The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| with solution OF lime, milk and the
white of eggs.
There are substantially 100000 per-
sons speaking eolloquially one or another
of the chief modern languages, and of
| these about p per cent, or 125, 10000 per-
sons, speak English. About 90,O00,000 speak
| Russian, 100000 German, 55,000O00
| French, 100000 Spanish, 100000 ICal-
ian, and 12o00,ooO Portuguese.
Cuba is known is history under seven
names. The first was Antlla; then Ju-
ana, after a Spanish prince. Fernandez a
came third, followed by Santiago and the
| Isle of Ave Maria The original Indian
| name Cubanacan, signifying where gold
| is found" was finally adopted, and usage
shortened it to the first two syllables.
| -Intoxication superinduced by alcoholic
stmulants is bad enough. but intoxication
| by means of ether has become almost cpl
| demic in Lithuria, owing to the fact that
ether is cheaper than brandy, and less OF
1t is needed to produce corresponding ef-
feet. Many families have been ruined by
the habit, which has found victims even
among the school children.
The editor of the Correo Espanol, n
Madrid paper, says: 1--WE must hide the
tear which runs down the cheek while
the lips curl in supreme sarcasm. We
| laugh while our teeth clinch, the bile
I rms in our stomach, anger heats Oh :
| blood, and our hands instincIively seek an
avenging weapon" Western editor who
has had the grip says this is it,
The following unique announcement
has been issued by an old-timer at Law
renee, Kan: Settled in the territory,
at Lawrence, in 1857. Stood the drought
of 1860. Stood the war of '61-65 Stood
the Quantrell raid. Stood the Price raid.
Stood the three grasshopper raids. Stood
up for Kansas always, and I'M ready TO
stand up for the United States against
| Spain or any country on earth"
Wolves have been ravaging the Dobruja
in the middle of summer, being sdriven
from their lairs in the marshes by the re-
| cent Danube floods. They have attacked
children in village streets in broad day
| light,an have carried a way large numbers
| of sheep near Kustendji and other large
towns. Superstitious Roumanians are
alarmed, as one of their proverbs is, BE
fore the Russians come the wolves"
-Anti-semitism may deprive Vienna of
her open-air cafes, one of the chief at
fractions of the city. DR.. Lueger, the bur-
gomaster, and his party, having also dis
covered that many of the proprietors are
| Jews, have have also discovered that
the tables and chairs on the sidewalk are
distractions, and have resolved to have
them removed. The open-air cafes in VII
emma date from Maria Theresa's time.
While there may be many things to be
said against certain German customs, yet
the supervision that is exercised over
great many things that would not occur
to anyone else is certainly a good thing. n
number of children's toys, notably the fur
nshngs for dolls kitchens, have been con-
fiscated by the police authorities of Berlin,
and their further manufacture forbidden,
because of the amount Of lead which they
contain. Not more than 10 per cent Of
lead is allowed 70 enter into the compost
ton of children's toys in Germany, be-
cause of the danger of lead poisoning. In
some cases 1t was found that the toys con-
tanned as high as so per cent. of the metal.
A very high percentage of lead also was
found in buttons and other articles for
children's wear, and these, too, were con-
demned. Lead poisoning is considered by
German health authorities TOO serious an
affair to be trifled with, hence the strin-
gent regulations.
There are some curious things in Cen
win Spencer Lake Amadeus, in the dry
season, is merely sheet of salt Ayers
Rock, about five miles round. rises abrupt
~ from the desert. Formerly vast rivers
flowed here, and the diprotodoton, a wom-
bat-like creature, worthy of it's name and
four times as large as a kangaroo, flourish
ed on the plains. Now there are hardly
any animals to be SEEN The fish live In
water holes of the hills until the floods
wash them down to the valleys. AT the
end of the wet season the water frogs fill
themselves with water, roll themselves in
the mud, and lie low till the next rains
which may not come for two years
Meanwhile, the provident frog, like the
''mousie" of Robert Burns, may have the
misfortune to furnish drink to thirsty
black. The natives also get water from
the roots of trees. They are in the to
tenn" stage, and revere certain plants or
animals which protect them. Men of one
group can only marry women from anoth-
er single group
While the French scientist who claims
to have discovered the microbe which
causes badness is trying hard to find some
means of destroying the pernicious bac-
terra, and thus bringing happiness to mill
ions of owners of depleted scalps, medical
authorities are recommending the use Of
is a scant or impaired growth of hair, says
an exchange 1t is claimed that olive oil
is a potent agent for any defect Of the eX-
cretory ducts. especially in the skin. Ec-
zema has rapidly disappeared upon a dis
continuance of starch foods and the sub
stitution of a diet of fresh and dried fruits,
milk, eggs and olive oil. The beneficial
effects of the latter, when thus taken in
conjunction with a fruit diet, have been
noticed in respect to the hair, nails and
scalp. 1t quickly cleans the scalp OF scurf
supplying to the sebaceous glands the only
substance which they secrete when in
healthy condition, and the absence of
which is the cause of the debility of TIE
hair, frequently ending in badness. Those
who treat olive oil as a common article of
food are usually healthier than those who
do not, and its therapeutic and prophylac-
tic properties are now being highly vaunt-
ed by medical men.
The neurological requirements ir all
road practice at the present day involve
mechanisms of absolutely perfect precis-
ion, says the New York sun. Thus, on
the Atchison line, all the watches are
tested for twenty-four hours in each one
of three positions, pendant up. dial up and