The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

and postage stamps.
M. Phisalix, the French authority on
the venoms of insects and reptiles. has es-
tablshed that the poison Of the hornet in
sufficient quantity renders one immune to
that of the viper
-spitzbergen has attained the impor-
lance of having newspaper published
devoted entirely to it. 1t is the Spitzber-
gen Gazette, edited by professor of the
college at Tromso, in Norway.
"A Western man has invented self
rocking cradle, in which a spring motor
is attached to a reciprocating arm at one
end of the cradle, which is pivoted in its
frame and moves with the arm.
"A newly discovered Spanish stone has
proved so wen adapted to Geographic work
that aNlarge company has been formed,
which threatens to overthrow the Bavar-
ian monopoly in photographic stones.
A play called "Dreyfus" has been pro-
duced in Amsterdam. 1t is founded upon
the dramatic incidents of the notorious
case, and has had its ending varied from
day to day in keeping with the news of
the moment.
The Pope now owns a palace for his
nuncio in Paris, by the bequest of the late
Marquise de is-Bellievre, the Linn
oges Court having ratified the compromise
made by the Curia with the Marquise's
legal heirs.
"A dramatic version of Charles Dick
ems immortal work, Bleak House." was
given in London by deaf and dumb per-
formers, a translation of their gestures
being read aloud simultaneously for the
benefit of the hearers" present.
Faith cure doctors are not entitled to
recover remuneration for their services.
At least 1t was so held by a Baltimore
Judge, on the ground that the patients of
such physician receive no apparent ben
eft from their attention.
British officers serving in Indian Reg
iments are now required to learn the dia-
lect of their men m addition to Hindus-
TAM, Pushtee, Punjabi, Hindu Khaskura
Tamil and Mahratti are among the Ian
guages they must acquire.
Edwin S. Hunt of Essex, Conn, has
a cannon ball which was found where the
old Saybrook fort was once located, just
north of the Valley Railroad station at
Saybrook point. The ball was fired from
a British ship in the river during the war
of 1912.
Prof. Bryce has made bad slip in his
book on South Africa. He accuses the
Beers of abusing the English by speaking
of them usually as rotten eggs where
as the Transvaal phrase is root mex red
neck" and applies to the British COM
pleXion.
AT recent meeting of the Royal Pho
Geographic Society In London, Prof. Gabriel
Lippman described his system of color
photography, whereby photograph show
ing the colors of nature is obtained by a
direct process and with one exposure of
the plate
When great nobleman of the time
of the Pharaohs gave a feast his guests
arrived at midday in chariots and palan-
quinss were met at the door by slaves
their hands and feet washed in perfumed
water in golden vessels, and their heads
anointed with ointment
"A new pattern valise, designed by
Capt. H. N. Sargent, is so arranged as
TO provide a field bed with waterproof
sheet attached, and shelter tent or
hammock can also be contrived; or in an
emergency it can be used as an improvised
stretcher for ambulance purposes
The total length of the worlds tele-
| graph system has now reached 4,9OS, S23
miles, exclusive of 1S1, 44O miles of subma-
rine cables. This mileage is apportioned
as follows: Europe, 1,7647 100 miles; Asia,
31O,6S1 miles; Africa, &c. 19 miles; Austria
liza, 27,479 miles; America 2, 3d. 4S miles.
Nineteen children in twenty years of
| married life is the record of one British
mother reported in the Lancet. She never
had twins, and was able for thirteen years
| to nurse her babies without intermisson
The Lancet describes her as "a thin, but
not WORKOUT looking woman"
Seven young women In Matteawan. N.
| Y, engaged in a public nail-drivng con-
test for charity. The house was packed.
and the girls started in to see who could
drive the most ten-penny wire nails in five
minutes. Miss Belle Mosher was the win
ner She drove twenty nails in the speci-
| fled time.
When Miss Phillips of San Diego. Cal.
opened her front door the other morning.
she found a tiny baby seal curled up On
the step asleep. 1t had come up from the
bay and become exhausted. The furry
wanderer was put in chicken coop. but
when he got rested he cried so pitifully
that his kind-hearted captor sent him back
to the sea.
La Scala, Milan's famous opera house,
will be closed this winter unless the rich
people of Milan come to the rescue The
city authorities have refused to renew their
subvention, on the ground that too many
foreign operas are produced on its stage
and that the theater is not carrying out
the purpose of the subvention, that is. the
development of Italian lyric art.
An Erlangen professor was called up-
on lately to perform a dangerous surgical
operation on an SO-year-old merchant of
Nuremberg. The operation was brilliant
ly successful; the professor returned to
Erlangen, and, as usual in such cases. sent
in his bill to the merchants heirs. The old
gentleman, however had recovered. and
took mischievous pleasure in travelling
to Eriangen himself and paying the pro-
fessor in person.
The municipal year book of Berlin
shows that one woman in that city. Al
years old, is the mother of twenty chill
dren In 1896 there were five families with
nineteen children, sixteen with eighteen.
seventeen with seventeen, thirty-two with
sixteen, sixty-three with fifteen. eighty
three with fourteen, and 1876 with thirteen
Two hundred pairs of Berlin parents
counted dozen children each ~ .,,....