The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-23
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! Queer methods are occasionally adopt
Ell IN London 10 raise money for the hospi-
tails. The Lancet says that on a recent
] Sunday in a cetain part Of london there
I was street procession Organized in ara
/ OF a hospital. In addition 10 the usual
/ bands and banners of friendly societies
I which accompany these professions. there
! were tradosmen's carts. decorated with
| mowers and vegetables. the name Of the
/ owner Of the vehicle being. Of course. con-
! spic9ous..y visible. But the principal ''at-
/ tract-On' was man on what was sup
| posed TO be "A sick-bed. and attended bv
/ Two nurses. one Of whom was a qualified
I nurse and the other a person masquerad-
| ing IN q nurses costume.
No whaler nowadays IS considered to
| have complete outfit for a voyage IN
/ less it is supplied with a kodak and a
| full assortment Of Photographic nnateri-
| ais. says the Philadelphia Record. These
| are furnished BY the managing owners,
VINO, however interesting they may find
the yarns Of the sailors about hairbreadth
escapes from mOnstrOus whales and other
| perlls Of the sea, prefer TO have visible
token Inat the crew Is not Sinking its
duty They, therefore, send a photOgra-
pher along with instructions to take pic
lures Of every port at which the vessel
touches and also Of every whale sight
ed. With these records before them, the
owners believe they can tell whether or
not the cruise has been a loafing or
vigorous one.
The nose is a queer organ at the best
of times, and has a way of getting into
constant trouble, says the Hartford
Times. Some strange stories are told
about noses. learned doctor, in a book
on plastic surgery, tells of a man who
had his nose bitten off in a fight and was
a once taken to a hospital. He was told
there that If he would 20 back To the
scene of the fight and ind his nose il
could be put on and would be as good
ever. The man did SO, and ne was just
in time, too. As he reached the spot a
dog had seized upon the nose as a choice
mOrSel, ana was making on with IL. The
owner finally secured II, and the surgeons
were as good as their word. Although
several hours had passed, the nose was
replaced and. the man experienced no
Difficulty or Inconvenience from his acci-
dent.
1t is not generally known that fish
yawn, says the Spectator. The writer saw
a turbot yawn twice, and a cod once
the latter being one of the widest yawns
accomplished by any animal of its size.
The yaWn Of a turbOt being something
not commonly seen, deserves more partic-
ular description. A turbOts mouth is
twisted on one side, rather as IL it had
belonged to a round 1sh which some one
had accidently trOdden on and SQuashed
half fiat The yawn begins al the lips,
which open as If to suck IN water. Then
the jaws become dlStended, and IL is seen
that this Is going to be a real genuine sub
marine fish yawn. But the yawn goes
on, works through the back of its head.
comes out a the Sills, which open, show
the red inside, are Inflated for a moment,
er of its back, the fsh fattens out again,
until, if unusually bored, it relieves itself
by another yawn.
"A few years ago, says the London Lam
Get, when diphtheria was raging in Eng
land a gentleman accompanied the cele-
brated DR.. Field on his rounds to witness
the so-called wonderful cures" which he
performed, while the patients of others
were dropping on all sides. All he took
with him was powder of sulphur and
quill, and with these he cured every pa
uent without exception-that is, he put a
teaspoonful of -four OF birthstone into
wineglass of water, and stirred il with his
finger, instead of a spoon, as sulphur does
not readily amalgamate with water, and,
or the sulphur becoming well mixed he
gave ii as a gargle, and in ten minutes
the patient was out of danger, as brim-
stone kills every species of fungus in man,
beast and plant in few minutes. In
stead of splitting out the gargle, he recon-
mended the swallowing of 1t, and in ex-
IRENE cases, in which he had been called
just in the nick of time when the fungus
was too nearly closing to allow the gar
Cling, he blew the sulphur through quill
into the throat, and after the fungus had
shrunk to allow of II, then the gargling
He never lost patient from diphtheria.
Or If the patient cannot gargle, take a
live coal, put it on a shovel and sprinkle
a spoonful or two OF the birthstone at
time upon it, let the sufferer inhale ii,
holding the head overit, and the fungus
will die.
when I was a young fellow" says
now aged Maine man, according to the
Lewiston Journal, Il went into Southern
Virginia for time. I had lived in Maine
and Massachusetts and consequently had
no fear of snakes. l had formed a habit
came across my path and of giving them
quick snap to break their necks, Soon
after l went to the south in the road one
day saw a small snake, a couple Of feet
long, perhaps, and Of a yelloWish color
wriggling across the path. Without think
ing of harm jumped Tor him, put my foot
on his neck, and, catching him by the tail
swung him to give him a snap. Some peo-
pie We're near by and they yelled to me
like wild men to drop that snake. I stop
ped moment while the snake wriggled,
and then / snapped him in due and an
cient form. Mark the result. In less than
ten minutes l became drowsy and insen-
sible, and remained so for several hours
in spite of the efforts of those who had
warned me to rouse my dormant senses.
/ did not know that the snake bit me in
any way and do not believe now that he
did. The air had a suffocating sickening
SMELL an odor thrown out by the snake
| think, and breathing that poisoned me
The snake, 1 was told, was a moccasin
one of the most VenimOus of the whole
tribe of crawlers. Since that day swapping
Among the fatal results caused by
| color blindness, as enumerated by an Eng
fish writer on that subject, a few cases
in point are named as specially conspicu-
Gus. First. that of a color-blind man.
who acknowledged that his steamboat had
collided with and sunk a steamboat of
account of his inability to distinguish
the signal lights, and the case of the pilot
of the steamer which was lost in the
harbor of Fernandna, Fla, in April 1881
1t being proved that he was color-blind
on which account he mistook the buoys
his mistake costing the owners $500, 600
Another case named is that of railway
collision due, according to his mate. to
the color-blindness of an engine driver.
Another instance of railway collision was
in consequence of a train overrunning a
signal; the driver was color-blind and ''bc-
| lieved that his sight was the cause of
the accident" In another instance a
railway disaster was due to the engine
drivers inability to distinguish the red
light-th.s being one of acquired color. de-
feet, differing from the Fernandina catas-
trophe, which was diagnosed as one of to-
bacco amblyopia. 1t Is admitted that pos
sibly there are degrees of deficient color
perception quite compatible with safety
in those whose duty requires them to