The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-13
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! Congress at Rome 10y Dr. Meuella. an
/ Italian delegate, who claimed to have eff
/ fccted thirty-nine cures. The treatment
| consists i'm the constant inhalation of The
! essence OF mint and external application
! of creosote and essence of mint in AGO
| hole solution.
The Murohland machine for milking
cows has been in use for two years in
| Germany. 1t IS worked by pneumatic sue
| ton. An air pump connected to a system
! of tubes and reservoirs eXhausts the air
! from it, and as the teats of the cows are
| connected with the system draws the milk
into the reservoirs. Six to eight minutes
| are required to milk the cows by this
| continuous and easy method.
The University of Berlin, for the sum-
mer semester, counts 9249 students, of
whom III are women. OF 1897 matricular-
| ed students 324 belong 20 the theological
| faculty 40 to the juristlc, 1 1913 10 the
medical and 2l1O TO the philosophical fac
| ulty, inclusive of 262 1923, 772 and ,4S5
| natives of Prussia respectively. In adj
| dition to the foregoing, 252 persons are
! permitted to attend the lectures.
In the workshop it is too common an
event for some one TO get burned or scald-
| ed and for this reason the discovery Of
| DR.. Thierry of the Charlie Hospital Par
| is, will be hailed with considerable salts
| faction. According to the doctor, the in
| tense pain following Il burn can be stop
ped or lessened in most cases by dipping
| The injured part into a solution of picrlc
| acid. The fastdiods can afterward remove
the yellow stains left by the picric acid by
hopping the place with bOric acid.
The rirualistic Episcopal Church of St
John the Evangelist. Boston, began nov
| el custom the other day. Just before YES
I per service two robed priests, sixteen vest
| ed choirb0ys, a cross bearer and two trum-
| peters marched through the streets near
| the church, singing a professional At a
convenient point a halt was made, and one
| of the priests delivered an address. When
! The procession returned to the church,
! bringing with it a large crowd, the other
| priest mounted the steps and tod the peo-
! pie what a nice service they We're going TO
have inside. Then ne went in followed by
a considerable number This method of at
| tracing the people viii be continued
An effort is being made in Scotland to
revive the oyster cultivation, which has
| been falling off owing 10 the want of Sc
! curity that those who undertake the
| business shall reap the reward of their
| industry. Mr. Young he late inspector
of the salmon fisher 2, reported some
| time ago that the whole bed of the Moray
! Firth inside of Fort George was, a few
years since. an oyster bed producing oys>
| tiers of good quality. The discovery was
| made by some English smacks and for
several years they fished persistenly, I'M
| Ill the oysters were practically exhausted,
as they could not be found in sufficient
quantity to pay for dredging. Efforts
| were made 10 re-eStab.ish the fishing, but
| it was found that no person had a legal
| right, and no steps were IN consequence
! taken bp Thfc
| Che fishery board says) could be multi
! piled indefinitely, and it is not surpris-
| ing to find that the oyster fisheries OF
| Scotland are now so much reduced as tc
| be threatened with extinction. Col. Nal
| colin of Poltaloch is making efforts to es-
tabIish an oyster fishery in Loeb Sween.
"A dispatch dated Chicago, July s, says
James Markham, secretary to Chief OF
| Police Ripley, stood before a target made
of a sheet of cloth to-day at No 10 Ran
| dolph street and fired a single shot al
it from his revolver. The bullet struck
| the cloth Squarely, and, rebounding, struck
| Markham full in the forehead He stag
| Sered and fell to the floor and blood burst
| from the wound. He was assisted to his
feet and taken to a neighborng drug store
| where his wound was dressed, and he was
| soon able to return to the scene of his
| accident. A number of policemen fired
| NOliSNS from Dig reviewers at the llttIe
! sheet of cloth. For fifteen minutes they
shot at it, and when the smoke had clear
ed away the cloth hung free from per-
| torauOns. A little man who had watched
the shooting was wild with joy. The sheet
of cloth was declared to be bullet proof
and the little man, Casimir Zeglen was
the author of the method of making t.
Markham, too, was satisfied. "A little
lower he said, land 1 would have LOST
an eye"
"A writer in Nature speaks of the crue
medical tyranny which banishes the
strawberry from the diet of the equity anC
quotes what Linnaeus had to say about
the curative properties of this delightful
fruit, says the Lancet. This great natu
raist was persuaded to take strawber-
ries during severe attack of sciatica
with the result that sweet sleep ensued
| and when he awoke the pain had sensibly
| subsidized. On the next day he ate a:
many Strawberries as possible and on the
following morning the pain was gone anC
he was able to leave his bed Gouty pain.
year, but they were dispersed as soon a:
| Linnaeus was able to get Strawberries
Although strawberries are forbidden t
the equity by some authorities by other;
they are permitted, the fruit being regard
| ed as a useful food for equity person.
of potash, soda and lime and its cooling
diuretic and laxative qualities. The analy
sis of the strawberry shows it to b,
particularly rich in soda salts, and il
spite of the high percentage of watel
this fruit excels all other common fru
in the amount of mineral salts. Tht
chemistry of the strawberry, therefore
would teach that this fruit is likely L
be beneficial in equity states.
If Mrs. Van Rensselaer's opinion i.
correct, Niagara Falls will be a less beau.
tiful object in the year $500 than it is to.
day. In the June Century she gives The
reasons for her belief: The Niagara river
belongs to our own era of the worlds in.
terminiable history, and to it alone We
may believe with some recent investiga.
tors, that it began to cut its way through
the higher table-land about 5000 years ago
or we may say with others, 30, 900 years
ago. But event the farther end of 3O.OCI
years is a geological yesterday; and if il