The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Extensive preparations are being made at
Trede-icksburg Va. for the dedication OF the
monument to Mary, the mother OF Washing
ton, which will take place on May 10
Christopher Columbus. the Eskimo taby
born at the Chicago Worlds Fair, died at the
san Francisco Midwinter Fair last week.
The climate was too eneryating for him.
The fire department at Berlin has fire en-
CINE, the carriage Of which is constructed en-
tirely out OF papier mache. All the different
parts, the body. the wheels, etc, are finished
In the best posi- Die manner. While the
dura bility and powers Of resistance oSsessed
by this material are fully as great as those Of
wood, the weight Is, OF course, much less
The lightness OF tire engine is OF course a
great advantage and it seems not unlikely
that wooden carriages wlll in short time
pass ont OF use altogether.
England makes curious provisions on Its
dangerous coast for shipwrecked mariners.
This is the dry official description given of
the supplies on st. Paul island; They are
IN cave at the foot OF the west clin OF
rocky chaSm running north and south, and
its position is indicated by q stone ca1rn lla
feet in hight and about II fees broad
at the base. erected on the summit of the
west cliff Of the chasm. This calrn, visible
from GaZelle Basin, is painted black, and
shows clearly against the sky"
, A curious poultry show is being organized
in Paris, says the Brandon Bucksaw. The
principal feature of it will be the champion
ship competition for growing ROSTERS. That
IS to say, the bird that crows the loudest. the
longest an the greatest number OF times in d
given period will get the Irlze. The chain
pion cock Of France is a little bantam hailing
from the neighborhOod Of Seraing. He is on
record as having crowed no less than 81
times in one hour. Training requires a great
deal of care, especially just before competl-
ton takes place, since, unless proper preca l.
aHn or 10 a IN
hat s. his voice before the tournament The
training consists. as q rule, in placing the
candidate Tor hOnors N cage in the midst
or a circle Of other cages each containing a
cock. The one in the confer sounds a nrst
strdent note, and thereupOn those around
MN respond ana the concert is kept up. the
BIRDS each ende9voring TO outcrow the other
Growing birds OF this kind bring large prices
In some cases as much as Si00 and $50.
How is it that the eyes of some portraits
seem to follow a spectator around the room?
1t is thus explained, says the Baltimore
American. Suppose a portrait have its face
and eyes directed straight in front so as to
look at the spectator. Let a straight line be
drawn through the Zip OF the nose and half
way between the eyes On each side OF this
Is lire there viii the breadth OF
head, of cheek. Of chin, and neck, and each
iris will be in the middle Of the whole Of the
eve. II one now go to one side, the apparent
horizontal breadth Of every part of the head
and face will be diminished. but the parts on
each side OF the middle line will be dimin-
iShed equally, and al every position however
o5lique, there will be the same breadth
OF face on each side of the middle
line, and the iris Will remain in the center of
the whole OF the eyeball so that the portrait
Will preserve all the character of figure
looking at the spectator, and must necessa-
rily do so wherever he stands. IN portraits
the apparent motion of the head is generally
rendered iudistmct by the canvas being i'm
perfectly stretched, as the slightest concavity
or conVeX1ty entirely deforms the face Oft
times the obliqulty is considerable. The de-
cept1On is therefore seen best when the
painting is executed on a fat board and in
colors sufficiently vivid to represent every
line in the face with tolerable distinctness at
great obliquities. DistinCtness Of outline is
also most necessary to a satisfactory exhibit
tlon of this optical delusion.
We have all. as children made mud pies,
but the children at a hot spring at Gauda-
loupe Mex, cook them, eat them and be-
sides that make pocket money by selling
them to tourists as souvenirs says a writer
in an exchange. A peculiar yellow clay is
found there, and the natives say that the mud
pies made of them by the children are not
lll-havored. They speak from the recollec-
tions of childhood, though, think, as l never
saw an adult eat them. There is an interest
ing legend connected with the spring. 1t is said
to nave been OF miraculous origin. An aged Pill
grim, footsOre, weary and hungry, lay down
to rest where the spring now Is. He had not
morsel to eat for three days, and there was
Ill A
rabbit had been caught in thicket, even
as the goat was that staid Abraham's hand
There was no means of preparing it for food
however. The pilgrim had the faith that
moves mountains. Planting his foot in the
yielding soil he stood up and prayed for sue
cor. spring gushed out, as the water did
from the rock when Moses smote il with his
rod only this spring was of hot water The
pilgrim slew and cooked the rabbit. He
bathed his weary limbs in the water which he
caught in gourd and then allowed to cool
and then found that the waters had healing
properties, for the bleeding Wounds on mis-
feet, sustained in his pilgrimage were made
well. The pilgrim afterward became q noted
saint, adOred TO this day in the Mexican cal
endar, and the hot spring has never ceased to
bow."
Dr. Klein, F. r. 6, lecturer on general
anatomy and physiology at St Bartholomev's
hospital, delivered a lecture on cholera at the
London institution recently. The lecturer
said, according to the London Iimes that
the prevention of cholera was 5esct with less
difficulty than that of some of the communica-
bic diseases. which in towns we had almost
constantly among u.s. He quoted an account
by Ernest Hart Of the great religious festival
OF humbh fair at Hardwar, a town on the
Ganges at which, in 1891 100000 to .OlO 600
pilgrims assembled. In the opinion of many
experienced officials, the most complete saui
tary arrangement would be powerless to pre-
vent the spread Ct cholera if the fair was al-
lowed to take place. The pilgrims coming
from cholera infected districts brought the
infection with them, and two people
died of undoubted cholera at Har war
during the most crowded period Uwlny
however, to the excellent and stringent sani-
tary precautions the infection did not
spread. No more cases arose in the town or
camp, nor did the disease deVelOpe on the
track OF the dispensing pilgrims. This was
unquestlonably one of the most remarkable
and brilliant achievements of sanitation
in the whole history Of cholera Not only in
India, but also in Europe had it been demon
strGJed that cholera was a preventable dis
ease. In 1892 cholera broke out in Hamburr
The insanitary conditions of it's docks and
port population and the polluted supply OF
drinking water brought for Hamburg the
long predicted day OF reckoning. In former
years the establishment Of such a focus of
nlcatlons and intercourse with the whole of
Germany, would have been followed
by 1nnumerab bic fo5i Of cholera all over Ger
many. Yet there was the remarkable fact
that, with the exception of a few cases in n
limited number of towns, Germany did not
suffer from any further epidemic outnreaks
And the same fact was Illustrated in 1892 In a
perhap5 more striking manner in England
Sir John Simon had years back insisted on
the Importance of considering cholera and
also typhoid fever, as filth disease 1t had
since become an axiom in sanitary science to
Isolate the patient, to disinfect or destroy all
articles solled by him, to prevent such filth
from gaining access to drinking water and
TO articles OF food, and to insist that the
hands that had been in contact with
such sOiled articles should be SPONTANEOUSLY
cleaned In order to avoid self-infeCtion. in
short to prevent and to avoid the contaVion
being swallowed. BY carrying out these pre-
ceptS 1t had become POSSIBLE to prevent the
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