The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

on 10 some extent in Western Europe also
the cheapnass OF The coal dust enabling
makers 10 sch their product in comPeti
ton with The natural lump coal
A new craze has developed in New
York. 1t is what the steamship official;
call the seeing friends off 10 Europe
| craze. The departure Of the St. Louls
brought out one of the craze's most at
tractlVe devotees in the person Of a young
women WiCh fiery RED hair. She came II
a hanson cab, and made somewhat of q
fuss upon her arrival giving out the i'm
preston that she was there 10 BID frient
bon voyage. Still, she greeted no one
and was the last person to come down The
gang-plank. For the last fortnight she
has gone through the same sort OF per
Torrance at the departure of all the big
liners.
Justin Mccarthy has retired from Par
lament and public life. He has occupied
a unique position in British politics. Be
ginning life as a poor reporter for the
Cork Examiner, he made his way through
the most diScOuraging difficulties to emf
hence as a statesman and to high dis
tinction as man of letters. Not alone
this. He did what no other Irishman OF
his extremely patriotic type has been ablt
TO do. He won the friendship of the mos
delightful ana genial kind from English
men and women, who detest the principles
Mr. Mccarthy has ever preached. lie
was Gladstone's friend, and the associate
of the eminent and exclusive literary men
of London.
The late Lord Herschell, who died in
Washington, has left the fortune of 81 600,
000, which he acquired by the practice OF
law previous to his elevation to the WOO
sack, very tightly tied up, for his eldest
son and heir, who has just come of age,
is accorded very little money on which TO
keep up his peerage, says the Washington
Post For the next twelve months his in
come IS limited to 1900 a year, while after
that until he reaches the age of %, ii will
be double that amount, namely, $4,000 Sub
sequently he is to have $4,000. and il wiz
remain at that figure unlii the death of his
mother. lnasmuch as trades people ale in
the habit of making customers who are
afflicted with a handle to their names pay
double and even treble the prices that
are charged to ordinary customers, it will
readily be understood that young Lord
lerschell will experience difficulty in MAX
ing boih ends meet, at any rale for the
next few years 10 come.
The circus has come to town. one of
those big ones with four or five sideshows,
and the hero of this little problem HES
himself forth to see it all. says the Gin
clnnau Enquirer. To Simplify the condi-
tons of the question, suppose that the
circus is an expensive one-one that costs
81 every time YOU move. One mOneycd
man goes in at the first gate, and it costs
him 81 10 get in, and while in there ne
spends exactly one-half of the money he
mas lett Then II costs him 81 to get out
again. This price is set only TO make the
problem easier of solution. and may be
worked out with any amounts quite as
easily after the rule is established. He
goes then to the first sideshow, the one
where they have the animal tanner the
huge giant, the lady with the beard and
Such other strange things, and IL again
costs him u 10 get in. He spends one
half of what he has left while in there
and it costs him 81 to get out. He then
goes to The two other sdeshows which
each costs 81 10 get in and out, and in
both cases, while inside he spends exact
~ one-half of what he has left after pay
ing his way in. This makes in al four
performances which he has seen, and after
coming our Of the last gate he finds that
ne mas no money at all left. Now the
question for solution is how much money
dld the man have before he went into the
circus He has spent 81 for admissions and
ne spends while inside just one-half of
that which remains. After finding out
how much he had al the start, if he had
nothing left figure how much he would
have had if he had 81 left after leaving
the last show. On its face this looks like
some of the examples that the schoo,
teachers give for examination, one of those
awfully hard kinds hat twist your brains
almost In knots trying 20 do them. But
II Is not The solution is so easy that
any of the boys or girls can get the cor
rect answer by mental arithmetic.
That burglars of the more advanced
type can and do use chloroform in the
commission of their crimes is a belief
CODlFdQlCLe1.
yet mere IS, curously, little foundation
for il, says the New York Times Indeed
those who are most familiar with the ad-
minstratiOn and effects Of anaesthetics
assert That there Is no foundation at all
for il except in the ina gination of sensa-
UOnal writers and in the needs of Deople
whose losses cannot safely be explained
Dy statements of fact. The question has
been raised at Pittsburg recently by sew
eral rObberies in which chloroform is said
70 nave been employed, and opinions of
AfHn 4ayFV
possibility OF such use. One of the physi-
clans interviewed is quoted as saying:
AS FAR as known, chlOroform and ether
nave never taken effect On a healthy
sleeping person without that person
knowing it. Both of these anaesthetics
are at first stimulating and inVigoratng
IN thelr erect and will arouse a sleeping
person. The entire system is excited and
the hearts beats violently and fast The
use OF either chloroform or ether or any
qqlner anaesthetic, by burglars is absurd
various appliances from ten to fifteen min
utes TO put a person under the influence
OF eltner OF these anaesthetics and often
patent VIII become so stimulated and
active before the effect is secured thar n
REQUIRES several strong men to hold him .
me idea that the mere Introduction of
chloroform into a room would cause nm
oonsclousness was derded as absurd
Even If doors and windows We're airtighi
II would take several gallons of either
andeSt 4 f so 10 MI a room with the
PED OF average hight. And the first Of
rect would be, not deep sleep, but excited
Wakefulness. The chances are, then. th9t
when anybody claims TO have been cbloS
reformed by burglars there is sometime
queer about the case.
The austere life of the Trappst monks
with its perpetual silence and daily sac
rifice Of self, has its counterpart in the
order of the Bernardines, the Sisters of
silence says Donahoes Monthly Tba
shduoW OF the Pyrenees falls on the lonely
retreat OF these women, whose lives -
the casual observer seem Shrouded ~
gloom Half way between Bavonne ana
lolarrllz, on dreary waste of coast tba,
nave made their home, if the word hon,e
may De applied to a dwelling place vbero
no Word IS ever spoken, no glance ev-
cualSeu Having renowned all things If
earth these silent women spend thor
Gays IN prayer and good works uAditet
ing ever on the life TO come. Their in
uustfy is unceasing; they till the sou
competing 1t 10 yield fruitful harvest,
t!ley weave and knit and sew MAKE
snoeS and dainty fancy ware. enga1a IL,
household taskS-and through ali 1be 81
ehce remains unbroken. Their fond is =
scant portion of dry bread and a drinl- o9
water, their resting place a comfortieSe
cell. The severity of their rules controls
even the adjournment of the chanel or
rather forbids such Indulgence Of q low
or the beautiful. zone bright s,,n.S.