The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of a new metallic curtain Tor
the opera house at Besancon. The cur
tain is TO be lowered after each act or in
case Of great danger II is sixty feet
wide and ffty-four feet high and is 20 be
composed Of Aluminium sheets thirteen
feet long and twenty-nine inches wide and
and one-tWelfth of an inch thick. The
total weight will be 4,000 pounds. If
such a curtain were made of sheet iron it
would weight II, 900 pounds.
A Maltese cat belonging to Ross Long,
of Pendleton, Ind, is a great pet of the
children, and recently it caught a snake
twenty inches long and brought il to Mr..
Longs 2-year-old boy playing in the yard.
The little fellow was delighted with his
new toy, and, grasping the wriggliug rep
tile near the tail, toddled into the house
TO show it to his mother. Mrs. Long was
badly frightened but dispatched the
snake with a poker, and turned around
to see the cat running in with another
snake in its mouth. The second snake,
fully as large as the first, was also killed,
and tabby went out in search of more
The snakes were of a harmless species,
but they might not have been" as rat
tlesnakes are frequently killed about the
prairies there.
the injurious effects of anger: Anger
serves the unhappy mortal who INDUCES
in it much the same as intoXicantS con-
stantly taken do the inebriate. 1t grows
into a sort of disease, which has various
and terrible results. Sir Richard Quain
said not long ago: He is man very
rich indeed in physical power who can
afford to be angry This is true. Every
time a man becomes white or red with
anger he is in danger of his life. The
heart and brain are the organs mostly af-
fected when fits of passion are INDUCED
in. Not only does anger cause partial
paralysis of the small blood vessels. but
the hearts action becomes intermittent
that is, every now and then it drops
beat-much the same thing as is expert
enced by excessive smokers"
The idea is quite general that under
the more complicated mechanism of mod
ern industry, and the severity of its COM
petition, men become useless at an ear
ler age than formerly. But the president
of the Delaware, LackaWanna and West
ern Railroad conveys a different impress
sion in replying to reports that the road
had been discharging several hundred en-
ployes on account of their age. He says
that no man has been discharged on ac-
count of age, but it is true that some
men who have been discharged as unfit
for service were old men. He continues
I'VE have no age limit. Many men after
45 are at their best; many men at 65 are
as good as they were at 81, and infinitely
better than lots of men at % or 80, or any
other age; some men never are any good,
while others get better and better as they
get older"
1t is always wen in cases of suspected
hypdrophobia to make the most critical
examination of the subject" remarked an
expert in the treatment of that malady,
according TO the Kansas City Journal.
The truth should be got at in every case.
There are many dog lovers who have lost
their heads in the interest of their canine
pets as there are dog haters who have
been blinded 10 reason by their bias against
them. There are two facts to be kept in
view: First, that there is danger that any
one may be inocuiated with the virus of
hydrophobia. and, second, that there is
not one chance in a million that anyone
will he so inoculated. 1 was reared as
lover of the whole dog species; have been
bitten by them scores Of times and admit
that it was foolish in me never 10 have
had a bite cauterized. If have any mad
ness with which dogs have any connection
il is in the direction of an intense love for
them. 1t ought to be kept in mind that a
difference in breeds counts for a good deal
Black and tan terriers, for instance, have
been so inbred as to give them intensely
nervous organizations. This inbreeding
cannot help but be harlnful, because it is
contrary 10 nature and produces nervous
degenerates in that breed. a dog can, by
a wrong system of breeding, become as
truly degenerate as members of the hui
man family do"
A Baltimore dispatch says: Henry
Burns. aged 60 years, whose entire nose
deep into his face was removed for can
GER has been supplied with a new nasal
appendage through the surgical skill of
DR.. John Finney, of the Johns Hopkins
University A portion of skin and flesh
from a leg was first grated to a forearm
The flesh was then raised from the arm
in the form of a bridge, and the re-
markable work of grating this piece of
flesh to the face was begun. The forearm
was bent up over the face in such a
position that the wrist passed up in front
of the forehead. AS the patient could not
hold his arm continuously in this awk-
ward position to promote the knitting
together of the tissues of the head and
arm all the upper part of Burns body
was encased in plaster of paris. The cas-
arm and around his head, leaving only
one eye and small portion of his mouth
visible. In this state he lay extended on
a chair unable TO move the upper part of
his body, for twenty-eight days. He suf-
fered intense agony, and the physicians
feared that his reason would give way
under the terrible ordeal The arm was
then cut away from the face, and the
| doctors nodded the new flesh on the face
into a perfectly shaped nose.
Presidents have to amuse themselves
as well as lesser folk, and we have grown
to smile instead of frown upon the amuse-
ments of the chief magistrate, says the
| New York Press. Cleveland shot ducks,
fished and played pinochle; Harrison shot
| ducks and toyed with encyclopedias; John
! quincy Adams played billiards. Grant
! strolled up and down Pennsylvania ave-
| nue. and smoked: Polk nursed his asceti-
/ cism and wallowed in the interpretive;
! Arthur liked rubber at whist a smoke
! and a cocktail; Lincoln told stories; Blu
! chanan spent his idle moments congrat-
| Mating himself on beiner haabaIor ono