The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


"A large Office building is now being
erected in San Francisco which will be
devoted exclusively TO offices for doctors,
dentists. oculists and aurisJs. II IS 10 be
fitted with every convenience for the use
of the specialists who are expected to oc-
cupy H. IN addition to reception rooms,
cabinets for private examination and mi
croscopic tests, there will be one of the
nnest medical Libraries on the Pacific
coast. There will also be an annex, which
viii contain a restaurant and several
apartments Already the demand for the
offices has been encouraging.
The men who have been wFrSing over
the old Hancock tomb, in the historic Old
Granary burying ground in Boston, re-
Gently brought TO light an interesting re-
minder Of revolutionary days. The work
men found It necessary 10 remove one wall
OF the tomb In order to provide a suitable
foundation for the state monument 20
John Hancock. In the interior of the tomb
was found metal box about three feet
long and 10 inches square. on the plate,
Whlcn was fastened on top, was the fol-
lowing inscription: John Hancock. Born
Jan. 3, 1871. Died oct. s. 1888" 1t is thought
that the remains of the famous signer of
the Declaration of Independence were
gathered by his descendants and placed
in this imperishable box in order to pre-
serve them and distinguish them from the
many other bones which the tomb con-
tains.
A sight very seldom seen by any but
professional naturalists was observed the
other day in German geological collec-
ton, says the Philadelphia Record. The
Demonstration is a nOn-poisOnous snake,
and Kills its prey by squeezing IL to death.
y young boa had been kept in a cage for
a week with three sparrOws without TAX
ing any notice of the presence of the birds.
nor did the latter manifest any fright of
the reptile. one day the snake appeared to
watch the movements of the birds. then
picking seeds Off the floor of the cage, and
slowly began to unwind from the branch
OF the tree on which it spent most of the
INN lal fap
the tree disappeared, the body of the snake
becoming more and more disengaged but
Its head still remaining at considerable dis
lance from the floor. All of sudden the
forward part Of the snakes body shot
downward with lightning rapidity, grasp
ing one of the unsuspecting birds, not with
the mouth, but with rapid twist of the
body, crushing Il ait the same time until
quite nfelCSS. This was done so quickly
and noiselessly that the other birds never
noticed the absence Of the victim. The boa
then returned to the tree above, and af-
ter little preparation of further pressing
the bird and covering it with mucus it pro-
ceeded 10 swallow its prey without biting
or chewing.
The art of rendering artificial aid to the
memory by GSSOciat!ng in the mind things
difficult to remember with those which
are easy of recollection is said TO have
originated with the Egyptians, says EV-
cry saturday. The first person to reduce
| II 10 a system was, according to Cicero,
/ the poet SimOniueS, who lived 800 3. G.
! His plan is known as the topical or locally
plan, and was in substance as follows
! Choose a large house. with a number of
| Inherently furnished apartments in it,
! Impress upon the mind carefully all that
! is noticeable in the house so that the
mind can readily go over the parts. Then
/ place series OF ideas in the house; the
| first in the hall. the next in the sitting
room, and SO on with the rest. Now when
! one wishes to recall these ideas in their
! proper succession commence going through
/ the house, and the idea paced in each de-
/ partment Will be found to readily recur
| to. the mind in connection with il. It is
, felated that the mnemOnic plan was first
/ suggested TO the poet by a tragic occur
renee. Having been called from a ban
/ quet just before the roof of the house fell
| and crushed ell the rest of the com pany
1 he found on returning that the bodies were
/ so mutilated that no idividual could be
| recognized, but by remembering the places
| which they had seVerally occupied at the
| table he was able to identify them. He
was thus led to notice that the order of
! places may by association suggest the or
| der of things.
There is everywhere interest in for
/ eiSn nations to know what their customs
| may be and first of all what they have to
| eat This has been most explicitly stated
| by Nj. Felix Rcgamey in his late Volurnn
| Japan and Art and Industry. What do
/ they eat in Japan? queries NJ Regamey
| and then follows his interesting answer
! TO this question. The simpler way of an
SwerinS this question might be to begin
! by saying what they do not eat. Having
! no prairies, but all their land converted in
! " iiNt pldnidllO ana IFulH gardens, the
| Japanese have very few animals, and
! therefore no butcher meats. no fats, no
! butter and no cheese They have only a
little wheat which they utilize in another
! way than IS the habit in Europe, and do
| not know bread any more than the po-
| tato, tho place of which is taken among
| them by the sweet potato. They have
| neither beer nor Wine nor coffee, and
! drink nothing while eating but tea; sake a
| fermented drink follows the meal, and
! that is all. Everything serves them as a
/ DFeteXI DlpcpG
| esque arrangement The dishes are dress
| ed with taste, their colors matching one
another and set off with the varieties of
verdue which bring out their varied tones.
| 1t is like culinary jeWelry executed for
| the pleasure OF the eyes. The uncooked
| fish, cut uD into small strips, is arranged
in glass plates, particularly the tai, the
| fish most highly priced in Japan. They
| have fowl, eggs, game and magnificent
| vegetables, some attaining colossal dimen-
sions, abundance of eatable marine plants
| seasoned with certain sauce called
| shoyu. Then come haricot pates various
| pickles, plenty of preserves, rice sakes,
| etc.
Every civilized country on the globe
contains persons who served in the civil
| war and now draw pensions from the
| United States government, says the 81
| LOniS GlobeDemOcrat OF all fore; On
countries Canada has the greatest num-
Der of our pensioners there being no less
than 1.7S persons resident in that coun-
| try who draw pensions for service In the
civil war. We have 2 pensioners in AL
giers, 9 i'm the. Argentine Republic, rs in
| Australia, Fl in Ms trta- Hungary, l in the
| Azores, - i'm Belgium. in Bermuda, /
| has wandered to Brazil, II have found ref
| uge in British Columbia, in Chill, 8 in
| China, 3 are in Costa Rica, are in Cuba,
| Denmark has more than her share, there
| being 20 of our old soldiers now resident
| there; l has struggled to Egypt, l to the
| Fiji Islands; France is well provided hav-
| ing sc of our civil war veterans: Guate-
| mala has l, 1G are al present engaged in
| upholding the republic at Hawaii 3 are
Drawing the yellow fever in Honduras, /
| Is on Greenland's icy mountains, 9 are
| pacing midas coral strand, Italy has %.
bare living in the dominion of the Mikado,
| Corea has /, Liberia has 2 are living in
| Malta, in Mauritius, 5S in Mexico, 10 in
| the Netherlands, in New Zealand, 8 in
| Nicaragua, 36 close by the glaciers of
| Norway, have found homes in Peru. /
| lives in Portugal, are in the Republic of
! Colombia. / has got to Roumania are
| living in the land OF the car 2 in Siam, /
in the island where Napoleon breathed his
last. and one IN the island where he was
| born, l in the Society Islands, l in the
| South African Republic, in Spain "a i'm
Sweden, a in Switzerland, in the land of
| the Turk, l in Uruguay, in the West In
| dies this record forming a most rema rka-