The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-22
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! dare not serve those mentioned on the lists
/ with food or drink, under penalty Of losing
/ their licenses.
| According to Official statistics the number
Of pupils in the 56i schools in the German
! empire is 1926, $50, under the instruction of
! The figures for Prussia alone are given as
! follows: Schools S47I2; pupils, 4916, 47G, and
| teachers, 70,767-s48I being women. In the
! entire empire the scholars are 1903 per cent.
/ of the population; in Prussia, 1854. In Ger
! many outside of Prussia there is one teacher
| to every sixty-one pupils; in Prussia, one to
! every seventy. These teachers receive from
$50 to $500 a year. The annual cost of edu-
eating child is. in Prussia, S7l4; throughout
! the rest Of the empire, S.G8.
What is claimed to be the picture of the
first person ever photographed is shown in
! the exhibit Of the University of the City of
| New York at the Chicago Exposition. Tho
! daguerreotype is a picture OF Miss Elizabeth
I Draper and was taken by her brother, John
Draper in 1910, when he was professor aJ the
| university. Previous to that time the
Frenth man Daguerre had made experiments
in photography, or sun pictures, as they were
then called, but he never got beyond land
scapes and pictures of still life The photo
/ graph is IN good state Of preservation.
DR.. Blaschko of Berlin, in discourse, from
which quotations are made by the British
| Medical Journal of the existence in Berlin
OF malady known as dermatomycosis ton
surans the infection of which may be com
municatej by the BARRIERS shaving brush, by
the lather, the razor, the sponge, the towel,
| the powder pun the comb or the brush.
| The British Medical Journal, commenting
upon the facts mentioned by Dr.. Blaschko,
| says 1t is undoubtedly true that there is
danger Of catching skin diseases in the bar
bers chair unless all his appliances and ar
| rangements are of the cleanest kind"
1t is claimed that at police headquarters at
Wheeling, W. Va, is precious relic in the
shape of the remnant of an ancient pistol,
| said to have been carried by Washington
| when he crossed the Delaware. To prove
| that 1t was the rust caused by getting in the
water is still on it, after all these years. The
| funny fact about 1t is that it has percussion
lock, which goes to show that the popular
idea that percussion caps did not come into
| vogue till long after Washington time is
| without foundation in fact. This reminds
| fellow, as the late lamented Lord Dundreary
might have put It Of. the fellow, you. know,
! that owned the demijohn, you know out of
| which poor old Noah got drunk, don't you
| know, and made such a blessed avs Of
| himself.
The London Hospital has been sounding a
note Of alarm regarding the extent to which
| the habit Of tea-drinking is INDUCED, no less
| a quantity than 207 ,055 $40 pounds having been
consumed In Great Britain last year. This
| paper states that mot only are we yielding,
| with all the weakness OF an inebriate, to the
| diseases of nerve and stomach which exces-
| slve tea-drink1ng brings in its train" but,
| after lnStitutlng comparison between teas
! of Chinese and Indian growth it continues:
! I'VE drink more tea than our parents; we
| take 1t OfteneF, stronger, and of coarser quail
! ity. The results are less obvious than those
| of alcoholic intoxicatiOn, but not less serious;
| and IN truth the time may not be far distant
! when the earnest disciples of the new temper
! ance will plead with US, with tears in their
| eyes, Give up this accursed tea, and take to
cocoa, or even to beer"
Renewed activity on the part Of the
''women's rights folks recalls to the New
castle (Eng) Chronicle. what are described as
! two very remarkable enactmentS illustra-
| tive OF the helplessness Of men'-one Eng
| ltsh the other a colonial act for New Jersey
! people. The English one reads as follows:
| ANY person who shall by means Of rouge, or
of blanc, OF perfumes, of essences, of artificial
teeth, of false hair, of cotton Espagnol OF
steel stays or hoops, of high heeled shoes, or
| of false hips entice any Of his majesty S male
| subjects into marriage shall be prosecuted
! for SOrcery and the marriage shall be de-
| Clared void, this was only In ITO. The New
| Jersey colonial act, which was earlier than
| this, differs but little from the English enact
ment. 1t provides that all women of what
ever age, profession or rank, maid or widow
who shall impose upon, or betray into matri-
mony any OF his maiesty's subjects by virtue
| OF scents, cosmetics, washes, paint, artificial
| teeth, false hair, of high heeled shoes, shall
incur the penalty now In force against witch
| craft"
| Anovelty in electric lighting is being prac-
tically tested in a large building in New York
| Clbys Instead OF arranging LD6 l0cdQQGSC cent
| lamps on one circuit and feeding them con-
| ttnuously from the same source they are ar
| ranged on number OF separate circuits say
| four, and the current Is alternately switched
| from one to the other in regular succession,
| the idea being that the current, having heated
| each successive circuit of lamps 10 incandeS-
| cence, will be returned again to that series
| before the lamp nlaments have time TO cool.
| The means by which this is accomplished is
| the employment OF a special interrupter or ro-
| tary cylinder, on which the Segments are so
| arranged that a system of brushes, with
which they make contact, carries the current
| alternately to each series of lamps. The pc
riodicity OF the current In this device is about
| seventy per second. Notwithstanding the
loss of energy in the interrupting mechanism.
| the inventor claims that between two and
| three times as many lamps can be operated
from given source OF energy by his system
| as by any other system now in use.
a recent work on sanitary engineering
saws, according to the Evening Sun. that
| Damascus possesses, IN all probability. the
| oldest water works in the world The cftv
| itself is the most ancient OF existing cities
| having seen the rise and fall of the Greek and
| Roman empires, of Babylon, Nineyeh Pal
myra and Jerusalem. When taken by the
toaracenS frsm the Romans the water works
already existed, and it is probable that the
| latter constructed the works which still eX-
lst and supply the town. Damascus lies in a
| valley on the River ALBANIA which flows from
the Lebanon hills and is lost in the Ce 5ert
| to the east of the town. In spite of a copious
supply OF excellent water. Damascus has had
| no immunity from epidemics owing to the
! fact that the double canalzation for water
supply and drainage, being more or less
| leaky saturated the soil and raised the
| spr1ng-level nearly to the surface, and the
| sewers are rarely. if ever cleaned are not
! Systematically ventilated ard they pass nm
| der many Of the houses. 1t is not Surprising
| therefore, that Damascus is and ALWAYS was
| an lnsalubrlous town.
If the United States could cross our CONT
nent with railroads, or if Russia can span
Asia With line Of rails why cannot France
| cross the Sahara desert with a railroad9 Pos
| sloly II can, says the New York Mail and Fly
| press, beginning has been made in that
| mammoth undertaking. But the difficulties
| are incalculable. AS soon as those thai are
! now known shall be overcome others will
| arise. Consider for an instant the enornnoIs
| OBSTACLES TO making q railroad 500 miles
| long through a territory without wood or ties
| without water, without everything required
| 10 sustain life. Railroads have been con
structed through countries to which all the
| materials required have had to be carried
| But mere Is country which does not even
| supply water for the men who must do the
| WORK The sand storms that have buried a
| thousand caravans are liaCle to arise
| and wipe out all traces of man and hiS
| work. Yet this stupendous work IL no,,,
| seriously contemplated by the French govern
| ment When 1t is undertaken the rails viii
| pc lald from oasis to oasis which lie lilo
| Islands In the great ocean OF the desert As
| II approaches the south the trunk line NAV he