The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


in the petals is exhausted; and it NAV.
IL is said, be restored by placing the
Hover i'm a solution of sugar. when the
formation OF starch and the emission Of
fragrance viii be at once resumed
AT a rough estimate it is thought that
100000 bottles Of champagne are drunk
every year. England heads the list as
the greatest champagne lover and AmerI-
ca follows Australia was once well TO
the fore, but financial troubles have rather
paralyzed the demand for the costly liquor
The Russians have a fondness for IL. but
touch it,
Sometimes the code of honor is rather
unfair. Two young Russian officers quar-
relied over their wine in a cafe chantant
and one Of them struck the other across
the cheek with his hand The TWO We're
comrades, ana when the aggressOr came
70 MS senses ne made an apology, winch
was sensibly accepted by the attacked.
me reglmental court Of honor, however,
decided that the two should fight, and a
duel with pistols at twenty PAGES was ar
ranged. The young lieutenant who had
been slapped, but who had forgiven his
friend was hit in the thigh and permanent
~ crippled. But the regiments honor
was INDICATED.
One of the Old and respected names f.
Peabody. Its origin is interesting. II dates
back to the time OF the early BritOns, and
according to the legend BOadie, a rela-
i've OF lhOdQicedt was a patriarch OF one
OF the trlDes ana great warrior once
in battle he. with some of his warriors,
We're surrounded by the Romans. They
cut they way through and escaped to the
mountains of Wales. They often sailed
forth and attacked their Roman enemies,
and in one engagement BOadie carried off
the shield of Gastula, on which was en-
graVed a badge OF honor. The ancient
Cambrian for mountain is Pea and COM
bined with BOadie the name of Peabody
is formed.
When burglars tackle doctors office
they sometimes make a mistake One
broke into a London Doctors consulting
room awhile ago and the physician threw
al him the first thing he could lay hands
on. 1t proved to be a bottle Of pepper
mint, which broke as it struck the neck
Of the thief. The next day the police
SnIncd at every suspicious character and
when they found one about whom the
odor of peppermint was discernible they
promptly arrested him and caught the
right man. Another thief was caught in
the office Of a New York physician by the
latter who pretended he thought the in
uuder a patient. He thumped and whack-
ed elim for ten minutes, pronounced aim
perfectly sound and charged him So.
The calculating genius figures on ev-
erything. He can tell you exactly how far
you could hear the whine of a MOSQUITO
if the little insect should suddenly develop
into creature as large as an elephant, or
how far a flea could jump if his weight
We're equal to that of the average man.
lie knows exactly how many tons of shoe
leather is worn off on the St. Louis pave
mentS every year and how many pounds
OF tackS are wearing into fine powder while
the soles are wearing down. He knows
several odd things and is even now fgur-
ing on others His latest calculation is
on the amount of solar heat received by
the roofs of our large cities. He finds that
in Philadelphia enough of sun heat is
wasted each day to keep 5000 twenty-horse
power engines IN motion. This means the
equivalent of 100000 horse power While
his estimation may not be exaggerated, he
might nave extended his calculations to
the whole state, the Mississippi valley or
to the United States. PHILADELPHIA has
only l29 square miles of area. There are
several spots of that size in America
that receive an equal amount of sun
shine.-St. Louis Republic.
The largest and smallest skeletons of
humans ever preserved are kept in the
Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons
IN Lincoln'S inn fields. London, says the
New York World. One is eight feet four
inches in hight. The mother is less than
TWO feet Charles Byrne, the famous
Irish giant, who who was more generally
known as O'Brien died in 17S3, when he
was y years old His capacity for liquor
was in keeping with his huge physical
proportions. So keen was his anguish
over losing all his property-to wit, a 1900
note-that he drank a cask of ale in one
day. The day following he died. Byrne
had great dread of becoming a dissect-
ing room subject. He made a bargain
with fisherman before ne died to take
his body out into the channel and throw
IL overheard. Hunter, the English sur
geon. learn of this arrangement, and BY
paying the fisherman $500 he prevailed
upon them TO carry out their bargain to
the letter but TO attach a rope TO the
body and drag it up again after it had
been immersed. The fisherman served two
masters and Hunter got the body. The
tiny skeleton is that of Caroline Crach-
ami, the Siciiian dwarf, who was exhibited
IN Europe in the early part of the cen
fury. The child did not grow after birth
and before she reached her teens she died
Her body, il is said, was sold to a British
surgeon by her parents Beside the gi-
ants frame stands one of the boots he
wore when he died. The skeleton of the
dwarf can be slipped into it easily as a
pipe stem.
In a company of prominent physicians
each was asked to write the six remedies
that he would take on board ship for
voyage around the world If his life were
to depend on the number who should re-
turn alive, says the New y ork Indepen-
dent. The first entry was opium" uuan-
imously indorsed. At the second entry
the vote was a tie between 'nerc1lry''
and "quinine," and now that the bichio-
ride of mercury has been foNnd to be the
most efficient of mcrobe killers, probably
that would have second place unanimous
~ ana the third would unhesitatingly be
given to the various extracts of the bark
of the several varieties of the cinchona
of which the most familiar is quinine a
-
ruvian Indians, who called the trees kina
The old-fashioned method of administra-
tion was by macerating the quilts" Of
| bark in wine, and the great tonic in the
early part of this century was bark and
wine and as in these latter days it has
been demonstrated to be directly fatal to
the bacillus malaria, we can easily un-
derstand what a boon it was to the set
tiers in the undrained and "fever-and-
ague" regions of this country when new.
At last by the advance of chemical skill,
| the secret of extracting the alkaloids was
| found, and of these no less than thirteen
| are known and used, and some of them
produce valuable medicine at a less cost
! than quinine itself. In 1854 the Dutch gov
| eminent undertook to raise the trees in
! the island of Java and now they have most
| prosperous plantations, but the most ex-
! tensiye and successful of what MAJ he
called intelligently conducted plantations
| are to be found on the slopes Of the Him
! alayas and in British Burmah In south
| America the bark is obtained by first
stripping the trunk, then telling the tree
| but under English botanists in India a
way is found Of partially stripping the
| trunk and then surrounding it with moss
| causing fresh bark to be produced. The
( botanists have even found a way of NAL
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