The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

greatly perturDed lately by the cnOlce OF
the commissionaire-g general sent from Per-
STA to look after her interests at the eX-
hibition of 1900 This official, who is de-
scribed as a small and unknown merchant
who thinks ne knows it all, is, it appears.
not Persian subject at all. and the feel
ing on the matter is so strong that NJ.
Delcasse, minister for foreign affairs, has
ordered an investiga ton, which, it is hop
ed, will place things on a more satisfac-
tory footing.
There is some chance that an aquari-
UNI for fresh water fish may be started in
London. The Crystal Palace Company is
repairing its aquariums and putting them
into connection with the lakes, reservoirs
and fountain basins in the grounds. Fifty
thousand trout eggs have already been
Matched and a beginning is made. The
company cannot be loser If it rear and sell
the fish, for it can get % cents pound
for trout throughout the season and its
lakes and reservoirs would yield an income
with very little expenditure as a set-of.
1t really begins TO .ook as if there were
nothing new under the sun. While scien-
tific minds are discussing the antitoxin Sc
rum treatment of disease as if it were
new thing the people of ancient Burma are
turtles the material they have used in the
common custom of tattoOing has been an
efficient antitoxin for snake bites, says
Leslie's Weekly. The tattooed Burmese
regard the bites of poisonous snakes as
harmless. This, at beast, is the state
ment of a gentleman from Burma, who
brings testimony to bear in corrobora ton
OF his singular statement.
An English journal thus comments on
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. Ii grows
into sort of disease which has various
and terrible results. Sir Richard Quain
said not long ago: He is a 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 affected 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 a beat-much the same
thing as is experienced by excessive
smokers
The pansy is a lover of cool weather,
finest flowers, and its most profuse crop
of them, in the spring and during early
summer, and, if the plants have been
properly treated again in the fall Il
would no doubt continue to bloom as freely
during the summer as in spring or fall if
the weather conditions were the same.
But as soon as the intense heat of mid
summer comes, on the vitality of the plant
begins to be affected, and this accounts
for the indications of "dwindling" men,
toned by my cores ondent. It's flowers
become smaller and smaller. until they
are wholly unlike, in all respects, the
magnificent specimens Of May and June.
And as the heat of the season generally
accompanied with more or less drought
increases, the plants seem to die off by
inches The red spider, encouraged by dry
weather, which he delights in, adds his eff
forts to the work of the heat and the
fuxuriant plants of spring are hardly rec
ognizable in july and August
Gold is a tailsmanic word in Cuba. saws
Harper's Weekly. With all it's troubles
and uncertainties Cuba never wavered in
its devotion to the gold standard. An
artificial premium was put on gold to keep
1t from going to Spain. A great transfer
nation in its money system is scoming
over the island. The American invasion
of peace has practically established
new standard, the American gold stand
ard-not the artificial and slightly varying
Spanish gold standard. Our money was in
free circulation all over the island in Feb
ruary last Merchants, ticket sellers on
the railroads, and cashiers in other places
knew just what TO do when American
money was given 10 them in payment for
value received. There would be invariably
a of
l could never pretend to comprehend-but
one always received his change accurately
in Spanish or American money, as the case
might be. The people preferred American
money not so much because il was gold
standard money as because it had an alb
solutely fixed value 1t became the stand
ard. and Spanish gold was adjusted to 81
day by day. 1t was drivi.- Spanish money
out Of use rapidly.
-Entomologists will be interested in a
new species Of fly that, for want of a mora
classic name, has been styled the sulnbur
NY. AT the Mountain Copper Companv's
furnaces, situated about six miles west
OF Reddlng, in California, the miners have
noticed that during the roasting of the
copper ore Ga process that evolves sul
phurous acid fumes of such density that
coating of sulphur several inches in
thickness IS usually 10 be found on the
outside of the ore heaps after the burning
is completely, a species of fly. similar in
size TO the large horse fly and having a
gray body and a proboscls like that of the
latter insect, settles in the steaming heaps
and lives and breeds there freely. These
flies prove most troublesome to the min
ers, who are obliged to wear Veil
and gloves TO protect their skin from the
bites of the insects, which are both irritat-
Ing and poisonous. 1t is stated that these
flies were not observed in the district m
I'll the smelling operations commenced
there about three years back, and the
chief entomologist of the United States
agricultural department has never been
acquainted of their existence in any other
part of the new world. Investigations into
their characteristics are being made.
-"Domiphobia" is the title suggested bv
a scientific contemporary for new dis
ease which a medical authority claims to
have discovered, says the London Globe
Although it has not yet been dlgnified
with a recognized title the new ailment
is said to be a true psychor1athia >, ard