The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I In Louisiana covering an area Of 400 acres.
which has been drilled % the depth
/ OF 1890 feet without reaching the bottom
/ Il Is the best kind OF salt, too. The salt is
/ struck at a distance OF 10 feet from the sur
/ face. over 81 age found fossil remains Of
human beings, animals and fragments OF pot
/ terry and stone implements New York
company PAYS d royalty OF $4,000 year for
| the privilege Of mining tt.
A Partisan device comparatively new here
is an alcohol lamp designed 20 purify the air
OF smoking rooms and other apartments. The
wick is OF platinum. and after IL has become
red hot an extinguisher Is clapped on. After
that the incandeseenoe OF the platinum contin-
ues until the alcohol Is exhausted Alcohol
90 per cent. pure must be used, as anything
more diluted will not maintain the inCandes-
that that his lamp produces ozone, and thus
purites the air Of any apartment in which it
may be left burning.
All the worthy women who wear brooches
made OF the portraits Of departed friends set
in narrow bands of gold will rejoice to hear
that the same anectionate style of adornment
is affected by Queen Victoria says the Jewel
ers Circular. The number of miniatures
with which she testi6es to her family affec-
ton is no less than thirty-three. They are
pictures OF her grandchildren, taken in in
fancy or early youth and mounted in three
bracelets Each picture is set in a narrow
frame of gold. and in one bracelet. set in
pearls and coral the Size of the settings
varies from One-haf to three-quarters of an
inch. These thlrty-three royal infants look
delightfully."- like any other thirty-three well
cared for babies 1t Is pleasing to note that
caps prevail as headgear instead OF crowns,
and probably the royal hands which are hid
den grasp nothing more aweinspiring than
rattles. They are as harmless and innocent
looking set of children as could be gathered
together in ascountry village.
The Bearings mechanical journal, says
that, the long desired application of alumni
mum to the manufacture of bicycles is now an
assured fact. The metals lack of elasticity
and It's hbrile weakness have at last been
overcome, with injury to its lightness, or non
corrosive qualities and now bicycles can be
made that are at once light, strong and cheap.
A st. Louis manufacturing concern holds a
patent on a new process of aluminium, making
It possible il is said, to give from two to three
times the strength, weight for weight, to be
found in the common steel bicycle frame N
H. Van Sicklen, of this city, recently attend
ed an experimental test at Washington Uni
versity, st. Louis, in which bicycle frame of
aluminium was placed under a beam-testing
machine. At 500 pounds pressure the perma-
nent detection amounted to only $1,000 Of an
inch, and at 1000 pounds only $4,000 Of an
inch. It reQuied 237b pounds to break the bi-
cycle frame in one piece, brszings in alumni
mum being considered an impossibility.
A writer in the San Francisco Examiner
says the famous Apache renegade, Kid, who
has done so much damage in Arizona, and is
being hunted like wild beast in the noun
tain entered on his career of blood, not of
he understands it. Seven years ago Kid was
the first sergeant in a company OF scouts in
the United states service, and was a trusted
and valued man. He heard that some indian
had killed one Of his near relations, and as the
religion of the Apaches teaches that man S
first duty is to revenge the blood of his
kindred, Kid went to the oficer of his command
and asked for leave of absence that he might
go and kill the miScreant, according to the
law Of his people The leave was refused, but
Kid went anyhow, and having done what he
mRnd. He was placed under arrest for being
absent without leave. and the rest of the
squad, thinking that Kid was to be subjected
to some severe punishment fired on the ON
GERS, rescued Kid, and took to the mountains
They we're followed, and some of them were
captured and executed but Kid has defied ar
rest, and has made his name a by-word for
Gu ming and bloody cruelty.
The terrific nature Of the great struggle at
Chicl1mauga, says the Blue and Gray, may be
illustrated by the record OF the Twenty-frst
Ohio. In the course OF the battle that regi-
ment fired 43 800 rounds of fixed ammunition
and fought till its last shot was expended. It
suffered loss Of one officer and fifty men
killed three officers and ninety-eight men
wounded, and twelve officers and 104 men cap
tured; yet even such magnificent bravery as
its men exhibited could not suffice to give
victory tothe union arms, The total number of
troops engagedqn. either side OF the battle has
never been satisfactorily determined. The
total strength OF the army of Rosecrans
was from $1,000 to 5000 effective
men ana quite likely was not
far from the irst-named figure Braggs force
has been variously estimated as having been
from less than $1,000 to fully 10000. The
probabilities are that the two armies in num-
Der we're evenly matched. The losses of
Rosecrans in killed, wounded and missing
were over 1900 men. The losses of Bragg
seem to have been at least as heavy, for there
wasteri6c slaughter during his desperate at
tempts to drive Thomas from Horseshoe
Ridge. Were we to consider as accurate the
the Federal estimate of the Confederate loss
ap,lf fo (toVnfp fn OF Of fho EoIa
loss, the figures would be very greatly in
creased.
The immediate effect of a moderate amount
of alcohol says writer in the North Ameri-
can Review, is feeling of increased vigOr
Ideas are increased in quickness, but lose in
concentration. The system soon demands the
stimulant more frequently. Abstinence is
followed by suffering. The hand loses its
y eadiness the brain its clearnesS. Insomnia
adds to the drain on nervous sources, and the
patient instinctively resorts for relief to the
poison which is the direct cause of his Condi-
ton. In time these symptoms become inten-
sified, and evidences of chronic degeneration
manifest themselves. Scarcely an organ in
the body is exempt. Alcohol in the stomach
retards digestion by paralyZing terminal
nerves and by a chemical action on the
pepsin of the gastric juice, produces
changes in the secretions of the liver and
VitiateS the processes throughout the whole
alimentary tract, by causing perverted action
of the sympathetic nervous system. Parti-
ally digeSted food passing from the stomach
10 Jnb lnueSJln6S D6COul6S subjected TO amor
NAL lamentations. AS result, poisonous
products designated by modern chemists as
ptomaineS and leucomainS are formed. Elm
nation is retarded by alcohol, consequently
these products are absorbed into the system
and an to-poisoning results. The lungs and
skin undertake to assist in relieving the syS-
TEN of e1fete material, as shown by the pecu-
liarly disagreeable odor Of breath and perspi-
ration persisting for days after cessation from
the use of alcohol These patients will be
found to suffer from chronic catarrh of most
of the mucous membranes, notably the stom-
ach, and chronic liver and kidney changes
leading to cirrhosis and Brights disease De
generation and resultant weakening of the
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