The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The oval electrode which has been devised
for the removal Of PARTICLES Of iron or steel
from the eye is said to prove of peculiar prac-
teal value-the use Of a magnet directly after
an inquiry. where a chip OF metal has pene-
( trated the Interior of the eve. always giving
! lar more favorable results as to vision than
Wnt used later. so that many cases are on
/ record where large particles have been re-
/ moved from the tissues Of the eye by the
] magnet, with hardly appreciaOle impair
ment OF the vision. II is recommended that
/ In large injuries Of the eye, where the pres
( ence OF piece Of iron or steel within the eve
/ Is Suspected, the physician should not hest
/ tate 70 insert magnet as inhamm alton and
/ loss OF the eye will ensue il the foreign SUBJ
/ stance be allowed TO remain; IT, however, the
injury shows but very small opening through
/ the eyebau, the Intruding su stance should
| first be located with the oph kaleidoscope.
/ tnen the wound through the eye all should e
| carefully enlarged, and the ma met inserted
as close to the particle as possible.
| 1t is not known to every one that tea tasting
| is regular commercial profession. and one
which is certain death to all who pursue it,
/ The success of the tea faster depends upon
the trained accuracy Of his nose and palate
MS experience in the wants Of tie market
ana Keen IslnesS tact. II he has these quail
lucatlons IN high cultivation he NAV com
n4dnd large salary as long as he liyes-aud
| de OF liberation Of the lungs. In overhauling
a cargo OF tea he clasSlues it and determines
the value OF each so t. In doing this he looks
at the color Of the leaf and the general
cleanliness OF it. He next takes quantity
OF the hero in his hand and breathing his
warm Urealh upon it. snufs up the
fragrance. IN DONG this he draws into s
lungs quantity OF irritating dust. which is
Dy no means wholesome. Then, sitting down
az a "a Ole o his office, on which is a long row
OF lltIle porcelain cups and a pot Of hot water,
ne draws the tea and tastes 1t In this way
ne ciasslues the different sorts of the minutest
SHADES, makes the different prices, and then
compares his work with the invoice The
skill OF some of these men is marvellous. but
the enect OF the business on their health is
rulnous. They grow lean, nervous and con-
sumptive.
Statistics Of the Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie show that it is on the downward pa h,
| though it is still veritable army so far as
numbers are concerned. On June 80. 1898,
tnere were 397, 223 members in good standing.
On June so 1894 the number had fallen to
| S69, Oss. The losses By deaths amounted
to 1888, and this loss might easily
re onset by new recruits. as there are pro "a
ply 2JJUOO men eligible TO membership who
have not yet joined the order. But the order
also suffers largely from suspensions. Many
OF the members, particularly during hard
times, are unable to keep up their payments
suspended last year for that rea-
son. Fourteen thousand were re-
lnstated, but The me- loss from SUSPENSIONS
was more than $4,000. Unless some eItraor-
| binary event should stimulate the growth of
the order. it may be expected to gradually
decline Few OF the members are under as
/ yea , Ol age the majority. prODaOlY. are De-
tween 30 and 80, while some are in the seven
! ties. The mortality of such a body Of men,
many Of whom have been weakened by dis
ease or wounds, will naturally increa Sc rapid
! " as the years roll by, and ten years hence
the ranks Will be greatly depleted unless re-
! cru1tS can be mustered in.
When nature does anything in the vast
! Northern Maine wilde mess, says the Lewis
| ton Journal. she does it on grand scale and
| now comes news of a landslide there. com
Nayh1 ho fnrv ,1,,
! Crawford notch was but child S play. One
| evening not long ago, during one of the heavy
! thunder showers, lightning struck the sum
! nit or Mt. Baker, which rears its head a out
! twenty miles northwest of the hatahdin Iron
| Works. Mr.. Randall, who lives alone in his
/ camp ABOUT i've miles from the mountain
| heard amid the crashes OF thunder a long
! drawn roaring unlike anything he had heard
! before. In the morning he started out to find
! whence the sound came One glance at
| Baker mountain solved the mystery Thou
! sands OF tons Of rock, lOosened PROBABLY by
| the lightning shock, had plOwed trough an
! eighth OF a mile wide from summit to base of
| the peak. For several miles The enormous
trees had Leen swept before the avalanche
| and buried under % feet of gravel. The news
/ reached the lower settlen.e nt a day or two
later, being ONE by the thick, muddy water
that change the character of Lyford ponds
Silver lake and Pleasant river. An expsdi-
| ton started northward to learn the cause of
this mud, and heard the whole story on arrival
at RandalIS camp.
The extent to which the Columbian stamps
have been bought up by collectors and dealers
is shown in the inc eased value now set on
this issue. The investment is the safest
one can imagine says Chicago speculator.
You buy the stamps and put them in a
safety deposit vault until YOU are ready to
| sell them at good profit. If you need money
at any time, the banks will loan on them
nearly to their full value, or you can go to
the pOstofice and trade them for stamps of
lower denominations" This man, foreseeing
] n n OF
high prices from collectors IN few
years, began last Decem Der to buy all
the one dollar and the hfty-cent stamps
that he could md for sale After buying hun
dreds Of dollars worth at the Chicago postof-
| fee he employed agents in other cites to Sc
! cure stamps for HIM. Finally he sent out
loo postal cards TO pOStmaSters inquiring
Whe ther they had any Columbian stamps left
In most cases the answer was: We have
none OF the stamps on hand" The lowest
quoted rate in CHICAGO for the one-dollar
stamp is 10, and some dealers hold them as
high as SIP. The stamp cole ting firms here
ana ABROAD have gone into the business ex.
tenslVely and there is now talk of a COM ina-
tlon between the largest three firms to create
corner and send prices very much higher
The English sparrow promises to be very
| offensive to the reed-bird by eating the lat
ters food, says the Wilmington Dell News
1t is said that the sparrow has been slandered
| and things told on him that were not true Int
| TINS chart can ue proved. Every ouy knows
! that attracts the reed-bird. In the southland
| where he lives before he comes here, he is
| called the rice bird, because he feeds on the
| rice fields OF the Carolina and Georgia
/ planter. 1t is the wild oat he wants when he
/ comes north, and his love for this delicacy
/ keeps him up all night The fussy little spar
| row, however has learned that there
! Is sweetness ana nutrition n tue
! wild oat, and he has quit his business
/ as small street staYenger. and Is hVlaa and
/ growing fat on oats This discovery by q
| sparrow, however, may IN time ca S the T, q
| bird to desert this part OF lie county, and
| this Will De cons deced a great hardship by
| those who like TO shoot and eat the festive
| 'reedy.' B this as it may. the sparrows
! are eating the wild oats, and this is not all
/ they will not wait until the seeds are ripe.
| Eastslde gunners say that they 90 not care
| whether the sparrows drive away the ''reedy'
| or not. these men say that il is the reed
| seeds that make the birds such a delcacy
! and If the sparrow fattens on them he will be
/ as good to eat as the bird he has driven away
| II the ''reedy' does not come they saw thew
! will shoot the sparrow. and if the latter fat
| tens up on reed seeds they will shoot him any
| how
The extensive pine forest which covers the
dunes Of Southwestern France, stretching
from the Easn d'Arcachon on the north for
many miles southwark toward Biarritz. is the
home OF a curio S caterpillar Bombvx pythJo.
campa, OF the same family as the sllkWorm.
says Cham bers Journal These insects pos.