The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


for 1896 attest that in that year twenty
one Berliners were married who had pass
ed the ripe age of "a years
The origin of the bicycle is now traced
back to the year 1871 in France. when the
Sieur Maillard presented to the academy
two rolling chairs propelled by pedals.
George Garrick. brother of the cele-
brated David. was the latter's most de-
voted slave and laborious packhorse. On
coming behind the scene he usually in
CURED Has David wanted me?' 1t be-
ing asked once how George came to die
so soon after the demise of his famous
brother, Wag replied: David wanted
him"
Mrs. II. NJ. Stanley's charming little
adopted baby boy will be known in future
as Denzn Morton Stanley, says an ex-
change. A pretty incident occurred when
little Denzil was brought down stairs after
lunch to be held for a moment in the
arms of DR.. hansen, in order that he
might be able to say in years to come
that he had been kissed by the Norwe-
gian hero. The baby was pressed to make
some remark suitable to the occasion.
The company listened intently, but the
small lips remained closed. At last baby
decided to speak, cooked one foot in the
air, exhibiting a dainty chaussure Of
white kid, and looking the great explorer
straight in his blue eyes solemnly assur-
ed him, New boots!"
Some time ago Joshua lowering of
Baltimore gave $4,000 for gymnasium
for the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Ky. At the for
NAL opening of the building the other
day Mr. lowering said: Il hold that a
minister of the gospel, by reason of his
calling and purpose to accomplish the
most good, cannot afford to be less a man
an all-round man-than his neighbor,
and, therefore, he needs and should have
the very best equipment. Heretofore this
has been supposed to apply to the devel-
opment of the mind, and was often at
tanned at the sacrifice of the body. Now
more correct ideas have taken hold of
the people and they are learning that
well-developed body is equally important
with a well-trained mind for making a
success in life. This is particularly true
of the ministerial student and 1T is his
bounden duty to avail of any and every
opportunity to secure this result
Water that is left standing in the
kitchen or bed room, and, above all, in
the sick room, over night is liable to
contamination by the absorption of inn
purities afloat in the air in such rooms,
and to be rendered wholly unfit for use,
says the Sanitarian. No matter that the
water is cold, even to near freezing, it is
so much the more liable to absorb and
hold in solution the foul gases and organic
particles to which it has been exposed.
1t is dangerous to use such water. Water
should not be so left; but if it should
chance so to be, it should be thrown
away. Freshly drawn water only should
always be used for culinary purposes, as
well as for drinking, whenever practical
wash basins are always more or less la
BILE to contamination, hence the first water
that flows on opening them after they
have been left all night without use
should always be let flow await is dam
gerous to drink and unfit for the tea ket-
tie or for cooking water; even boiled dis
ease germs are unwholesome.
-Toads are regular articles of trade in
the markets of Paris, gardeners buying
them by the dozen for insect hunters, says
an exchange. They are said to be the
best policemen that can be put into hot
beds and cold frames, devouring every
thing in the shape of worms and insects,
| from the smallest green fly to the largest
cut-worm and May-beetle. The !ittle tree
| toads are quite as valuable, leading inter-
esting lives in the branches of trees and
| shrubs, singing when the sun shines,
croaking dismally in cloudy weather but
always attending to business at night.
| Tree toads live upon caterpillars, worms
and various singing insects which attack
trees The flies which lay their eggs
under the bark of trees are their special
| prey and they are wonderfully quick and
| clever in catching them. Orchards where
| tree toads are plentiful are nearly always
| free, comparatively speaking, from nox-
| ious insects and it is suggested that city
shade and ornamental trees could be pro-
| tected in no better way than by turning
| thousands of tree toads loose among them
| every spring. The common hop-toad feeds
| upon worms and insects of every kind, but
will never touch anything that is dead and
| never attacks an insect when it is quiet
| The creature must be caught on the wing
| or not at ALL Toads will eat cabbage
worms and are not at all above making a
| meal off the repulsive Colorado potato
| beetle.
| 1t has been reported, states the Mi
croscope, that the gray matter brain-cells
| of perception have been dissected out Of
| the finger tips of the blind. Standing point
up beneath all the ridges so plainly seen
| with a magnifying glass on the skin of
| the inside of the finger ends are the So
| called corpuscles of Pacini, which are
| arranged in the exact semblance of the
| KEYS of piano, and are said by Meissner
| to crepitate and give forth a different
| sound in every age of each person. This
|
| it's lining membranes a nerve-trunk, an
| artery and a vein, lines all the tactile
| surfaces of the body, particularly the in
| ner finger and thumb tips. medical
| man recently assisted in an autopsy on
person blind from BIRTH and he sought
| to discover by scalpel and microscope the
| secret of the extraordinarily delicate
| touch the blind man had acquired during
| life. Sections perhaps a sixteenth of an
| inch thick were carefully sliced off the
| inner surfaces of the index and middle
| fingers of the right hand. Under a high
| power these showed, instead of the sin
| gle nerve trunk and artery and vein
| of the average man, most complex and
| delicate ramification of nerve hlaments,
| dainty and minute nerve twigs in inn
mense number branching from the main
| stem. Through constant use the finger
/ tips of the blind acquire this unusual de-
velopment, with more and more perfect
| performance of function.
| Among the many quaint survivals of
medieval times in modern Europe is
/ l..