The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT least 200 outside newspapers sent
ENJOYS to Holland 90 report the corona
ton ceremonies, and a committee arranged
for their comfort. A house was taken to
serve them as sort OF club during their
stay. Each duly accredited journalist re-
ceived an elegant sort of pocketbook con-
tanning his own photograph, with permit
to attend all the public ceremonies and
10 travel gratutously over ali railways
within the kingdom.
Nantucket, Mass, still has a town
crier, who is engaged by the merchants
to announce their auctions, and by sum-
mer visitors TO call attention 10 social
events Once in a while he has spread the
alarm when a child is lost On his own
account he meets the steamboats,, gets the
newspapers and runs through the streets
calling out the principal headings. The
old residents can keep abreast of the times
merely by listening to his cries.
Spokane, Wash, is now facetiously
called tie CITY of Busted Millionaires.'
The beautiful residences of the town were
built on buff overlooking the river. and
We're originally designed for two classes
of citizens-the real estate men and the
bankers. They are now said to be princI-
paliy occupied by the lawyers who acted
as receivers for the banks, or who other
wise helped to conduct those and other
institutions through insolvency.
Elaborate preparations are being made
for the Kaisers ascent of the Mount of
Olives. A new route is being made for
him, and at the present time some thou
sands of men, women and children are
working on it. This route starts from the
Kaiser's camp al the foot of Scopus, and
leads back to the peak called Viri Gablai
There will be FIFTEEN Turkish soldiers en-
CANNED n ipf nd Ill
have received uniforms and white gloves
-Apropos of the growing popularity of
Scotch whisky, a London paper observes
that, In order to secure the preference
Of the saloonkeepers of New York and
the bartenders of the mushroom towns of
South Africa the distillers occa sionally in
sert a sovereign between the cork and
the capsule of each bottle in a case. This
fact is, of course, duly advertised and
the retailer continues TO order the special
brand so commended to his favor in the
hope that he may secure prize.
The reports of the asylum at Cairo.
Egypt, as to the native patients there ex-
hibiting the nature of the mental disturb
ance associated with the excessive use
of hashish are said 10 show some remark
able facts, it appearing that in Al per cent
of all the male patients hashiSh alone, or
in combination with alcohol, caused the
mental symptoms, while this was the
case with only per cent of the females.
AS to whether there is a special recog-
nizable form of mental disturbance pro-
duced by hashish, authorities conclude
that in considerable number OF. cases in
Egypt the haShish is the chief if not the
only cause of such mental disease: The
usual types of the disease are hashish
intoxication-that is, an elated and reck-
less staggering state, with optical delu-
hail
another form of hashish insanity, involv-
ing frightful hallucina lions, restlessness,
sleeplessness, incoherence and exhaustion;
again, there is exhibited a weak-minded-
ness, the patients, though well behaved.
being excitable about small things and I'M
concerned as to the future.
"A physician who is connected with an
institution in which there are many chill
dren says: There is nothing more irri-
table to a cough than coughing For
some time 1 had been so fully assured of
this that 1 determined for one minute at
least to lessen the number of coughs heard
in certain ward in a hospital of the in
stitution. By the promise of rewards and
punishments l succeeded in inducing them
simply to hold their breath when tempted
to cough, and in a little while 1 was my
self surprised to see how some of the chill
dren entirely recovered from the disease.
scratching a wound on the outside of the
body; so long as it is done the wound will
not heal. Let a person when tempted to
cough draw long breath and hold 1t I'M
til it warns and soothes every air cell,
and some benefit will soon be received
from this process. The nitrogen which is
thus refined acts as an anodyne to the
mucous membrane, allaying the desire TO
cough and giving the throat and lungs
a chance to heal At the same time a
suitable medicine will aid nature in her
efforts to recuperate."
The ancients were fond of insisting
that laughter might kill. They always
had a case in point, and in this instance
Philemon, the comic poet, was the hero
or rather the notwithstanding to Va
lerius Maximus and Lucian. 1t is Rabe-
lais, however, who has immortalized Phi
lemon, whom he wrongly calls Philo-
menes. The poet, he says found jack
ass eating up the figs on his dinner ia
bic, so he said to his servant who came
in with the wine, that he might as we'll
get the ass drink. Then the poet laugh
ed so violently that his breath failed him
and he died. 1t must be added that the
poet was then IS years old. From this
suspicious, though amusing, legend we can
pass 10 clinical facts which 1t suggests.
Laughter in itself. says the British Med
ical Journal cannot very well kill, but
IL may 40 ndTm. f1ySIeflcal girls ana boys
with kindred nervous affections are often
given to immoderate laughter, which
tends to increase nervous exhaustion. DR..
FeilchenfeM relates an instructive case
in which a little girl suffered from very
definite cardiac symptoms after immod-
crate laughter. The patient was 10 years
old, and had previously been free from any
sign of heart disease. After laughing on
and off for nearly an hour with some com
panions, she suddenly felt stabbing pains
in the chest, and was seized with fits of
coughing, followed by cardiac dyspnaea,
very well marked Feilchenfeld believes
that the cardiac disease directly resulted
from immoderate laughing. LA joie fait
peur," they say in France. Let laugh
ter-loving girlhood remember that joy
may also make heart disease. Older per-
sons do not seem subject to this form of
cardiac affection, for psychological rea-
sons only too obvious.
The British consul at Batavia, in his
last report on the trade of Java, mentions
an important development in the cinchona
industry of the island. Java produces