The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-08
TENS OF rNrEREsT.

Fo-z-TvrEs Of tho en- yiDes now working in
the world have been conrsuctsd during tie las.
tgenty- five years. france owns ~ so station
airy en gines 40 lo.c 5no.iFes ard 1870 steam
boat el-laes Germ anT has q. 90 Iocorpor YES
OF al kinds. 59e19 stationary engines ard boil
eTs and 100 snip aud sleaInh37ten<i1es. aus
ina has i2o.o stationary engines and 2.so1 loco-
motives.
Tag INVEST FHEs-e-eat ia-drAnatic enter
prise. says the New York E1o-;6, appears to be
the cabling of star uart TO Liverpool in or Ter
that i may De studied on board steamer com
ing home TO New YORK Carrie Turner. who
landed here few DAYS ago. vas engaged at
short notice in London 70 take part in OFoduc-
ton WITH Fnicl she was utterly unfamiliar. and
IN WHICH she would have u apFe 4r snort II aftAr
landing. l. va desirsble that. With suca lin
tied ooporl .hiiy. she should have as few IRE.
para-ions as possible to make after her arrival
j cablegran OF ,. . words was DISPATCHED u
MIS- Turner, a1d when Sls got hare she hal
the paTt-not a very long one. to be sure tier
perfect. In spectacular Representations l. IS
qIite as important tca: the s.ar shoI!d LOOK
vel tina, SD. 81 0uid tsiz well. Miss Turner's
msnaeerwe littis anxious les hsr sum r1er
abroad should have made her too stout 70 Iooz
TO mantle. WAen she landed IL cbsar Fed
Thank heaven, she isn't fat"
DUsrs5 the lifetime Of William G. Ra'sson Of
san Francisco it was the habit Of that genius
for Speculation to buy and sell property in the
names Of his friends with no record or
writing to sLoF his connection with thu trans
action. After his death happened to b one
Of the Committee appointed to *rY to aud out
What had become OF a5out 81, COO 900 worth OF
property that was supposed - be thus dist ID
u ed and coaceale4 under the the names Of his
friends and associates Of an tee men in San
one who came forward and delivered II up was
Maurice Dore. He said This is aot mine II
belongs TO TIC Rank of C1litoraia " There was
not a scratch OF pen. not line or!werd any
where in the D ivatA accounts of Ralstan or OF
the bank to snow that Maurice Dore wes not
the owner, and ne might haze keptthe property
for DIS own without being Questioned or even
suspected by any pers on earth. Yet. IN
solicited and without hesitation he stepped
forward and delivered into the hands of that
comm tie property that brou ght to the bank
over 500 900 in cash.
7 Is CALCULATED that 5000 rats have been
killed during ons week at the Birmingham Mar
set hall, and the slain have been found every.
where, under stalls in poultry baskets and
flower pots, and even in e open streets 4
provision merchant in Philip street opened his
doors the Other morning and found thirty
rats lying dead near TO butter tub, in which
there was water. The manner in which the
animals deconposs under the new treatment
is peculiar. The body swells first of ALL aud
within five days cOapses again and becomes
perfectly fiat. The rats Eilled week ago would
be perfectly uDrecognizab but for their heads.
The bodieS have lost shape altogether. III this
method OF destroying the vermin had not been
siderable expense. So extensive We're the raw
ages of the rats that the market and fairs COM
mittee hal decided on Ii tin the flooring of all
I markets and relayng them with cement,
That would have meant an outlay of many
hundreds of pounds. The corporation paid to
its market officials a penny for every rat de-
str1yed, and few YEAR ago the number an
nually killed reached 4,090-representing in itself
the sum of SIC.
SACRAMENTO WINE as used in France by many
of the priests and provided by the vestries is
often poor. This. says the Paris correspondent
of the London Times. is serious in church like
Notre Dome de Ia Garde. at Marseiles, whers
young aboes have to get through thu celebra-
tion of a mass every ten minutes between
O'Clock IN the morning and noon. They com
planned of the effect on their health Of the sour
wine supple to them, aud asked their bishop,
in his Tat1e-iy kindness, to authorize the add
ton of a little brandy. He was we'll disposed to
do this. but priests around him had a taeologi-
cal objection. Sacrameatal wine is the juice
of the z ape. Of what brandy nowadays can
this be saidy The bishop la the matter before
the pope in these terms: In many parts of
France and especially in the south the white
wine he's so little body that 1t can only be kept
by adding to it q certain quantity of spirits
Is such mixture lawful. and il it is allowed
what quantity of this Iiqror may be added TO
the wine! Should the spirits 70 be added TO
the wine lie as in the case Of spirits of wine
and real cognac brandy, taken from the ice
| of the grapet" The pope referred the matter
! to the cardinals forming the tribunal of the
iH4NlSlltOu. WHO TOOK IDe ADVICE OF the
| suta and were of this opinion: "rhe mixture
is lawful, provided that the quantity of alcohol
| added is tnat which might be fou ID in good
wine and does not exceed IL per cent. The
! spirits should be added when the wine is new
| and not to disguise soprness. There is nothing
| i'll wine SO treated to msae it be regarded as
| unit for the holy sacrifice of the mass" The
! pope having accepted the opinion the bishop of
| Marseiiles he's authorized IL per cent OF the
| spirits to be added to poor wines intended for
Sacerdotal use.
IN THIS AGE Of won derful discoveries, when
every day adds a score or more new ''isms."
'obes," and "erias" to our la uguaze; when
| every breath of air contains millions Of mi
crobos, and every bite of meat whole mena.
gerie OF microscopic monstrosities, it will be
interesting to know exactly what bacteria"
are. how they multiply, and what they look
| like. DR.. Fred d. Chester of St Louis gives the
THESE miScroscopic plants are what e botan-
lists call bacteria" the smallest form OF vege-
table lie. SO small are they that it would
| take, In some cases, as many as 5000 Of them
| arranged in a row to extend one inch. They
| have different forms, some being round
some oval some rod shaped,
| while others are much the shape of cork.
| screw. In all cases they are so small that one
| needs powerful microscope to examine them.
| ana In no case can we perceive them vita the
naked eye When countless millions OF them
| are grouped together in mass
or colony, we can see them about
| as We are able to see an approaching army
| OF which we are unable TO distin.
| guish single soldier. l have said that these
| bacteria move about, and this is true of most of
| them, although there are some which do not
| appear TO move at all, but remain fixed where.
ever tney nnd good feeding place. Those that
| have motion behave in a very peculiar manuer:
some waohle about in one place without moving
forward IN The least; Others dart hither and
thither, back and forth at an apparently furious
rate. rocking and twlrling about, and turning
hundred somersets as they move along. Bac-
terra multiply very rapidly, and they do this in
very curious way. A single one breaks itself
In two then each half grows very rapidly until
1t becomes as large as the original Then these
ia turn divide up again, and so on, until from
single one we have many thousands in a short
time To give you the figures, such as thew are.
sing 9 one can multiply at SO enormous a rate
tnat IN torty-eight hours it can produce some
thlng IKE 2'O0JO,OOO OF its species. Great con-
sequences follow this enormous increase of bac
terra, for. while one, so small of itself, can do
out llttle harm, the army resulting from such
RAPID multiplication makes IL possible for them
to accomplish a vast amount af da-naga