The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

treatment was recently chloroformed in
Peru. Ind The anesthetlc was given
| through the trunk. by means OF trouser
leg slipped around il and packed with
cotton.
Free Russia, published in London, says
that a nihilist paper called Rabotsehaya
SIyssi Ohe Laboring Mind has existed
in st. Petersburg for a year without the
police having succeeded in discovering the
| place where il is printed, although from
$50 to 5000 copies of each issue have Deen
distributed.
! Broad street, Philadelphia, is unique
in being exactly 11S feet wide and eleven
miles long It is now paved with asphalt
ror seven miles, but will soon be asphalt
| ed it's entire length. and then have the
| distinction of being the longest and widest
| smoothly paved straight street in the
world. 1t passes through the heart of the
| city.
| "A colony on the Tolstoi plan has been
| founded by some of the Netherlandish dis
ciples of the Russian teacher al Apeldoorn,
| in Holland, where William III had mis- ia
vorite hunting seat before he became King
of England. Three professional men have
| renowned their positions and have Joined
as agricultural laborers. One is Prof.
clergymen. Each is to be paid a yearly
wage of 700 forms for his labor.
"A shoplifter in Hungary, a Jewess of
| 40. who six months before her arrest for
stealing had been baptized into the Ro-
| man Catholic Church, pleaded that she
| was legally an infant, and as such was
not responsible before the law. The rule
| of the country being that the date of birth
| figured from the date of baptism, the
| court sustained her plea, and the six
months-old shoplifter of 40 was released.
| "A New York chemist has discovered
solution which will keep collars and cuffs
| straight and still through all sorts of
weather All one has to do is 10 dip the
| collar or cuff into this solution and per-
! SEPARATION thepceforward only has
| cleansing effect upon those articles of
wear. For two years, the chemist says,
he experimental upon this solution, failing
repeatedly, until now success has crowned
| his efforts
| I'm prowling through some obsolete ter
ritorial statutes the other day Assistant
Attorney General West of Kansas came
across a law which required that when
ever a public thoroughfare crossed
stream the township overseer should fix
a gauge showing the high water mark.
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! such gauge should be a sign reading,
when this is under water the ford is
! dangerous"
An interesting paper upon the thera-
peutic value of light and darkness was re-
Gently read at the University of Vienna
| by DIR. Goldschneider, who says that in
ninety-three out of one hundred cases of
! illness the presence of light in a sick
/ room alleviates the sufferings Of the pa
tient Furthermore, he advises that if
children prefer TO sleep in lighted rooms
! to allow them to do so, for the denial of
a night light has made many child suf-
| fer from heart disease.
When the Twentieth Regiment left To-
| peka il was presented with a beautiful
| silk flag, known technically as the regi-
mental colors. This flag is said to be a
! sight to behold at the present time-rag-
ged and dirty and riven with bullets. On
| the end of the Flagstaff is a bronze eagle,
| and at the battle of Baqueri this eagle
| was struck with a Mauser bullet in such
a fashion that the old bird is cooked over
| to one side in tipsy but belligerent sort
| of an attitude which makes everybody
| laugh.
I'm Austin county, Texas, there is a re-
markable German family consisting of
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| wife, the founders of the family. are still
alive. Mr.. Schmidt went to Texas and
| settled in very early times. Strangely
| enough, he had but one son. This son,
| however, whose name is John Schmidt
| married when he was 20 years of age, and
he has raised fifteen boys and girls. Five
| of these have married but moi one has
yet left the parental roof These five mar
ried sons and daughters have twenty-five
| children, and there are six great-grand-
| children of Caspar Schmidt in the family
-Botanist selby of the Ohio agricultural
experiment station reports that through
years of inattention the yellows have got
firm grip on Ohio peach orchards Only
in the Maumee valley he says, are the
orchards free from it, while in some To-
| calities 50 to 80 per cent of the trees are
| affected. The disease, he reports, has been
| allowed to spread without hindrance and
is now progressing with phenomenal vi
! rulence." The laws of Ohio are NOT IN 70
date as to the yellows, and Mr.. Selby's
recommendation of the free use of the ak
may be needed in some cases and in others
not.
AS one progresses further and further
into the heart of Cuba" says a cores
pondent of the Philadelphia Record. "tbe
nineteenth century, with all its strife and
/ ttA AiOtis 4diAo BSiitlQ dIlQ IS forgotten.
Each straw-thatched village encountered
EN- route-and they are very numerous
seems given over 10 perpetual somnia. The
| railway stations are not thronged with the
idle and curious, as in other rural parts.
but the people sit in their doors. drearnilv
watching the train from afar, TOO law for
active curiosity. Occasionally a more en-
terprising citizen, black as the hackneved
ace of spades. or with the lean, brown pro-
| file of Rameses II. saunters through The
| cars, Offering some triae for sale and
ragged children extend their hands for
aims and iaughingly greet the travellers
| with the English phrases, they have pick
ed up, such as Gimme penny AN right,
'Goodby.' At one station small girl
patched fore and aft, but with the face If
an angel, lifted timid eyes In response IN
our salutation and murnured. God damn
without an idea of the meaning of The
word she had heard the Yankee soldiers
use."
There Is a peculiar portrait In Wash
ington which has created much interest
among those who know OF its existence
says the correspondent Of the New Yorl
Mail and Express. It's PECULIARLY IL thai
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