The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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| Sonora, Ky, is puzzling the physicians.
| Bright blue spots cover his body at periodical
! intervals. When the spots appear a knot the
/ size OF a walnut presents itself and remains
until the spots go away.
! Some months ago young man of Warren,
! Ind, wrote his name and address on an egg
| he was shipping. Last week he received a
/ letter from Sidney, Australia, in which the
| writer said that PROBABLY the recipient might
| be interested In knowing how far the egg had
! travelled before it found its final customer.
! Telephone communication has lately been
! established between hagships and the shore
| in Great Britain in several instances The
| connection is expected to be of great service
| in afording earliest information of casualties
! to vessels IN the vicinity OF the ships. besides
| being of great value TO the lightkeepers aboard
| the isolated lightships.
| Feeding the hog is being revolutionized.
| Formerly anything that could be fed to swine
was allowed, without regard to the filth con
! tained, sour swill. filled with disease germs,
| being the princip pal diet. Intelligent farmers
| now feed clover, corn, wheat, vegetables,
| ground grain, and whey or skim milk, given
/ in clean trougbs with plenty of clean water
| available at ali times.
| The mimic man-of-war Illinois at the
worlds fair has breasted the waves in good
shape, and with the aid of coat of paint.
! would speedily resume its familiar appear
! ance. The state, which now owns IL for the
| use Of its naval reserve, Will remove the YES
! sci intact to the basin opposite Van Buren,
! street, seven miles from its present site
/ lhls work has been placed in the
hands OF F. w. Groggan, the man VINO
designed the ship, and he is confident of sue
! cess.
An eclipse in China is great event.
! proclamation by the Shanghai magistrate, in
obedience to instructions received from the
! Picking Astronomical Board, annolnce1 the
| fact that at about II 30 on the night Of March
] u monster WOllQ dttPmDt swallow fha
/ moon, or in other words an eclipse of the
| moon would take place. In view Of this
| alarming state of affairs, therefore, all loyal
! subjects within this district were commanded
/ to make as much noise as possible 10 drive
the monster away.
The traditional notion of "9sh out of
water" is that of a helpless, Rasping creature.
! There are some fish, however, that deIiber-
atey choose to diversity their existence by
| seeking land and air. The perch often leans
into the air for flies and can be carried long
/ distances in damp grass without suffering
| harm. One of this species which is common
| IN India often leaves his pool and takes a
! snort journey over the grass. He seems to
! prefer TO take these excursions by night or
| in the early morning. when he can be re-
! freshed by the dew but sometimes no doubt
! led by urgent necessity, has been known TO
| travel some little distance over hot, dusty
| road, under the midday sun.
parliamentary return Of pensions has
just been issued which shows that two
persons who were formerly on the civil list of
! George " are still receiving 500 a year
each, and there are three pensions amounting
TO &II4O year, which came from the civil
| list of William ". These five persons
! have altogether received about f7S. 600 from
| the taxpayers, and il would be inseresting to
| learn the particular services which they rem
| dered to entltle them to such handsome re-
| ward from the revenue of their grateful
country 1t is only within the last two
! or three years that the names of the last sur
v!ving pensioners of George III and Queen
Charlotte have disappeared from the list.
| A resident of st. Paul, Mimi, claims to
| have discovered disinfectant, which can be
| worn about the person, and constitutes per
| feet protection against smallpox says the
| New Orleans Picayune. 1t is a mineral com
! pound. which is manufactured by the aid of
| electricity. The inv nor a S that he and
| numLer OF his frienuS have been exposing
| themselves reckleSSly to the disease pro
| tected only by his invention. and that they
! would all have certainly bad smallpox but
| for Its efficiency is SAID that the prepare
tion has tcen tried on the bacteria OF smallpox
! cholera and diphtheria, and that they sue
cumb toit promptly. What the preparation
| is he does not say, but doubtless if he adver-
! tses it well he will do a good business with
| It, as there is a great smallpox scare in that
! part Of the world. Whether it will do the
! purchaser any good is another thing. and to
| him minor matter There viii re found
| some way Of explaining why its users take
| the smallpox, if they do.
| Inc FarIS IempS comments on the depor-
! able change which has occurred in France re-
! garding indulgence in strong drink. Thirty
or forty years ago, it says, France, thanks to
its wine and cider, was considered the most
| sober nation in the world and the gayetv.
vigor and elasticity of the race were a result
| of its temperance. To-day France has
| changed places with Great Britain Within
the last twenty years the consumption of aIco-
| hollc drinks IN England had diminished by
| one-half and now France stands almost at
| the head of the list, with 4.56 litres consump-
ton per head in 1892, while in Great Britain
| the figure is only 20 litres IN the United
| States 2.S2, in Russia 307, in the Netherlands
/ 4.49, in Belgium 49I, in Germany 44O
The increase in the annual consump.
ton OF alcohol in France has been from 400
| 900 hectolitres in 1885 to / 135 1863 in 1892
| Within the same time the mum err of LIQUOR
| sellers has increased from So 800 to more
than $4,000, which makes a seller to every
! twenty voters throughout France Consider
able differences prevail among the depart
ments for while in some parts of the south
the consumption averages less than a ltra, it
| rises in Paris to or 8. and in Seine lnferie-
ure to 10. There are workmen who under
/ preteXt of needing tonic drink as much as
half lltre OF eau-deYie every day. The
| Temps brings all these facts in connection
| with the population question and suggests
that they help to account for the fact that
! the population OF France has ceased to grow
| Last year there were 10000 more
| deaths than births AS it is known that in
! Australia America and Africa whole nations
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| stands before a serious problem. The Temps
thinks 1t is is time for the French to stop
/ laughing at the English Temperance move
ment which has taught the working classes
! TO Substitute tea and coffee for alcohol An
! other way of escape is indicated by the fig
ures of 1893, which proved exceptionally ia
| vorab bic for wine and oder, the result being
| decrease Of 100000 francs in the duties on
| alcohol ana an increase of 10000, 900 for cider,
/ wine and beer, the figures of alcoholic con
! sumption per head falling at the same time
! from $50 litres in 1892 to 4.32 in 1893.
The police department of the City of
Mexico has many admirable things connected
| with it that would be beneficial to the Amer
| lean police SAID a traveller Co the St Louis
| Glote-Democrat. For instance whenever
an unknown person is found dead the corpse
/ is at once photographed and copies of the
! picture. together with a description of the
dead person. his clothes. property and any in
cident connected with his death is posted at
] all police stations and at the morgue where
! ii can be seen by the public. II person is
! missing his friends can at once learn if he is
! dead and his corpse has been found by visit
| ing one OF these posting places. Such q plan
| would be OF great benefit if adopted by the
! American police departments. Another reg
/ ulatlon is that when a stranger In the CITY
| becomes lost or cannot find his way to his
! lodgings. and he applies TO the police the
| first officer ascertains the location of the
stranger abode. Then he takes him TO the