The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

however, shows how advanced the Japan
csc are. The Chinese still use gongs TO
drive away the dragon that eats up the
sun.
brooks comet, now visible in the tele-
scopes. should prove an extremely inter-
esting object in regard 10 its physical ap-
pearance and changes Of aspect. At the
present time il is Aquarius a little west
Of Delta, in that constellation. and its pO-
sition during the next few weeks will be
nearly stationary
A snOw-white thoroughbred colt is
reported TO be the rare possession OF V.
L. Kirl1man OF Nashville. Tenn. Says the
estine and Black Gal. The sire is a chest
nut and the dam jet black. When the
colt was fOaled there was a red spot on
the top OF his head and the tip Of each
ear was of the same color, but he has
shed of recently and is white all over.
The colts skin Is a beautiful pink. He
has grown into a very large colt, and ap-
pears TO be perfectly formed. He will be
trained and raced as 2-year-old.
Shakespeare never took any trouble
to hand himself down to fame and pos
terity says the London Chronicle. Su-
perbly Indifferent to renown, writing only
as the sun shines and the winds blow,
because it was the work he was ere
ated for, he dashed of those marvellous
productions and when they had accom-
expenses and pleasing the public OF his
time, he retired to StratfOrd-on-
utterly careless, as IT seems, whether
his splendid plays lived in the memories
Of men or died out of recollection. It
was part Of his royal and lofty nature.
this large indifference, so grandly con-
trasted with modern gearing to be ad-
vertised, the latter-day ache TO be lauded
and remembered
A Los Angeles man tells the Washing
ton Times that Lost Angeles may soon
become the largest city in California.
san Francisco he says, has been
steadily retrOgrading, while the popula-
ton of Los Angeles has been as steadily
increasing. Los Angeles has the whole
of the interior back of it, while San Fran
cisco, being situated on a narrow strip
OF land backed up by mountains, has
no place to spread, and no country from
which to draw supplies. In 1880 the popu-
lation of San Francisco was $50, 900, while
to-day it is only 2S5,000. Los Angeles pop
ulation in the same year was $780, while
to-day il is l15,GO0, so you see We are
steadily pulling up on them. In my sec
ton Of the country we know nothing at
all of the heard times that exist in the
rest of the states. Everything is on the
boom"
The Baltimore Sun tells true bird
story that comes from Galesville, Nd.
Some time ago a citizen of the town
picked up a young hooking bird which
had fallen from its nest. The bird, which
had become slightly disabled from the
fall, was placed in a cage in the door
way. For three days the parent birds
have been lowering about the premises
bewailing, IN bird fashion. the capture
of a member of their family, and endeav-
oring to feed the lame bird through the
bars of the cage. The other day the
cage, partly open, was removed to a To-
Gust tree in the yard. Immediately the
mother Of the incarcerated bird, carrying
hnrVs frn IFS n f4rrrT into he 100
and was entrapped. Efforts will be made
to secure, through the same means, the
male bird, so that the entire family may
be united.
All persons who have lived in a house
which has become infested with fieas in
summer, says Insect Life, will know how
these creatures inhabit the floor by pref
erence and how they will jump upon the
legs and ankles of every one who passes
near them. Taking advantage of this
fact, some years ago, when the lower floor
of McGraw hall of Cornell University was
badly infested by fieas, which had come
from animals temporarily kept there in
confinement, Prof. S. H. Gage invented
the following ingenious plan: He had the
Janitor put on pair of rubber boots ana
then tied sheets of fly paper, with the
sticky side outward, around the legs of
his boots. The janitor was then to patrol
the lower floor for several hours a day.
The result was gratifying and rather sur
came black with fieas and had to be
changed al intervals, but by this means
the building was almost completely rid or
the pest with minimum of trouble to
every one except the janitor.
1t must not be supposed that horse
always swims naturally and with ease,
the moment that he is off his feet in
the water, says the Hartford Times The
animal under such circumstances has but
one notion, to keep his head out of the
water and to lift his shoulders as high as
possible. In doing this his headquarters
sink, and he finds himself almost stand
ing on his tail, or at least in a position
three-quarters erect. In such an attitude
if the rider draws upon the rens or throws
his body back in the least the animals
headquarters will sink more and more
his body will take a vertical position
and beating the water uselessly with his
fore feet he will finally sink. AS soon as
the horse gets of his feet in the water
let the rider grasp the animals name
leaning at the same time well forward
upon its shoulders, but without touching
it's head. The riders knees should be
pressed tightly to the horses sides 9TH
erwise he is likely to be swept off by the
water. This is the only position which
Will enable man to remain in the saddle
and the horse to swim at the same time
The reins must be held loosely and each
well to one side.
DIR. Boisson, a French military sur
malarial affections, even those of a mask
ed or latent character, always present n
peculiar discoloration of the nails 1t an
pears to be independent of the locality in
which the malaria was contractes. as he
has found it in soldiers both from Ton
quin and Madagascar. 1t appears before
the rigor, increasing during the cold stage
and attainS its maximum in the middle
OF the not stage, after which it gradually
diminishes disappearing toward the close
of the sweating stage. This discoloration
has been remarked by other observers
but has generally been looked upon as
due to circulatory troubles during the
cold stage. According to DR. Boisson-
however it cannot be thus accounted for
as it commences before the cold stage
and is most evident later on. 1t differs
also from the livid blue tint due to local
asphyxia being of gray slate color.
and is due probably to a change in the
haemoglobin of those red corpuscles which
are destined to be destroyed during the
acute stage. AS to the diagnostic yaIue
of the sign, he has never failed TO find
1t at the commencement of a malarial at
tack, and has observed it where no fe-
yer occurred in an abortive attack.