The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


of dinner unless reminded of the necessity
of taking food. Even on the morning of
his marriage he forgot all about the ap-
preaching ceremony and went off to his
laboratory. The bride and the attend
ants went to the church, but no Pasteur
turned up. A search was instituted, and
Pasteur was found deep In chemical ex-
periments, and utterly oblivious of the
fact that he was to be made a Benedict
that day.
The Rev. DR.. A. Nottrott, mission
airy in India, now in Baltimore says:
''The distress caused by the famine leads
TO many atrocities and inhuman acts
which only hunger and the distorted men
tai conditions due to such affection can in
spire. 1t is to the failure of the rice crops
that the present distress is due. The ma
yves depend wholly upon their rice for
subsistence, and as the crops last year
proved total failure, due to the sudden
suspension OF the rainy season, supplies
were totally cut off. To increase the guam
tlty OF their food, earth, fod-
der and the barks of trees
are mixed with the rice This ter
rlble mixture is the daily portion that is
begrudgingly distributed TO starving fam
llles by those who have to make provls-
ion.'
New York state celebrates nine holt
days. namely: New Years day, Lincoln's
birthday, Washington's birthday, Deco
ration day, Fourth OF July, Labor day
Election day, Thanksgiving day and
Christmas. Before the Revolution New
York had twenty-six annual holidays. OF
these only Christmas, New Years, Thans-
giving and election day still survive. The
others were: The Kings birthday. Ami
versary of the Death of Charles l., Shrove
tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lady day, Good
FRIDAY, Easter Monday, Easter, Tuesday
Ascension day, st. Georges day, Restora-
ton Day of Charles II, Queens birthday
Whitsun Monday, Whitsun Tuesday,
Prince of Wales birthday, the Day That
hlng George Landed in England, Corona
nation day, All Saints day, Anniversary
OF Gunpowder Plot, Fast day and Com
mencement day of Kings now Columbia)
college.
Not all of the ancients were supersti-
uous. Where wilt thou spend Christ
mas asked Henry VII of Evans. nat
ed astrologer May it please your mai
esty, 1 am unable to tell" Then 1 am
wiser than thou" said the king, "for 1
known 1t Will be in prison." Another as
trologer tod John Gallezzo. duke of Mi
Ian, that he would die early. and how
long do you expect to live?" asked the
duke IN return. My lord, my star prom
star, man; you are to be hanged before
night cried the duke. And sure enough
he was, and that by being thrown out of
window at the end of a rope
1t was the naturalist Button who as
serted that human beings should live to
l4O years. instead of merely 70. Button
argued that all creatures of the animal
kind live at least six or seven times as
long as 1t requires them to obtain full de-
Volopment. Thus, the horse is full
grown at years and lives to IS to 20.
The OK is fully developed at 4 years and
the dog at 2 The former lives to "A and
70, and the latter to u and A. There is no
doupt that In these respects Button was
right, and If hiss theory was borne out in
the case of the human kind. the period
OF life should be at least 100 to 14O instead
of 20.
Several medical journals have lately
called attention to the increasing fire.
quency with which the newspapers speak
of the cocaine habit as growing danger,
says the New York Tribune For exam.
pie, medical journal in Memphis. in al
luding to this evil, says that it is not the
idle and vicious who become ensIayed bv
the practice, for these classes usually pre-
Ter to intoXicate themselves with whisky
or opium, but it is the working peoDle
this narcotic. 1t is also said in a Boston
medical journal that the future prosperity
OF certain town in Connection is threat
ened because local druggist introduced a
preparation Of cocaine and menthol as A
remedy for asthma. This snuff" proved
so soothing to all classes that persons are
seen at public entertainments and eVerV-
where in dark corners indulging their pas
sion for 1t, and the druggists are getting
rlch by selling 1t, although they are har-
ried and worn by persons who ring them
up at all hours of the night to obtain a
supply. No doubt there must be some
percentage of allowance for exaggera-
ton, but the Medical Record of this city
speaks the truth when it warns persons
against being lured into an enslaving
habit of this sort by the snuffs and baIms
that are so extensively advertised for ca
tarrah. Many of these do afford tempo-
rary relief, and, therefore, the victim re-
peats 1t whenever occasion requires, and
charitably recommends it to his friends.
Cocaine, like other narcotics, is a drug
no one ought recklessly to tamper with
| Only the strongest nature can break the
spell of these Supplying poisons when
they have obtained full control of their
victim.
-Bearfort Pond. N. j., is over 200 feet
high, and is chock full of bass and perch.
How did these fish get there? For that
matter, how do the fish get into the many
little lakes on the tops of mountains? 1t
is we'll known that fish will get into these
mountain lakes, and that without a wav
of swimming up into them or being car
ried by men. 1t is the general belief that
birds do the most of the work by CARRYING
the eggs. It is well known that water
fowl distribute yellow perch by CARRYING
the sticky eggs on their feet Bass do not
become distributed except by hand of man.
or by going up stream. Trout go any
where where there is water enough to
float chip, and pckerel get moved about
from place to place the same as perch do.
The pearly nautilus is rare creature
OF the octopus family says the New York
Journal AS much as $50 has been paid for
pair of its eggs. So great Is the interest
OF naturalists in the nautilus that DIR.
Arthur Wiley of University college. Lon
don, has gone to the south seas to study
the animal and collect specimens. He has
now been at work two and a half years.
The pearly nautilus is the only living rep
resentative of the great group OF extinct
animals whose shells are known as am
monites. They are trapped in baskets like
lobster traps by the natives of some of
the Melanesian Islands and used as food.