The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| "A blind beggar in front of one OF the
big State street department stores caused
a momentary blockade in the crowd or
shoppers yesterday by pulling out an old
clay pipe and calmly beginning to smoke,
| saws the Chicago News. Several people
stopped to gaze at the unusual spectacle,
but no one gave him any coin or seemeh
| in any way moved TO pity. Noticing TINS
a kindly booking man, ather hashlly
dressed, stepped up TO the beggar anu
whispered a few words in his ear. The
beegar Immediately knocked the ashes out
| of his pipe. and with rather shamefaced
| air slowed il away in his rattered coat
| one curious person asked the stranger
| what he had said to the blind man 10
cause the sudden disappearance OF the
! pipe. why, everybody thinks that real
ly blind people don't smoke, because II
is claimed that you have to see the smoke
| in order to enjoy it, / used to do the
blind act myself before I got a better
! graft and you can't be too particular
in the details of any business if you want
to succeed"
Smuggling still forms a regular and
oathbound secret profession in the land
of the hidalgos. says an exchange. Its OPP
erations have lately been quite active
about the coast near Gibraltar. Several
murders have been committed within few
DAYS recently on Spanish soil near the
| British frontiers by a band of smugglers,
! the victims being members Of the Com
| pana Tabacoera," a sort of customs de-
| tecuves for the prevention of tobacco
smuggling Upon request of the Spanish
authorities the chief of the Gibraltar po-
! lice, accompanied by marine police off,
Ger aud lieutenant of the Spanish militia,
| proceeded in a launch TO the back of the
rock TO search some caves. With the aid
/ of rope ladders they entered a cave at
| the hight of seventy feet from the sea,
where they found Spaniard, one of ten
murderers, guarding part of the bands
provisions and stock. The bandit gave
| considera bic trouble to the invaders of
the cave, but was finally cornered and i'm
wounded condition lowered to the boat by
means of ropes In times of yore these
caves of Gibraltar have been the lurking
! haunts of pirates and smugglers.
While the Rev. W. J. Davis was living
in Africa his little son, John. a boy of
years. went too near to a chained lion in
/ neighbours yard 1t was called pet
lion, but was so wild and vicious that no
| living thing was safe within the radius
! of Its beat. The unsuspecting child stlfm-
| bled within its reach, and the lion instant
! ly felled him to the ground and set its
! huge paw on his head. There was great
! CONSERVATION AMONG lue DySlduQeISs DuL
none were able to deliver the child. The
! African News tells the story of his es-
cape, which seems equally due to the
/ lions love for music and a young Wo-
/ mans presence of mind. His governess,
! seeing the peril of the child, ran upstairs,
! seized an accordion and FASTENED to
! window which looked out upon the lion.
/ There, with a shout to arrest its atten-
ton, she began playing a tune The lion
! at once released its prey, went the length
! of its chain toward its fair charmer and
! stood in rapt attention. The boy, in the
| mean time, got up and ran to his mother
/ He never thought of crying tin he enter
/ ed the house and saw how excited every
! one was; then, quite out of danger he had
! a good cry on his own account
| Investigations carried on at the Lon
don Zoo" have disclosed the fact that
the percentage of tubercufar diseases is
| far greater among granivorous and her
bivorous than among carnivorous ami
mails says the Philadelphia Record. AS
| whole, beasts suffer nearly 80 per cent
| more severely from tuberculosis than
! birds; but the most noticeable difference
IS that between the meat-eaters and vege-
! table feeders. Thus among monkeys.
! anteIopes, deer and kangaroos twenty-six
per cent. of all the deaths are caused by
tuberculosis; whereas among lions, wolves.
and the fehdae in general the disease car
rles away barely three per cent or the
granivorous birds. such as pheasants.
grouse pea fowl and ostriches. the propor
ton of deaths from tubercie amounts to
thirty per cent, while only eleven per cent.
OF the hesh-eaters, as vultures, eagles and
owls, Succumb to the disease. To lower
the risk of being attacked by this malady
men should, therefore, eat beefsteak and
eschew beans Seriously speaking how
ever, the observations made at the Lon
don Zoo appear to confirm the belief
that meat diet and open air life are the
best projections against consumption.
Fighting Joe" Wheeler has presented
to Miss Helen Gould a remarkable volume
in recognition of the services she render
ed the soldiers of the regular army during
the late war, says the New York Times.
The volume is said to be the handsomest
! work of the kind ever gotten up. II is "a
by l712 inches and inches thick, bound
IN full red Russia and lettered in gold. On
The cover is the inscription: Presented to
MISS Helen Miller Gould by Joseph Whee-
ler." The leaves of the volume are of
heavy white bristol board, and on them
are pasted in chronological order all the
articles and illustrations that appeared in
the daily newspapers and weeklies con-
/
Gould took in the late war; to the number
OF about 1000, The work had been in pre-
paration for some time. 1t was yesterday
sent TO Miss Gould at her summer rese-
dence, lrvington-on-the-H Hudson, accom-
panied by letter of presentation Gen
eral Wheeler says that he will endeavor
to get the Senate TO agree to the Houses
resolution, introduced by him to present
to Miss Helen Gould a gold medal for her
good deeds and patriotism during the war
when the volunteers We're receiving ali
KINDS OF delicacies and good food from
their friends at home, but the regulars
were getting only the regular rat,ons-verv
poor stuff at that He says that Miss
Helen Gould became the guardian anger
OF the regulars and furnished them with
everything they needed
I'm discussing the possibilities of LIQUID
air, Prof. Elihu Thomson says that one
OF it's leading features, if it were develop-
ed commercially would be its emergency
value. By this it is meant the ability to
obtain at will a sudden output far beyond
the normal Animal ,1oruar