The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

One Of our oldest and most orthodox
ministers suggests that if they had had
such things in Bible times as fleets and
guns, and if we should md recorded in
the Old Testament story that on a Ger
tain day the Israelites sent our a fleet
to fight the Philistines, and that the
Phihstine feet was entirely destroyed
whl.e not one single Israelite was killed,
the critics would all pronounce the stale
ment fable, utterly unworthy the cred
ence of intelligent men, says the Pough-
keepsie Eagle. Our clerical friends is
right. SUCH an occurrence in Bible times
would be pronounced a legendary miracle
and would be rejected as having no ylace
IN real history. Yet we have seen two
such miracles within the past three
months. We have no right to claim direct
dlVine interposition, yet how do We know
what part Providence has taken In the
matter?e
Here is description of a novel contest
which is said to nave taken place at A So
cial function" in Hartford. Conn Twelve
Walls were filed with liquids of a uniform
red color, but of different odors. The TEST
was for each guest 10 name the odors end
write the names on a card The .,dors
CHOSEN We're familiar, such as witch-hazel.
cologne wintergreen, pennyroyal. rose
temon and the like, and it would be sup
posed that there would be little or no Al
fculty in identifying them: bur the task
was not so easy after all, for the reason
that the stronger odor seemed to dun the
sense OF smell as to the more delicate
ones Some of the mistakes were very
amusing. The highest score II out of p
was made by one of the gentlemen, and as
a rule the score Of the gentlemeu were
better than those of the ladies. A curious
1act was that vial was wrongly guessed
by all the ladies and was identified as wa
ter by only two of the gentlemen.
Looking over his letters one morning,
Mark Lemon, then the editor of Punch.
opened an envelope enclosing a poem which
the writer said had been rejected by three
contemporaries. If not thought available
for Punch, he begged the editor, whom he
knew but slightly, to consign it to the
Wastepaper basket as the author was tired
of the sight of it. The poem was signed
Tom Hood" and the lines were entitled
The Song of the Shirt" The poem was
altogether different from anything that
had ever appeared in Punch and was so
much out of keeping with the spirit of the
periodical that its publication was opposed
by several members of the staff Mark
Lemon was so firmly impressed not only
with the beauty of the poem, but with its
SUITABILITY Tor his paper, that he stood by
his first decision and published it, BY
letter written by Tom Hood to Mark Lem
on it appears that the question of Illus
traung the poem was entertained and dis
cussed. The lines, however, were publish
ed without illustration except that hun1or-
GUS border of grotesque figures which made
up "Punch'S Procession" on Dec 49, 1913
The Song of the Shirt trebled the sale
of the paper says "Chums." and created
a profound sensation throughout Great
Britain at the time.
News from the far East is not uniform
ly warlike, and it is gratifying to record
that the German colony in Shantung has
received its first baptism of beer. II ap-
pears that a patriotic Berlin brewery dis
patched several casks of it's famous book
beer dast February as a free-will Offering
to the gallant German marines in Kjao-
Chau, says the London Morning Post
The gift was fully appreciated, and the
Acknowledgement, dated April IS, has lust
reached Berlin. Capt. Rosendahl, the ma
val Governor of Kiao-Chau, is the author
OF one letter of thanks. He states taat
the beer arrived an excellent condition.
"A solemn supper" as he describes it,
was arranged by the officers of the marine
battalion, at which the menu consisted of
fresh sausages and Berlin book beer. The
Tsing-Tau were invited to this appetizing
repast. A second acknowledgement has ar
rived at the brewery from the under Of
ficers and the men, 1t is written on the
familiar view postcard and is signed by
all the participants. The picture displays
a German marine astride cask of book
and a Chinaman standing in a suppliant
attitudes begging to be allowed, to taste.
1t appears that this privilege, too, was eX-
tended BY the lessees 10 their landlords,
for among the officers guests was The
worthy Toa-Tai of Kiao-Chau, who is
said to have taken to the German bever-
age as meekly as to the German Occupa-
ton.
In the days of our civil war-the near
est point Of comparison-Lister' method
Of antiseptic dressing and treatment were
not known. Many a soldier then, whose
hurts were not necessarily fatal, died
from blood poisoning. Many veteran to
day wears a wooden leg or carries an arm
less sleeve, because amputa ton seemei the
only way by which the slh geons could
save his life in those days when the union
was passing through its severest trial
by fire and sword. To-day in Cub sur
geons are not cutting off arms and legs
as the only means of preventing the spread
of septic poisoning. Listci methods nave
changed all that. Antiscptic treatment has
taken away all the dread and most Of the
danger of blood poisoning. The COVE cnmcrt
has called the best that medical science Of
fers to its aid in the field, and the list
of fata Titles in this war is going to be
made up almost wholly of those who were
killed outright or whose wounds toucbcd
vital spot that would have made all the
skill of medicine and surgery powC 'ies5
to save life. There win be fewer deaths
from blood poisoning or septicemla than
during any other war In the world his
tory, and this WIZ be due to the great ad-
vance made in conservative surgery since
the earlier sixties. Ard for the same "a
son, chiefly because of antiseptic methods,
there win be but a small fraction of the
suffering that made the hospitals of the
civil war chambers Of torture, places of
almost nameless horror.
in 1857, Mindon-mn, King of Burma,
erected a monument near Mandalay called
the Kutho+daw There he built 700 tenn
pies, in each of which there is a slab of
white marble. Upon these 200 slabs is en-