The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


p inches wide from solid cast iron. The
knife is between z and % inches wide.
Fir will grow at as great an altitude
as 600 feet above the sea level, yellow
pine at 600 feel, ash at 48oO feet, and oak
a 1850 feet The vine ceases to grow at
about 300 feet
The enrolment of the Chickasaw ma
ton has been completed by the Dawes
commission, and shows total of 18,49O
of whom 1888 are Chickasaws and 1852 are
Choctaws.
The late Mr. William Black, the novel
ist leaves a widow, a son and two
daughters. All the family are well pro.
vided for. Mr.. Black made large income
out of his many novels.
In the Chinese morgue, one of the
strange sights is a number of life-size
dolls which are burned to accompany the
corpses as their servants to the next
world. They are doubtless a relic of the
time when human beings were thus burn
ed as companions of the deceased.
There is no music so suitable for Irish
dances as that of the Irish bagpipes-a
very different instrument from the Scotch
pipes-but it is difficult to meet a piper
to-day in Ireland, although twenty years
ago one could count ten fine players with
in a radius of as many miles. In the same
district there is not a single piper to-day.
Another famous relic of ancient Lon
don is coming down. 1t is at No. II Fleet
street. the old palace of Henry VIII and
Cardinal Wolsey, lately occupied by shops.
1t is generally believed 10 have been the
office of the Duchy of Cornwall in the
reign of James l.
The final volume of the British Mu-
scum catalogue of birds has just been
complete This catalogue was begun a
quarter of a century ago, and is said to he
a complete list of every bird known. There
are twenty large volumes all of
which are illustrated by innumerable
wood cuts.
Great restitution prevails among small
farmers in parts of California, owing to
the dry weather the last two years. They
appealed to the Governor for aid, but he
had no public funds with which to help,
and a fund was started in San Francisco,
TO which Claus Spreckles contributed a
check for $4,000.
Within a stones throw of the head
quarters of the Royal Horse Artillery, City
road, London, stands Wesley's Chapel. and
the house he lived in Immediately behind
the chapel is the grave, with a simple but
substantial monument of the great found
er of the Wesleyan Church, which now
has its branches among all the English
speaking peoples throughout the world.
in the bedroom of William " at
Hampton Court palace is a clock of the
grandfather" pattern, which goes for y
months without winding. 1t was construct
ed about 1860 by Dan Quare, and is such
a splendid time-keeper that it does not
vary a second in Il month 1t does not re-
cord the hours only, but also the seconds,
days and months, and even the times of
sunrise and sunset.
Miss Fitzgerald, the only child of AT
torney General Fitzgerald, of California.
owes her life to a dog. Painting on the
shore, near Fort Point, she fen into the
waves and had gone under twice when
she was rescued by the men from the
United States life-saving station nearby
A huge St Bernard, owned by the wife of
Lieut., Powell, of the First United States
Infantry, gave the alarm which brought
help to the drowning girl.
Mr.. Mchea, a leading English phys-
clan, has advocated a most original meth
cd of treating diseases, says the New
York Herald He cures his patients by
fright. He had observed that in certain
cases sudden shock or fright produced a
healing effect upon the patient. He then
carried his idea into effect by writing and
sending to the patient anonymous letters,
which contained everything uncomplimen-
tary he could think of, and to which the
bravest would not affiX his name. Elk
element of the patient at receipt of such
letter and the concentration of his mind
upon the problem of finding out the author
of the abuse would cause q decided change,
and melancholy or hypochondria would
soon take wings. DR.. Michea has tried
every sort of frightening methods, and,
according to his statement, the effect is
always beneficial 1t is an acknowledged
fact, he says, that rheumatic patients who
have either witnessed or experienced a
railroad accident begin to recover from
their malady. Hysterical and epileptical
cases are durable by this fright meth
cd, he asserts, while deaf and dumb per-
sons have, in several instances, regained
hearing and speech through the same
means. OF course, this cure can only be
applied in nervous diseases. It would
have quite the contrary effect were it to
be applied to organic maladies.
LIVERY fTencn-CdndQlan resident of
Maine believes that a miracle has been
performed over the grave of Paul Beaupre.
who died and was buried in the woods
above Grindstone Falls four years ago
Beaupre, or Bo Peep, as he was called by
his acquantances, was a fortune-teller
and pedler of snakeskin charms. who trav-
eled from camp 10 camp in winter selling
his amulets and preying upon the credul-
ity of his countrymen by pretending to re-
veal future events. Four years ago he
was taken i'll with pneumonia while stay,
ing at a camp on the east branch, and
died inside of a week Before his death
he expressed a wish to have his body
taken TO Montreal for burial, pronouncing
a fearful curse upon those who neglected
to obey his last request. Among other
catastrophes that were TO follow a denial
of his wish were the sudden death of the
camp foreman, the loss of the years cut
of logs. and the burning of the camp He
also said that If he were buried in the
woods a living cross would grow I'D from
his grave which should serve as a perpet-