The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-01

A miner living on Soldier Creek. o..
"as rich ledge. from which he can
VI obtain SO TO So worth Of ore daily.
y has. had several fiattering offers; but
PROPERTY The ledge will stay there" h
says Il own il. I'm as independent as
a hog on ice and I'm happy and content
ed 10 stay Just as / am.
A minister was recently passing
through one Of the most abjectly poor
Districts OF DeptfOrd, England, when his
eJe was caught by two small oil paint
Egs exhibited in a wretched little shop
7'tlnQoW. The pictures were procured Tor
the modest sum OF $. Expert eXamina-
tion has now decided that both pictures
are the undoubted work Of Paul NerOnese.
One day last week. says the ST. Louis
GloDe.Democrat, a man presented at the
sEb-treasury a 81 bill of the old CONT
mental currency for redemption. He de-
manded $1,000 for the liquidation of the
ancient obligation Ihis result ne Cd
lalhNd by ngurlng compound interest
from 10, the date of issue He was in
formed that the value of such papers was
about TO cents per 100 pounds.
DIR. Aubry in writing a book on THE
Contaglon OF Crime" used as an example
a notorious family sprung from criminal
parents who died early in the century,
nearly all OF whose members have records
in the criminal law reports. A respecta-
Die gTandchild Of the criminal couple re-
Gently sued the doctor for damages and
scientific research is no excuse for caus-
ing pain and discomfort 10 an innocent
person by defaming his grandmother.
About the queerest. newspaper among
the many queer ones that seek and no
doubt ind readers, is lie Monaco" From
q copy that has drifted into this office
II appears that lie Monaco is issued week
~, IS admirably printed on expensive pa
per, and that its news consists almost
exclusively of figures arranged in long
columns. says the Washington Post. These
| figures tell in whaJ compartment of the
roulette wheels at Monte Carlo and Spa
me little balls have come to rest dur
ing d weeks business. What value this
information has fCf any human being
even for those who play on a system
we are at a loss to conjecture, but that il
Is regarded as of some importance is
shown by the fact that the paper costs
s. a year, and that the advertising rates
are 81 a line fos ''annonces,'' and Sc line
for 'reclames." That such a sheet can
exist and apparently flourish is a strik-
ing commentary on the present state of
| European intelligence and the slowness
with which civilization is advancing.
r. II. Beckley, now living in St Louis,
| says the GlObe-Democrat is pretty sure
/ he bears a charmed life, and anybody VINO
doubts it is at liberty to go through the
! same experience and see If he can come
| out alive-always provided he can find the
| said experiences. Beckley doesn't carry
| a buckeye nor a rabbit foot, and he doesn't
| own petrifed potato, but he has come
| out Of enough close places with a whole
| skin to test the protective power Of the
| most powerful fetch ever created by
| conjurer. He was in the Johnstown flood
| and hoated thirteen miles down the Con-
nemaugh river in half an hour and was
/ unhurt. He was in the terrible Nameoki
wreck on the Wabash i'm October, 1893, and
| came out without a scratch. He was in
| the sleigh that was struck by 'ocomo-
| tive at the Sarah street crossing Of the
! Wabash, in St Louis, in January, 1892.
when eight men and four horses were
killed, and although he was thrown thirty
| feet he got off with less injury IAN any
| one else in the party. A few weeks be-
| fore this de took a big dose of cocaine
! and belladonna by mistake, and the doc
] tor who nl1rnnpd him has CT
! ped wondering why it didn't kill him.
Beckley was born in Philadelphia thirty
| four years ago.
Growth and waste and repair go on in
/ a nearly uniform way the whole year
| through, but the amount of food neces-
sary for these operations or purposes is
| surprisingly small, says the British Med
! ical Journal. The generation of bodily
| heat requires a most variable quantity Of
! food. In winter with the temperature of
| the external air at zero, the temperature
| of the blood in healthy persons is 9S.3 de-
| grees, and when the heat of summer
| drives the mercury of the thermometer
| stiN registers 1913 degrees. The marvel
| Gus mechanism by which this uniform
| blood temperature is maintained at all
| seasons is not necessary to consider; but
| it must be evident to every one that the
| force needed to raise the temperature OF
| the whole body to nearly 100 degrees in
| winter is no longer needed in summer
| The total amount of food needed for re-
! pair, for grouth and for hearing physi-
| ology teaches us, is much less than Is gen
! orally imagined, and it impresses us with
| the truth of the great surgeon, Aberne-
| thy S, saying, that 'one-fOurth of what
| we eat keeps us, and the other three
| fourths we keep a the peril of our lives
! In winter we burn up the surplus food
! with limited amount of extra exertion.
| In summer we get rid of it literally at
some extra risk to health. and, of course
| to life. We can not burn it. Our vital
| furnaces are banked, and we worry the
| most important working organs with the
/ extra eXertion of removing what would
better never have been taken into the
| stomach.
The leech is a strange unlovely crea-
! ture. Fortunately it has gone out of
| fashion. But thirty or forty years ago
when medical men had a pleasant habit
| of bleeding every patient who fell into
| their hands, the little blood-Suckers used
| to be in great demand. Even now the
| trade in leeches is considerable, says the
Kansas City Times. Leech fishing is not
| pleasant occupation. IT condemns the
| fishers to foggy miStS, foul, muddy waters
! and most fetid odors. And worse than
| this, the fisher has himself to be the bait
| Blood for blood is the motto of these SAN
| culinary beasts, and, nothing but a pair of
plump and naked legs will tempt them
| from their stagnant pools. The leech lives
a, semi-aquatic existence; it must have
| plenty of air and plenty of water and it
! likes them foul They are caught in the
| spring and early summer The men turn
| up their trousers and wade knee deep into
! the water. The sight of the legs acts like
| a magnet on the leeches. They make a
rush for them, cling on and begin to suck
| The men PICK them OF as fast as they
can put them into bag4Zhich they carry
fastened around theiK Eaists. They DO
not lose any time, khe little black
| creatures VIII sWallo Fe times their
own weight in the pr victim in
| no time, and cause ash to flow away
! Toward the end of the se8son the leeches
retire into deep water, and then their pur-
| suerS are compelled to wade up to their
chins An alternative to this plan is to
take raft out and bangle arms and legs
| in the water. An expert catches many
! just as they are fastening on, and so
an important item. A good fisher can. if
! he is careful, go on for four or five hours
| before he gets exhausted from loss of
| blood. In that case he will have caught
nearly 200 leeches. 1t is a funny, almost
uncanny, sight to see the unhealthy-look-
! ing men wading through marshes and
swamps and dirty streams, their arms and
legs bare, poking about among the PUSHES
and turning the messy pebbles over with
their toes in the hopes of stirring up