mark. In that region there are trees
that range in diameter from eighteen
inches up to eleven feet, and it is probable
from these facts, as revealed by these sec
lions of wood and from careful observa-
tons by Dr. Hopkins of the West Virginia
experiment station, that some of these
trees are over eighteen hundred years of
age.
In a recent issue of the Kansas City
Journal it was recorded that the Kansas
City Fort Scott and Memphis railroad
had the credit Of hauling the. longest
train of loaded passenger coaches ever
drawn in the world. 1t was composed
Of twenty-three coaches, which held an
average of 100 passengers each, and was
run uot of Kansas City to Merriam park,
carrying the colored school children, who
TOOK days outing at that resort. Last
year, says the Scientific American, the
Alton TOOK train of twenty-one coaches
into Chicago and claimed the record on
big passenger trains. The Alton record
was beaten on May 7, 1894, by the Jack
sonville, St. Augustine and Indian River
railway, which ran an excursion train
consisting of twenty-five crowded coaches
from Jacksonville to ST. Augustine a dis
lance of thirty-eght miles, in one hour
and fifteen minutes, three minutes of
which was consumed in backing out of
the Jacksonville yards and six minutes
in taking wood and water en- route. The
actual running time, therefore, was one
hour and six minutes. On Sunday, Au-
railway actually beat the record of the
Memphis route and secured the worlds
record for big passenger trains. The
regular passenger train from Jackson
vile at $50 that morning consisted Of
twenty-five loaded passenger coaches and
one baggage car, besides the Schenectady
locomotive, which drew the train from
South Jacksonville to St Augustine with
out assistance. There were about 800
passengers on board, and remarkably good
time was made. The occasion which
| called out this crowd was an encamp-
ment of a portion of the Florida state
| troops in the ancient city, and but for
! some previous agitation against Sun
! day excursions and military parades it
| is probable that fully thirty cars would
have been required to handle the bust
| ness.
| If the stomach is in healthy condition
| and able to digest food says the Family
| Doctor, that condition will be indicated
! by a sense of hunger; if the system is in
| a disordered state, as is that of a person
| suffering from fever, no food is relished
! and the patient does not care whether he
| eats or not. In such a case it is the duty
| of the nurse to insist on the patient TAX
! ing food, the same as he would medicine
once in SC many hours. Dyspeptics
| often literally starVe themselves because
| their stomachs suffer when they take
| food and they take less and less until
| by and by the stomach loses all desire
| for food and almost loses it's ability to
person is to train the stomach into
state of activity. The stomach needs to
have healthy stretching with a good
big meal and to have some hard work TO
do. have seen n good many patients
whose stomachs were not really feeble
but they need to be stretched by hearty
meals. Once in a while / prescribe a
good square meal for patient who COM
plains that he does not want to eat anv-
thing. A one time l had lady patient
whose stomach had been pampered until
it finally became so feeble and Inactive
that il would not act upon nor even hold
any food that was put into it. | was
greatly perpleXed to know what to trv
next. She was finally restricted to
nothing but oat meal Cruel, but her
stomach would not even digest that. 7
then said, The best thing for YOU now
is to eat what you please" So / ordered
a good meal for her, everything on the
bill of fare, and she ate everything she
wanted. Her stomach disposed of the
meal without a particle of trouble, ali
the vomiting and discomfort ceased and
from that time she began TO gain In
health. The time sometimes comes in the
treatment of cases which have been lieted
so carefully that a change to an ordinary
wholesome dietary becomes not only
proper but necessary for recovery,
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