The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-11
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Perhaps the Oldest son-in-law in this coun-
try is Uncle Dave Brewer, Of Lebanon Ore
He is 81. and his mother-in-law Is living with
him at the age of 90.
A fund is icing raised under the auspices
of the Presbyterian Board or Foreign Mis-
sions for the purpose of erecting at Tatreez,
Persia hospital for sick foreign travellers.
The site has been secured and 400 francs
collected.
There is a small tribe of Indians in south
ern Arizana who are idolators. They are in
reality SIM worshipers but make small i'm
ages out of Clay with faces sur posed 20 repre-
gent the sun. although bearing little If any
resemblance to it. They do not associate
with other tribes and are very rarely seen by
white men. The Lois have q 'ge round bodies
and heads. with eyes and mouth and ears,
beams radiatiny from the eyes over the face
The Indians have these in their rude no fses
or wigmamS and at certain seasons they hol1
a sun dance which is with them a religious
ceremony. hey have no other form Of
worship, although few OF them were at one
time induced to abandon their idols by the
works of the Jesuits.
The Pittsburg Dispatch gives this as a sure
cure for hiccough: All you have to do is to
lie down. stretch your head back as far as
pOssi be open your mouth widely. then hold
two fingers above the head, well acS, so that
YOU have to strain your ewes to see them, gaze
intently upon them and take long, full
Dreams. IN snort TIME you Will DC 6ublFely
relieved of the troublesome hicCough Now
l have tried that ire cure on all sorts Of
cases, from the simple form to the chronic,
and it works we'll with all. 1 remem Der it
was given to a man on the way to New York
to consult a specialist on his case-one of six
months stand,ng-anG it cured him in few
minutes. He turned around and sal /: What
do you charge for that Nothing" was
the reply, except that you publish to suf-
feTers."
The germ theory is largely responsible for
some OF the marvels of modern surgery Out
of the germ theory grew the scrupulous care
of surgeons as to the aseptiC and antiseptic
treatment Of wounds that the fevers and
infammatiOns thatuSe to be IueiH eyitable con-
sequence of surgical operations are now IN
known in well managed hospitals. Surgeons
will now clip off the top OF man ) head, eX-
hibit his brain TO a curious lass of students,
send him to bed with his wound antisepti-
cally dressed, and bring him back week
latter with nothing to snow of the operation
but a slight and well healed scar. When a
boys leg was to Q removed the other day,
the surgeons first cut hole in the abdomen
, big enough for one Of hem to thrust
in his sterilized fist an pinch an atery that
would be involved in the operation. But
for the possibility of antiseptic treatment
no such operation could be performed with
safety.
Linear tactics and frelocks contributed
more lavishly to the death.rou than the Skin
mishers and breechloaders of modern times.
says the Saturday Review At Blenheim
ngland lost some % per cent and her enc
mics about tAe same number. At Mollwitz
the Pr1ssianS lost IL per cent the Austrians
| Is per cent. Al Kolin Frederick s force suf-
fered to the e ytent of 81 per cent, while their
| victory cost his enemies only II per ent. At
| Zorndorf, the 0loodiest battle of witch we
have any record that we may rely upon, the
proportion of loss to the total forces engaged
| rose to the enormous total of from one-half to
one.third. hunersdOrf was almost as de-
I l.
| per cent. against 20 per cent o. the allies
| With the advent OF Napoleon and
| the loosened formations OF the reyo-
| dictionary armies losses were at first dimin-
| ishod, but at Aspen the Austrians left nearly
| % per cent. Of their men on the battlefield
and the rench, although the bulletins de-
MED it, are said to have been weaker by one
half after the tattle. BOrodino, too. deprived
the Russ ans of 80 per cent. and the French
| Of IS per cent. During the NaPoeonic wars
we find the losses lower, although after Lignv
the Prussiaa; were weaker by as many as 70
! per cent, and the victory Of Waterloo cost
England rather more than that proportion
When. however, we turn to the campaigns
which succeeded the lull Of exhaustion follow
ing the downfall Of the first empire we are
confronted with no such bloody records
/ in spite of the invention Of percussion caps
rifles and even rife cannon. The
allies at the Alma only lost some
per cent and the Russians Il per cent. In
herman, however, was as bloody as Water
loo, but II was a struggle in which tactics
played a very small part The losses at
Magenta and SolferinO were comparatively
slight. Although the consequences of KONG
gratz were immense, they we're cheapy pur-
chased by the victors; while in 1870, notwith-
standing that 10 h sides were armed with
teethloaders, the losses never approal he'd
the huge totals Of some OF the battles Of the
early century or OF those OF the seven wears
war. At Worth it is IT e, one sixth Of the
totll forces engaged were either killed or
wounded; but as Gravelotte the proportion
was ONLY neeleyenth, and at Weissenburg
one-twelfth.