The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lists, recently held in Florence, Dr. a.
burini called attention to the startling
that within the\iast five years the a.
Der OF insane people in Italy had ms
ed from 1900 to 10000.
"A sudden and wearing ata Of
coughing often needs immediate ttepn.
especially in consumptives al bse
chronically i'll. In an emergencysa EVER
useful remedy, hot water, will Of rove
very effective. 1t is much betterR the
ordinary cough mixtures, whichorder
the digestion and spoil the appeg Wa
ter almost boiling should be siplwhen |
he paroxysms come on. A cougsuIt- |
ing from irritation is relieved By. wa |
ter through the promotion of etion, |
which moistens the irritated faces. |
Hot water also promotes exposition, |
and so relieves the dry cough.
Concerning the jarrah tree ofstra- |
liza, which is largely used for streelvlng
in London and other European a Sir
John Forest Of Australia. speakhus:
The demand for our jarrah anarri
timber in London and other largt ties
for paving shows that probably in5lort
time this will be one of our greatesems
of export. All along the Southern
railway to the Collie coal fields, d the
railway to Bridgetown, splendid srah
country exists. With these incBing
railway facilities look forward toTery
large increase in this valuable exr. 1
hope we will not leave it to the citis of
London, Chicago and other places use
this wood for paving, but that in own
cities and towns we may see the muipal
councils taking advantage of this wler-
fully suitable product"
"A libel suit was recently brout by
Mr.. Eugene Turpin, the inventor onel-
mite, highly explosive subslce,
against Jules Verne and his publer,
Hotel, according to LIE Figaro. 7 in
ventor considers himself insulted 1.-THE
latest work of the French novelistnd,
therefore, sues him for damagesarhe
new book is called Face au Draau'
QFacing the Flag, and it's hero de-
scribed as an INSCRIPTIONS intrAnt.
In this character the great explosnist
thinks he has discovered a resemlnce
to his own personality, but in reay it
now appears that the Panclastic som-
pany, the manufacturers of nelinit are
the real plaintiffs, although lIr. 1rpin
Is but a stakeholder in that pncer 1t
is very likely that a scandal viii dtelop
from this apparently simple llibelsuit,
and it is said that already sol be 20wit-
nesses have been subpoenaed fF therial.
Many other substances hav4beenEried
as substitute for corks in m4ingstop-
pers for bottles, those which hive ppved
most valuable being ground glas AM in
dia rubber, but nothing has yet hen bund
that can compete with cork. Con is made
from the bark of the cork cal which
grows in the regions borderin9on the
MediterI anean sea; and the toppers
which are used for bottles are tuted ou
by machines with great rapidf. The
power to relax and expand is whamake.
the cork valuable as a stopper. livery
body has doubtless noticed how qHkly
cork that has been kept moist will kpanC
on being drawn from a bottle. Aftebein,
kept under great pressure, even fl tel
years, a cork will frequently swell toAear
~ double its former size on being raess
ed, and If stepped in hot water it willcor
tinue to increase in size till nearly hire
times as large as when in the neck d tn
bottle.
1t is a fact not generally known, say
the New York Tribune, that the publ
executioners of Europe, even where II
office does not pass from father to sol
have an etiquette of their own, int
marry and are quite as exclusive in the
limited circles as are the rulers of The
respective countries. Nine. Deibler WI
died the other day in Paris, besides beir
the wife of Monsieur de Paris" the pu]
lie executioner of France, was the daug,
ter of NJ. Rasenoeud. the executioneer
Algeria, who, although IS years of az
still exercises the functions of his offic
M. and Mme Deibler had lived since Il
execution of valiant and Henry in a Ii
tie cottage in Anteuil, Rue de Billancour
for they were obliged to give up the
house in Rue Vicq Air owing to threa
of the anarchists. She was a small, pre-
ty woman, timid and retiring, and ente
tanned only the official guests of her hu
band or his few personal friends. II
French papers have said that she was
granddaughter of Samson, the execurlo
er who guillotined Louis XVI. This
a mistake. Charles Henry Samson il;
only one grandchild, Henry, born in II!
and made Monsieur de Paris in 1919. I
was dismissed from office in 1849, charge
it is said, with having accepted bride
He wrote the famous Memories des Sar
son, which would be of infinite historic
value had their author not been bless,
with an inappropriate imagination.
Does human hair ever suddenly whit
in the cases of persons under strong EN-
tons of grief or terror? The popul
notion is decidedly in favor of an affirm
tive answer to the question, says the S
Louis Republic. We say that the popul
notion would readily draw one to such
conclusion. Perhaps the assertion cou
be made somewhat stronger, for of la
years the psychologists and the naturalis
pretty generally agree that blanching
the hair in cases of sudden fright and e
treme sorrow can be easily proved. Hs
Ter, In his "Elementa Physiologie," refe
to eight different authorities for exampl
of such changes; but all that he appea
to admit for himself is that under Il
influence of Impaired health such chang
may take place slowly. Marie Antoinet
was cited by favorers of the popular n
ton as a striking and well authenticat,
instance, but Halter denies that the viii
ening took place suddenly. He also INK
dentally mentions the fact that the tran
actions of the royal society, extendil
over period Of two and a quarter ce
turtles, do not contain an account Of
single instance of such change in the col
of the hair. DR.. Laycock, on the autho
ity of Surgeon Parry, tells of a rebel S
poy who is said to have become prem
turely gray within less than a half hou
Halter, still skeptical, says that he b
lieves this to have been a case where II
hair had been stained a dark brown
black, and that the coloring was wash,
out by rain during the thirty minutes me-