The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-12
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friends.
A LONDON GENIUS has invented q hot water
apparatus 10 warm piano keys. so that dainty
fingers may not be chilled.
The national debt of Germany, which is much
smaller than that of anv other great country in
the world, is. in round figures. S1s2,oO0,0OO.
NJ. PEDRoUs. French physician. who claims
to be able to see the color of sounds, says that
voices are red blue, black. tau and slate color.
THE RETURNS Of the pensioned veterans who
fought under the great Napoleon, who now re-
ceive so a year. put their number at 112 in
stead of 100, as in 1888.
IT IS CLAIMED that wall paper can be made in
such way that the passage of low-tension
electric currents will heat it moderately warm
TO the touch and diffuse throughout the room
an agreeable tenn perature.
PRINCE ALBERT OF Monaco is said to intend to
devote the Sl5O.C0O per year that he gets from
the gamblers to the completion of the cathe
dral and other public improvements. He is
very wealthy himself, and has an enormously
rich wife.
AN ESGLIsHMAN has invented means of uti
izing the principle of stits with wheels. The
wheels are fastened to the feet as stills are,
and each acts as sort of independent bicycle
They go very fast when one has learned how to
walk on them.
BELGIAN has lately invented musical
shirt on the cuffs of which fragments of
score are printed, so that if the instrumentalist
be tiutist, harpist cornetist he has the entire
part under his eyes, and need not carry any
further music about him.
A CORRESPONDENT of Nature urges that boys
should be tested for color blindness in school
before they go out into life so that they need
not lose the time required for working up to
positions on railroads elsewhere in which
ability to distinguish colors is essential
SEVEN of the supposed-to-be sharpest and
wisest lawyers in the country have made wills,
passed away. and the said wills have been
broken all to flinders by heirs and other lawyers.
An ignorant Missouri farmer wrote his will in
four lines On a slate, and it STOOD three lawsuits
ana ten lawyers. see
NEARLY 1000 immigrants recently arrived in
New York on the steamships Umbria, La Bre-
tagne. City of Chester. Morava and Bothnia on
one day. About 2 900 were landed at the barge
Office, m lch to the disgust of the overwo rked
employees who were kept on the go on Saturday
from In the morning until 10 at night.
AN AMERICAN WOMAN SCULPTOR, probably
either Miss Harriet Hosmer or Miss Anne Whit
ney, will be asked TO execute the portrait bust
OF Susan B. Ant hony as the result of Miss
Frances K. Wizards movement to have the
cham. ion of the equality of women repre-
scented in this way at the Chicago world fair.
A BOOKSELLER, who observes the reading hab-
its of young women, says that the young women
of New York seldom read back farther than a
year. They keep up famously with the new
works of note in the lighter fields Of literature,
but that no one of them is found reading the
older English writers, with the single exception
of George Eliot.
PROTEST against long and poorly paid hours
of work comes from the grave diggers of Paris
They are officially employed by the city and
number 1875 Ten hours day is their average
labor, and they are liable to be called up at any
They bepinninv a
organize for TIE purpose of dong less work and
for francs day Instead of s.
ACCORDING to naturalists, a scorpion W II pro-
ducs sixty-1ye young, a common fly will lay IA
eggs. a leech $50, spider 40, frog LOO. A
female moth will produce 1 100 eggs. and tor
toise 1000; a gall insect has laid $4,000 eggs, a
shrimp 5000. One naturalist f1unt over 900
eg rs in a lobster, another q, 200. Leuwenhoeck
computes 100000 as the crabs share
j. NJ. RICE. farmer living in Indiana, is try
ing the experiment of raising wild geese and
ducks He has half dozen of each, which he
has on ponds on his farm. They were caught
on Kankakee river last fall and he keeps their
wings clipped. They have become quite tame
but it remains to be seen whether they will be-
come thoroughly domesticated and breed.
AT KANSAS CITY recently it was announced
that Thomas A. Edison would deliver an ad-
dress, though he was thousands Of miles away
One of his improved monographs set in
operation, and though it did not deliver an ad-
dress it spoke the inventors apology for not
having prepared one and spoke so loud that
every word was heard distinctly throughout the
hall.
PORTABLE HOUSE of paper has recently been
constructed in Hamburg. The walls consist of
double layers of paper of which the interior
one is impregnated against fire, and the exte-
rior one against moi ture. The paper is fixed
in frames, which can easily be attached to each
other. The house is intended to serve res
taurant, and contains dining-room ninety feet
long.
AFEw DAYS AGO dog rushing into Boston
restaurant stirred up a terrible excitement,
some of the kitchen employees jumping from
the windows, while all tho guests mounted the
tables and the proprietor chased the animal
was learned that the poor beast wasn't mad at
ALL as had been supposed, but only frightened
through having been chased by crowd of boys
and men.
A STRONG ALKALI at once applied to snake
bite will decompose all the venom which it
touch s. So If both fangs of the snake have
pierced the skin the two wounds should be
made one with a sharp knife, and then filled
wito dry carbonate OF ammonia Frequent
small dissolved doses of the same should be
taken inwardly, or fifty drops Of aromatic
spirits of ammonia taken hypodermcally, for
its peculiar effect upon the blood
WHEN the vegetable or small fruit garse is
situated near enough to make it available, the
use of all the soapsuds and waste water cham
Der Stops, etc, properly di stributed over the
ground will furnish no inconsiderable amou Mt
of fertilizing material for the SOIL and in a con-
diton to he Immediately available When the
soil is inclined to be dry, the water also assists
very much in rendering such fertility as is con-
tanned in the soil much more available.
IMAM ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION in San Francisco
an Illustration was given of the saving that was
effected when gas is used as a fuel instead of an
illuminant. During the evenings run the gas
engine, which works the electric plant, CON
sumes 800 cubic feet of gas, and furnishes SO
16candle power lncandescent lamps while SO
l6candie gas lights, with fve-toot burners
would require 61S feet for the same length of
time. This is a saving of over so per cent.
AS RESULT of continued Investigations by
himself and Others Including DR.. Suzor of the
Island of Mauritius. who AYERS that he has tried
the stimulant with gratifying success 10 cases
of leprosyl DR.. Brown-Sequarl is more firmly
than ever convinced of the value of his mis-
named "elxir-of-life' discovery, and he has
published a brochure containing additional evil
dences of its efficacy. This will have the effect
of reviving, to some extent at least the now
rather feeble popular interest in the subject.
In the month of January, 1871, when all
kinds of food were at famine prices in Paris. a
lady went into shop and asked the price of
the only Dutch cheese remaining in stock s'It
is eighty francs, madame, - replied the shop-
keeper. Eighty francs" cried the lady.