The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t would appear that a mans life may
twice be put in jeopardy for the same Of
Tense. Howard Curtis Benham of Bata-
via, N. Y, was charged with poisoning his
wife. but was acquitted by the Jury. Now
the guardians of his infant son bring suit
10 prevent Benham from taking Possession
of the property for which the crime is
said to have been committed. The only
issue in this new suit is as to whether
Benham did or did not kill his wife, and a
curious situation will develop should the
present case so against him.
"A live baby. chirping and growing
from the limb of Christmas tree, was
the present which Fred L. Mcclellan and
his wife of Minneapolis received at their
family reunion. The baby was the gift
of Ira H. Shattuck, Mrs. McClellan's IA
Their. The whole thing was arranged by
Mr.. Shattuck, with the assistance of
members of his family. 1t gave him the
blues, he said to enter his daughter 5
house and not find a fodder or two. Mr..
Shattuck got into the parlor, where a
mammoth tree had been stationed, and on
a safe. stout limb he hung the baby by it's
broad girdle. The baby which is nearly
a year old. kept as still as could be. The
baby's parents are friends of the McClei-
ie'hSs bOt ONlilS W ClICQIll-
stances they are unable to care for it
properly.
AT a recent meeting of the London
Geological Society a communication was
received in which the probable discovery
of a new species of horse in the great
Congo forest was announced. The descrip-
ton of the animal was furnished by Sir
Harry johnson, who said that his at
tentiOn had been directed to the existence
Of a horse-like animal in this region from
the fact that Stanley had mentioned that
the dwarfs had a name for the horse
He had obtained portions of the skim
which are to be forwarded to England fer
critical examination. 1t is clear that the
skin does not belong to any known zebra
or wild ass. The belly and leg stripes
are irregular, with a chestnut border, and
they look very much as if other parts OF
the skin were either a uniform dun or
dark gray. In the discussion which fol-
lowed the presentation of the letter, it
was suggested that the animal in ques-
ton was an undescribed antelope which
was thought 10 exist in this region.
The Stumbling Stone, a religious pa
per, published at Toledo, O., deals out
doctrine in this vigorous fashion: Think
of it, backsliders; not a thousand or a
million years in hell, but Eternity in He'll!
Everlasting burnings. Think of it! Think
of it! Formal professor, think of Eter-
nifty in He'll. Holiness professor, think of
Eternity in Holl. Holiness professor.
think of Eternity in He'll. You, too, will
get into he'll unless you watch and pray
and keep humble and pure. Dishonest
grocerymen, dry goods men and whisky
selling druggists, with all whisky makers
!, sr1- l,ue..
find an Eternity in He'll unless they stop
it, repent and get to God. Fathers and
mothers, if you are not converted to God
and His Bible, and using your best en-
deavors to lead your children to God and
Heaven, you will spend an Eternity in
Hell. Tellers of black and white lies
are running with all their might to a
lake of fire and birthstone, and will spend
their Eternity in He'll unless they re.
pent"
The value of anti-plague serum has
been a question more or less discussed by
medical men interested in this disease
and the material prepared in different
laboratories has not always yielded the
same satisfactory results. A report has
recently been published of the experiences
of Calmette and Salimbeni in the treat
ment of the plague at Oporto last year,
and they claim to have had excellent re-
suits with the serum prepared at the Pas
teur Institute. This was prepared by the
most modern method which consists CT
treating horses with increasing doses first
of dead and afterward of living cultures
of plague bacini, administered by intra-
venous injection during a period of five
or six months. The percentage of NOR
tality for cases treated with the serum
MA cd wit
where this treatment was not given. DR.
Calmette says that it is necessary to give
large doses of the anti-plague serum
which are first administered intravenous-
ly and then by repeated simultaneous in
jections. Previous experiments in China
and India in treating the plague with Sc
rum have been successful. but the Indian
medical officers and a German commits
sion have not yet decided in favor of
adopting the treatment From the expert
mental point of view, however, there is
little doubt that the anti-plague serum is
valuable both as a preventive and as a
curative agent.
An incident at the Porte ST. Martin
Theater, in Paris, has become part OF
the annals of the show business, says a
writer in McClure's. The chief feature
of the exhibition was a turn" consist
ing of the casting of young woman, Sc
curely bound, into a cage of lions, her
aided as being the fiercest and most
bloodthirsty of man-eaters. The woman
who had the part of the victim was TAX
EN- i'll. and substitute was found in the
wife of one of the trainers. herself d
trainer of some experience, but without
any Acquaintance with these particular
six lions AS she was somewhat nervous,
she carried a small club ready for use
should occasion arise. Amid the breath
less silence of the spectators, the ring
master explainedithe ferocious nature of
the lions and the terrible risk of the wo-
man, and she was thrust in at the cage
door. In the excitement of the occasion
the door was not securely shut after her.
No sooner was she fairly inside than the
six monarchs of the jungle. seeing that
strange person had been forced upon
them. raised a chorus of shuddering ter
ror, bolted for the cage door, clawed 1T
open. and, with Raging tails and cring-
ing TANKS, fed out through a rear en-
trance and found refuge in a cellar.
whence they were dislodged only after a
great difficulty. 1t was a week before
the "ferocious man-eaters" were sufi-
GENTLY recovered from their terrors to
reappear in public.
In the last issue of the Monthly