The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-14
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GEN- CHkhMAN ) QduRQIer. Mrs. T..
s. Thackara, who is known as a writer is
said to be engaged on very ambitious literary
work.
THERE is to be a fine opening for few Ameri-
can physicians at Aleppe, Asia Minor, where the
cholera has broken out. The profession there
is represented only by Mohammedan ouacks
who lose all their patients.
GEN. r. G. DYRENFoRTH. who is trying to pro-
duce rain by bombarding the heavens from bal
looms studied for four years in the military
schools of Prussia, just before the outbreak of
the American civil war. He was a skilled ar
tilleryman, and served on the stats of Gems.
Rosecrans and Grant
A CHICAGO MAN has come forward with a
novel worlds fair suggestion.i Instead of trying
to build some lofty structure, he says the thing
TO do Is to dig the deepest hole in the ground
on record, say ten miles deep. Besides the
mineral bonanzas that might be struck a great
many geological problems would be solved
and a lot of money could be made by rigging
the shaft with an elevator and taking paSsen-
gers to the bottom.
A PRESS AGENT for funerals is the latest. He
is Buffalo man, and local paper quotes him
as saying that his nique business is proving
anything but failure. His work is mostly
among the rich class and through the agency
or undertakers he obtains contracts in New
York city and other places away from home
He looks after the funeral ads" writes the
pastng them in a scrap book for the friends
gives the reporters all the facts about the de-
CEASED, thereby taxing this usually very I'M
pleasant work off the hands Of the familyl
NATHTNIEL GREENE HERREsHoFF, designer of
the yacht Gloriana, is the seventh of Charles
Frederick Herreshoff's ten children When he
was child he often disappeared from home,
and was in such cases almost invariably
found playing beside the water Once how
ever while he was scarcely more than . years
old, he was discovered fast asleep on the sand
with his feet in the rising tide PLAYING with
his own toy boats and Watching big ships at a
distance were his chief pursuits in those days
Later be took a full course in the Boston Instl-
tute OF Technology and spent seven years in the
employ of the Corlss Engine Works.
Polly had been sick in the spring and her ex
periences with blisters and poultices had not
been very pleasant She is spending the sum
mer with an aunt, says the Boston Trdnscrspt
who is dependent upon livery stable for her
drives. One day auntie made up a party of
four ladies, including Polly, and ordered safe
horse for long drive: The animal exhibited
such remarkable staying qualities that the
patience OF the party was nearly exhausted
Polly tried to increase the speed by reiteratinR
Come up, Blister Auntie was much amused
Pollyy" Because he irritates me so. " answered
the little maiden.
A BosToNIAN who has Just returned from a
trip to England tells a story, says the Neros
which ID worth repeating. He says 81 went
into the store of an art collector with a friend
OF mine, and the owner, thinking | knew some
thlng OF painting, showed me some good things
Among these was pretty little seaside scene
which he considered one of the best things in
the place. l could not help admiring the work
but when ] told him the painting although
good, had been Spot ed by the artist he looked
at me IN establishment and asked how. Well
you know, that artist has put his name on the
top OF arock which formed large part of that
pretty picture. told him that in America our
patent MEDICINE men did that to advertise
their stun. That settled it, and Mr. Art Col
lector said he would have that name wiped out
that day"
WOULD suggest asphyxatiou by gas as a
peinless and quick means of executing Grim
inals, writes Sam Davis of Carson, New, to the
New York World. In the last twenty years
over dozen men have been Killed by gas in the
Comstock mines, The gas was produced by
combustion Of old timbers. In several cases 1t
came on the miners unawares, aud in every IN
stancs the victim died without tremor. One
miner was opening a bulkhead, and as he
smashed in one of the planks the
gas escaped through the opening.
he was laughing and talking
at the time and the instant he inhaled the gas
DIS oooy sank to the ground, a word half spoken
died upon his lips and his comrades a few
yards away were enabled to escape unniured.
When his body was taken out his face still wore
q laughing expression. Evidence could be pro.
duced Gd IN ttHStUnl that asphyxiation with GER
tam gases is instantaneous and painless. Place
the condemned man in an alright chamber
with glass sides, turn on the gas and in two
seconds he would die a painless death with no
burning of flesh by electricity, or the neck
breaking by the hangman's rope.
THE Economists Frdncois publishes an inter
esting article upon the progress of the Swiss
watch trade which is described as having IN
dergone complete transformation within the
last fifteen years. this transformation being due
TO the substitution OF InanUfaCtOriaa k
IN the homes of the watchmakers themselves
The opening of these manufactures has led TO
decrease in the cost price of the watch and to
q great increase in the sale, 80 much that at
the recent Paris exhibition the official report OF
the International jury was to the effect that
Switzerland occupied the first rank as regard 8
chronometers, watches of precision, and COM
plfcated works, and has made great progress in
the domain of watches for common use, this
progress being due to the imDreVement ia the
equipment OF the manufacturers The different
schools for teaching the watch trade at Geneva
Neuchatel, la Chaux des Fonds Loole Bienne
st. Infer, and Porrentruy, the various aSsocia-
tons of manufactures and the journals dealing
with the subject OF matchmaking have con-
trtbuted in no small degree TO this proeress
which has been very marked in the six years
the number of watches exported from Switzer-
land having increased from 2 $50 234 In 1885 to
4,43I,30l last year, these figures not including
the works and cases exported separately
Altogether the value Of exports last year is
calculated by the Bconomiste Francois at
that many families earn from SIP 10 2f6 a
month. This, considering that the coet of liv-
ing is not nearly so high in Switzerland as il is
10 the manufacturing centers of England
France and Germany, enables those who earn
these wages to put by considerable proportion
of it.
The Lancaster (O) Republican gives the de-
tails of a terribls explosion of an ammonia tank
in local brewery. Four persons we're over
come by the ammonia fumes and were restored
with great difficulty. One of them was ayear-
old child playing some distance away. AS soon
as the ammonia fumes struck it, it dropped az
though hit by bullet A woman who ran to
ltS assistance was also overcome and fell sense
less. The engineer was blown a distance of
twenty feet. and although not seriously injured
was Frustrated so by the poisonous fumes that
ne did not recover for several days Still another
man, distance away, was rendered insensible
The use OF ammonia in various manufactures
has greatly Increased of late, and accidents are
or frequent occurrence, owing to ignorance of
It's qualities. There rs danger not only from
such accidents as that at Lancaster Dut the
effects OF its daily absorption into the system
are very injurious. Men who work in its manu-
tacture suffer from this slow ammonia poison
Ing. It's effect is first noticed in their com
pleXions, which assume an unhealthy, blotched
appearance In this connection Prof. Blyth,
health officer OF the Marylebone district IN Lon
don cites the cases Of men who work in guano
factories, whore ammonia is given on freely.
There is noticed among them a peculiar dis
celebration of the skin of the nose and fore
head. A daily absorption OF ammonia in very
minute quantities, will cause the complexion to
lose something of its natural freshness. Prof.
Clifford Mitchell, in his chemistry. says ammo
MIA poisoning may be so prolonged that death
will not occur for several months The length