The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| - A@N ~ AsA@oAs
MONTE CARLO shares of q par value Of 5000
| francs were last October quoted at 1000 francs,
and are now $3.50 francs and rising. The at
| tendance this year is tremendous, nine-tenths
| or the visitors being English.
SOME DOCTORS say that flowing boards IN
| doubleday attract and retain the grip microbes
| From inquiries it seems that bewiskered gentle.
men have suffered more from the disease than
those who walk about with clean-shaven faces.
LEWISTON, NE, has 2s physicians and 81
drug stores, while Bangor. with about the same
population, has IA drug stnfes and "a physicians.
! few OF the Bangor drug stores do as much, or
more business in liquors as in medicines, but
| nearly all of Lewiston's establishments are
| poorly disguised barrooms,
THE BICYCLE has been introduced into Central
| Africa. Two Englishmen arrived at Tabora a
| few weeks ago with two of the latest improved
bicycles. They had travelled large part of the
| way from the coast, more than 800 miles, on the
machines, and they say they worked finely
along the wel-trodlen native paths.
THE yearly fair in the Carpathians is still Wig
orous, aud on the feast day all the marriageable
maidens Of the regions round about
Gaina, 5000 feet above III level of the sea,
| in order that they may be wooed and won by
bachelors who can afford to keep wife.
ERNEST FREvERT, years old, an inmate of
the orphans home at Carson, New, became
stone blind about the middle of last week. The
following day he became deaf and dumb. and
| the third day he went insane. Sunday rapid
| change took place. and the boy now shows every
sign of recovery of all his lost senses. The case
mas oat1ed the doctors and has no known par
| allel.
The BUFFALO BUG is best known as hard
sheled, dark-brown thing, not unlike the lady
| bug in shape The bug will eat any fabric
| wooden lemneO. and what he ca he
| destroys. Sometimes he starts on the edge of a
| carpet or rug and eats his way around the room,
Only poison can stay his course. Sometimes he
gets into the crack Of floor and eats the carpet
| IN a straight line from end to end.
TO-DAY in England, at Harrow, tie boys are
doctored en- masse Each one is served with
| two grains of quinne at morning and night, as
a safeguard against the influenza. The drug is
administered after prayers, and the ceremony
has thus double solemnity. AS the boys 20
| out in single file they are met by the matron,
who gives each one his choice of powder or pill.
| The choice is made, the drug is swallowed, and
so the line is gradually shortened.
SWEDISH PAPERS describe a novel kind of
| construction, termed locomotive steamboat
built at Kristanstud, for the navigation of a
| chain of small lakes, separated by falls. the
| boat being fitted for this purpose with wheels
| fitting track, and power may be applied to
either the propeller or the driving wheels of the
| locomotive part of the track; the latter is 3
feet inches gauge with grades of one in
thirty-three, and having curves Of radius of
100 meters
In test at the Laborstoire Muncipale de
| Chime at Paris two samples of the same wine,
one of which had been subjected to the alter
! mating current and one which had not. were
! submitted for analysis. The untreated wine
, was found to contain yeast cells in q more or
| less active phase Of existence, besides large
quantity of bacteria, Of which a great many
were in motion. On the other hand, the "elec-
| trltled' wine showed OQlV dead Yeast cells and
| bacteria devoid of motion.
WITHIN 100 working days, barring any I'M
toward act of providence, the highest chimney
In America will form the most notable object
ON the Denver landscape, Gays the Denver (CoL }
| Republican. On Saturday last the Omaha and
| Grant Smelling Company let a contract to NJ.
| Seaman TO erect chimney at the works on
| Forty-hrst and Delsany streets $50 feet high
| At this time the highest in America is that of
the Clark thread mills in New Jersey, 335 feet
| There is one at Freiburg, Germany, $50 feet
| high, but it is only II feet in the clear, while
| those of the smelling company will be Is feet in
| the clear The hight of the one now in use
| there is 165 feet. 5w
On a march infantry will endure the fatigue
much better than cavalry, and in long dis
| lance the foot soldiers will outmarch the horse
| men, says the st. Louis Globe Democrat. Those
/ who doubt this statement should remember that
l horse in army service carries about go pounds
1 weight, while the soldier carries only his gun
| and from thirty to forty pounds. Eotwithstand-
ing the fact that q ten minutes halt is made in
| every Eour for stragglers TO catch up, cavalry
| struggle to the rear more than infantry do, and
| the Gaze OF horse on q long march 10 q serious
l matter. The horses are picked animals but
even the best horse is liable to fall lame from
the loss OF shoe OF stone In his hoof or from
some other cause which at first may be entirely
4 unperceived by the rider.
| A MovEMEET is on foot in England which
promises to revolutionf1e the light house service
! of the British coast. Some time ago it was
= suggested that light sent vertically upw ard
| would not only be seen as bright pillar against
| the horizon, but would, illuminate the clouds
above it and thus be visible at greater distance
| from the sea and other levels than any horizon
tai light, however powerful. 1t was argued
| that even in fog the vertical light would be far
| more easily seen than the horizontal, though
| the vessel herself we're enveloped in mist,
because the curtain thins rapidly on leaving
| earth or water, and does not rise more than
200 feet at the outside. The consequence is that
vessels in a haze are able to descry all but the
| lower rays or verticallight. Some interesting
| experiments on these lines were carried out with
great success in this country last year. and now
| Lieut.. Wells is following up the investIga-
| ton in England. In recent demonstration,
| ne projected broad belt of light from a search
| light to hight of 500 yards, ard ilumined
| passing cloud at that level very distinctly. He
then narrowed the beam into a pencil of light
about 1000 yards in length, which caught a
| cloud on a higher level. Finally he adjusted
the instrument so that the light pencil could be
! thrown vertically. The lights were clearly seen
| 81 miles away, although they were only set
at an angle Of Is Had they
been vertical they would have been visible for
fifty miles at least. The light used in these ex-
/ periments was estimated at $500 candles. 1t is
now proposed to show the most valuable feature
| of this discovery by placing absolutely YER
tical light in suitable position for observations
| to be taken at sea. The data which a beam OF
light going up some tt olsands of feet vertically
| it must be absolutely vertcal-would give for
| the determination of ships position is such
| that in tolerabe weather the distance could by
trigonometrical observation be fixed to a cables
| length.