The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

than, has written a book on Jews as Sol
dlers, in order to show that the Hebrew
IS not mere sordid moneYmaker. says
an exchange. He not only gives a list of
many excellent officers of that race, but
ne SHOWS that the percentage of Jewish
soldiers in European armies is proportion
ately larger than that of other races Stu
dents Of the prize-ring have long known
that the Jew is a fighter, for Mendoza,
Dutch sam, and their compatriotS have
won a place beside the Anglo SaXons, Irish
and negroes who divide tstic supremacy.
But what reader of the Old Testament
needs to be told that joshua people were
as Warlke race as ever swung a sword?
The biggest item of incidental loss in
ocean traffic during the stormy season of
the year is that of breakage in the Wine
liquor and beer rooms. No matter how Sc
curely the bottles are fixed in the bins. a
particularly heavy sea striking the ship
IN certain spot or continued rolling and
pitching, VIII cause great losses in costly
fluids that were never intended to wash
the floor or the walls. A French firm is
going TO do away with this old-time source
of annoyance and complaint. After years
of experimenting it has succeeded in man
ufactUring a paper bottle which will not
break and which has all the advantages
or the ordinary glass bottle There is little
doubt that next summers tourists will be
served with beverages in paper bottles.
"A writer in the Electrician explains
some experiments which have been made
in the application of weak electric cur
rents for treating nervous diseases of the
stomach, the current being applied direct
ly 10 the affected organ by means of a
special electrode invented by DR.. EnhOrn,
which the patient passes into the stom-
ach. The electrOde consists of a rubber
tuDe one mllImeter in thickness, which
has at its lower end a perforated vulcan-
ite tip, and which contains the conduct
ing wire; the latter does not extend to
the capsule, but descends low enough to
plunge into the water with which the
stomach is filed. After the patient has
drunk two glasses OF lukewarm water, the
electrode IS introduced and is attached to
the negative pole of the battery. For five
minutes - to 26 milliamamperes of current
are employed
The fad for collecting ridiculous sta
tistics seems to be growing, says London
Answers. The statistic fiend has discov-
cred how much time a man wastes in his
life crawling under the dressing table in
search of lost collar stud; and he can
tell us exactly how many years we waste
Tor the purpose of eating; then, again,
how many tons of bread meat or pota-
toes we may have eaten in these wasted
years. Now a reader. who lives in elias
gov, has written to inform me that. after
several weeks of laborious calculation, he
mas discovered that one ton and some odd
pounds is worn off the boots of the Lon
don public every day. This material, if re-
stored to its proper condition, would be
sufficient to form leather strap an inch
wide and ten miles long, and. with one
years accumulation, would reach from
LONDON TO New YORK.
Another item of news more typically
Russian comes from village near Tomsk,
where lives blacksmith named Temeya-
koff, says a London cable in the New York
sun. His wife had been persistently un-
faithful, and finally her husband dragged
hey to his forge the other day, tied her
by the hair, then shod ner with a pair of
iron shoes which he had specially made
for the purpose. The woman naturally
tainted when the nails We're driven into
her feet, and would have died had She not
been rescued by the villagers. The rescu-
ers contented themselves with turning the
husband over to the local authorities who
released him after two days imprison-
ment. The writer of the dispatch says
that the breaking of marital VOWS is COM
mon among the Russian peasantry and
the authorities treated the husband len
iontly, q s a means of showing that. in
their opinion, the unfaithful wife simply
got her deserts.
mo person should put belladonna in
the eyes unless prescribed by a doctor"
said a specialist to a patient the other
day. MANY eyes have been ruined by it's
use. Society women of middle age are
very prone to this. Many of them are too
vain to put on glasses; then their eyes
grow dull from constant straining, and
they resort to atropine. This has a. ten
dency 10 Increase the hardness of the eye
III advanced age. Neither should hot. or
even warm. applications he used u-.Iess
directed by a specialist. as such have a
ticlnS the eye with camomile or tea leaves,
or bread and milk, that is worse than
folly. More ulcers of the eye are caused
by TINS popular fallacY than by any other
In removing small foreign bodies from
the eye the eyestone or linseed is fire.
quently resorted to- 1t should not be used,
Tor u Is liable to pass from view behind
the lid, often causing additional inham-
nation, and, besides, it is an excellent
vehicle for germs
The Importance of absolute regularity
in eating is the subject of an article in
the Medical Record One indiscretion of
lfreguiafity 1t continues, often causes the
dySpeptic week of misery. If this regi-
men is a standard prophylactic with con-
flrmed dyspeptics, how much should any
one in our artificial civilization allow him
self to deViate from so simple d rule
when an absolutely normal stomach at ali
times is almost unknown. Yet this very
invitation to gastric disorders is issued
every seventh day by 80 per cent of the
people OF this country. once in seven
days comes our So-called day of rest
the day on which the three regular meals
at morning noon and night are replaced
by vicious system of late rising and alb
Stinence followed by gluttony The gas
tric Secretions know nothing of a seventh
day of rest. They are ready at the custo-
mary siX-day morning breakfast time hut
no food comes to them. and they are alb
sorbed A second period of the day comes
and the same process is repeated, with the
additlonal INJURY that from two to four
hours after the customary meal the Stom-
ach is loaded unusually fun of 4ood
whereas the secretion is no longer there
in sufficient quantity TO digest it. The re-
suit is the regulation Sunday afternoon
discomfort or gormandiZing. with the ac-
companyinS absence of appetite for the
evening meal. What wonder that the fol-
lowing day is Blue Monday"
Lions can neither be tanned nor trained.
say those who know, says the Chicago
News. You may pare their claws and pull
their eye-teeth and terrorize them to "A
certain extent, If you begin when they are
cubs, but their innate terceness and lust
| for blood remain. There is said to be no
art in sO-called lion-taming but the art of
terrorism, and no rule but that of keeping
the lions stomachs fun and their minds
coWed. There never has been and there
never will be an appeal made to the lions
Intelligence, because the limited amount of
that quality which he possesses is entirely
dominated by his fer6city. The adventur-
Gus person who wishes to take up lion
training as a profession is advised that his
best plan Is to purchase young whelps,
which may be had for $50 a head though
a trained pack may be bought for about
$4,000 Having obtained his cubs he must
feed and attend on them himself with a
plentiful use of the whip. and accustom
them to being driven round and round the
cage and severely chastised for disobe-
dience. They may be taught gradually 20
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