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


during the time he is addressing the assemo-
lage and after he has con, lLded his speech.
Much Of the fine fruit which is sold on the
street stands as a California product comes
in reality from Oregon, and the natives OF the
latter state are BEGINNING to grow jealous OF
ther olZ sister stealing their thunder. An
oregon man, recently in New YORK. says that
all the est Oregon fruit is bought BY Cali
iornlans and shipped east as California
product
The cat went into the maze yesterday
morning for the first time, although her curl
ostty had sorely tempted her to enter ever
since the maze had teen put into position,
says the Baltimore sun. She strolIed IN and
elm Ell pillar near the door. II so hap
pened that this was a central position, and
when she threw her eyes around there seemed
10 re sixteen other black eats returning her
glance with friendly interest. This enraged
her, and she hum ped her back TO let the
other cats know she was no coward lXteen
other cats took corresponding hump, and
each was watching her next move his was
TOO much. and the cat leaped from her stand
and started to get out. These were app tr-
entity dozen avenues of escape, and she
made for one Of them, only to run plump
against glass mirror The same thing hap
pened again, until pnGlly she spied the man
IN blue uniform who takes tickets for the
maze Like fash she leaped past him and
got out Of the maze.
There is one astonishing trait about the
has only lately been discovered. says the
Philadelphia Telegraph. The incident is
rather curious. Three Cinnamon wandered
INTO the Zoo recently in the course OF
things they got around to where the orang is
quar- cred, and they rche.d for the first time
IN lhelr lives specimen Of the civilization
OF Borneo The NEE ting was sudden and IN
expected on both sides. The Cinnamon APP
parenLly were absolutely unaware o. the ex-
lstence OF the o-aug outans, and 1t was
plainly evident that the orang -outang had
never IN Chinaman. For quite a time
there was cold stare Of curiosity on Doth
Sides The Orang went into his box and
stared at them out OF the door. Then he
came out of his box and climbed UP on a bar
ana stared down at them. On the bot
tom OF the cage he laid on his back
ana stared up at them and he wan
uered all around the corners OF his cage and
made faces at them, finally throwing himself
up against the glass front Of his house as nat
as a DuCkwLelt cake and laughing at them
with broad gap in his countenauce. The
belief prevails in the garden that the orang
thought he was gazing at some new speci-
mems OF zoology lately placed on exhibition,
ana MS broad laugh was a laugh Of welcome.
But the Cinnamon were suspicious and col.
lectlVely arrived at the opinion that the wild
man OF Eorneo was the biggest fake at the
garden. and that he was nothing more than a
Japanese tightrope walkerin disguise. Since
the Korean dlsturL ance a nun Der OF the res
ldents OF Chinatown have been out to see him
ana PROBABLY plotting TO accom- plish his de-
struction, but the orang still lives, careless
ana abandoned as ever,
a sufferer from partial insomnia, involving
great loss Of sleep in the earlier hours of the
night, once confessed to her physician that
she dated her want of sleep from the time
when she ceased to say her prayers before re-
firing to rest, and was Immediately res ON
mended to resume her religi ous duties in the
usual attitude Just before lying down. sa
the National Review. The result was ue-
cleared by the patient to have been most
happy, and no douGt the mental Tepose en-
gendered, coupled with the fact that the
transition from the erect horizontal post on
was rended more gradual by the interposi-
ton OF the usual reverential attitude OF the
beat knee and bowed aad, conduced to the
tranquility o. heart ac,ion and slowiness OF
circulation necessary 10 sleep. In many
cases, however, the assumption of the recum-
oent attitude, even when efe led gradually,
Is followed by wnkefulness, but the apphca-
tion Of warmth to the eXtremities will help
TO equaIlZe circulation. and a meal
OF Cruel or cup of hot soup, by in
ducing the determination of blood to
the organs Of digestion, will greatly aid the
superventlon of sleep. The effect OF the hot
mud may be maintained by applying warmth
externally TO the stomach; indeed it is quite
hopeless to seek sleep if the surface of the
a domen is cold, a condition frequently over
looked In the substitution of night clothing
for that of the day. 1t has been noted that
sleep is at first heavy and gradually becomes
lighter as the usual hour of waking is ap-
preached. Now, in some cases of insomnia,
refreshing sleep Is 90 aimed for brief pc
Rod which is followed by most wears O ne
wakefulness. This condition may sometimes
lie overcome by taking light meal after the
first sleep, the blood u )ply being drawn
from the brain to the stomach, and at the
same time the blood itself is replenIshed bv
substances formed II the process of diges-
tlon. which have SOporitC effect; that this
IS probably the case is illustrated by the case
with which animals and human beings fall
asleep after heavy meal.
International .,oryo M ot ,vl,iob fo-L;5- -
use Of poisonous and explosive EuIIets, pro.
vides against purposely infected shot. saws
the ChicCgo Record. Nevertheless experf-
ments have teen n ade by Messner with bull
lets purposely infected with micro-organisms
and the results are summarized by K now ledge
for the present month. The bullets were dis
charged at Tin boxes hlled with SteriliZed pep
tone and the channels made 10y the shots
were examined. 1t is was found that in
spite OF the heat Of the discharge and the VIC
lence and brlefnesS of the impact, cuItiya-
lions OF bacteria arose in the gelatine In
othe: cases the boxes had been wrapped in
flannel infected with various bacteria and un-
infected bullets were fired through flannel
and gelatine. GrowthS of tacteria derived
from the infected flannel appeared in the gel
atine. knowledge remarks UPON the horrible
suggestion conveyed by these experiments.
In connection with this it is interesting to note
in the current number OF the journal of the
American Medical Association a paraQraOh
upon the subject OF Tobacco as a Bacteri-
eide In 1t DR.. WernlCse answers in the
negative the question, Can cigars be made n
medium for the propagation of cholera; This
investigator made cigars, using In the prepa-
ration of the tobacco leaves water to which
the cholera Oacilli had Teen added. and also
by placing within the cigars a small piece of
cloth impregna ed with culture IN broth for
one day, and rolling up the last or outer
layer, or Leaf, with hands moist with water
containing the specific bacilli. After remain
ing twenty-four hours in the oven the cigars
were used 10 inoculate cakes OF gelatine
he inc tulation was ene tive only with the
pieces Of cloth placed within the cigar: on
the TOBACCO leaves the cholera bacilli were
already destroyed by the deyelon.
menJ OF other miCro-organisms. In
all cases the spirillum was found dead after
three hours of drying; it survived longest
(two hours in cigars made from Havana
TOBACCO; one hour was sufficient to KIN in
Sumatra and seed-leaf tobal cos, and thirty
minutes in that from Brazil Dr. Wernicke
says that he sought in vain for the presence
Of cholera a-llli In the cigars manuTa ctured
in hamLurs when the epidemic there was
most severe and while the cigars were still
moist ana contained a great number Of other
species OF ta-teria. II is worthy OF note
says WernlCke, IN connection with the theory
Of the acid prophylaXis OF cholera that the
Sumatra, Brazil and seed-leaf tobaccos had
an acid reaction, while that from Havana
was alkaline
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