The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mr. David FIannery reminds the read
ers Of the Electrical Age that we would
not be able to see at al but for the dust
ter the rays Of light. Perhaps no discovery
OF the century Is more beautiful than this,
unless II be that Of the reproduction OF
roWers BY means of butterflies and other
Insects.
President wilson Of the New York
board Of health in a recent address calls
attention TO remarkable fact, which
goes TO show that the laws OF Moses
had a reasonable sanitary object, as well
as a religious one, and that their en-
Iorcement might not be. bad thing to-
Gay. said he. There is a strange eN-
ample in the Tenth ward OF how the
habits OF a people will modify the death
rate II is the most densely populated
district IN the city, and one OF the most
denseiy populated in Nthe world. There
are more than CD people 10 the acre,
yet in 1893 the death rate was only lI-l2,
while for the city IL was .. / attribute
this to the fact that IL is mostly pop
ulated by Hebrews, who observe the old
Mosaic code, which requires publication
or washing after defilement by touching
or minstering to the sick. 1t prevents
the disease germs from spreading"
Half the dyspepsia and Indigestion
and general debility from which so many
people seem to be suffering IS que 10
nothing in the world except lack OF
exercise" said an old physician, with
wise shake of his head to the wash
ington Post. Take all these department
clerks, for instance. More than half of
them lose from twenty to thirty days
year Of government time on account
OF sickness due to these causes II Is
not remarkable that they should, either.
They get up in the morning, hurry through
breakfast and rush out and get aboard
a street car. When they reach theK
offices instead of climbing upstairs they
get in the elevator and ride up. At noon
they daWdle around instead Of taking
a brisk walk of ten or fifteen minutes
to expel the stale air they have been
breathing all the morning from their
lungs and cleaning them out with the
fresh article. After Office they are list
less and worn out, or feel that way and
ride home again to eat dinner with no
appetite and lie around idly till bedtime.
/ tell you that everybody ought TO climb
up three or four flights of stairs at
least once a day in order 70 bring inn
portant muscles into play, and everybody
too, ought to take a brisk walk OF least
other object than the walk in view.
There'd be more well stomachs in this
vicinity if they did"
Almost like a song" says the Rev.
William Elliot Griffis, has been the life
of Haruko, the Empress of Japan. With
health, beauty, sweet feminine attract
gVeneSs of immemorial noble lineage, be-
loved by her lords and people, awarded
personal honors by her husband unknown
to former expresses she has lived to sec
Japan made a new nation and the sun
banner borne VIGOROUSLY into mighty
emma. In the national regeneration ana
the hearty adoption of western civiliza~
ton she has borne a leading part Her
heart has been ever warmly sympathetic
with all that means JOY or sorrow to her
people. Now she feels for the hundreds
of her female subjects who, having mar
ried Chinese, dwelling in Japan, are now
rent from husband, and often from chill
dren especially sons, and whose whole do
nestle life is wrecked by the war. The
storm came to most of the people in
China. Korea and Japan as a fire-bOlt ont
of clear sky. The empress sympathy,
too, is with her gallant lads, who beyond
UNFOLD nnffOntE honor under
rising-sun flag. Already her warm heart
is felt like a nations pulse. At this mo-
ment because of her announcements, the
japanese camps in Manchuria are well
supplied with both comforts and dainties
above and beyond the regulations and
the rations. Her gracious influence
soothes many on hour of pain and an
guish when brave ladsalie woultied in
the hospital or when households at home
mourn because the bamboo streaIuers
| iiutter in the wind over new-made graves
in a foreign soil"
That a dog possesses an intelligence
capable of discriminating on the value of
cards to such an extent as to bet in ra-
tional and sensible manner is a hard pin
to swallow unless washed down by the
conclusive proof of a test experiment, says
the PlttsDurg Oispatch. Yet the pill has
to be swallowed Those who saw that rep
! resentative of the highest DEVELOPMENT Of
reason in the canine race, Miss Scotty,
perform on the stage Of one of the thea
ters last week looked with wonder upon
the feats this collie was able to acCogn-
plASus lISL accepting Inen as what tnEN
seemed TO be, then deciding them too mar
vellous to be true and putting them down
as clever tricks-stage tricks in which the
dog merely followed the signal of her
trainer or a confederate back of the scene.
working as an automaton without reason
or Judgment except as to obeying the sig
nal. This&s but natural, as the conditions
surrounding performance on a stage in
wife fraud However to a number of gen
tlemen who inquired from the dogs owner
Mr.. Lewis, if the performance was really
an exhibition of the dogs intelligence and
reasoning power or merely a trick, Mr..
Lewis responded by Offering to give a pri-
Vate exhibition under test conditions as
the spiritualists put it, to prove that the
| dog possessed the power of discrimina-
ton and reasoning developed to a wonder
tul degree. Accordingly room was en-
gagged and the dog began her work. She
picked out the cards of pack as they
were called with but few mistakes. One
of these mistakes was perhaps interesting
as exhibiting the peculiar effect of a set
idea taking hold of the mind. Miss Scotty
got the idea early in the performance
that the queen preceded the king in order
of value, most chivalrous motion to be
sure YET Wrohg. NO matter now much
Mr.. Lewis objected she insisted upon pick
ing the queens before the kings when Sc
Letting the cards according to their value.
Some other tricks were gone through
when two hands of cards were dealt and
Mass Scotty being given her hand was
| asked TO play. When asked how much
she would bet, she picked up the third card
in the row, signifying she would go three
And she made her three tricks as well as
any expert card player could have done
But this erroneous idea of the order of
the cards still chung to her in playing her
hand She held the ace, king, and queen
of trump. She played the ace first; then
the queen and the king. OF course they
were all of the same value under these
circumstances, but Mr.. Lewis objected
saying: Now, Scotty, you've played
wrong. That's not the way you have been
taught Now, what comes after the aee?''
Scotty answering picked up the queen. DO
what he would, he could not get the dog
to change her idea in this regard. Not IN
like some men who, although they have
been taught better, insist that wrong is
right to the end of their days Miss Scot
ty played cards with several of the gentle
men present and qnite overpowered an in
veterate card player who prided himself
upon his knowledge and science in dealing
with cards, by beating him two games,
without giving him the least show Mr.
Lewis left the room after Miss Scotty be-
came better acquainted with her spectators
and allowed the dog TO work at the COM
mand of one of the party. 1t was quite
difficult to get the dogs attention away
from the door where her master went out
but nevertheless she performed some
tricks, selecting cards and numbers nam