The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

% The Rev. E. E. Wiley, Of Sedalia' Mo mas
been expelled from a local Chautauqua Circle
because he umpired game Of base bail
A sturgeon weighing LAO pounds was
caught in the Caspian sea two weeks ago
The head alone weighed 22s pounds and the
fish furnished 100 pounds Of roe Tor caVlaTe-
The fish was sold for $50.
Miss Sophie A. Nordhon, a former student
Of medicine at Washington, according toior-
eign papers. has been appointed physician
at the famous woman's clinic OF FroI. on
Winkel in Munich. She is extremely popular
An ANALYSIS recently made OF the ingredi-
ents of ice cream purchased at random from
the Italian vendors in the most populous
quarters OF London revealed some very start
ling facts and has caused quite senSaIloE'
One sample was found 10 contain boiled corn,
water. tarJaric acid and sugar coloTed VITA
aniline dyes, and also bore traces OF lead ana
antlmony.
1t is apparent to the most careless OBJ
server" says the New York World that
there are ill mo than the usuafHumper OF
persons out OF enjoyment IN THIS CITY. LII
tie groups of curiosity seekers gather in the
down town streets on the slightest preteGt. A
fight between small boys, a striking picture
in a window, bulletin board with news
tWenty-four hour old. will attract tnroag,
the majority of whom in flush times would be
too busy to llnger-
1T would be interesting" says the New
York Sun, Ito know what will be the effect of
the trolley extension throughout the city upon
bicycle riding. No man who Uses hls- bicycle
for business is likely TO continue its use When
he can get about cheaply and swiftly Dy eiec-
trio propulsion. On the other hand. however,
bicyclists, with the certainty that they can e
helped out by the trolley at any point OF DIM
Guilty are likely TO be more venturesome IN
taking long journeys when they have only a
few hours leisure at their disposal"
Anent the approaching dog days. the Wash
ington Post discusses with a veterinarian the
subject Of canine madness There are two
kinds of "a Dies" says the dactOr, the DUMB
and the raging" In the latter there is no
mistaking tbs disease. as the amman starts
out to run amuck and goes swapping and
biting at everything in sight until he falls eX-
hausted. But the other variety is principally
Indicated by the paralysis OF the lower Jaw,
rendering 1t impossible for the animal to eat
or drink. The disease does not make the dog
vicious, and not until the last stages of the
malady is 1t apt to be discovered. Inc poison,
however, is deadly, and is easier Of transmits
sion from the fact that the mad brute gives
no sign OF his condition.
Every schoolhoy knows which is the small
est and which the largest state in the union,
Lu. how many knows which is the lowest and
which the highest According to the recently
announced results of meas lrments and calcu-
lations made by the United States Geological
survey Delaware is the lowest state, its ele-
walton over sea level averaging only sixty
feet. Colorado is the highest, averaging $500
feet above the sea. while Wyoming is close
second only 10 feet lower than Colorado. In
minimum elevation Florida and Louisiana
dispute for second place after Delaware, their
average elevation being. for each, 100 feet
Taking the United States as a whole. our
country lies slightly above the average eleva-
ton Of the land Of the globe.
In that country once known as the Great
American Desert" embracing a portion of
Texas and Arizona. there are no Odors," said
R. z. Senter of Dallas. to the Cincinnati T n
qulrer. There, luscious grapes and many
other fruits grow, especially near the cross
timber country, but there Is no perfume;
wllddOwers have no smell, and carcasses of
dead animals, which in dry seasons are very
plentiful, emit no doors. 1t was always sup
posed to De treeless plain. upon which no
plant could grow, or breathing thing could
live, but a large part of it is now successfully
cultivated, and. but for the rarity of the at
mosphere, causing the popularity l have
named, and the mlrageS, which are even more
perfect than in the Desert of Sahara, no one
would look upon it as a barren country now.
Another singular feature common to the des-
ert is that objects at a distance appear greatly
magnit ed. A few scraggy mesquite bushes
VIII look like a noble forest; stakes driven
into the grOu1d will seem like telegraph
poles
In connection with the directions for resus-
citatng persons who have apparently been
drowned which appear in print at this season
of the year, and which are conspicuously
posted at points where thew are most liIxely
to he of service, it is we'll to remem Der that a
large proportion OF those who are seemingly
dead when taken from the water are really in
a state of suspended animation. writer in
the New York sun relates the case of q boy
who had heen under the water in Long Island
sound for fifteen or twenty minutes and who
was given up for dead by the majority Of the
spectators. The lad was brought back to life
after two hours of continued friction, the APP
plicatlon of hot towels and the modern sys-
! tenn of COMPRISING and expanding the lungs
by raising and lowering the arms of the
patient Instances of this kind are too num-
erouS and too well attested to admit of Ques-
tom and they point the moral of persistent
e1ort for hours II need be, at tanning back
into flame the half-quenched and impercep-
tlble spark OF life.
cotton storm, looking exactly like snow
storm, is a common sight in the cottonwood
groves OF Colorado says the Philadelphia
Record, The white, fluffy material grows in
long bunchas, loosely attached to stems, and
the fiber is very shert. AT the lightest breeze
that stlrs the branches tiny bits of it take
to flight, and one tree will shed cotton for
weeks 1t c.ingS to ones garments il gets
into the house and sticks to the carpets. often
showing trail of white footprints where a
porSon has come in; it clogs the wire-gau
screens till they keep out the air as we'll as
the hles II fills the noses and the eyes of men
and beasts. But its most curious effect is on
the plants and flowers, to which it ad.
heres, being little gummy
Some towers look as If they
we're encased in ice, and others
seem wrapped in the gauziest of wells. which
hlmsy as it looks cannot be completely
cleared from the leaves 1t covers the ground
like snow, and strangely enough it looks in
June, Dut 1t does not. like snow melt even
under the warm summer sunshine. 1t must
be swept from the garden and walks and
carted away a heavy rain clears the air and
subdues it for a time, but the sun soon dries
the punches still on the trees, and the cotton
storm in again in full blast. This ANNOYANCE
lasts through June and part OF july fully
six weeks. and then the stems themselves
drop to the ground, still holding enough
cotton to keep up the storm for days. After
this the first rainfall ends the trouble for that
season.
Hiccoughs are the result of sudden spas.
modic contractions of the diaphragm caus.
ing jars of the abdomen and thorax says the
New York Herald. The sharp. inarticulate
sound is produced by the tightening and
vibration Of the edges Of the CLOTHS. They
sometimes appear during the evolution OF
complaints that are entirely di1erent-such
as disorders Of the digestive tract, o assesses
Of the throat, and in stenosis of the esophagus
They also appear in diseases of the respira.
tory organs, in cases OF poisoning and in
nervous complaints These are the rare
forms, however the more common being
what are termed the emotional appearing
after moral shock. a fright or some other
emotion. Thus, when there is an epidemic of
hlccoughs it is connected undoubtedly with
hystercal contagion, and is due to the nery-
Gus predisposition of the individuals attacked
Nearly every one has n sllre cnra For +l,;.