The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-12
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BluLaIOre thlf She is Obliged 90 cover up
I her looking glass with e. towel Tor The spar
/ rHn~ come in so ON the frame and tap 90
! themselves making 10th glass and dress ln2
I table IN horrd mess Al first the towel
l kept them away. bat they were ALWAYS on The
Z watch. and 10 auy one threw hack the towel
I they would he there I'm a minute But now
7 they hold back the towel with one claw, hold
{ themselves on with the other, and peck away
! az their images
a Kobe tJapanl paper copies curious adj
vertsemeut which has been huns out on the
board 10y rich man at Matsurgata. Nagasaki.
I The notice explains itself When my daugh-
/ ter was sick, prayed the komira Of Sanukt
! province for her recovery. pledving to let her
] pay thanksgiving visit to the temple by
! creeping on her hands and feet an the way
/ through, in imitation of cattle If she recoV-
! cred. The prayer was heard and she re,Ov-
/ cred by the miraculous influence Of the al
/ mighty deity But, after all, II Is lmposslple
/ for tender girl to creep several hundreds OF
/ miles to Sanuki ! should therefore Ike TO
! find substitute for her, and If any one oher-
! ing himself or herself for such be found
4 suitable TO the task, will offer such person
/ $1,000
1t has been discovered that man who for
years has held place in the life saving ser
! vice Of Toronto Ont, cannot swim, and he
! has been thrown out Of his office in conse-
/ quence. 1t is alleged that he has distinctly
! asserted several times that he could hoat ON
! the water like duck, and that ne Claimed
/ some months ago that no had dived eighty
| feet in the bay. When ne refused to dive in
/ fifteen feet of water to recover the body of
/ drowned young man suspicion was excited,
| and investigation revealed his long continued
! deception. But he has done some excellent
| work since his appointment on the force as
I lookout man, and at times his courage IN the
| boat bordered on recklesSneSs
During the year 1891, says the Popular
| Science Monthly, 2O5 lives were lost (that we
| know of in the United States, east of the
! Rocky mountains, directly through the action
! Of lightning. How many were lost indirectly,
! and how many cases there were of shattered
| health and more or less permanent injury we
! can only SurmiSe. The financial loss due di-
| rectly to lightning was certainly not bel W
| Sl,5O0OO0 10 get at something like a com
| merCc1al estimate of the damage done by
| lightning in the past few years in this country,
| 1 nave made use or the Chronicle FIRE rabies
| for the six years 1885 1890, and find that some
| ,223 fires, or l-3 per cent, of the whole number
We're cause by lightning, aud the total loss
| was Is. 4s6,S3S. or 125 per cent. OF the whole
| amount lost by fire. During 1892 we have
| record of 292 lives lost The damage may be
| estimated at as high figure as in 1891. These
| loses are the more appalling when we recall
| that the year is virtually less than six
| months. Over % per cent Of the casualties
! due to lightning occur between the month of
| April and September 1t is therefore quite
| pertinent at this time to discuss the question
| whether or not we are able to protect our
| selves from lightning. Some five years ago
| the question would have been answered
| readily and with all sincerity. Yes, a good
| electrical connection with the earth-a stout
| continuous copper rod for eXample-will suf
| hce. Today no such answer can pass I'M
/ challenged.
Aluminium, which itself possesses a high
/ degree Of specific Eat, does not readily alb
sorb heat itself and thus is no, liable to the
chief objection to iron buildings in hot coun-
| tries, says the London Spectator. But apart
from the light decorative purposes such as
| balconies, Cupolas, finals and verandas, 1t is
! roofing material that aluminium should
| be most welcome to the builder In plates or
scales, two-thirds lighter than copper, un-
| cOrroded by air and undlmmed even by the
| sulphur or London smoke. 1t should make a
roof tit for pal ice OF romance. The humber
elements Of health and comfort in the house
hardly less important than its external de-
lenses against the weather-pipes, ciste' n ),
taps and cutters, now made Of iron which
rust or lead which pOisons-would be more
enduring and far more healthy if made of
this light and cleanly metal which mig hit also
take the place Of all water holding vessels
now made of heavy brittle earthenware or
painted tin. An aluminium bath is among the
| probable luxuries of the next century.
But 1t is not as mere accessory to
comfort and convenience that real devel-
opment Of the new metal should
lie. 1t is for use at sea that its most marked
quality of lightness obviously Ats it. The
marine engineer and the naval architect
who are already looking in this direction for
BILE from loss Of efficiency, whether in speed
or cargo, cannot neglect the possibilities OF a
metal which when mixed in the proportion
of l to 80, gives to aluminium bronze a hard
ness and toughness which make it almost as
reliable as steel and which, if the proportions
could be reversed and the strength preserved,
would reduce the weights of ships and ma
chinery alike by two thirds. That is prob
lem which awaits the metallurgists for solu-
ton. The reduction in cost, Judging by anal
ogy, can only be question Of time and re-
search. The best steel now costs little more
than I'D. per pound while aluminium Is fifty
times that price. But aluminium exists in
lar greater quantities than iron. is more
widely distributed, and neither the limits of
time nor the history of metallurgy forbid us
to conjecture that a. the world has seen its
age Of stone, its age of bronze and It's age Of
iron, so II may before long have embarked
on new and even more prosperous era-the
age of aluminium.
NJ, Charles Fere well-known authority at
Paris on nervous and mental diseases. and
who gives particular attention to them as
they manifest themselves in infancy, says
they are frghtfully on the increase in France
| The Paris correspondent Of the eekly Dis
patch writes. This he thinks due TO the in
crease of bee- drinking, absinthe drinking
and bars There was hardly such a ing as
a Ear twenty-thrCe years ago. One sees them
now AL over the town and always crowded
The passion for betting Oa race horses is now
wCli-nlgh universal. Bars and low eating
| houses where alcoholic drink is sold
with without food are the centers
OF resort for those small tradesmen,
Capmen, cooks, artisans, and so
! on, VINO NdNI 10 get OlDS anu enter into sport
| ing transactions. DR.. Fere noticed all this
in connection with tho increase of spine and
brain diseases in young children He has
ta ken rather original means Of demonstrat
i'm that the coincidence had general cause
behind lt-namoly, drink 1t is well known
that drunkenness in the long run leads to de-
population In the early stages of this vice
drunken men and women can, of course be
parents. But their children ale deformed or
idiots or violently impulsive, and destined to
swell the ranks of the army of crime
Or. Fore has noticed the frequency of in
fants thus suffering from the sins OF their
fOrbcars in the North of France, which
differs from the rest of France in having a
large percentage of drunken women But
to come to his scientific demonstration of
the effect OF alcohol on embryonic life he
| exposed hens eggs during the period OF in
| Cubation to the fumes of alcohol. Some
were thus treated during twenty-six and
some during forty eight hours. He OBJ
served that this delayed the growth of the
chick in the shell and occasioned numerous
monstrosities. One clutch of eggs was kept
under alcoholic fumes for a hundred hours
At the end of that time the germ was not as
much developed as it would have been after
| twenty hours OF Matching under the ordinary
! conditions. The doctor concludes from this
that the children Of drunken parents are at
the time OF birth less developed than those of
| sober parents and that there are positive ar
rests of development in many directions He
| says IL can never be repeated often enough
. | that alcoholic drinks are now yraaf on