The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! protection from a revengeful government
/ large numbers Of Chinese in the Lao
I Tung peninsula became naturalized Japa-
! nese citizens before Japan evacuated that
I territory.
A fisherman of California is engaged
in somewhat novel industry. He makes
a comfortable living by fishing for sharks.
/ which he captures by means of stout
] lines fastened 10 stakes on the shore.
{ The fish are then sold for the oil in them.
/ Inc hsherman IS said 10 have caught as
/ nigh as eight sharks in one day.
kansas has a ladies' smoking club
! called The Sparrow" The club room is
/ elegantly ntted up with the most luXu-
/ rious furnishings, and contains every
I thing that could delight the heart of
| SMOKER The Sparrow is composed eX-
/ cluSively OF young women. the number
I being limited to nine When one mem
/ per rnarrles or leaves the city another
/ lady IS elected TO fill the vacancy, and it
/ Is sald there are always several appH-
| cations awaiting action.
| Perhaps you may not know what your
| astral color is If not IL is important to
| ma Out II you want 10 be in the fashion.
| 1hose VINO have looked into the matter
say that knowledge of your astral color
/ IS important in order to induce harmony
| 1Ou INC out this way: You put your
tHuIIios ~ your ears, your forefngers on
your eyeidS, and with your middle fin
5ets you close your nOstris. Then. by
/ closing your lips. you are supposed to have
lSolated yourself from the outer world by
closing all the sensory avenues of com
| munication, Various colors pass before
/ Jul eAoSeu eyes IN Kaleidoscope fashion.
/ an al length one settles and remains. That
| IS your astral color, and il you haven't al
| ready ascertained it you had better try
| the experiment.
| Some one has been hunting up the
! salaries of the heads of the reigning
i houses OF Europe. The President of the
| french Republic receives 100000 francs.
tne american President 125000 francs,
| Whlie the President of the Swiss Republic
| has only 1850 francs. Dealing with the
| s3Verreigns OF Europe, the allowance Of
| nd nd ber fov
! s0,Sot0 francs, the King of Belgians,
! 4V94tJ francs, the little Queen of Hoi-
emperor OF Germany, 11,700000 francs, the
| King Of Italy and his mother, 3 sl09OO
francs the Emperor of Austria Hungary,
! 23.S2o000 francs, the King of Sweden and
! Norway. 6.500,C6O francs, the King of Den
| mark, 100000 francs and the King OF
Greece only 100000 francs.
san augustine peak. forty miles east
OF Las Cruces, n. NJ, is in a state OF
| eruption, says the St Louis Globe-Derao-
| Graf. week ago last Tuesday Day King
and Lige Davis, who were out upon the
! mountain, heard rumble in the earth.
| which was followed soon by a distinct
! explosion. About half a mile from them
/ granite boulder scared aloft and fell with
/ a crash among the loose rocks The
| night OF the boulder was followed byNa
/ pun OF steam and ashes. The family of
| Mr.. Huftord also saw the eruption The
! next day Mr.. BergernOt went to the
! pace where the explosion occurred and
/
! ashes. The snow was gone for some dis
/ lance around the hole, and the ground
was perfectly dry. Mr.. BergernOt soon
! became aware that his feet were uncom-
! fortably warm and that steam was go
| ing up his trousers and scalding his legs.
! and, fearing a repetition of the volcanic
| eruption, he FASTENED away from the spot
Says a New York special: Peter II.
| George has been troubled with rheumat-
! ism for a couple of years, and on damp
! days he suffers considerably in the muscles
| OF his chest, back and arms. On these oc-
! casions his wife rubs him Vigorously with
! turpenttne, and he usually gets relief
! brought on an attack, and Mrs George
! was disappointed to find the turpentine
! bottle empty. The servant was sent out
| TO buy quart, which she did at a neigh
| boring paint shop. Mr.. George was well
! rubbed with it. Early next morning Mr.
! George called his wife. MY dear he said
will you oblige me by getting the ham
| MGR and cold chisel / want to be broken
! open Mr.. George sat up in bed and
! exposed his arms from shoulder to wrist
| They were both as highly glazed as a
| piano. and his back and chest We're in the
| same condition. Il went to bed Presby-
a hardshelI Baptist" It was found that
the turpentine.
The Mohammedans, in their additions
| replace water by sand when needful, says
Cosmos. This religious practice has, it
| appears, become an element of modern
| therapeutics. AT the reunion of Swiss
physicians held this year at Ouchy, Dr.
| Suchard read a paper on the sand bath
| lnvaids have been completely or par
| TALLY cured by sand heated to tempera-
ture varying, according to the case, from
40 degrees to So degrees C. The sand
| containing air between it's particles and
/ being bad conductor of heat, trans
mits it in a gentle and almost insensible
manner. Perspration is favored up to
the point where a patient may lose two
quarts of liquid in one sand bath Thanks
| to the evaporation, the invalid may SUP
port continued high temperature without
l rat Of fha 1,rdx rio
more than few degrees. and this with
out fear of heart affections, if care be
taken to put hot sand on the feet at the
outset. The number of ailments that may
be treated by this powerful curative agent
is considerable. In the first place, 1t is
especially beneficial to chronic rheuma-
tism and to- govt. Neuralgia and sciatica
are cured or benefited by local or general
baths The various organic troubles of
the nervous system, cardiac or digestive
affections, have been treated by this meth
cd, sometimes with remarkable success.
The same is true of tuberculous affections
of the bones and joints. The account
given by DR.. Suchard contains statisti-
cal tables relating to more than 100 pa
tients annually.
positions assumed by the images in that
variety of mirage peculiar to the Mediter-
ranean in the vicinity Of Italy, and which
is known as the Fata Morgana, caused us
to undertake the task of ascertaining ex-
actly why" mirage images are usually
seen inverted says the ST Louis Repub-
lie. If you will take the time to look
the matter up you win find that this phe-
nomenon is not clearly explained, either
in the books of meteorology or OPTICS
Lord Rayleigh says that the delusion of
water appearing in mirages on hot sandy
plains is due to the fact that the undis-
1 turbed strata of air near the earth is high
~ rarified ray of light falling very OBJ
llquely upon this strata. and being totally
reflected, reaches the eye of the observer
just as it would if reflected from water
The phenomenon is, strictly speaking.
one of refraction rather than reflection
Now, just as the glass lens forms an image
on the screen, so the crystalline lens of
the eye forms an image on the retina or
sensitive back part of the eye. This reti-
ma image is inverted as all retina images
are, and being projected to another strata.
of rarified air above, has the effect Of
making the delusion perfect Rayleieh
further says that there has been much
unnecessary speculation in connection
with the theory of inverted retina images