The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


the collection on the shelves at Kelmscott
house, made in very short time, is one
OF the best in existence. Last year he
bought a copy of the Sarum missal, done
IN the fourteenth century, with a different
border printed round each page a mighty
volume, which he called his cathedral. He
had wonderful memory, and this, with
his great faculty of observation, gave him
an unrivalled storehouse on which to draw
for his artistic work. He could describe
the details of a particular page of man
uscr1pt which he had not seen for thirty
years.
1t viii be remembered how Ii Hung
Chang, the Chinese envoy, during his stay
in London, England, took occasion to dc
reverence to the statue of Cen Gordon
and to place wreath on its pedestal. The
father of Gen. Gordon, according to the
Journal Des Debats of Paris, expressed
MS thanks to the viceroy in letter and
sent him a present in the shape of fine
pedigree bulldog. However remarkable
TINS acknowledgment may have BEEN Ii
Hung Changes reply was still more So
Dear Mr.. Gordon" wrote the Chinese
statesman, Il offer you my sincerest
thanks for the superb dog which you had
the kindness to send me. AS for myself,
unfortunately, it was a kind of food which
does not suit my delicate digestion, but my
suite have done honor to your present and
have found it delicious"
The Archbishop of Canterbury is re-
ferred to as His Grace" and he writes
himself Archbishop, ETC., "Divina Provi-
dentia," whereas other prelates use the
phrase "Divina Permissione" He is the
first peer in the realm. AT coronatons he
places the crown on the head of the SOW
ereign, and the king and queen are his
domestic Pensioners. The Bishop of
London is his provincial DEAN the Bishop
of Winchester his sub-dean, the Bishop OF
Lincoln his chancellor, and the Bishop OF
Rochester his chaplain.
"A Colorado genius claims that he has
found way to telegraph without wires
from one mountain top to another in an
east and west direction, using atmos-
pheric strata which are already electri-
fed as his conductor. The apparatus en-
ployed has not been publicly described, but
the inventor is said to be experimenting
in Colorado and Utah. and he says he
has transmitted messages by his method
over distance of eighty miles.
The fact that in Algeria there are very
few maladies of the nose, ear, and throat,
! says Public Opinion, has caused Dr.
Madeuf, an eminent French physician. to
inquire into its cause, and he has found
it due In large measure to the practice
of Arab mothers, who train their children
to sleep on a lard bed with one or two
| coverlets for bed-clothing, and to lie on
| their sides, not on their backs. 1t can
easily be shown that the right side is
preferable to the left for a person to sleep
on. For one thing the action of the heart
or liver is not impeded in any way by the
pressure of the body when one lies on the
right side. DIR. Madeuf seems to think
| hot Ct Nfr,,-
of all. If there is any irritation of the
mucous membrane of the nose, it is apt to
extend to the ears and throat when one
sleeps in this position. Moreover, one is
very prone to breathe by the mouth, which
| is neither a healthy nor a seemly habit
The doctor, therefore, counsels all moth
ers to accustom their children to hard beds
and to sleep on their sides-above all, on
their right sides. The habit formed in
infancy will be useful to them in their
way through life, and probably save them
from more than one Illness,
Sir John Lubbock, the naturalist, has
been experimenting to find out how long
the common ant would live if kept out of
harms way. On August 8, 1888, an ant.
which had been thus kept and tenderly
cared for, died at the age of fifteen years
which is the greatest age any species of
other individual of the same species of
ant Qormica fusca) lived to the advanced
age of thirteen years, and the queen of
another kind Qasius niger laid fertile eggs
after she had passed the ageo of nine years
TO the language of flowers, well-known
TO all sympathetic hearts, there has now
been added, as would appear from a few
characteristic specimens given in a Pa
ris paper, the umbrella language, in which
there is an element of humor. For instance
to place an umbrella in a rack at a club
or friends house indicates that it will
shortly change owners. If a cotton one is
substituted for a silk one it means ex-
change is no robbery. An umbrella held
over lady with a man receiving all the
ralndrops from the points indicates court
snip, but when a man keeps the lion s
snare OF the covering and the lady gets
the drlpplngs it points to marriage. Lastly
the loan of an umbrella is synonymous
with an act of egregious folly.
"A remarkable effect of the X ravs is
presented in the case of Miss Gill. an op-
orator who has had charge of the catho-
scopes in a Broadway New York city
establishment for several weeks. To oblige
timed customers she has held her left
hand many times daily before the flour
oscope so they could see the bones. The
current employed in producing the light is
weak, but has a voltage of 100000 Three
weeks ago Miss Gill felt a soreness in her
hand, but paid no attention to it at the
time. The soreness grew worse, and her
hand began to swell. As she continued 70
put her hand before the bulb the pain and
soreness increased, and then a violent
throbbing set in, indicating Inflammation
In short time water blsters appeared
on the back of her hand extending down
to where the light struck it, Miss Gill
noticed then that the pain and soreness
would greatly increase when she held her
hand in the rays. She had been warned
not to hold her hand in the rays. as they
would probably make her hand sore. The
moment her doctor examined her hand
he said the condition was undoubtedly due
to the effect of the X rays. He gave her
a prescription, which she is using to GOOD
effect. The injured hand to-day looked az
II 1t had been severely scaded. New flesh
Is appearing in spots. and the nails will
come off before the hand is well again
Electricians believe it is due to the bom-
bardment by the rays which goes on con
stantly. 1t was that bombardment which
broke so many bulbs in the early experi-
ments with X rays.