The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-19
ITEMS OF INTERHsT.

In single mill at Gray's Hsrbor, Wash.
recently the entire works were kept running all
day on a single cedar stick, which made lss, 500
shingles.
The imperial cholera commission in Germany
announces its discovery that wine-clsret or
hock-will kill the bacilli of cholera in a few
| minutes. Tea will kill them in an hour.
| THE smallest electric light installation In the
world is said to be in the village Of Bremen in
| Thuringia- IL comprises a single arc lamp in
| stalled in church, the lamp being operated by
| small Dynamo driven by the wheels Of the
| village mill.
The Sultan of Turkey has granted concessions
| to German and Belgian firms for the construc-
ton of long railways which will open UP his ter
| ritory to the east, north and south. One road
/ is to run to Damascus and another to the Per-
sian gulf All of these railways have their ter
| minus at Constantinople.
| THE highest average speed attained by rail-
way trains in England is flfty-on miles an hour.
The board of trade has officially ascertained the
| averages attained on the various principal
| roads and tabulates them thus: Midland, 81
| miles an hour; Great Northern, 81; London and
| Northwestern, AZ; Great Western, IS; London
| Brighton and South Coast 43; Great Eastern
| 81, and London and Southwestern, 81.
PoPoFF's RESEARCHES on the digestibility OF
beef and fish after different methods OF prspa-
| ration show that both more digestible in the
raw state than when cooked, says the Medical
RevielO. The longer beef is cooked the more
| indigesUible it becomes After the same man.
per of preparations, except smoking, beef will,
in gene al, DO better digested than fish.
Smoked fsh is more digestible than raw or
cooked.
KANSAS CRY is troubled with great number
Of negroes that are practically paupers and
have TO be supported by public charity through
the cold weather, and strong effort is now on
1905 to put them into position to be self-sup-
porting. The board of trade, under the leader
ship OF Henry p. White has taken the matter in
hand and has purchased 900 acres of land near
the city on which it is proposed to COLOMBO the
negroes into self-supporting village; $4,000
has been subscribed for the purpose, number
of houses will be erected at once and the beue-
icaries of the movement will be set to garden
ing III the spring.
| OUT OF \ POPULATION OF 81, 100000 in Prussia.
saysthe NewYork Sitn, only p 1876 s5S persons pos
sass ana income of over 800 marks year, which
the iirst years results of the new income tax in
Prussia Two million one hundred and eighteen
thousand nine hundred and sixty nine pay in
come tax on the lowest scale-that is, on in
| comes OF between 300 and 5000 marks. Only
| lO,69S persons have incomes OF over $4,000
marks. or about 81 900 year. The highest in
| come declared is 9, 760, 900 marks, and from the
| locality where it was registered the person is
| supposed to be Krupp, the Runmaker OF Essen.
A SPECIAL application of the electric light for
| the cure of nervous rheumatic md neuralgia
affections is being advocated by Prof Won Stein
| of Moscow says the Electrical ReUietU His
| method is to apply a small incandescent lamp
With funnel-shaped reflector to the part af-
fected. Except on the head and neck. the lam
is left until the patent begins to complain of
the heat generally from one TO five minutes.
This treatment is said TO have been successful
| in cases of lumbago, and is q modification OF
one adopted by an American physician who has
employed sunlight a curative agent, using
concentrated rays for special affections.
| Tur auara no ~ Europa.n fort,nas Ia hoJo..
that of England and this country. Prince
Swartzenberg, the richest man In Austria, with
40 square miles of territory. was said to have
| left $55, 900 900 when he died o few years ago.
There are two or three noblemen in Germany
who own over 100 square miles, but the largest
German income is Herr Krupp's, of $1,000, 500
and the next, a little smaller, is the income of
the Berlin Rothschild. Toe Orleans family is
said to nave a fortune of $3.50, 900 900 The Duke
of Galiera, q Franco-Italsn railway magnate
left $55 900 900 in Fance aud $4,000 900 in Italy
in the past decade and this is by far the largest
personal fortune mentioned In Latin Europe.
DR.. OaLE has given some interesting testi-
mony before the royal labor commission In
London as to the habit OF marriage in the
. upper and lower classes in England, says the
New York Sun. For instance, out Of 1000
miners 704 wed when they are under 25 and 1859
: under 81; while in the professional and indie
pendent classes the corresponding proportions
are 1871 and T. OF miners. wives, 43s per 900
} marry under 81, as against 1H of the wealthler
J classes. Early marriages among the poor
mean large families; but this. according to DIR.
Ogle, is counterbalanced partially by the enor-
nous mortality among the children. With a
view of showing the relation between these
deaths and the drunken habits of lower class
English women, the doctor said he had found
that of about 1000 children a year who die OF
suffocaton in bed, three times as many cases
occur on Saturday night as on any other even
ing in the week.
AN ingenious telephone instrument has been
l | invantad nv Fn0lishman for he Fury.osa ~
giving warning, by visible and audible signals
| Of the approach at night OF torpedo boats or
| other hostile vessels at roadsteads, harbors and
anchorages, says the Philadelphia Record. The
device is called hydrophone and consists OF
| two parts. One portion is placed on the sea
bottom at depth OF from ava to fifteen faith
| oms and the other is fixed at q station on
| shore. The submerged portion consists of bell.
| shaped iron base about three feet in diameter
| and having diaphragm as cap. No sooner
does boat approach within Q distance OF half
| a mile or 30 than the beating Of her propeller
| produces q vibratory movement inside the case.
These pulsations are electrically transmitted to
| the shore station, where an alarm il given The
instrument has been tested by the English army
| and naval officers, and is said to have fully met
all expectations.
MANY employers find Il a better paying invest
| ment to hire pretty women who are really In
| competent In certain capacities than to pay for
more skillful hands, yet who are plain looking,
says the Baltimore Herald. The girls need not
| be at all f1irtatious, but their pretty faces at
tract custom that would drift elsewhere IL there
were not some such strong magnet TO attract
il In a certain direction. Cashiers In drug stores
| where a soda fountain is the principal avenue
OF wealth are nearly always sweetfaced, az
| their dainty appearance makes a man fee
| thirsty for the sake of word or smile when q
sour-visaRed creature In the same place would
cause the throng TO flock elsewhere for their
libations. Salesgirls are selected with reference
| to their pleasing appearance, Mattresses com
| mand better wages when they are neat and
| pretty-in fact, In every branch Of business
beauty is O great factor. In those lines in which
trade is to be attracted q woman's looks are re-
garded as paramount even TO her ability. In
r | one instance that has come directly under our
! | personal knowledge a radiantly lovely cashier
) knew so much about her business that she an
| nounced the result OF adding 20 and IS together
> | as S. but she was not discharged, owing to her
> | pretty face, and maybe because the error was
D | in favor rather than against her employer
These pretty girls in business need not be fiirts
? | They need not be the least bit giddy. but they
I can please by their ensemble, fact which the
| EN- poyer realizes when he sizes up tho appli.
| canta for n position and chooses the lova