The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Lord Mayor Of London takes pre-
cedence OF every other British subject
within the jurisdiction Of that city. the
Prince Of Wales even not being an excep-
ton.
In the ST. James Chronicle OF May 4.
1875. appeared an advertisement that
throws an interesting light on the status
Of Anglican curates 100 years ago II was
as follows: Wanted immediately,
good. strong, bony man 10 act in the ca
pacity Of curate. He must be subject to
the following particulars, viz: To have no
objection TO act as gardener, husbandman
and occasionally Whipper-in. Any gent
whom the above may suit, on application
% Mr. B., at the Gray's Inn Coffee House,
Holburn, may meet with immediate en-
ploy- y. b. Character will not be so
much required as equestrian skill. and
none need apply who has not undergone a
complete stabalarian (sic) education"
A Paris physician. who was summoned
the other day to attend a sick child. left
directions which a neighboring French
druggist had translated for the benefit Of
the English nurse in charge of the child
These are the directions with the English
intended IN parenthesis: /. To distend the
chlldren OF other children. Go isolate the
haby from her sister, 2. Not many flower
IN the eat and not give him that milk pre-
pared suppress farinaceous food and also
the milk as hitherto prepared.) 3. Before
the col OF children une eponge warm
tApply hot sponge to the child's throat)
4 Everybody that have occupation of chill
dren Wild Vhach the hands in liquor of
van Swieten. every person coming in
contact with the child to wash his hands
IN van SWfeten,s solution.) 5. All the linen
qeterlored- shall be whach in solution be-
fore londres. (All soiled linen to be
washed IN the solution before being sent
TO the laundress.)
There are no laundries on board the
ocean liners, says the New York Herald
1ney take up too much room. So the
chlef steward lays in thousands of pill
low slips, sheets. and towels on this side
hese come on board tied up in bales
Of dozen each, and are stored in the
linen locker, a cubby hole of { place on
the main deck. The ventilator pipes from
the engine room run through 1t, and keep
It hot. There is no danger of linen get
ting mildeWed there. This place is in
charge of the chief bedroom steward. He
IS responsible for the condition of the
linen, and he takes good care of il. The
linen which has been used Is thrown into
another room, provided with the same
dry. Where there are clean napkins
every day, frequent changes OF state
room linen, and an everlasting replenish-
ing of towel racks, the demands upon
the linen locker are very extensive. A
liner like the New York puts to sea
with about 5000 napkins. 10000 towels
and about 1000 table cloths. Most of
these find their way to the soiled linen
locker In the course of the voyage When
the vessel arrives they are Carted off to
laundry operated by the company and
made ready for the return trip. The
American line has a laundry of its own
the thousands of pieces used on board
the New York, Paris, Berlin, and Chester.
"A highly interesting study of what a
hundred years of war have cost France
in human life has just been made public
by DR.. Lagneau, member of the Academy
of Medicine of Paris, and is found in the
Lancet. When the revolution broke out,
Frances effective army was only 10000
men. For the wars waged during ten
years in Belgium, on the Sambre, the
Meuse, the Rhine, the Alps. the Pyrenees,
IN the Nendee, and in Egypt, there were
called out 100000. At the census made
in the ninth year of the republic there
remained of these only 677, 59S. In killed
and in dead by disease the wars of the
From 1901 to Waterloo 3,157.39S men. scarce
ly suthced to ill the blanks which, in an
incessant war against combined Europe
France incurred at Austerlitz jena. Auer-
stadt, Friedland, Saragossa, Eckmuhl
Essling, Wagram, Taragona, Smolensk
Moscow, Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Leip-
zig and Waterloo. Under the restoration,
Louis Philippe, and the second republic
in spite of the war in Spain QS23), the con-
quest of Algiers QS30), and the taking of
Antwerp, France passed through a COM
parative calm. The army numbered
about 213,74S, and the mortality averaged
% per 900. In 1885 commenced the
Q659-60, China QS60-61, Mexico QS62-66)
and the disasters of 1870. In the Crimea
out of 3O0,26S men, 95,615 succumbed: In
Italy, out of 100000, there died 1863; in
China, $50, and in Cochin China As per
1000. The second empire cost France
Lagneau's Topographic tables, the cen
fury from 1895 to 1895 witnessed the death
in battle or by disease of 100000 French
soldiers.