The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-30

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ties.
In the usual acceptation Of the term in.
toXication, or drunkenness, or inebrietv-
for they all mean practically the same
alcohoilc beverages in one form or an
other, Us the san Francisco Chronicle
Norman Kerr, the highest English autnCr-
ity on the subject, has pointed out how
ever, that there are great many things
besides alcohol which produce intoxica-
ton, and that alcoholic inebriety is not
so dangerous or deleterlous. in its effects
a. some other kinds OF lntoXication. Dr.
Kerr enumerates among the things THAI
make drunk come" as the Indian OK
presses it, ether, cocaine, eau de cologne,
Iodine, opium, haSheesh, paraffln, kero-
senes and even such seemingly innocuous
substances as cod liver oil and castor oil
It would seem almost incredible that
there could be such thing as kerosene
inc briety or cod liver oil int0xicauon
but the records Of scientific research, as set
forth ~ Dr.. Kerr, are not to be disputed.
the TACT seems to be that oVerindulgence
in any one OF the numerous substances
known generally as paratr. ptics begeLs
cumulative appetite, and that this is &C.
companlec in time by functional derange-
ment and, worse still, by a slackening and
weakening of moral fiber. Tea, coffee
and tobacco, while less injurious to most
people than alcohol or opium or ether
serve to illustrate the familiar saying
that the appetite grows by what il feeds
on the tobacco habit, the coffee habit,
the tea habit may grow on one until what
was once want becomes an actual need,
and each is as necessary TO the comfort
If not the health Of the devotee as food
itself.
A bridesmaids widow Of thirty-hve
summers decided on marrying again, says
Paris letter. She was in comfortable
clrcumstances, but was haunted by the
dread OF the apparitton of her defunct
husbands ghost, and thought that the
presence of successor might have the
effect of keeping it away. All went well
for three months after the wedding, at
least so far as the ghost was concerned,
but nevertheless the couple somehow fell
out, and determined to apply for divorce.
In the mean time the man went his own
way. and the spouse remained at her
abode. A day or two ago, just as the
witching hour of midnight had struck,
the lady beheld, by the pale moonlight a
figure, wrapped in what she believed 70
be shroud, enter her room. Convinced
that this must be the dreaded ghost Of her
first husband, she hid her head under
the bedclothes, and 50 passed the night
in a state of abject terror. She grew
holder when the sun was uD, and then
perceived that her wardrobe was open
and that sum of $50 francs had dis
appeared. Manifestly the ghost could not
have been the perpetrator of the theft
a visit was promptly paid to the police
commissary, the adventure related, and,
1t having transpired that the locks had
not been tempered with and that hus-
band No. was provided with key or
he tried to deny, but at last he confessed
that he had taken the money, having
wrapped himself UP in a sheet, as he was
aware of his wlfe's weakness in regard
to ghosts. The police commissary clever
~ seized this opportunity of reconcihng
the couple, and there is no more talk OF
a suit for divorce.
During the long days of June and July
there raged again a carnival of blood.
known to history as the Great Terror
says PROF. Sloan, in his Lie Of Napoleon,
in the Century. In less than seven weeks
upward of 200 victims were inundated.
The unbridled license of the gulloune
broadened as it ran. First the arlstocraJs
had fallen, then royalty, then their sympa-
thiZers, then the hated rich, then the mere
y Well-tO-oo, and, lastly, anybody noL
bringing TO existing power. The reaction
fear; but, dictator as he had wished 10 be.
he was formed Of other stuff, for Wnen
the reckoning came his brutal violence
was cOwed. On July q @ ThermldOD
the convention turned on him in rebellion
Extreme radicals and moderate cOnser-
scenes were enacted. The sections OF
Paris were divided, some for the cOnVeh-
ton, some for Robespierre. The artillery
men, who wer ordered by the latter to pat
his enirnies were sitting, heSitated and dls-
Obeyed; al once all resistance to the &C.
crees of the convention died out The dlc-
ator would have been his own eXecutloneT'
but his faltering terrorS stopped him mo
way in his design. He and his bother,'
headed on the morrow. With the down
fall Of Robespierre went the last Yestlgo
of social or political authority; Tor We
convention was no longer trusted by lns
popular support which was left was ne
army.