The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The reports read at the annual busi-
ness meeting of the Massachusetts Coop
erative League show that the last year
was profitable for the cooperative banks
and that the league had increased both
its membership and its capital.
If by one of the accidents in politics
Buck" Grant should be elected United
States senator from California, says the
Kansas City Journal he will, according to
all accounts be the chilliest proposition
seen in the north end of the capitol In
many day. He is one of those persons
who make a speciality of forgetting the
names and faces of men 20 whom they
are introduced 81 saw man al the cap
itol to-day tells a Washington CORE
spondent, who said he had been intro
duced to Buck Grant twelve times in
three DAYS, and that on the last occa sion
as on the first, Grant treated him as an
entire stranger. He Is irresponsible to a
degree that is positively offensive to near
ly everybody not on terms of close in
timacy with him. He has 20 an exagger-
ated extent the characteristic of silence
and frigid composure that marked his dis
tinguished father during the latter years
of the war and the few years Immediately
following. Gen. Grant mellowed with ad-
Vancing years and became a rarely inter-
son has any talent in that direction it re-
mains to be developed"
Romance has played prominent part
with regard to the longevity of deer. saws
the Chicago News. What says the high
land adage: Thrice the age of dog is
that of a horse; thrice the age of a horse
Is that of a man; thrice the age of a man
is that of a deer; thrice the age of a deer
is that of an g
eagle is that of an oak tree. This is TO
assign the deer a period of more than 200
years, and the estimate is supported by
many highly circumstantial stories Thus
Capt Mcdonald of Tulloch, who died in
1776, aged Sc years, is said to have known
the white hind Of Loeb Treig for fifty
years, his father for a like period before
him, and his grandfather for sixty years
before him. In 1926 Macdonald Of Glen
garry is reported to have killed a stag
which bore a mark on the left ear identi-
cal with that made on all the calves he
could catch by -MacIan-Og, who had
been dead $50 years. Analogous stories
it may be noted, are told in countries on
the continent of Europe, where deer are
to be found in any number. But the gen
eral opinion among experts would seem
to be that thirty years or Whereabouts is
the limit of a deers life.
in a recent address before a London
medical association, says Leslies Weekly,
Dr. L. A Weatherly, a prominent physi-
clan, said that if a surgeon of 90 years
ago could wake from his everlasting sleep
in this world and find himself in one of
the modern operating theaters of medical
institution, he would rub his eyes and stare
with utter amazement at the daring deeds
of the modern surgeon; that ''he would
see the patient brought in already nncon-
scious of what was about TO be done; he
would note the scrupulous cleanliness
which antiseptic surgery has taught us in
all the surroundings of the room, the APP
planes of the operating surgeon and his
ssistants; he would perhaps, see the alb
domen opened and it's contents handled
with the most perfect confidence. and this
or that operation, never dreamed of in his
day as being even possible without instant
DEATH brought to a successful ternina-
ton. And wonderment would be justifia-
ble" DR.. Weatherly thought the fault
with the modern young operator in surgery
was that he was a little too prone to use
his knife as means of diagnosis, without
giving his powers of observation chance
to arrive at a right conclusion. The adj
dress of the distinguished physician has
attracted wide attention.
One of the significant signs of the
times is that women are becoming success
full inventors, says an exchange. An i'm
proved corset, recently invented and pa
tented by the talented wife of Pere Hya-
cinthe, has been a considerable success.
Also, the widow of a military officer is to
be credited with an invention the ingen-
uty and utility of which are acknowl-
edged by the whole world of industry. The
ex-Empress Eugene has exhibited a good
deal of inventive ability. Some time ago,
when ladies' dresses were fuller than they
are now, she contrived an ingenious ar
rangement for her robes to descend from
the ceiling, so that when she stood under
the apparatus her dress and petticoats
were put on at the same time just as if it
were ali done by a fairy wand. She
caught the idea germ of this at the time
she was recovering from an illness, when
dressing in the ordinary way was a source
of difficulty. The ex-Empress also devils
ed a mysterious dress improver, which
eventually developed into the crinoline. A
baby carriage invention has produced for
its lady designer $4,000 already, and q
big fortune was realized by a young mem
Der of the fair sex who invented very
ingenious machine for making paper bags
while the invention of copper tips to chill
drens shoes was still more profitable af-
fair bringing in the splendid guerdon of