The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-12
LADIES ARE ASSURED
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A busy wife, tired of hearing her hus-
band declare that women had nothing to
do, made up a little statement of the
way she had spent her time for one year.
She had two children and two servants.
Here are a few only of the items which
silenced the husband once for all: Num-
Der of lunches put up, 1.157; meals or
filled and trimmed, 52S; rooms busted Ca
nine-room house,, 2,259; dressed children,
1856 times; visit received $40; paid, 167;
books read, So; papers read, 553; stories
read aloud, 234; games played, 529; church
services attended. 125; articles mended,
1,236; articles of clothing made, 100; fan
cy articles made, So; letters written, 429;
hours at the piano, 90l5; hours in Sunday
school work. 2OS: sick days, A; amuse-
ments attended, 10.
1t is doubtful if a stranger defense
was ever presented to an American court
than in defense of the Indian murderer,
kootshk, who, having entered a plea of
months Imprisonment by the Alaskan
seasonal court. Kootshl's crime was
committed three years ago, when he end
ed his sisters life by plunging a hunting
knife several times into her heart. 1t
was proven in the trial that kootshk's
crime was only committed after he had
law to slay his sister. She had been pro-
nounced a witch by the medicine men and
it devolved on him, as the eldest broth
er, to remove the stain from the family
honor by killing the accursed one. In
this case the girl babe her brother do his
duty as she believed herself bedeviled
and sure of an early and awful death.
The following description of the cele-
brated Bayeux tapestry is from a book
on odd and curious things: THE Bayeux
tapestry, which takes it's name from the
place where it is kept, is a needlework
history on canvas. 1t illustrates the in
VaSion and conquest of England in 1866,
and is a marvel of patience and skill. Il
wife of William the Conquerer, and the
ladies of her court 1t was presented by
the queen to the Cathedral of Bayeu&,
Normandy as token of her appreciation
of the assistance rendered to her hus-
band by Odo, its, bishop, at the battle or
Hastings. 1t was for many years the
custom to exhibit the tapestry on ST.
Johns day. 1t is worked in wool threads
of various colors, and contains 1,512 fig
ures. There are 623 men, 500 quadrupedS,
birds, sphinxes and offers, POP horses, 81
buildings, Al boats and ships and 40 trees.
The web on which the marvellous work is
wrought is PA feet long and 20 inches
wide. 1t shows the history of the con-
quest, and is, in many particulars, more
minute than written history. How long
it took to complete this tapestry there is
nothing to show; but it must have oc-
cupied many hands for period of years
DIR. T. A. Hall writes to the Virginia
Medical Monthly with regard to nose
bleed, as follows: II read an accountt In
the Petersburg Index-Appeal of the death
OF a young man, a student at the ljnlVer-
sity School (McCabe's) from epistaxis,
who had eminent medical attention, but
death ensued in spite of all that was
done. l write onlyIto say that during a
practice of fifty-one years l have had
much experience in such troubles where
death seemed imminent, and all the usual
remedies failed to give relief, until a very
ignorant person told me on one Distress
ing occasion of a whole night that if /
would get some devils SNUFF" species
of mushroom-fungus, Myces (F)-it
would relief NJ q -
hour after the information, and the eff
fects was wonderful. The powder was
snuned UP the nostrils and the bleeding
ceased as soon as contact was made with
the point of bleeding. / have used il
repeatedly. and have never been disap-
pointed. The plant comes on thin soils
by the roadside and in the vicinity of de-
caying oak stumps, growing sometimes
on the surface of the ground, sometimes
in patches of dozen in small space
about the size of a walnut In the fall
it begins to dry, and when dry, you may
tread upon it and a profuse cloud of dark
brown snuff is puffed up from the top of
the fungus. l have known of this plant
all my life, but never thought to write
about it till l read about the death of
the young man alluded to above. do
not know the why, but do know the fact
as stated"
An interest experiment, which will
serve to illustrate why guns are rif1ed
and the effect on the shot by the conse-
quent rotary motion, can be made by any
cycllSt Wnen cleaning his machine. As
sumo the front wheel is detached lay it
upon the floor and, keeping the axle YER
ticlc BY the hand, give the wheel a Vigor-
Gus spin. The axle remains unaffected,
the wheel running in the ball races. Now
lift the wheel by means of the axle and
put the left hand under the wheel and
catch the other end of the axle. You now
have a horizontal revolving wheel, and
you will be astonished to find how diff
cult it is to turn the wheel into a verticle
position as long as the spinning continues
Let this cease and you can do as you like
with the wheel, but give it a vigorous spin
and you will find, whatever position it
was then in, it will show the perversity
of a pig if you attempt to change it. In
making this experiment get a good grip,
as it throws a very considerable strain on
the arms. and feels, in deed as though
one was struggling with some aerial wres-
tier. Imagine now shot starting
on its course with this rotary motion; if
1t meets an obstruction fairly and sduarely
the forward motion will be somewhat
arrested, but the boring action, due to
rotation viii give it a terrible pentrating
power. Again, suppose it strike at a slight
angle, and you may think it will glance
of like a stone from a smooth piece of
waltng. The new force, however, here
comes into play, and most decidedly OBJ
gects to the alteration of direction, there
by causing penetration that would be
quite impossible under other circun-
stances. After making the above expert
ment you will find You have a much in