The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A French physician has declared that
the unpleasant habit Of biting the niger
nails is hereditary; Almost one-thlru OF
the French school children bite their nails,
and the girls are worse than the boys
in this matter Not only does the habit
disfgure the ends of the fingers, but as the
fragments of the nail are often cheWed
and swallowed. there is constant
danger that the sharp fragments may IN
1ure the lining of the stomach.
-Meehan's Monthly says that experts
are now employed to plant trees in the
streets of London. A tree census has
recently been taken by order of the Lon
by reason Of the expert tree men VINO
are regularly employed to look after them.
The number Of trees growing in the pub
lie highways of the city Of London is
highways alone, and not in the parks.
1t may be remembered, says the West
minister Gazette, that when Mr.. Rhodes
inclOsed his great pleasaunce in South Az
RIGA he decided TO issue keys to those of
the public who might wish to visit it. He
lately received a consignment of 1000 keys
but he does not intend TO. issue them after
all. He Is so pleased with the considerable
behavior Of the crowds of persons who
have visited his demesne that there Is
really no reason for the slight safeguard
which he was at first disposed to adopt.
No damage has been done to the grounds,
everybody has been on his best behavior,
and on these terms all are welcome: Let
them come and enjoy themselves says
Mr.. Rhodes. land their pleasure in the
beauties of Grotto Schuur will be mine
1t was Mr.. Grant Allen. says Harper's
Weekly, who set forth some years ago
in one of the magazines that the Obli-
cations of a married woman to society
were not to be settled on a basis of fewer
than five children, that being the number
which Mr.. Allen found necessary if the
population of the country is to be prop
erly kept up. Edward Won Hartmann,
the German metaphysician and essayist,
takes a much more comprehensive view
children
apiece is Won Hartmanns assignment to
German WOmankind-tWO before the 10Th
year fye IN the POS. three in the 3Os and
one in the IDS. II is astonishing how much
learning it is possible for German pro-
lessor to Secrete without acquiring with
il any considerable admixture of sense.
No wonder metaphysics should be report
ed TO be growing unpopular among Ger
man students
The North Atlantic Pilot Chart, issued
by the photographic bureau at Washing
ton in July, 1891, published the following
The especially dangerous West India
hurricane months are indicated by the
following easily remembered lines: June,
too soon; July, stand by; August, look out
you must; September, remember Octo-
Der, all over" The bureau admits that
the collection of further data than it had
on hand at that time indicates a neces-
sity for a modification of the 1891 state
ment, and publishes the further state
ment that the especially dangerous months
for the class of storms referred to are
August, September and October. A graph
ic diagram is given on the Pilot Chart for
this month showing the frequency of
| West India hurricanes in the years from
1885 to 1894. inclusive. The totals for the
several years show that six occurred in
June, four in July. sixteen in August,
tWenty-one in September and twenty-five
in October.
Many physicians, according to a lee
turer or dietetics. are ordering thin bread
and butter fer delicate patients. especi-
ally those suffering from dyspepsia, con-
! nnan
to take on flesh. says the New York Times.
| This thin bread and butter insensibly in
duces persons to eat much more butter
than they have any idea of. 1t is extraor-
binary says the lecturer how short a
way pat of fresh butter will go if spread
on number of thin slices of bread. This
is one advantage, and a great one, in
the feeding of inValids, for they are
thereby provided with an excellent form
nutrition, in a way that lures them to
| take it without rebellion. But the thin
| bread and butter has another advantage
| equally great-it is very digestible and
easily assimlated Fresh butter made
| from cream is very much more digesti-
PIE when spread upon thin slices of bread
| than the same amount of cream eaten as
| cream, per Sc, would be. ~
Having succeeded in utilizing the
| clouds for his multifarious purposes, the
| ingenious advertiser II would appear is
now about to betake himself to the depths
| of the sea, says the Westminster Gazette.
| 1t is reported from Switzerland that some
| experiments have been recently made
there by advertisers with the view OF
| turning to some practical use the water
| of those lakes that have hitherto been adj
/ mired merely because of their natural
| beauty. The method employed is simpici-
ty itself. The words of the advertisement
are printed in gigantic yellow or white
! letters on a black ground. When sunk
| and securely held at the bottom of the
/ lake the advertisement is fairly legible
! the refraCtiOn of the light making the
! words appear on the surface of the wa
ter The trials made in the Lake of Cen
eva are described as having been com
! pletely successful" The recommendation
] say of Lake Como to use somebody OF
! others pills or polishing paste soap or
/ soothing syrup is hardly designed to dis
! pose the average pleasure-seeker very IA
| VOrably towards the various manufactu-
rers of these invaluable articles.
Why is dirty water the cleanest? The
! question seems somewhat ridiculous, in
| stead of being solidly scientific. Recent
! meteorological researches in India prove
| that the thick. turbid waters of the
| Gauges and Jumna are freer from mi
| crobes than many of the cleanest wells
! The mud is not organic, and it helps to
! kill the microbes; but. of course, the sun
| is the great destructive agent.'The Thames
| SHOWS much cleaner water than the
| Gauges, but it is not nearly so safe to
! drink. These revelations of the compara-
! tive purity of Indian waters are rather
| astounding, considering that bathing is
| so common in them, and that dead bodies
| are thrown in. An up-to-date bacteriolo-
| glSt, Mr.. Hank1n, who has been making
| the water researches just noticed, has dis
covered that caste is partly founded on
| or, at any rate, agrees with-science and
| common sense. The low-caste people are
not permitted, because they engage in I'M
| clean or repulsive occupations to touch the
wells and the drinking vessels of the high
! er castles. Caste is thus a sense of the
! meteorological fitness of things. Il don't
want TO be infected, and l keep myself
! apart" is Brahminism and common sense
! Bacteria were unknown in India when
/ caste began but empirical observation had
disclosed dangers. This, thinks the West
! minister Gazette, is very pretty bit of
! modern research and it leads us on to
associate certain of the older religious reg
ulations of other countries with a clear
| idea that health was mainly to be found
| in cleanliness. The microbe evidently.
| may help us to rewrite some of our his
/ tory.
On the subject of the superstitions
| that are common in Caithness, a writer
| in the Scottish Review says: A method
much in vogue at one time of ascertain-
J ing whether a sickness would prove fatal
| was TO dig two holes in the ground one
/ called the quick grave, the other the dead
| hole. The sufferer was then placed be-
] tween the two, and the hole toward which
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