The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I have started a .'Warenhaus.' or ware
house, for the supply Of general merchan-
disc as well as medical stores
The biggest carload of shingles ever
Z shipped east was sent out of Washington
state a few days ago. 1t contained S45,vD
I shingles, beating the previous record Dy
/ 5000.
The London Times says that the gun
and ammunition trade at Birmingham,
] England. is now more active than at any
time during the past twenty years The
/ fact is attributed solely to the demand Tor
war material in the east.
Richard Croker Of New York is said to
I have at least $4,000 invested IN horses
and turf and breeding property. while
/ his racing stable contains winners that
/ have earned nearly S2O0OW for their
I owner.
Rev. Dr. c. Ellis Stevens of Philadel-
/ phia has been created knight com
I mander of one Of the highest orders IN
I Portugal. DIT. Stevens is the author OF
/ Sources Of the Constitution Of the United
/ States"
/ Eugene Ysaye. the Belgian violinist,
now in this country, is of massive build,
/ with colossal head, covered with dark
I brown hair He comes of a family of
/ musicians and has studied under Wien
| iawski.
An English paper says that the Arch
I bishop of York recently wrote to the IN
cumbent of rural parish suggesting
/ The following was the reply; My Lord,
/ in this parish we have too many quiet
]
/ Mary NJ. Seeley and Jason Hodges OF
! ProvincetOWn, Cape Cod, were engaged TO
[ be married for fOrty-three years. The en-
| gagement was broken last Thursday be
| cause Jason pulled a corkscrew out OF his
| pocket along with his handkerchief. Miss
| Seeley says she is glad the discovery
was made, because she had had her sus-
4 PIGEONS for thirty-hve years.
Saints cut only a small figure in the
/ geographical names of New England, says
the New York Sun. They. are abundant
! upon the maps of most of the southern
! states, save Virginia and the Carolinas,
| and they are said to be found scattered
| over the rest of the country in three or
/ four different languages. 1t might be
| little hard to find in any calendar the st.
| Jones of Delaware, the name of small
| creek familiar to the river and harbor bills
! If not to commerce.
| The trade winds are the prime motors
| of ocean currents. They cause a surface
| drift of no great velocity over vast areas
| of water in the same general direction as
| that in which they blow. These drifts,
| after meeting and combil ing their 10. ses,
| eventually impinge on the liant. Tney are
| diverted and concentrated and increased
| in speed. They either pour through pas
| sages between islands, in the Carib-
! bean sea; are pressed up by the land and
escape by the only outlets possible, as, for
example, the Strait of Florida. and form
| a great ocean current like the Gulf stroaIn.
The old-time South American Indians
were head-hunters in every sense of the
word, and their manner of preserving the
relics of battle would make an Egyptian
embalmer sick with envy. They cut off the
heads of all vanqushed foes and then re
moved the flesh, bones and brain by some
lost process. The materials used in en-
balming these uncanny relics fluids or
what noD had the effect of shrinking the
mead until the Intellectual dome of a full
grown man would not be larger than
lemon One of these shriVeled embalmed
heads is now in the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts. The hair is still black and
glossy as when worn by the original
owner of the head 400 or 500 years ago, and
the lips, mouth, nose and eyes are all
perfect, although reduced in size proper
tionate to the shrunken head. The cura-
tors Of the museum value it at $1,000.
The toothpick, judciously used, is of
undoubted value, says the I4ancelet. Of
the materials used as toothpicks the best
is the quill, with the sharp point removed
but with this, as with all other forms,
care must be observed. By indiscriminate
application the gums may be so irritated
ana injured as 10 cause recession and
thus increase the existing trouble or in
| Illumination of the tooth membrane may
be caused, most annoying condition, and
one in which the still more vigorous use
of the toothpick gives temporary relief
only in reality to add fuel to the fire.
Metal toothpicks are good because blunt
pointed, but are too thick to pass between
teeth at all close together. Wood need
only be mentioned to be condemned, for
| It is a by no means uncommon occur
renee for small hbres to become de-
tached and jammed between the socket
and tooth, leading to chronic periostis and
even loss of the tooth if the condition is
! not IeCOSnlZeu.
Two London doctors. T. J. Waldo and
David Walsh, announce that bread is net
sterilized by baking and may be the staff
! of death as well as the staff of life These
doctors made civilizations from siXty-two
! lOaVeS of bread taken from various bake
houses in London. Some one of the thir-
teen kinds of bacteria were found alive
in all these loaves. They therefore con
| clude: we see no particular reason why
the origin of many mysterious septic in
Yasons of the human body may not even
tually be traced to the agency of bread
A generation ago milk was not suspected
/ of being the means of spreading disease
and a similar observation applies to water
| At any rate the subject seems to MS 10
be we'll worthy the attention of all who
are interested in the scientific devlop-
ments of preventive medicine no less
than IN me th proteeuon OF the public that
is suggested except that bake-houses and
bakers should be kept clean, and that
| the whole process of bread making
be placed under sanitary control
Cigars do not improve with age like
wine. They ought to be smoked as soon
after manufacture as possible" said Capt
A. j. McBlair, a manufacturer and expert
who has had long experience in the trade
to reporter for the Washington Post
After box of the finest imported cigars
has been opened three or four weeks they
begin TO deteriorate and lose that fine
bouquet and exquisite flavor of their ear
lest stage. A connoisseur in cigars would
like to take "a weed right out of the hands
of the maker, when it is soft and Welding
to the touch and full of the rich aroma Of
the plant. New York men smoke the best
cigars in this country. and are great
judges of clear Havana goods. Philadel-
phia is the center of the cent trade 1t
isn't once in thousand that a man who
has an educated taste will choose a cigar
with light wrapper. The light color
comes from the top leaves, which do not
mature, and hence are wanting in
strength. 1t is the dark mahogany hue
of the inner leaves that show the good
quality. great many men who think
they know first-rate cigar oyerestimate
their discriminating ability. man who
will tell you that he can't smoke anything
that isn't imported will serenely puff awaY
at Florida made article that is quite as
good. The very best Havanas are never
sent to the United States They are
bought up in advance for European
courts, St Petersburg being especially fas-
tidious and buying them in large duan-
titles at $500 per thousand"
while camping in Alabama a1ring the
late war, said Col. H. c. Crossman of
Dayton, O., to the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat; i witnessed an attack of a band of
black ants upon a striped snake. One
| while I N4yae