The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-15
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"A story comes from Louth, New South
Wales, Of an extraordinary adventure of
a little boy about years Of age, who wan
dered from his home and was lost in the
bush. He was tracked thirty miles and
over a rabbit-proof fence before he was
found. He spent five cold nights in the
bush without food or water, and when dis
covered was still walking, though much
exhausted.
Character reading from handwriting,
from Shoes and from the face, has now
been succeeded by character reading from
the teeth, says the Ladies' Pictorial. A
dentist explains in contemporary that a
careful study of teeth will reveal the fact
that they invariably indicate, according to
their shape and setting, the temperament
of their possessors. One has only to note
the teeth of ones friends and relations
to verify his observations on pointed. pro-
Jectlng, short, square tangled, even ana
pearly dentures. Those that are long and
narrow, We are assured, denote vanity;
those that are long and projecting, indi-
cate grasping disposition; treachery is
shown by the possession of small, white,
separated teeth.
simultaneously with the formation of
a society for the protection of the cat,
says the Westminster Gazette, comes
warning regarding this usually inoffensive
member of. the household. The medical
officer of Brighton devotes a portion of
his last report to a description of illness
among. the feline residents of a certain
part of the town, and to an outbreak OF
| diphtheria in the same district. No COM
mon cause for the latter could be discov-
| cred, but lin each instance there was a
history that the household cat had been
| i'll, and in several families the child which
was specially fond of the cat was the sole
victim of diphtheria." Moreover, the out
| break of the scourge came to an abrupt
/ termination with the destruction of the
| suspected tabbies. Moral: Keep a close
eye upon the health of the cat.
Tea and coffee should be positively in
| terdicted to all children and there should
| be no exceptions to this rule, says the
| Popular Health Monthly In the families
| of the poorer classes it is found that
| tea and coffee are given freely to all chill
| dren, and even in the better classes tea
! Is used too much. The parents take it
| and the children naturally want II, and
| when the parents are weak the children
/ get 1t. Tea is a powerful stimulant, up
/ setting the digestion, exciting the nervous
| system, which predominates in the grow
| ing child, and causing nervousness, sleep
| lessness and host of other evil effects.
| In England, where tea is used much more
| than here, many cases of tea poisoning
| are seen annually at the hospitals and
| dispensaries. Children, who are much
more susceptible to all such powerful
| stimulants, are much more powerfully af-
| fected by these beverages, and conse-
| quently they should never be allowed to
use them.
| The oldest temperance society in the
! world, according to the Westminster Ga
Zette, Is the abstaining' commune of Ach-
! lyka, in Siberia, all of whose members are
| strict teetotalers every day in the year ex
! cept one. Regularly on the first day of
! September, year after year all the adult
members of the commune assemble in the
parish church, and every one takes a
solemn VOW before the altar to drink no
| wine, beer. or spirits from the morrow"
| of the following day for a whole year. The
clause from the morrow is introduced
! in order to give them reward for their
| virtues in the shape of a whole day of
! the church they begin to indulge in
Bacchanalian drinking, which continues
| throughout the day, until neither man nor
woman in the village is sober. This is
naturally followed by considerable physi-
| cal suffering, and then by mental remorse,
! whereupon the penitent parish enters upon
its twelvemonth Of model sobriety. and all
| live like the Rechabites. Some students
| imagine that this queer proceeding may
be prehistoric tribal custom.
Many advanced aurists are now invest
igating the effect of mechanical and
electrical vibrations in curing deafness
ana various diseases of the ear, says the
| Boston Transcript.A prominent New York
| practitioner has invented an instrument
| which gives a sustained note of reed-like
| quality over several octaves of the scale.
| Close to the instrument is a telephone
transmitter, through which the sound
! passes to receiver at the ear of the pa
| tent. The exact pitch a which the ear
| is found TO exhibit normal symptoms is
| first ascertained, and then the correspond
ing note on the instrument is started,
! and the concentrated vibrations are al
| lowed to play on the ear drum of the pa
tient for a specified time every day. An
| other leading aurist is experimenting on
the effects of various kinds of electrical
| vibrations in the treatment of ear affec-
! tions, and some promising results have
been obtained. Whatever may be the out
| come of these valua bic invest iga tions it
is certain that ordinary telephone CONVEX
pie than by others, oven where there is
no manifest superiority of the organ of
hearing.
of the Sleeping sickness" of West At
RIGA, the New York Tribune says: This
strange disease is said to occur oftener
in males of from II to 20 years old, al
| though all ages and both sexes may be af-
fected with II, and it is described as ex-
! glands at the outset, and then drowsiness
and actual sleep at unusual hours are
followed by profound and lethargic slum-
| Der lasting weeks or months; at first, ac-
| tive purgation arouses the patient, but
| later he succumbS to the lethal slumber
| refuses all food and emaciation, with in
| creasing atrophy, exhaustion and starva-
| ton cause death at the end of from three
to twelve months. When the patient is
moribund, however, the coma ceases for
| a short time and the mental faculties are
clear Immediately before death. 1t is said
! the most frequent and virulent cases &C.
cur IN the valley of the Congo, others from
! the Congo to Senegal, in the Sierra Leone
district, and in the hinterland; slaves
taken from the Congo or Sierra Leone dis
tricts also suffer from the disease when in
the West Indies, etc. The prognosis is
bad. One physician reports 14S cases. all
fatal; another records so per cent. fatal
and a third reports eleven fatal cases, in
| addition to two which passed out of OBJ
servation. Treatment is declared to prove
useless.
Will the coming woman be bearded
| Amazonian, and the coming man a weak
and hairless freak? We are told by the
anthropologists, the Psychologists and
| other lists that the coming man will be
| as bald as a billiard ball and that his face
| will be as smooth as that of a babe, says
| the ST. Louis Republic. We had begun
( to reconcile ourselves to the inevitable
! but now the scientists have made the
| startling announcement that the beardless
and hairless man will have a bearded
| woman for companion, providing Of
course, that he has any kind of a female
| help meet. This amazing information
| is put before the world by a learned Ger
| man, who asserts that mustaches arc
| much more common among women than
| they were fifty or even twenty years ago
| In Berlin, Vienna, Constantinople he
says, one out of each ten women has an
| unmistakable covering of down upon the
upper lip, while one out of each twenty