The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-23
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/ family Of Thomas Jefferson while he was
4 President OF the United States, is still living
/ in New York. She is l07 years old. Her hus-
| band belonged to Daniel Taylor. who was
I one OF the largest slave owners OF revolution
airy times.
The death rate in London has averaged
about p per thousand for the past two or
three years. Bronchitis kills more than any
other disease from 90 to 1000 annually,
consumption not less than 5000 and pneumo-
MIA about 5000 Influenza carried of over
900 people in 1892, while in 1888 only three
deaths we're reported from that cause, and in
| 1889 i've Cancer causes the death of more
than 5000 annually.
A woman went into jewelry store in New
York and asked to see some diamond rings.
As she was looking at them she directed the
clerk attention another way for moment,
| and popped one Of the rings into her mouth.
! She did not notice beforehand that the ring
had tag attached to il by long string and
when the clerk turned to her he was sur
prlSed TO see the tag hanging out Of her mouth
by the string, which she was making the most
extraordinary faces in her efforts to swallow.
me string had gotten tangled in her front
| teeth, and refused to go either way. The
clerk dlsentangled it for her, and also Olsen
tangled several pocketbOoks which were found
in her pocket
Yet Lee, wealthy Monaghan of New York,
some two years ago thought that he had done
a great stroke Of business when he persuaded
Louise Shredder, Of Hoboken, to become his
wife. She was white and young, and comely,
and he thought that she was prize in the
matrimonial lottery, though 1t is said that as
ne was good catch, the Chinese women Of
aLotL Stte5t uiu not look on ner win favor
| ana whispered among themselves unSpeaka-
| bic Things arout her monstrous feet. Yet
| Lee paid little attention to their talk nor vet
| did his bride, but she did pay attention to his
eenaYlor, which seems not to have been to
| her liking, and after living with him for a
| year she forsook his bed and board and hired
| herself out to another Chinaman in Hoboken,
| where she worked in his laundry. Yet Lee
| was not worried very much about that, but he
was very much worried when the other day
large Oil was presented to him for goods that
| his recreant wife had bought, and when he
was made to understand that he was legally
| liable for her expenditures he was very much
wroth indeed and proceeded~at once to in
| sutute proceedings for divorce
In the northern part of Limestone county
Alabama, says writer in the Pittsburg Dis,
| patch, is a tract of land consisting of more
than 900 acres which is not on the map of
| ONCE OF that county. No one claims 1t and
| no taxes have ever been paid on it. 1t is
| vast wilderness, inhab ited by snakes, deer
and razor back hogs. 1t is free hunting
| ground and thousands of III sse hogs are killed
every year, more for the sport than for any
! thing else. The hogs are wild and cannot be
| domesticated. Their yield is sand to be enor-
| nous. Tom Booth, OF Pulaski, Tenn, Sc
| cured male and female and did all in his
| power to tame them but failed He
| kept them year, and at the end of that
| time they were as wild as at first. The
more he fed them the thinner they be-
| came Within the year they consumed
| 400 bushels OF corn and were as lean as church
| mice. During that time the SOW had five lit
| ters of pigs numbering 210. Mr.. Booth could
| not tame any of these nor get them fat
| enough to make even soap grease. Finally
| he gave them to a negro, who now considers
hlmseh under no obligations to Mr.. Booth
The flesh Of these hogs resembles horse flesh
/ II is as tough as coon skin, and a large-siZed
| hog of this species rendered would not make
| grease enough to fry "a skillet of batter cakes.
| lhey go througd a garden like a shovel
| plough. and no vegetable escapes them. They
| can crowd through crack that would hardly
| admit mouse, and their sharp noses act as
| levers for garden gates. The Tennesseeans
| make great fun of Alabama's razor-back hogs.
| without dogs the larger portion of the
great Eskimo family peopling the barren
northern coast Of America would find it i'm
| possible to exist in its chosen home" So
| writes Mr.. f. w. Nelson, in his Mammals
OF Northern Alaska says the Youth S
| Companion They are used in the
winter for hunting, sledge-drawng and the
ike, but In summer are mostly lett to shift
| for themselves. They receive much hard
| usage, as well as do much hard work but are
| described, nevertheless, as a rollicking set
| full of play, fond of human society, and quar-
| relsome as school boys. Mr.. Nelson credits
| them with vein OF humor and declares that
| their varying characteristics car be read in
their faces. They are worth from - to 815 a
piece, according to age, size and intelligence.
| For sledge-drawing they are harnessed in
teams Of either seven or nine-three or four
pairs and a leader. The load is from 3; 0 to
| 700 pounds, and the course is mainly through
| unbroken snow or over rough ice. With a
| tam Of seven dogs and load of more than
| 300 pounds. Mr.. Nelson made a journey
| OF more than 1900 miles in about
two months. The last 60 miles we're made
| over bad road in a continuous pull of TWEEN
| ty-one hours. They are much affected by the
| moon. During full moon half the night is
| spent by them in bowling in chorus. Dur
| ing the entire winter at St Michael's - saws
| Mr.. Nelson. we were invariably given a cho-
rus every moonlight night, and the dogs of
| two neighboTing villages joined in the sere-
| made" He speaks Of it's wild, weird har-
| mony." and seems to have found it agreeable
| rather than otherwise. The influence of the
| moon is also very apparent when the dogs are
| travelling They brighten up as the moon
| rises. and pricking up their ears start on as if
| they had forgotten their fatigue. The fur
| traders take advantage of this fact and some
times lie over during the day and travel at
| night. The dogs endure an astonishing de-
| gree of cold. Mr.. Nelson saw female with
| two newly born puppies lying upon the
snow near hut, with no sign of shelter. when
| the thermometer ranged from 300 to So below
| zero.
1t is about four years, says the New York
Tribune, since the epidemic influenza began
its ravages in this country, having been origi-
| nally imported from Europe and having he
| come domiciled, it has now entered uDop its
| fifth season of mischief in the United States.
| although, fortunately, not with the same Sc
| verify that has characterized its previous
| prevalence. An official report on this malady
| by medical officials connected with the local
| government board of Great Britain has re-
| Gently made its appearance. Therein the exist
! ence of an influenza bacillus is rea1i med DR.
| Klein says that this miCroDe is ALWAYS
| abuudantly present in the bronchial score
| lions of PATIENTS and diminish in number
| as the disease is aDated." The germs are
| disseminated, according to DIR. Parsons by
| bringing the affected and healthy together, as
| in public vehicles and places of meeting. and
| especially by the poison being present in CON
| fined and vitiated air. DIR. Caldwell
| Smith says: An individual is affected
| by breathing at once the expired air
from a person suffering from the di-
| sease, and l believe this TO
be the ouly method of the infection" Mum
| erouS stories are told to show how the
malady is carried from place to place. A
| music teacher visited two relatives who were
| victims OF it, and three days latter was him
self attacked. However he made round of
| his pupils before sucoumbing, and two DAVIS
| afterward ten of them also developed The
| disease. The ordinary intercourse of A
| household or business office, letter written
| and sealed by sufferers, lingering account
| books whose leaves have been turned with
| moistened hnger-tips by affected persons, and
| riding in close and crowded railway cars are
| among the most common methods of prona.
| cation. Isolation of patients, dissection of
| rooms, and ample ventilation are strongly
! urged as preventive measures =