The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tile Greek government has prepared a
bill to establish an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
marie" the special func don Of which will
be the guardianship Of the national Greek
antiquities. including places where no ex-
cAvatiCns ale at present in progress, ia
the interest o. the Greek people Every
man Who snail be admitted to this corps
Is % Possess a certain degree of necessary
culture, in order that he may understand
what is ccnfded to his observation and
protection.
George Clark. of Merriam's Corner.
near Concord. Mass, was Flowing the 9TH
er day and, glancing over his shoulder at
the upturned burrows, saw something gTis-
fcning 10 the sun. 1t proved to be a six
pence OF 1852, q splendid specimen of the
rare ''Dine-tree" currency, the first coin
age Of New England. In 1864 the general
court prohibited the transportation OUT of
is jurisdiction OF more than 20 shnlings
Tor necessary expenses by any person.
Offers were appointed to examine all
packs, PEI sons trunks, chests, boxes or the
IKE" The penalty was the seizure Of the
whole estate of the offender.
In recent article in the Medical News
by DR.. W. R. Prltchard, giving observa
lions made at Camp Wikoff, attention Is
Quinine commonly given by Northern ply
sicians during the recent war in cases Of
malaria. Southern soldiers have remarked
upon the inadequacy of the treatment Dr.
Prltchard, himself a North Carolinian
though long resident in New York, says
in the article referred to: Much of the
fatality from peTnicious malarial fever in
Cuba and elsewhere has been due to The
fact that great many of the surgeons
especially the volunteers from the New
England and Northern states, were not
familiar with the heroic treatment neces-
sary. They gave three and five, and some
times ten, grains Of quinine every two
Or three hours, when they should have
given twenty grains at a dose, or even
more, until tie disease was checked. To
those who have practiced medicine North
and South, and who are familiar with the
difference between the malaria of the
South and the So-called, or il may be
actual malaria of the North, this state
ment possesses a peculiar significance. Ii
also explains the frequency OF relapses
and The increased virulence of the ma
larial poison from prolonged stay and ut-
controlled development in the system "
Northern physicians ar not, as a rule
experts, it seems, in the treatment II
actual malaria"
In Alaska, says the Chicago News, the
breed Of dogs is reddish brown and the
animals are as much like wolves as dogs,
they are voracious and hardy and team
viii draw SEQ pounds. Forty frozen her
ring OF one salmon win support a. dog for
a day. They are not al ali affectionate and
such thing as saving mans life is IN
heard of among them There is a powerful
breed of dogs along Smiths sound that
does not hesitate to attack the most fero-
cious wild animals. These dogs hunt In
pairs and big bear is joke to them. One
dog can bring down a reindeer and kin it
in few minutes. Their thick coat is tawny
in hue and in winter a thick fleece of wool
covers them. They lock so much like
wolves 1t is hard to tell what they are at
a little distance. Labrador has dogs so
fierce that a log of wood is tied to their
necks 10 render them less dangerous to men
and weaker dogs. In Kamchatka the dogs
are severely trained 10 haul heavy loads
across the ice and their tempers get sour
ed, consequently they are surIy brutes and
their drivers manage them by stunning
them with blows over the head. which is
not very good for their intelects Iapp
dogs are about the size of a Scotch ter
rier and look very much like the lynx,
with long shaggy hair of varied tints They
Will fight off the wolves from reindeer. The
dogs Of Lapland, Iceland and Greenland
have long hair, curled tails, pointed noses
and ears and remarkably irritable tenn
pers.
The battleship Indlana's punch bowl,
upon which the Spaniards put a new de
s'gn with a mortar shell, is now regard
ed as the most valuable piece in the whole
massive service presented to the ship by
the people of Indiana, says a New York
dispatch in the Chicago Tribune. The
fragment of Spanish shell, five and
one-haf inches long, and weighing five
pounds, will be kept as q memento of the
Socapa battery at Santiago. Capt Tay-
Tor of the Indiana sent the bowl to Tif-
fanny & Co, who made the service, to
have the scar properly inscribed and the
piece of she'll mounted upon the bowl ION
no condition hammer out the dent" said
the ships officers, and do not refinish the
bowl In any manner" The bowl weighs
eighteen pounds The shell struck it fair
ly in the body, where the seal of the state
OF Indiana forms the central portion of a
rich decoration. The seal is there, but IL
forms a part of the large irregular inden-
tation, which, in Capt. Taylors estima-
ton, enhances the value of the bowl. The
piece of Spanish shell will be mounted
above the bowl in such a way that it
may be lifted off like a cover Upon the
inside OF the bowl, over the bulged-in part
will be engraved: MADE by a fragment
of mortar shell fired from the SocaDa
DdtteTy, santiago de cuba, which burst
in the ward room passage of the United
States battleship Indiana midnight, july
4, 1888 The bowl stands eleven inches
high, measures nineteen and one-haIf
inches across the Top, and has a capacity
of four gallons 1t is lined with gold. ana
the decorations, which are all in repousse
work, include the state seal of Indiana. the
soldiers monument in Indianapolis and
the principal fora and trees of the state
interviewer into symbolic design.
The Ark is the first ship, then. TO
appeal to human sympathy. Let her he
called the mother of ships, writes Clark
Russell in the Pail Mall Magazine.
Though we need not too curiously con-
slider her, it is a strange fact. nevertbe-
less, that the dimens ions of this shin
taking the cubit, about eighteen inches
correspond very nearly with the proDor-
lions OF sailing ship of to-day. Her bur
den was 1000 tons. The Great Eastern
was 1000 tons larger than the Ark. Noah
when he laid his keel, designed with strict
reference to the animals ana to the living
sheets of water that were 10 descend