The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! A newspaper man has been interviewing
1 zoulhcar Ihrahim Bey. judge Of the crimi-
/ nal courts Of Alexandria, Egypt who is now
! doing the worlds fair, on the admins
/ tration OF Justice in that country The Judge
/ was educated al the French military school at
/ St. Cyr. and speaks French like a Partisan.
/ When asked whether the bastinado was SIN
! inflicted In the police courts OF Egypt he de-
MED IL emphatically. and said that any po-
I liCeman Of that land who dared to strike
/ citizen would be punished very severely II
! is expressly prohibited. he said. our police
| are organized to prevent violence. not to have
/ recourse to it. And in that connection am
| glad to learn that the New York police are
! prohibited the use Of the club. The days OF
| the old bartari punlshments have long gone
| by, and for many years we have been gov
! erned by the code Napoleon. Our punish
ments are simply fine and Imprisonment for
| ordinary ofenSeS. the PalleYS where the con
victs work in chain gangs. for graver crimes,
| and the capital penalty for murder which,
| however, is more rarely inflicted year after
| year.
Prof. Nicola Tesla gave an interesting ex-
hibition a the electricity building at the fair
! Saturday night. to show mis- progress with his
| new apparatus In dark room. with alternat-
| ing currents of 100000 voltage. he caused at
moSpheriC vibrations which made a faint glow
of light like the middawn Explaining the
phenomena he said: Now, if | can increase
| the atmospheric vibrations say one million or
ten thousand million times. can produce sun
llgEJ IN JnlS room. III course L can increase
the vibrations by increasing the voltage ana
| there is no trouble about increasing the volt
| age. / can make the voltage s 900, 900 as easily
as 100000. But ! am not yet ready to
handle 100000 volts of electricity. Cur
| rents of such strength would kill everybody
in the room. I expect, however to learn how
to control larger voltage. When have IN
| creased the atmospheric vibrations, perhaps
| thousand times, the phenomena VIII no
longer be electricity. 1t will be light. re-
gard the words light heat and electricity as
int gTn1 vol 10 IlfFhT
more remarkable phenomenon than cleo
trieity. Sunlight does not harm anyone, IN
less he is exposed for a long time to fierce
| glare. A man can stand for brief interval
without harm near redhot stove. l am
satisfied that sunlight can be made from
electricity without doing harm to anybody
and expect to discover how it is done"
Some noteworthy experiments have been
made in England with cholera bacilh The
method adopted was to place cholera germs
on various vegetables and fruits and to ascer-
tam by periodical examinations what had be-
come Of them. 1t was found that these poi
| sonouS microbes were still alive on salad
| leaves at the end of five days, while on IN
cooked spinach leaves they were discovered
even after twelve days. Similar results were
| obtained with cucumbers caulthowers, cab
| bageS and numerous kinds Of fruits. In per
cent infusions of black Chinese tea cholera
germs could not be detected at the end of one
| hour, while being immersed in a per cent
| infusion OF coffee for two hours they had
| completely disappeared. Unfortunately
| for the teetotaller this record is
| completely beaten by the be-
| havior Of three micro es in the presence OF
alcohol, for in white and red wine they only
lived from five to twenty minutes. while in
various kinds of beer they could not exist for
more than from one to three hours The self
| indulgent smoker also scores considerably,
for II seems THAI in saliva enVelOped in o
ba"co fumes cholf~a germs could not be found
On at the end o fl 5e minutes he antiseTttc
| pfopel ties of tOta 60 have Ueen noted in the
| case of other diseases, for during the infiu-
| enza epidemic of 1889 the remarkable exemp-
| ton of operatives in tobacco manufactures
was exceedingly striking, and an Italian doc
tor, Vassiln pointed out that in Genoa where
| as many as 200 hands were engaged in this
| business, not one was attacked by influenza,
| and thatin Rome the cases were so few and
so slight that on no occasion were the works
| closed.
The consequences of theE scarcity of do
nestle servants in Brazil owing to the aboli-
ton of slavery, are described in the last Brit
ish consular report from Rio Grande do
Sui. says the London Standard. cit appears
that not per cent. of the male of female ser
wants will sleep in their masters house.
They insist on leaving at the latest by
| o'clock in the evening, and Will not return be-
| fore or in the morning. For this rea son
| some houses have prne of glass in one Of'the
| windows taken out through which the baker
and milkman pass their goods on their early
| morning rounds without troubling member
OF the family to get up and open the door. 1t
| Is said to be quite common for a
good cook to insist on the family
dining not later than 5 o'clock, in order
that she may be able to put the kitchen in or
der and go home early. If these or any other
demands are not granted, the servant leaves
without any notice, there being apparently
no law of master and servant IN Brazil, The
wages average t. to f3 a kamonth with food,
| and the servants. as rule purloln enough
every night to provide a supper at home.
| These servants are all negroes or mulattOeS.
and are nearly all freed slaves; but in spite of
all their drawbacks they are generally pre-
ferred to white servants who in Brazil have
nearly all worse falltngs than the blacks.
Some of the italian immigrants and German
colOnists are in domestic service, but they are
even more independent than the blacks. One
reason for the scarcity of domestic servants
is the number of factories which have lately
sprang up. in which fair needle women or
handy workers can get treble the wages of a
domestic servant with shorter hours of
labor.
Ladies lead the fashion in dress and doctors
in wine-drinkiug says d Paris letter in the
London Standard Not very long ago it was
a common notion in Paris for which medical
men of previous generation were doubtless
responsible. that the habit of drinking white
wine was extremely detrimental to the nerves
The man VINO made use OF 1t habltually was
expected to be like an aspen-leaf in gale
But during the last few years the Paris doc
tors have with really remarkable unanimity
been recommending their patients, especially
ladies', to drink white instead of red wine.
This was quite sufficient to cause the belief to
spread Jndt req VINE was more or less pol
sonous. The difference that has taken place
in the relative consumption of the two kinds
of grape juice can be observed by anybody in
a Paris restaurant who remembers how
little white wine was drunk at meals few
years ago. The effect of this change has
been to cause much discomfort and alarm in
the great wine growing districts of France,
where the red grape has been almost exclus-
lively cultivated from time immemorial. The
BordelaiS ylgnerons have set the example in
taking up arms against the doctors The
prospect OF splendid harvest of grapes only
Increases their anger, II the movement in
: favor of white wine gains strength, what will
probably happen will be this: The growers
win make white wine from red grapes. This
) can easily be managed by leaving the juice
to ferment apart from the skins and stalks
II is thus that chan payne is made The
grapes are red, and although the wine APP
pears to be white, it is not really so in the
same sense that the word is applied to Sau-
muir and ChabliS.
The question whether we shall eat starch
or avoid its use as much as possible was
recently discussed in an interesting manner
at a meeting held under the auspices of the
London Vegetarian Society. The subject
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