The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Twenty-one per cent. of men employed
in our merchant service are unable to
swim.
Progressive card parties have proved
so popular that progressive dinners have
been devised, and during the summer have
been found much more agreeable and IN
teresting than the old way Of having to
sit beside a possibly dull or uncongenial
partner all the evening, says the Phila-
delphia Times. In this wav the dull part
ners are divided up in sections, as it we're.
"A remarkable feature of the present
campaign is the absence of betting, says
the New York Tribune Perhaps never
before in the history Of American politics
has so little money been wagered on the
result. This is not due to a higher moral
condition. though the tendency may be in
that direction, nor to the natural aversion
among gentlemen TO the blatant betting
and bluffng in the hotel corridors. The
conditions of the campaign are RESPONSE
BILE for it. It is almost impossible for
those who believe in McKinley's success
to place money even when they desire to
do so. Bryan's defeat is conceded on all
sides by sporting men who take a prac-
teal view of the situation. So in one way
the popocratic canvass and the anarchist
platform are really exerting a beneficial
effect, or, as The Troy Record" puts it,
"the boy orator exerts an unconscious in
fluence on the morals of the fellow
citizens"
The French bark Alice and Isabelle,
which sailed from Philadelphia on Sept.
for Sables de Olonnes, France, with
cargo of crude petroleum in bulk, put
back to the Delaware Breakwater yester-
day in distress says the Philadelphia
Record On the fourth day out, about %
miles southeast of Cape Henlopen, She
was struck by a hurricane, in which She
nearly foundered. For eighteen hours
she drifted before the gale on her beam
ends. During the storm one of the SAT-
ors had one leg broken, while another had
both legs broken. The injured men were
removed to the National hospital at
Lewes. The vessels safety is due to
peculiar cause. During the storm large
quantities of the oil leaked overheard.
The seas began to break as soon as they
met the oil, and by the time they reached
the vessel had lost their force. AL around
the vessel, excepting where the oil had
rifted, the seas were running higher than
the bark's foreyard, while in the immodi-
ate vicinity of the disabled craft the
water was comparatively sn Goth.
A highly interesting discovery, which
will perhaps afford a clue to the cause Of
cancer, has been made in Prof Won Ley
denis university hospital here. says a Ber-
lin dispatch to the London Standard. A
young woman of % and man
of g. both suffering from ascites
and cancer of stomach, we're brought to
the hospital last spring. In order to re-
move the accumulated fluid, tapping was
resorted to in both cases. The fluid was
examined under the microscope, and hith-
erto unknown living organisms, belonging
probably, to the protocol, we're discovered.
Prof. Waldeyer, to whom the preparations
were submitted, advised that they should
be sent to DIR. Schaudinn, assistant at the
Geological institute of the Berlin univer-
sity, who has been investigating the pro-
tozoa for years past. He began his exam
nation on July 10, and ascertained that
in both cases the fluid contained a paras-
itic amoeboid rhizspod, which he named
Leydenia gemmipara Schaudinn. He in
ferred that it Is a pathogenic organism
but both he and Prof. Won Leyden still
abstain from deciding as to the connection
between it and cancer, though they ad-
nit the possibility of such a connection.
They have made a preliminary commuui-
cation on the subject to the Berlin Acade-
my of Sciences.
Some days ago a well known dealer
in antiquities offered for sale to the
Louvre museum, in Paris, splendid COL
lection of ancient silver vases from Italy
or Greek or italian workmanship, says
the London News. The museum was IN
able to pay the price asked-f20, 000-and
declined the bargain. The italian minis
ter of education, having learned of this,
has taken proceedings under the Pacca
law against Sig. di Prico, the owner of
these antiquities. The latter is a large
land owner at Bosco Reale He secretly
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twenty-eight silver vases of remote an
tiquity. Notwithstanding the Italian law
prohibiting owners of antiquities from
sending them out of the country without
leave, or, rather, on account of this law,
which prevents old works of art from
commanding anything Nike their natural
price in the impoverished country Sig
di Frisco struggled his find out of Italy
and offered 1t to a Paris dealer for IS 900.
Continuing meanwhile his search, he
found other silver vases, which duly
joined their fellows in Paris. The Italian
minister of education throws interesting
light on the facilities which underpaid
officials are supposed to afford Illicit ex-
porters of antiquities. He issues a notifi-
cation that, should any official be found
to have connived at this latest evasion of
the Pacca law, they will be criminally
prosecuted.
The aquatic Juror has become so gem
eral that for the simple reason that cold
water is a pure, natural product. it is
claimed to be a universal and beneficial
application, says a writer in the Home
Queen. Arsenic is a pure, natural and
simple product; so is prusslc acid, as OBJ
tanned from a peach kernel. A single
drop of tobacco oil win kill a cat or dog
in five minutes. Many persons are daily
running their eyes by opening them in
cold water in the morning Cold water
will harden and roughen the hands and
much more will it do so to the manifold
more delicate covering of the eye; or the
eye will, in self-defense, become scalv in
the manner Of a fish-that is, the coats of
the eye will thicken, constituting a spe-
cies of cataract, which must impair The
sight. That water, cold and harsh as II
is, should be applied to the eve for cura-
tive purposes, in place Of that soft. warm
lubricating fluid which nature Inanufac,
lures for just such purposes. Indicates
great mental obliquity. Water, when an
piled to the eyes should be
lukewarm, and even then it Should only
be applied by closing and flaming II
against the lid with the hand. This coos
the eye more rapidly than cold wate,.
does, and without the shock us,s1o a.