The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Z
Z Times Pliny relates that the Pontic mon
arch made himself proof against poison by
administering TO himself an antidote whose
[ principal ingredient was the blood Of a pc
culiar kind Of duck. native 10 that land
and which had the reputation OF living eX-
ciusiyely on substances fatal 20 human
lie This. the Boston man thinks. shows
that the employment OF an immune ami
mails blood to make another animal i'm
mune is a very old idea, and should de-
priVe the inventors OF the serum treatment
Cf any credit for originality. It's queer
idea sufficiently absurd TO win serious con-
sideration-in Boston
1t looks very much as II the old slate
and pencil of our school bov davs Will
be unknown 10 the school children Of
the next generation, says the Philadelphia
Record Already these Old aids to edu-
cation have been banished from our pub
nc schools through the efforts OF ny
glenic enthusiasts. The arguments urged
against the use Of the slate and pencil
are that the pencil markings on a slate
are more or less indistinct, and hence
trying upon the eyes: that the resistance
OF the hard pencil upon the hard slate
IS urlng TO the muscles; and, most par
ticularly, that the use of these articles
Is unhealthy. The festive microbe is sup
posed to revel in the neighborhood OF the
states and the sponges which are used in
cleaning them. There are some. however,
Who contend that the use of pencil. paper
and rubber might prove to be just as bad
from a sanitary standpoint in the hands
OF child not oVer-particular of his habits.
However IL looks very much as If the
slate and pencil will soon go to Join
the abacus of our ancestors.
If we are to believe the recent asser-
tion of DIR. Maurice de Fleurv a French
PHYSICIAN of some eminence. jealousy IS
disease dependent on physical methods of
treatment says the Philadelphia Press.
| That this will be welcome news TO the
wives OF jealous husbands and the sweet
hearts of jealous lovers goes without say
ing. Instead of tears. prOtestations and
appeals TO heaven, there will shortly be
.
you have forgotten your pills this morn
/ ing; or John. told YOU what would hap
pen IL YOU neglected your jealOusy-medi-
! cine!' or, TO carry the idea another step
further, fences and walls will soon be pla-
carded with such adjurations as these:
Take Jackson's Joy-Bringers for NAL
| ousyi" while Smiths Suspicion-SOOth-
| ers' and "RobinsOn's Anti-Green-Eye
| Pellets will be lauded on every billboard.
/ Testimonials VIII stare us in the face
from the pages of the advertising columns,
| accompanied by twin pictures of a. sallow,
| nerce-eyed wretch and fat and placid
man, labelled: Before Taking and AT
| ter Taking"
| Nature is a very loving and careful
| mother and it is seldom, within a civilized
community, that any accident befalls her
| little ones for which her higher creation,
/ man, is not directly responsible says
/ New Orleans letter. In view of this fact,
/ the following little incident seems interest
| ing: y lady of this city relates that some
| days since the first humming-bird Of the
| season made its appearance in her gar
/ den, slipping indiscriminately from the
wealth of sweets. Late IN the afternoon
/ she observed the little fellow lowering
around a spike of Annunciation lilies
which had shot up perfectly laden with
/ bells. The next morning early when she
went out for a matHudtnal stroll through
/ the garden she heard a tiuttertng and
/ faint creeping from the neighborhood of
/ the lily bed. For some time she could see
| nothing to account for the faint sounds,
but at last was aStonished to discover that
one of the lily bells had closed its petals,
imprisoning the humming-bird within It
beak too far IN and extracted so much
honey as to cause the already fading
| flower to collapse suddenly. thus holding
the little fellow close-bound all night
] long.
The demagnetization of watches which
have become magnetized through coming
/ in contact with the influence of the dy
namo-electric machines of high tension
| forms the subject of communication
| to the Echo des Mines 1t explains that
/ the very hard steel used for the cylinder
1 wheel of ordinary watches is apt 20 be-
/ come highly magnetized when brought
/ near dynamos running; and this magnet
iZation, combined with the earths mag
/ netsm, always causes the watch to get
/ slow, and often to stop altogether. In or
| der to annihilate this magnetzation,
| natural magnet must be placed in hor.-
/ zontal posttion-on a table, for instance,
/ and the watch held horizontally about
| half yard on a level with the magnet.
/ The watch must then be brought slowly
I
/ slowly, and at the same time regular
i ly as possible, between the fingers as on
verticle axis. When the poles of the
| magnets are reached, the turning of the
| watch is to be continued, while being
/ gradually withdrawn until the starting
/ point is reached. This simple method
/ has often been adopted with the desired
| result.
| ambassadors are official personages with
! strictly defined prerogatives, precedence
| and rank. says the New York Recorder
! Many of their privileges are very quaint.
! Thus, for instance, when one gives birth
| to child during the term of her hus-
| bands mission 1t is customary for the
sovereign to whose court the husband is
! accredited to act as sponsor to the infant
! In Spain the wives of ambassadors, on
| being received by the Queen Regent, are
| accorded by etiquette a kiss on the cheek
| and thereupon a chair to the right of the
/ sovereign. At Versailles and at the TuiI-
/ leries in monarchical days they were CON
| coded the tabourets of duchesses when in
| the presence of royalty, while at the Vat
! lean, when received by the pontif. thew
/ are permitted to seat themselves on a pile
! of cushions. In England wives of an,bas-
/ sailors have been the FREQUENT cause 81
| dlf1culty both at court and in society At
one time all the wives of earls abstained
from coming 10 court, so as not to yield
| precedence to the wives of ambassadors
| while in the early part of Queen Victoria's
/ reign the duchesses rose in arms at the
| lqea OF making way for those ladies' But
! ambassadors. but also the ambassadors
| wives are looked upon as Representing
| the personality Of their sovereign, and If
| would be impossible for any foreign ruler
TO walk behind an Enblish subject either
| at ofclal functions or even in societII
| Like their husbands, the wives of ambas.
Sadors cannot be sued for debt no matter
| now Dig the account which they NAV RIM
| up, as Paris dressmakers have found to
their cost. In one instance. where tbe
| Wlfe or the Spanish ambassador at Turin
| mad had her effects seized on hebaif -
some creditor, the most profuse oficisi
APOLOGIES We're subsequently, offered nv
Maarld, They are entitled to harness siy
horses to their carriages, should the fancV
selze them' whereas the subjects of the
| sovereign IN the country where thew az
living are debarred from using more than
four. When the lady drives in her stata
coach to the royal or imperial palace ~
pay her respects to the queen or empress
me palace guard is compelled to turn ont
Just as II the ambassadors wife Were a
member of the royal family.