The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Thank God how arc vouf" How do You
live ons~ How can voug" and How do you
perspires are respect relv the Arabian. Rus
sian swedish and Egyptian greetings heafu
on the Midway Plaisance.
Aphvsician has written an article to show
that dyspepsia is due to disorder OF the
head and not to the stomach. He says.
The numbers OF so-called dyspepsia that are
cured 10y the disappearance OF business 40
nestle or social annoyance. are nearly uh-
limited. An overdue note in the possession
OF a heetled-noSed and beetled-e eyed cfeolJoI
is more productive of dyspepsia than meal
Of second hand carpet tacks. In fact it may
be "a safe thing 10 assume that IN dyspepsia
we had better look in the garrett, closet or
cellar of the dyspeptic'S house or among ms
business or social relations. rather than TO ms
stomach, for the solution OF the ditticulty.'
In speaking to the New York Tribune OF
the restrictions on imported literature in Tur-
KEY, Rev DR.. F. E. Clark said Some or
these objections to current literature are SHY
and puerile enough text book on chemis-
try was recently forbidden because II contain
ed the familiar formula H o. which was
construed by the sapient censor to mean
Hamid II the reigning SULTAN is nothing, A
geographical textbook, which naturally con
tanned illusions to the union of rivers was
condemned because the sultan does not wish
his people to know anything about union or
com blnation; while treatise on natural MS
tory was forbidden because in its chapter on
stardShes il was supposed to contain some oc-
named the star"
A Rochester man has devised a plan by
which a trolley street car can be stopped al
most instantaneously, or within a space OF
three feet, while the car is going at full speed
says Electricity His device is operated by
leversin the mOtormans cab. 1t Is, generally
speaking, a steel shoe upon which the rear
wheels of the car ride, the under SIDE OF
which is corrugated so as to produce great
friction upon the rails of the track. On the
ron nf IA oh IA IE 11tFTAf
soon as the wheel rises upon the shoe, clamps
the outer rim Of the wheel and at the same
time grasps the inner edge of the rail-. Inc
simple weight of the car crowds down tne
shoe upon the rail and at the same time
clamps together, as in wise, the wheel and
tge rail; and all this by a single movement on
the part of the mOtOrman.
Apropos of a series of tests making use of
gas mains and water pipes for telephone cir
cults, the London Lancet raises a query as to
the possibility of electrical lead poisoning.
The small though distinct currents that
are set up when the gas and water pipes are
connected are attributed to a slow chemical
change in the pipes which may thus repre-
sent the plates of battery. This hypothe-
sis leads one to think of the probable nature
of these changes and to wonder whether any
effect is produced in the water contained In
the water pipes or whether perchance min
ute traces of metal as a result OF the change
would find their way in solution into the
water. If the latter event took place another
oning might possibly be traced"
One of the curiosities of an English table at
table d'hote dinner is the number and prom
inence of the whisky bottles To an American
| it is extremely curious to see half a dozen
gentlemen and ladies sitting down at the table
with pint decanter full of whisky before
each, and vet the sight is so common in Eng
land as to excite no remark. When guest
arrives at an English hotel he orders ocean
ter to be filed with whisky of his favOrite
brand 1t is then charged to him, and bit of
paper marked with the number of his room is
pasted the hagon. 1t is brought out at
dinner and placed at his plate; he drinks
| what he pleases and the rest is saved for the
| next occasion. The array of fiagOns on the
dinner table is often very pOrtentOuS, and
stranger unaware of the manner in which the
| liquor is used is apt to wonder whether or not
he has got into a nest Of drunkardS, and the
suspicion is not allayed by seeing the stout
old lady opposite to him poura quarter OF
glaSsful to begin with. But he need have no
fear She dilutes it with water and sips it as
| she eats, to promote digestion. SO do all the
rest and that is all the drinking that most of
| them do.
The oTense known in this country as Sc
questration or private Imprisonment is far
| from uncommon, says Paris letter in the
| London Telegraph. Only the other day a
| whole family was broueh up for trial on a
| charge Of keeping an ialot youth in an iron
| cage until he had lost all his physical as well
| as his mental faculties, and a similar case is
now reported from EYreuX in Normandy
| The authorities of the village of Neuhourg
| were advised recently by an anonymous Lett
| ter that peasant named Lehuby was Sc
| frustrating" his wife. The gendarmeS pre-
scented themselves at Lehuby's house and
| asked to see his wife. This request Cing re-
| fused, they proceeded to search the place
! from cellar to the granary, and having found
no trace of of the woman were about to with
| draw VIII IN one of them discovered a large
trunk and asked for the key. On the case
| being opened the figure of Nine Lchuby sud
! denly jun p I'd up like Jack in the box and
| she explained to the gendarmes that her hus-
/ band would not allow her to 90 out, and that
| whenever he left the house he left her locked
| up in the box, where she could scarcely
breathe. Lehuby was at once arrested and
| Will be tried for amateur Imprisonment"
The most wonderful ice-crushing steamboat
in the world has been set aside by one still
more wonderful says the New York Sun.
| Like the first one. it is built to carry trains
| of cars across the straits of Macl1nac from
! Macl1inaw city to St. Ignace, Mich, in con
| nectiOn with the Duluth South Shore and
| Atlantic railroad along the southern shores
i of Lake superior. In those straits the ice
in winter is prodigiously thick and when
| there is not solid bridge of clear blue ice
| over the water there is apt to be wedge of
| drift ice. The ferry boats that carry the
| heavy trains across this piece of water are
/ Obliged to be powerful fighters, and they are
| built in a peculiar way to do their lighting
| Their bows which are as solid and strong a S
| q naval ram. are built to slope inward and
| downward, 80 that the boats climb up on the
| ice and break or crush it down The enor-
nous weight of the newest boat the
| Ste. Marie, which is 5OO0OOO
! pounds. will crush any ice that it
/ rests upon. Under the bow is a propeller
screw, which not only pulls the beat ahead,
| but sucks the water out from beneath the ice
| in order that the ice may be the more easily
! broken. Then again, the screw sucks the
| broken ice away and casts it behind as the
| boat pushes its way along This
new. boat cost more than a third Of
| million of dollars. She can carry eighteen
loaded cars on her three tracks. and can make
! fifteen miles an hour. Her side planks are
| six inches thick, and the sides of the vessel
are nearly three feet thick toward the bottom
| of the hull. She is all coated with quarter
| inch steel except at the bow and stern, where
the steel plates are two inches thick. The
| two ends of the boat are almost solid timber
! to make a battering ram of her, Her bow
| screw is smaller than that in the stern, but
| with both at work she can make eight miles
! an hour through solid blue ice two feet thick
| and when she encounters soft or drift ice ten
feet thick her forward Sorrow win howe