The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

buted 10 the record Of that city the sub
joined interesting gossip apropos of the
kissing bug The domestic remedy for
the attack Of the kissing hug is bicarbo-
nate of soda diluted with water. A simple
application of this remedy will remove the
swelling and the pain in short order To
prevent midnight attacks of the bug it is
only necessary TO put few drops Of oil
of rhodium on the bed quilt The insect
VIII at once light upon this spot, and will
sniff away until mOuonless in the sleep of
aromatic intoxication"
A most fortunate animal is a little
black and white kitten which recently at
tackled itself TO the Church of St Angus
tine HlEhbury, says the London Tee-
graph. In spite of the efforts put forth
by he officials 10 induce her to leave the
sacred precincts, she returned again and
again, her persistency in the end bringing
its due reward A lady connected with the
church set aside a sum of money to be
devoted TO the comfort and maintenance
of the eat. As a protection against bad
weather, a neat little kennel has been
erected at this lady's expense in a cosey
corner of the grounds, while the purveyor
Of milk and the cats meat man supply
her daily needs. The protection of the
law Is also informally extended to the
new tenant, for the constables on point
duty at the spot show warm interest in
the kittens welfare.
President G. Stanley Hall Of Clark
University, Worcester has been finding
out by circular letters what some 700
people were afraid of when they were
children, says the Hartford Times He
has prepared neat little table of results
which has a scientific aspect. This is re-
ducing science to a futile and childish
01H
hitting that the answers are facts. which
seems to us extremely unlikely. \ more
valuable set of statistics could be compil-
ed by sticking pin into a thousand men
and thousand women and Calculating"
the results. But even if we ascertained
that 50 per cent. of the men used Ian
guage unfit for publication and figured
out exactly the proportion of the rest
that respectively said ouch" Gee Wilt
kins. lingo" and other popular quota
tons, of what earthly use would our
knowledge be? President Hall should have
asked a lot more questions while he was
about it. straw vote as to what kind
of pie 1000 bald men preferred when they
were boys would give valuable results"
These might be compared with similar
answers from 1000 men with chin whsk-
ers. Science, especially physiological
science, has its humbugs no less than
medical science has. We do not wish 10
imply that President Hall is a hunbue
Far from it. But he is wasting his time
and the uniyersity's postage stamps in
wild chase after useless statistics.
A safe and sure preventive if not a
cure, of sea sickness has been found in
picked onions, says the New York Press.
rich young merchant in this city went
a-hsning TO the Cholera banks and was
ophSed, by one of these marital necessi-
ties, 10 take along his wife He gave her
oceans OF advice against going, pointing
out every real and imaginary discomfort
10 be found on public fishing boat. to all
of which she made answer that she could
stand the worst. 1t was a day of heavy
ground sweils, one Of the kind on which
even the regulars feel a sinking sensation
In the pit of the stomach. Mrs. Persistence
grew pale, then white. Her lips got blue
Her teeth nervously ratified ooh no. 7
am not sick; only-only--" Here. nv
dear, lie down in the easy chair. Let me
bundle you up What makes you so white?
You are sick! 1 told you, l warned youl"
He had carried along a jar of picked on
ions. Blood worms were used for bait
Let me bait your hook, my dear" "Oh,
don't feel like fishing" Here is a fine
worm. There! Goodness how I ran that
hook in my finger, See il bleed" II was
the gore of the worm, but she believed it
his, and she trembled. An ashen color set
tied in her face. Don't let me see it." she
murmured He mentioned every unDIeas
nat subject possible, but she refused TO
yield to the seductions of the swell and
roll. Then taking pity, ne produced the
onions-a quart jar. His testimony is that
she ate at least a pint then took up her
rod and tshed the rest of the day, catching
hngs OF 2 3, and pounds, laughing as
merrily as child al play as she hauled
them in.
The catfish belongs to an ancient tyne
not yet fully made into a fish, and hence
those whose paired fins are all properly
fastened to the head, as his are not hold
nm IN well-merited scOrn says Prof. D. S
Jordan in the Popular Science Monthly.
lie mas no scales and no bright colors
His fins are small and his head and
mouth are large. Around his mouth are
eight long "smellers" feshy feelers. that
ne pushes out as he crawls along the bot
tom IN search of anything that he NAV
eat. In each of the fins which Represent
ms arms is long, sharpe bone with A
Shiny surface and a Sierra ted edge. These
are fastened by a ball-and-socket Joint
and whenever the fish is alarmed the bone
Is whirled over and SET in place; then
1t sticks out stiffly on each side There
is another such bone in the fin on the
back, and when all of these are set there
is no fish that can swallow him. When he
takes the hook, which he surely will do
If there is any hook to be taken. be will
swallow 1T greedily. AS he is drawn out
OF the water he sets his three spines and
laughs to himself as the boy pricks his
fingers trying to get the hook from his
stomach. This the boy is sure 10 do and
because The boy of the Mississippi Valley
is always fishing for catfish is the rea-
son why his fingers are always sore. The
calhSh Is careless of the present. and sure
OF the future. After he is strung on a
birch branch and dried in the sun and
sprinkled with dust and has had his storn-
acn dug out to recover the hook, if he
falls into the brook he will swim away
lie holds no malice, and is ready to bite
again at the first thing in sight
1t is the prevailing impression, says Les
lies Weekly fostered by the practices of
men like Sueci and DR.. Tanner, that IN
order to endure a long fast a man must
absolutely refrain from physical exercise
ana devote his whole attention to caring
for himself Mr. Milton Rathbun, a mer-