The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE LonQuiel has arrived at Baltimore from
Hamburg with the great 124-ton Krupp gun for
the worlds fair. The steamer was nearly a
month on her way over. The gun was ar
ranged amidships. Slow time had to be made
IN order 10 prevent the gun from rolling. The
shears with their hydraulic engines, which are
the only ones on this side of the Atlal tic
capable OF lifting such weight, have been
tested, and are in readiness to lift the gun out
OF the LonqueTs hold. The gun is the largest
cannon ever cast in the history of
the world. i was made especially
for the exhibition. II has O bore OF
1914 inches. The barrel is &c feet . inches long.
The greatest diameter, that at the breech is 6
feet IS inch. The weight is 81, 900 pounds. The
range Is estimated at li34 miles. Each shot
will cost 81, 800, will be feet long, aud will
weigh 1900 pounds Seven hundred pounds of
powder will be required to fire it. The gun will
DO execution at nine miles, and will penetrate
at that distance twenty solid inches of stell
armor The Maryland steel Company at Spar
rows Point intend to make the lifting Of the
gun great event.
He had tried to work the Palmer, says the
Chicago Inter Ocenn. He had registered as j
G. Moberly of New York. and the only thing he
had about him that was out of the ordinary was
an extreme deafness Clerk Cunningham bad
made himself hoarse in trying to convince the
man that he was not acceptable to the house.
and nearly everybody about the office had done
the same thing. The man put on an indignant
air and refused to hear or understand what it
was the intention OF tue people to crowd into
ms uehu, fnAly cunningham gave I'D his
place at the desk . the gent eman who writes
figures upside down on the register in turn with
himself. and then, putting on an overcoat and
het ana an air OF nonchslance, he
wandered to :he rotunda, where Mr. Mo-
barly was trying to read note from
the manager and still getting very deaf.
Cunningham gradually " rAed himself around
until ne got within ten feet of the very deaf
man from New York. and then he took some
silver money from his pocket. While counting
the money and lingering it, Cunningham acct
oentally t9 dropped silver dollar. With
quick start the deaf Mr.. Moberly turned as if
to deliver pivot blow, aud looked in the di-
Tection from which the sound came. No more
was necessary. Mr.. Moberly, deafness and ALT
was elected. heard about that once" said
Cunningham, Somebody told me that II
man was fAigning deafness q coin dropped near
him would throw him of his guard, aud he
would, without thinking, turn quickly.
thought that would try il on this fakir, and
you see that it will work like charm"
THE wants of civilized man have increased
faster than his ability to supply them and every
increase in speed has increased business in
greater ratio, says DJnahoe's Md1dEiRe. Fifty
or sixty IN les an hour has been considered
rapd-and the average rate on railroads is only
about half tbat-but We are now on the eve of q
great change. Strength of mechanism to
endure the strain, cost and safety are the con
ditioninR factors 1t has been shown that with
properly constructed roads one may DO safer at
sixty miles an hour than on poorly constructed
road at twenty miles. The actual increase in
cost at the higher rate is but small figure, and
with an electric motor in place of the steam
locomotive there is great vantage for speed
in many ways. A 5O0-horse poEer motor can
now be made as readily as a 50J-hor power
locomotive, ami that til former can run safely
two miles minute there is NO manner OF
doubt. II is altogether probable that within a
year from this time electric trains will be run
at this speed between chicago and St Louis,
and with as great safety as with present ex-
press trains The completion of that road
will probably preCipitate a rapid change
n ha Nxa,.a
that the sudden adoption of such new method
which renders useless the present appliances,
would be ruinous TO most roads in this country;
nevertheless, the time may not be so distant
when all locomotives will have gone to the
dump, save here and there one Ia q museum
standing like an extinct mastodon. For trans
electric devices, like Williams porteectric sys-
tenn working at still higher speeds, will auto
matically travel from city to city.
SIR WILLIAM DALEY, consulting aurai surgeon
of St Georges hospital In London, has been
noting down some strange incidents in prac-
tice"-that is to say, certain cases within his
own experience as a medical practitioner
which he confesses himself unable to account
for by any course Of cause and effect with
which the profession can be said to be at all
actually familiar The most curious, says the
Chicago Tribune. have reference to the effects
of emotion on the various senses. One is that
Of a lady who was standing before her toilet
table, and looking through an open door
into her husbands dressing room, when she
saw in a mirror the reflection OF her husband In
the act OF cutting his throat. From that mo-
ment she was absolutely deaf. A similarly
sudden and complete loss Of hearing happened
some years later to young married lady VINO
was suddenly confronted with her husc and
dead body at a time when she believed him 10 be
quite we'll, and when she was going to meet him
after a long absence On various occasions Sir
william Daily has noted the remarkable effects
produced upon the hearing oy emotional influ-
ences not only by great mental shocks, but by
mental strain. He has known, not only sudden
grief but also overwhelming Joy, in
stantly to make person quite deaf Sir
william Dalby has known the sense of
smell to be lost by very strong emotional infu-
ence. and with this the sense of taste. A re-
markable instance of loss of faculty is that of
a brother physician who in boyhood found
himself suddenly deprived of the power of
speech. He was man of middle age and
robust appearance. His hearing was perfect,
and he could understand all that was said, but
his replies were always communicated by pen
Gil aud paper. One day this physician an
nounced that the power Of speech had returned
as suddenly as it had originally left him. He
added that he was entirely unable to ascribe the
recovery to any Cause, and Sir William Dalby
confesses that his experience does not enable