The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-27
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A PROMINENT physician of this city, says tn,
/ Philadelphia Record, who gives close attention
| to bacterioloSical study says: Lately the Ions
dress trains worn in the streets by our ladiel
suggests another way to carry tubercle anC
other bacnli into our houses. In walking aloul
the streets we constantly see a dress wips nj
| portions Of sputum from the pavements
| from one OF these dresses dragged over tn,
! Streets few times / was able 10 demonstrat.
| the presence of seven tubercle baciIH on ar
| inch microscopic slide on which a little dirt of
dress was busted. Knowing. therefore, tha
! these long dresses have dried tuberculou,
! sputum on them for the maids to dust off il
| our ladies' dressing rooms, most of which arr
| poorly ventilated, we can quite underst No
| how sufici Mt number OF bacilli can be col
| lected in small compartments to an extent
daneerous to at least those predisposed TO tu-
| berculosis
| But one SPECIES of veuomous bird is known
to the student OF pathological oddities-the
| Rpir N'Doob, or bird of death,"a feathereo
| paradox of New Guinea. IL is not large Oh
! Tor III able looking creature. as one would
| naturally expect, being scarcely as large as
| common pigeon, but longer and OF a more
slender build. 1t is OF a gray. glossy color with
| out any special markings excs / the tail which
| ends with blood red tip. The bird is compare
lively helpless, h'ing able to fly hut a
| few feet, and can be caught withou;
dficultyi howevr, it is unnecessary TO
| say that its poisonous bits causes the
| native Papuans to let Il severely alone Per
| sons bitten by the creature are seized by mad
! denlng pains which rapi ,ly extend to every
| part of the body. Loss OF sight, convulsIons
! and ockjaw are the other symptoms which fol-
! low in rapid succession. The natives say that
| there Is not cssJ record Of a survival of the
bte, there being no antdots, death always en-
| suing within the short space of two hours
TALK about prolific countriesv' exclaimed
| Herman Deitzel, addressing the Pleasant Houl
| Club, which was passing the time telling fairy
| tales in the corridors OF the Lacle e. says the
| st Louis Gu e Den Ocrdt, IF you want to So
! iecundiJy you should come to Dakota-Soutb
Dakota' MAD you; not up among the billiards.
! OF our northern sister. Near Yankton is the
| most remarkable family on this contlnent-per
haps in the world. 1t consists Of father, mother
| AID twenty four children. AID the mother oil
| the br cd Is aOt yet 81 years old She is a Nor.
! WeRian woman and her husband a Hoosier
| The children were born in triplets and the
| oldest lot Is under l. years old. All Of tn m are
| boys but three set of tripl-ts being all
| girls They are a sturdy looking lot OF young
| sters. 1 10 gentleman who has started in
become the father of his country is a well-to-do
farmer, WHO Is reinar Sably proud Of his progeny
! he says II the good Lord continues to smile
| upon Dakota he may yet be aols TO furnish
Uncle San with full company of soldiers"
AMONG various trophies secured by Chief
! Smith of the transportation department during
| his recent vi it to Europe, says the Chicago
| htobe, small brass pocket piece resembling
| a. ordinary blgga e check which ia worth =
| 70
| OF octagon shape, aud on one side is stamped
the inscription. al. and S. Railway" Bag
worth No. 20" On the opposite side the aum.
| Der IS repeated. This fortunately preserved
| relic represents the kind and form OF tickets in
use in 1882 for open carriage passengers" on
the Leic'ster and Swannington railway.
/ The dista CO covered Eby the main line was
| a trifie over sixteen miles, and the passenger
| fares arged were IA pence per mile. There
was one only. and p2sseup er s God UP 10 an
open caring. generally known as a tub, which
? nothing halter a is4 sid aI d
wagon, having no top, Il seats, no spring buff
g $. These brass tickets were issued to the
various stations, the guar1 of the train carrying
tather bag something IN the style of q collec
tlon D K. having eight s parate divisions, o. u
for each station At the end of each passenger 8
J0urne' his ticket was taken up and placed in
the bag by the guard. 70 be returned recorded
on the books and again used.
THE French havs recently introduced the gull.
lotine into their col ny at Tonquin in the hops
Of its striking terror to the hearts of the pirates
whom they are labOrIng to exterminate. Eith.
erto these eulprits have been beheaded in the
primitive native fashion. The culprit, being
p aced IN convenient position, used to ght a
cigarette and wait for the execationer TO ia Q a
shot at his neck with a big sword. Sometimes
the headsman aimed ghU and someti nes he
ala not, an a feeling bad long existed among
tue gentlemen Of tue piratical profession
that an execution thus executed
was dlsclnctively an unpleasant proc
ess for the patient Consequently the in ro-
/
| means produced the effect which the French
authorities desi ed and expected. Instead of
being impressed with the forror of this mods
| or execution, the natives Of Tonquin are nigh v
deiighte with it, In fact they regard the
| gun lotine az a most ingenious article de Paris
ana they have alrea 1y witnessed one execution
T Tn,l every demonstration of enthusiasm.
Dying, they say, Is made so d-ii2htlully ca,
| by this admirable invention of the superior
| Euro ean intelligence. The result is that con-
siderable satisfaction is expressed in pirauicaI
M 10 6}a,f txy 49,
VIII shortly ilcr-ase very considerably, as no.
90 iy In Tonquin would mind beng Abbreviated
IN tanta eously by the guillotiae. Death, in
snori, has lost most OF its terror because the
process OF dying has b en- rendered so 81 uple.
The NEEDLE is one OF the most ancient inple-
ments or instruments of which we have any
record. Tie old-time needles wer. unlike tho
modern luxury, they having been made OF
WOOD, bronze. bone, etc. aid wi bout eyes, a
Gre lar depression at g blunt end navinR en-
so fastened as 70 enable IL to carry the thread
PIiny describes the needles of bronze which
were used by TIE ancient Greeks and Roma q.
and, since his day, similar instruments have
oeen found In comparative abunGa CO both at
Here 'laneum and Pomp ii. Tn first account
OF the manufacture OF white IRON" or steel
needles. saws that they wera ma 9 al Nurem-
berg, In 1860; and, while the exact date is in
DOUBT they are said to have been made in
Britain as early as 1915 The account
further aids at tie first needles
manu- actured In England were made nv a
Spanish negro, VINO died without having learned
any one nj, art. Du ing the rel n of Elizabsth
the industry was revived, and, stran 70 70 say
also by foreigner-a native of India The
forerunn'r OF the present great Redditch needle
manufactory was ESTABLISHED by Cnristop ler
| Greening and a Mr.. Damer, in 1850 MANY
| unsuccessful attempts were made to bring out
the 'drilled-ey-" needle before it was finally
! introduced In 1925. Two years later the bur
nshlug machine" with which the eyes of
needles are highly polished, was completed,
In this machine, which is very simple, the
needles are all strung on wire, which revolves