The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


question OF the production OF typhold rev
er by oyster eating. says the Baltimore
Sun DR.. Chanteuesse Il VIII be refleIfi-
bered. went 50 far as TO advise the DAN
ishment OF the Millions Of oysters an
nually imported 10 Paris 10 the uninnapi-
ted coast OF Brittany or the Bay OF BIS
cay. On June 80 last the unhappy oyster
received another onslaught by NJ Joannes
Chatin at the Academy OF Sciences IN Par
IS, where he announced 70 that learner
body that he had been examining the llNer
Of that obnoxious bivalve. thus deviatlng
from the usual proceeding, when IS 10
look after the liver OF the gourmand VINO
swallows II. Half 70 his satisfaction, half
TO his dismay. the cunning savant found
at least 50 he told the wondering men,
bers Of the academy-that its discolora-
ton, 50 rare in French oysters, but quite
common In those OF England and America.
: IS a consequence Of A liver trouble. This
truly English disease, so VI. Chatin OBJ
served under murmurs Of approval from
the patriotic academicianS is called
''palegreeness IN French verdissement-
From the wilds Of British Guiana there
came to the zoo the other day creature
which is now exhibited as absolutely the
LATEST thing on earth, says the Phlladel-
phia Record. 1t is a South American
slOth, and the beast seldom worries
about the progress Of the rest OF
the world. So naturally tired is the ami
NAL that II never holds its head up. and
all day long il hangs motionless along
limb. keeping itself in place by its hind
legs. Only the pangs Of hunger can make
it stir, and occasionally, when starved
out, II descends with Snail-ike pace 10
feed on a pile of bananas place at the
foot of its perch by the keepers Even
the slight eXertion taxes Its strength Sc
verely, and the last of the species the
zoo had died several years ago from
overwork of this kind. AS is well known
to scientists, animal organs or parts
which are not used soon become stunted,
L.. =. -
markabie example of this law Of nature.
These members are never employed in
walking, and in consequence are mOdi-
fed to such an extent that the two long
toes which terminate each leg are mere
~ adapted to hanging from or creeping
along the branches Of trees.
We have had, in the past FIVE years,
recrudescence of Columbus. of Napoleon
and things Napoleonic; now, 1t appears
there may be an infection of Robinson
Crusoe, says the New York Press. A
learned society of London, England, has
come to the conclusion that readers OF
de Foe charming fiction have all along
been m.sled as to the island on whicS their
hero was landed when he experienced ship
wreck. 1t has been hitherto assumed,
much to De Foes discredit, that he stole
(or appropriated the story of one Alex
ander Selkirk, who passed several years
on the island of Juan Fernandez, in the
Pacific ocean. But members of this society
declare they have discovered that the nov
elist did not steal his narrative at all I;
and, moreover, that the island where the
original Robinson was wrecked lies. not
in the Pacific, but in the Atlantic. They
are going to send out an expedition next
winter, as soon as the sickly season clos
| es, to ascertain beyond all peradventure
just where this island is located. In the
interest of all true narratives (of fiction)
and for the benefit of all lovers of Cru
soc, II Is to be hoped that their mission will
be a success. The true island, they say, is
situated somewhere off the north coast
of South America, not far distant from
the mouth of the Orinoco for Crusoe him
self says IN his journal that the last re-
| corded observation, taken Just before his
| shipwreck, was in latitude II degrees north
| between the Islands of Barbados and Trim
| idad
"A floating barrier of pumice stone, nine
teen miles long, over a thousand yards
wide and fifteen feet deep, closing sea-
| port to all vessels as effectually as a boom
| could do, is not the sort of thine one is
| likely to forget, says Leisure Hour And
yet that was one of the results of the
Krakatoa eruption the port being Telok
| Retoung in Sunda straits. Formed in a
| few hours, it would almost seem to be
| the supreme effort of nature in the pun
! ice-maktng line, were 1t not that such i'm
mense quantities are found at the bottom
| of the sea. A queer place for pumice
stone, but pumlce when produced Is really
heavy. 1t is only the air cavities in it
that make 1t light, and as it floats 1t
becomes water-lOgged, and down it goes.
| Most of the pumice we use in Europe
| comes from the L.pari Islands, north of
| Sicily, the home of Vulcan" whence Vul-
cano as the name of one Of them, and
our volcano as descriptive of the natu-
raj feature of which 1t is the type Here
are the pumice quarries-at Monte Chirica
| and its craters Monte Pelata and Forgia
| Vecchia-where over a Thousand men are
| at work m the narrow tunnels and gal
| leries lighted by clay lamps of antique
| form. The whole hillside is perforated
| with groups of these tunnels, which num-
Der between 200 and 300, and are so narrow
| that the men can hardly pass each other
| in them. And just as coal is found in beds
| alternated with sandstone and shale, so
| the pumice is IN layers between harder
lavas and ashes.
In health no one ought to drink Ice wa
ter for it has occasIoned fatal inf1amma-
| nation of the stomach and bowels, and
sometimes sudden death, says the New
York ledger. The temptation to drink it
| is very great in the summer. To use 1t
| at all with any safety the person. should
| take but a single swallow at the time,
take the glass from the lips for half a
minute, and then another swallow and so
| on. 1t will be found that in this way it
| becomes disagreeable after a few mouth
| fuls. On the other hand, ice itself may
be taken as freely as possible, not only
without injury, but with most striking ad-
vantage In dangerous forms of disease.
If broken in sizes of pea or bean and
| swallowed as freely as practicable, with
out much chewing or crunching between
| the teeth it will often be effective in
| checking various kinds of diarrhoea and
has cured violent cases of Asiatic cholera
| A kind of cushion of powdered ice kept
to the entire scalp has anayed violent in
f1ammation of the brain, and arrested
fearful commissions induced by too much
blood there. In Group, water as cold as
ice can make it, applied freely to the
| throat, neck and chest with a sponge or
| cloth, very often affords an almost mira
culous relief. and if this be followed by
| drinking copioUsly Of the same ice cold
| element, the wetted parts wiped dry.
and the child be wrapped up well in the
bedclothes, 1t fails into delightful and
| life-giving slumber.
I'm the deep discovery of the subterra-
mean world relics of the giant are still
| sometimes found, though when submitted
| to naturalists they occasionally turn out
| to be the debris of other forms of life.
with only a fanciful anthropological re-
| lation, says the New York Tribune. But
some apparently genuine skeletons of the
sort have lately been dug up near the vii
q 90 of Hon lexr nj In,