The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

his term a possible President. and the
trainers of the constitution considered 1t
inadyisable to have the two highest Of
fees in the sift of the ptople conferred up
on two men from one state, for at some
time in the future it was deemed possible
that a particular state might secure a
preponderance of influence in national af-
fairs. and acquire the leading office as
sort of right by reason Of its pre-eminence.
The wages OF a common soldier in Rus
STA are three rubIes per annum-about
$2.25. The rations are. daily, two pounds
Of suchary, which is very coarse KIND
of bread made Of cracked rye, baked hard
at first, then cut in small pieces and fur
Their dried in a heated oven; a small guam
tty of salt and some soup. The soup IS
boiled in a huge caldrOn capable of hold
ing 100 gallons. Into the water is cast some
cracked barley together with the smell dirt,
and to this a little salt is added, but noth-
ing of the meat kind enters into the COM
position. The soup is dealt out by num-
Der OF men with dippers, every soldier III
his turn receiving his allotted quantity.
Sometimes an adventurous fellow presents
a larger vessel than the regulations re-
qure, and when detected in the effort to
get more than his share he is punished with
one hundred lashes on his naked back.
in hole in the stone retaining wall of
a lawn at the northwest corner of Pros
pect avenue and independence boulevard
lives an unusually large and weli-fed toad,
says the Kansas City Star An electric
arc light hangs over the corner, and at
night it attracts myriads of bugs and flies.
1t is then that the toad leaves his hole
and hops out across the granitoid walk to
where the insects, blinded by the light,
fall upon the pavement and crawl around.
bn eli 1, lie N,,rIyI3t in q
electric light like beads of jet, till a beetle
or a moth fails near him, and then he hops
cautiously near to it, His long red
tongue shoots out with the quickness Of
a flash and the insect disappears down his
throat II takes a good many bugs to
make a full meal for this toad, and often
he is on the pavement for more than an
hour. The toad is there every night and
passers by stop to watch him. He keeps
out of the way of pedestrians, and when
he goes back to his crevice in the stone
wall he moves lazily and with short, self
satisfied hops.
Correspondents, says Meehan's Month
ly, are permitted to use Witch
Hazel instead of Wych Hazel, be-
cause modern dictionaries seem to
authorize either. 1t is unfortu-
nate as it tends to confound distinct
matters. Our plant has no connection
with the magic of the water hunter The
Black Thorn of England, Prunus spinosa,
was the wood used in these divinations or
whatever these superstitious practices
may be termed. Hazel had a very wide
meaning in the olden times, and the elm,
as well as the nut now known as such, was
Hazel. One of these elms, now known as
Ulmus montana, was the favorite wood
for making wyches or provision chests,
and was therefore known as the Wych
Hazel. In the present day il is Wych
Elm. Our Hamamelis received from the
early settlers the name of Wych Hazel
from the resemblance of the leaves to
| those of the Wych Hazel or Elm of the old
world. Language reformers imagining
that wych should be spelled witch are re-
| sponSible for the confusion. Wych Hazel
is the correct term for our plant.
"A woman writer who gave up coffee
! recently found that she was unable to con-
tinue her writing with any success until
she had resorted again to the stimulating
| beverage. Without it her mind was logy
and heavy. The Medical Times quotes an
authority on the subject of prescribing
coffee as a medicine in certain states of
great debility, and adds: Tea and coffee
seem to be much alike in many respects,
but the latter is greatly preferable as to
its sustaining power 1t would be a great
| advantage TO our working classes, and a
great help toward the further development
! of social sobriety, if coffee were to come
! into greatly increased use, and if the abil-
ity to make it well could be acquired AS
an example of the difference of effect OF
| tea and coffee upon the nerves, the writer
notes what he believes many sportsmen
viii confirm, that it is far better to drink
coffee than tea when shooting Tea, if
! strong or in any quantity, especially if the
| individual be not in very robust health
| will induce a sort of nervousness which is
very prejudicial to steady shooting I'm
| der its influence one is apt to shoot toe
quickly, whereas coffee steadies the hand
and gives quiet nerves."
"A local physiculturist sends to this de-
partment his ideas on how to keep clean
and well while. our broad belt of torrid
| temperature endures, says the New Or.
| leans States. He advises one to take nc
bath before breakfast, and dictates a
| method for enjoying Turkish baths al
home Fill your tub half full of water
10 degrees; get in it and sit down. keep
| ing the knees out of the water Spread a
sheet over the tub and yourself, leaving
| the head out, and remain there not longer
than ten or fifteen minutes. Then rut
| thoroughly dry with rough towels These
sitz baths are to be taken only at bed
time, and will be found to clear the com.
plexion and cur headaches, and induce
| somnolence. After the bath, breathe
deeply; fill the lungs to their fullest ca.
| pacity and exhale forcibly Do not fai
to eat an apple ever night Apples. by
the way, have fine tonic effect on the
stomach, and may be considered one of the
best appetizers. BY eating apples freely
the physical power of endurance and tht
endurance of the mental powers will be
greatly increased. If thin persons cal
quantities of apples because of the facil.
itated assimilation of food they will fine
themselves gaining flesh. This fruit con.
sequently is invaluable TO dyspeptics
Chemists and dietists record that the an.
pie. SO foully maligned in the records as
the supposed forbidden fruit" contains g
large percentage of nitrates and phos.
phates-fOOd for brain and muscles-thar
! any other fruit.
"A curious illustration of the power OF
light matter to perforate harder substan-
ces when driven at a high velocity is
mentioned as having taken place in tho
| Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, England re.
Gently. In the course of experiments or
| firing gas in mines, conducted by Capt
| Cooper Key, r. A, under the home office.
| a special gun is employed to do duty for
a borehole with charge of high explosive
and pressed cylinders of gray dry clay
| fhran inches 1Opu