The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I The Sd Of May was the both anniversa-
I ~ Of the abolition OF the legal censorship
I OF the press in England. the press law
which expired that day having never been
revived.
The NapoleOnic revival in France has
revealed the existence OF four French sur
yivOrs OF the battle of Waterloo. They are
I Victor Ballot, aged 102; Julien Rose, aged
| l0l; Sebastian Brouant, aged 80, and one
Nanoye, aged i02.
Though the Prince Of Wales and most
I OF the royal family are martyrs TO indi-
/ ed from dyspepsia. She attributes this TO
her eating little. but often. and TO her
taking whisky at meals. She drinks il
clear without water.
of the 5000 needed to erect the Tenny-
son beacon in the Isle OF Wight only $1,000
has been subscribed so far in England and
$40 in America The beacon will be a gram
lie monolith in the form OF an Iona cross,
to take the place Of the wooden Nodes
beacon.
The channel between Siberia and Alas
IA IS seldom frozen over, and only very
rarely Is 1t possible to cross on the ice
from either side to the islands which lie
ABOUT midway in the channel, and are
known as the Little and Big DiOmedes.
| The channel from one continent to the
! other Is about forty miles wide.
Among the ancient Jews women were
allowed TO 90 10 the synagogues on the
oapDath and pray there, but under sew
I - j.
go thither by side streets and alleys, in
| order not TO be too conspicuous on the
molly day, and when in the sanctuary they
occupied a space latticed off for their use.
Tobacco being a government monopoly
IN France the government appoints the
tobacconists. In the last batch OF appoint
mentS appear the names Of the widow Of
zen Ferron, once minister of war; that of
daughter of an eX-mipister of the colo
MES and those of the widows of Crampel
and Barral' the African explorers.
The latest fish story comes from the
Rhone, near Geneva and Illustrates the
sagacity OF the speckled trout. A chemi-
cal factory on the bank of the river man
fractures. among other things, artificial
nave learned that by eating the waste
that is favored with musk they become
hayored themselves and are thus rendered
unht for human food.
The old belief that projectiIes some
times kill men in battle without hitting
them must be abandoned in view of re-
| cent scientific experiments. 1t was gener-
ally supposed that the air compressed and
driven before the prOjectile, and technically
! called the wind of the shot" was capable
OF striking a fatal blow, and even army
surgeons have assented to this theory.
| But experiments have shown that the air
| driven by a projectile, while capable of
! being instantaneously photographed in the
! form OF wave, does not possess suffi-
| Gent energy to produce any destructive
effect.
| arose from the old custom farmers had of
weighing wool with a stone. Every farm
er kept large stone at his farm for this
! purpose. When a dealer came along he
/ balanced plank on the top of a wall and
/ put the stone on one end of it and the bags
/ on the other until the weights were equal.
/ Al nrSt the stones were of all sorts of
/ sizes and weights, with the result that
| dealers who wished to make a living had
! to be remarkably knowing in their estl-
| mates OF them. But the many incopyen-
| fences involved by this inequality eventu-
| ally resulted in all stones being made of a
/ uniform weight.
The official return of the railway acct
! dents in Great Britain in 1894 has just
/ been published, and although the figures
! show heavy loss of life from various
/ causes, the list of casualties among actu-
al passengers is, as usual, surprisingly
small Only Is passengers were killed ana
/ 54I injured by accidents to the trans, roll
/ ing stock, or permanent way Six en-
| ployes of the companies were killed and 81
/ injured by this class of accident Vastly
/ greater is the total of persons killed by
/ their own carelessness or fault In this
! way $40 persons We're killed and Lose in
9ured, lOl OF the Killed and S2l of the in
| Jured being passengers. OF the injuries
/ 100 were inflicted by the closing of car
| rige doors. The number of persons killed
| at level crossings was 80, while 2SS tres
| passers were run over a different places
| and ~ persons committed suicide. The
| fatalities among employees of the COM
| panleS or contractors were 473, and the
| injuries 2,649 The accidents occurring on
! railway premises, unconnected with the
lraf1c OF the line. amounted to 20 deaths
/ and more than 1900 injuries. OF the 16
! passengers killed in trains in motion. j3
| occurred in the collision at ChelfOrd on
! the London and Northwestern railway
Apart from this catastrophe only three
| passengers lost their lives in travelling
| "A case was reported to me-" saws DR.
| l.. ID. Crothers, in Popular Health Maya
| zine, by an eminent New York physician
! OF a merchant who tried to abstain from
pf NIT
! he worked steadily in his Office and lived
| IN rlch mouse up town, where appar-
| emily, every condition of healthy living
| was present. After several Intellectual eff
! forts to give up all use of spirits be went
| out camping in the White mountain re-
! glon In few days all taste for the spir-
| lts lett MIN, and for the first time in TWEEN
! ~ years he became a total abstainer on
| return to the city he drank again and could
! not stop. The next season he moved out
! IN the country, and all taste for spirits left
| MIN. FINALLY, he gave up his city residence
! and lived out in the country coming to the
! city for a few hours at time, and has
! become total abstainer not having any
taste or desire for spirits. 1t seems most
rational to suppose that poisoned air and
/ defective ventilation We're the exciting
causes OF the drink craze in this case No
other condition of surroundings and living
/ could explain his ability to stop drinLinS
IN the country and not in the city. Another
incident well verified, seemed to bring ont
the same fact: A delicate, nervous child
OF years, supposed to be inclined TO con-
sumption, was guarded with extra rdi-
nary care against colds and the open air
in rich city home. At Is years of age a
strong taste for spirits developed and at 20
he was an inebriate. His mother died and
he was forced to go into the country 70
live. He became a total abstainer at once
and is now, at rs years, a strong temper
ance man. 1t. would appear. that in this
case some condition of cell and tissue star
walton began from defective aeration and
continued until the surrounding changed
think the poison from the detective OK
idation Of the blood, together with I'M
perfect elimination of waste products is a
very active factor in inebriety. In ali raa
tional treatment efforts to remove these.
possible causes should precede all Other
means of treatment. The continual inhaia-
! ton of impure and defective air is aiwaVs
| followed by the accumulation of poisons
which IN many ways unknown, cause reflex
nerve disturbances and reactions Tba.
! heart contracts more frequently. resnira-
ton is accelerated and elaborate ton az mn
tritive material is altered in all the cells
of the body. Fatigue, depression and low,
cred vitality follow. Alcohol at this tir'o