The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-14
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Inns VI Az a $1,000
The common hoop. once thought 20 be the
exclusive plaything Of the frequenters Of the
nursery. has risen 20 o higher sphere Of use
fitness. n is no uncommon sight 70 see
portly man chasing hoop round and round
the ring at a gymnasium. n is the latest pre-
scription by doctors for those clients who are
suffering from too much flesh and VINO want
10 reduce their weight. Pugiltsts ana other
gymnasts long ago robbed the play-room OF
the skipping-rope and found II most excel
lent means OF training and keeping on super
huOus flesh but chasing the hoop IS less Vio-
lent and muscles are kept IN action at the
same time, and one can cover more EIouuu
with less eXertion than by simply running
around ring
An interesting example Of electricity as ap-
piled 10 farm work is now in operation at
Scotch farm. The whole OF the usual farm
machinery, such as thrashlng, sowing, corn
thrashing and the like are here driven by
an electric motor. The electricity is Rener-
ated by water power, the turbine wheel which
drives the dynamo being about l,UOO yaroS
from the farm. The electric current Is con,
veyed by underground wires TO the house ana
farm, in each Of which storage battery is
placed. These supply the electric current
! for lighting and motive purposes when the
machinery is not working, The whole OF the
mansion is illuminated by electric light, and
an electric motor is provided for pumping
the water for domestic purposes
]. NJ Staley. long a resident of Hawaii, was
| in Tacoma recently, and told a Daily News
man some facts about All Fong, the wealthy
celestial whose talented and pretty daughter
had shortly before become engaged to an ON
Ger of the United States navy. MT Staley
said: All Fong has eleven daughters and
one son. He is very old man, and full
| blooded Chinese. He married woman who
| is about one-fourth Kanaka and three-fOurths
| Chinese. All the children are pretty, excep-
| tiOnally SO. They were all educated in Eu-
| rope, and the son is the only one who has re-
/ turned 10 the customs of his native country,
| The girls are all dark as Spaniards, and some
| of them are very bright cenversationaliSts,
| and are all well educated and bright They
| can speak in Spanish, Italian, French Chi
nese and English. They paint we'll are good
| vOcalists, and, in fact, are most accomplished.
It is well-known fact among the people OF
| the island that old All Fong has standing
| offer to bestow upon each Of his daughters
when they marry S25 900 in cash and five acres
Of land that are worth at least IS 600 per acre.
| All Fong is at present IN China bullolng
| bridges and presenting them to the people. so
that when he dies he may not soon be for
| gotten"
When the last race had been run and the
| result announced at Latonia, says the Cincin-
matt Enquirer, there was big rush for the
train standing opposite the grand stand. In
a trice the cars were filled and the platforms
crowded. The train had just started when
man on one of the forward cars convulstvely
clutChed at his shirt bosom and the air was
rent with that old squeal: My stone has
been pinched!" and well-dressed man slid
of the tram, which passed rapidly on, leaving
him standing on the end Of the platform. His
name was not learned Detectives
Rohan, Of Chicago and Crawford and
Schnucks we're standing on the platform
of another car, and soon heard of the little
episode. They went through the train. but
could recognize no dips, and so could do moth
ing. Well it seems to me-" said Detective
ROhan, that If any one has got good stone,
which, is the same as money 9Days he ie
no use in having stones mingled =
"Some Of the late settings have screw
fastening, so that dip, TO get them, must
pliers" said Detective Crawford. I'm tell
you something that is better than
that said Detective Rohan. When man
puts his diamond stud in his shirt front If he
will only screw il into a little wad Of cotton at
the back no clip can get it out. A little cotton
batting would save many fine stone"
Il think shall soon turn my attention to
one Of the greatest problems that 1 have
ever thought of solving, and that is the di-
rect control Of the energy that IS stored up
in coal, so far as 1t may be employed with
out waste and at very small margin OF
cost" said Mr.. Edison to a writer for Nc
Cures Magazine. Ninety per cent OF the
energy that exists in coal is now lost in con-
verting it into power. Now, that is an awful
waste and even child can see that II this
wastage can be saved ii will result in vastly
cheapening the cost of everything which is
manufactured by electricity or steam power
OF all the necesSaries of life, and l suppose
the results will be OF mightier influence upon
civilization than the development of the
steam engine and electricity have been. II
will In fact do away with steam engines and
boilers and make the use of steam power as
much of tradition as the stageeoach now Is.
Mr.. Edison looks farther ahead than this
campaign, for he said: Il think it quite likely
that may try to develop plan for marine
signaling. l should use the well-known prin-
ciple that water is amore perfect medium for
pa rryr NO vi should
velop instruments that may be carried upon
seagoing vessels by which they can transmit
or receive through an International code of
signals reports within a radius Of, say, ten
miles"
A New York letter in the Baltimore Sun
says that surgeons are curiously watching
the case OF Henry Richardson, whose neck
was broken last Saturday while diving into
shallow water at Bay Ridge. He is still living
and is at the Homeopathic hospital Brook
Ign. His mind is unclOuded. Strange as is
the case of Henry Richardson, it has quite as
strange a parallel in the case of Mrs William
Mason, Of 1875 Clifton place, Brooklyn whose
spinal column was broken over ten months
ago. Mrs Mason is living TO tell her own
story. Mrs. Mason is about thtrty-SiX years
old Early last October she fell from a high
stOOp to the house in the rear of her own resi-
dence landing on her back. She says she was
Immediately paralyZed, and when seen by the
doctors at the hospital her death was pro
nounced matter OF only few hours.
After month OF this sort OF existence,
being lifted about and fed and cared for like
q helpless infant Mrs. Mason said she real
lied some sort of change was taking place in
in her body. Parts which had felt cold before
had gradually come back to life. Then she
found she could work her fingers The use Of
her arms came back to her. Four months
after the accident Mrs. Mason was lifted from
her bed and sent to her home. She is by no
means well woman, nor has the broken yer
zebra mcnded The fracture can easily be
traced by skilled fingers. But the woman S
alive. She can sew, and hour after hour she
sits in her window reading or plying her
needle At present Mrs. Mason has the en-
tire use OF her hands and head. With an
effort she can move her left leg. Her right
limb is entirely useless. She says: II am
living with a dead body. am alive from my
breast upward, but otherwise am as lifeless
as a stick of wood
Bangkok, the capital of Siam, has been
termed very unhappily the Venice of the
east. The New York Tribune thinks that
perhaps as regards smells I'm which alone
there is any comparison between them it
would have been juster to call Venice the
Bangkok of the west. But even then an out
rageous affront would have been offered to
Venice. 1t is useless even to attempt a de-
scriptiOn of the smells of Bangkok. To do so
would require quarto volume, to catalogue
them would require the services of an analyt-
zeal chemist, and to read the account of them
would leave the reader in blissful ignorance
OF his subject. The streets are the resposi- |
tory of every form of refuse and are never