The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

les of human food in small quantities. and
rs it occurs in fish and shell fish, it has
recently been suggested that this fact may
1e the reason why fish is so valuable a
food for invahds. Traces Of iodine have
zen found in cod-liver oil, and il is pos
sible that it, together with the bromine
and phosphorus, contributes to its tonic
effects.
BY a recent invention of a young
Danish engineer, it is possible to connect
4 photograph with a telephone in such a
manner that the former becomes availa-
bic for receiving the record of the speak
er, in case the individual with whom he
desires to communicate is not at hand.
This record will reproduce the words of
the speaker at any time 1t is desired. The
photograph is said to be quite different
from Edison's, and much less complicated.
Instead of the wax roller, a steel band is
used, and the record can be wiped off in
the same manner chalk drawing is re-
moved from a slate.
All hopes entertained a few months ago
of the recovery Of the enormously wealthy
Earl of Seton, who lost both his reason
and the use of most of his limbs by a terri
BILE fall while riding a steeplechase, have
been abandoned. He is under restraint
and in the care of medical attendants and
of keepers in his superb country seat at
CroXteth, near Liverpool In fact, his
physical and mental condition is so hope
less that the family mansion in London
and all its contests, comprising valuable
art treasures and library, are to be sold
by auction next week. 1t may be remem-
bered that he met with his accident on
the very eve of the date appointed for his
wedding, and that his former fance still
remains single.
1t is said that when young King Alex
ander of Servia was in Vienna the other
day, Emperor Francis Joseph declined to
take any notice wha tsoeVer Of his pres
ence or to receive him The slight was
all the more marked as the Servian ruler
was in the Austrian capital for a week,
and had number of interviews with the
various Austrian ministers and statesmen.
Francis Joseph is so courteous to visitors
to his capital that his treatment of the
young King has excited a great deal of at
teution, the more as the political course
adopted by the present Servian govern
ment, in virtually defying the Car and
breaking off diplomatic relations with
Russia, has been with the avowed object
Of propitiating Austria.
An interesting and valuable collection
of dueling weapons owned by Louis Mar
shall of "Buckpond near Versailles, KY
includes the pistol with which, on July
Il, 1904 Aaron Burr fired the shot that
put out the life of Alexander Hamilton
Although 50 years old, the pistol is in eX-
cellent condition and shoots true to the
mark II is of unusal size, with clumsy
wooden stock and a barrel almost foot
long. The weapon originally had a flint
lock, but some years ago was altered for
percussion caps. Mr. Marshall received
the Burr pistol as a legacy from his faith
er, the late Edwin c. Marshall, an ex-
congressman and former attorney general
of California, to whom 1t had been handed
down by his elder brother, Thomas F.
Marshall, the Kentucky orator. The pres
ent owner in his boyhood used the his
toric Shooting iron" to kill rabbits in his
fathers woods. He has its complete his
tory and says there can be no doubt of
its being genuine. Judge William Van
Ness, Burr's second presented it 10 Col
Bowie, who gave 1t to DIR. Carr of the
United States Arsenal at Baltimore. Carr
was subsequently the second of Thomas
F. Marshall in his duel with James Wa
son Webb. Directly after this meeting
Carr gave the Burr pistol to Marshall
and II has been a treasured relic in that
family ever since.
Certainly the Bible does not circulate
by any law of nature, as of water run
ning down hill, or the viewIess wind blow
lpg where it will, yet how few readers of
the Bible realize what the agencies are
and how vast and complicated a mechan
ism is necessary to give this unique and
wonderful old book its preset circulation
among mankind, says Leslie's Weekly. Nv
trustworthy estimates approximate of
course), during the last century no less
than 2SO,OOO,0OO copies of the Bible, or some
part thereof, have been put into circula-
Mon syAsnN /.
circulation" here are figures which. all
things considered, are more marvellous
than those pertaining 10 any secular Jour
nal Neither do they include all Bible
circulation, but only what has been done
by Bible societies. If all circulation could
be reckoned ii would hardly be less than
5OOOOOOO copies. These societies. how
ever, are now the chief agencies for print
ing and distributing the Bible. There are
seventy-three of them, mostly in Europe
and America, though there are nine in
British India connected with the greater
society in Great Britain. Two Bible so
cieties stand far above all others in the
gross amount of their circula tion-the Brit
ish and Foreign Bible Society, whose out
put during the century has reached a to-
tai of 16OOO000O, and our own American
Bible Society, which issued last year $50
S92 volumes, and in all since its founda-
tion 100000 volumes. Where has This
vast army of books gone, and how did
they reach their destination? 1t has taken
regiment of skilled laborers to accom-
plish it-porters and carriers, or colpor-
tours as they are technically called. care
fully marshaed and organized under a
staff of experienced officers in many coun-
tries all over the world. and EMPLOYING
every mode of transporta ton known to
mankind to carry the book across seas and
continents.
Some suggestive statements are nre-
scented in his late report by DR.
Abbott, secretary Of the Massacbu-
sets Board of Health sh Wig
that diseases are becoming less dan.
gerous in human life. It appears that the
hygienie condition of the psople in trat
commonwealth was better last wear than
at any previous time for half a century
and there were fewer deaths bv nearly
1900 from infectious diseases th7n d rng
the previous year, notwithstanding Ge-
cided Increase Of population. TIE num-
her of deaths from diphtheria decreased
one half, from scarlet fever mere ma
deaths from consumption were
about per cent lower. and tn re we've
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