The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Gated everywhere by natural obstacles, have
agreed to mark those frontiers by cOntlnu
Gus line Of iron wire.
Not long ago a Pittsburger had one Of his
back teeth filled with amalgam, says the Dis
patch While in New York the other day the
tooth above the one that had been repaired
began to ache terribly, so that the gentleman
was forced To go TO a dentist in that city. To
economic TING. the dentist filled this with
amalgam also, and the PittS0urg6r started
Tor his hotel. On his way he noticed that
every time his teeth closed he received a sort
OF an electric shock. This increased its In
tensity until, when he arrived at the hotel,
the sensation became absolutely painful.
he hurried back to the Office of the dentist
me doctor had good laugh when be found
| that when the metal used in his amalgam and
that used by the Pittsburg dentist came to-
gether they formed magnetic current The
patient objected to having a battery in his
mead, so another kind of filling was substi-
tuted.
This passage is from Rae's Modern
Egypt" American visitors to Egypt are &C
counted the best patrons of Egyptian body
snatchers. They are glad to return home
with mummy; they are proud TO have their
friends see II unrOlled; they bury their own
dead with surprising care, placing them in
Baskets with special tombs. 1t might seem as
H. with Ulysses in Hecuba. they were recon-
penSed for lives of struggle by repoSing IN
der noble monuments. 4 cemetery in Amer
lea is generally the most beautiful adjunct
to city. Would not the cultured citizens of
I0oStOn SuuuueT II tOlO Unab a cay might como
when Mount Auburn would be treated as a
mine in which shafts are sunk and levels
driven in order to discover human remains
and bring them to the surface, there to be
sold to strangers from beyond the sea in quest
OF curlosities, or else to be put on exhibition
at home?
One OF the most remarkable dams in the
world for hight and construction, says the.
Railway Review. is that by which the vyrnwy
river Northern Wales, is enabled to supply
water to the city Of Liverpool, some seventy
miles distant. In building this dam great
trench was first eXcavated across the valley
for length Of 1 100 feet, a width of 40 and a
maximum depth OF Co. The masonry was
started in this trench; it consists of immense
irregular blocks of slate, wedged together
and thoroughly bedded in Portland cement
mortar, the faces being formed of cut-stone
blocks fitted together with great care, the
greatest hight of the dam Being 1871 feet
Its most remarkable feature is the lack
OF any channel to carry off floods. the
surplus In the lake flowing down the front of
the dam, which is curved 10 permit as free a
descent as possible and prevent the formation
OF eddles at the bottom. The lake formed by
this dam covers an area four and three
quarters miles long. from oneduarter to five
eighths OF a mile wide and holds largely over
l2,OOO,OC gallons. The aqueduct leading from
the intake tower to the distributing reservoir
about two miles from the city, is sIxty-eight
miles long, and consists principally of a large
caSt-lron pipe line from thIrty-SiX to forty
two inches IN diameter. There are a number
one place is great iltering plant.
The great northern elephant persisted as a
species IN the prime of life says the Edin-
burgh Review. 1t had lived under most pros
porous conditions. Its enemies we're few AMI
comparatively impotent Alone among con
temporary animals the Saber-tOothed tiger
occasionally. perhaps got the better of an an
tagonist, which must have been less sensitive
to the tlint-tpped arrows of mere human as
sailantS than Ship Surgeon Guliver was TO
the multltu0inOnS pripks q
Stles. InexhaUStiblc supplies of food. too
were furnished by the forests and swampS of
| the vast Europaslan continent to the terres-
trial leNlathan. winch accordingly multiplied
and thrOve exceedingly. Then was the cuI-
minating epoch of the proboscidean family
| Thtck-hided animals with tusks and trunks
attained largee size ranged over a wider
area of the earth's surface, and existed more
numerously and IN greater variety than ever
before or since. Mammoths wandered into
Ireland and Scotland. they tramDed by the
score through the thickets of the Weald thew
roamed in great herds along the flats and val
leys of Central Europe, and across the end
less oakclad plains of Russia and the now
| barren tundraS of Siberia. Italy reared Gle
plants of its own (Elephas meridonalisl: an
other antique species of large size (Elephas
antiquuS) was met with from YOrlyshire tn
| the Atlas; even Malta swarmed with Digruv
elephants of two, if not three. separate kinds:
while the huge maStodOn was the chief repre-
! sentative OF the genius in North and South
America.
III NdSC VI the young woman IN Paris who
seeks to escape from punishment for a crime
because she claims to have been under
hypnotic influence when the act was COM
mitted, draws attention to the wonderful
prolonged hypnotic craze. both in Paris and
London, says the New York Sun. few DAYS
| since in London man was arrested on a
HolbOrn stage because young woman said
that he had put her under hypnotic influence
! so that she was powerless to move hand or
/ foot An unconscious British humorist said
| tlaL she was not even able tn no far ~,
the bus. In Paris astounding stories are
! told OF the influence OF Dr. Charcot's plpilS
VINO are accustomed TO prowl around the
| streets, fascinating shop girls with their
| gntterlng eyes and making abrupt and dis
! concerted passes with their hands before
STRANGERS, to see just how far their
| hypnotic influence extends. Cases arise in
| one form or another which embarrasS the
courts, so that there are frequent legal strI1p-
! giles over this new phase of Paris life and the
| craze has been used as an excuse for every
! conceivable variety of crime, including the
| case OF young woman who murdered an IN
| OFFENSIVE old apple vender, which deed she
| claimed was committed under the influence
| OF her lover. who had hypnotized her from
! the remote distance from Paris to LYONS The
1irst impetus to the craze was given by the
| recognition by the lower courts that hvnnot-
| ism is an irresistible and impelling element
| OF life There is not much danger of such oo-
| lice justices as Diver. Sullivan or Hogan adj
! vanclng the craze in this city by any such
aDStruSe mental reasoning as that exhibited
| by the magistrates or Paris
The full grown white rhinoCeros was ac-
cording to the New York Tribune nearly :
feet high at the shoulders, and from Il to rs
feet long, and thus in bulk surpassed eyery
other modern quadruped except the elephant
which 1t almost rivalcd. Its head was three
or four feet long and held very low its chin
6elng normally only few inches from the
ground. Its truncated muzzle was a foot and
half broad, and designed to facilitate the
cropping OF grass, the sole food OF the craa-
true. The brain, placed just beneath the big
horn was scarcely as large as that Of a man
The eyes were very small and so set as 10
have remarkably limited range of vision
| For this reason the animal, when either pur-
! suing or pursued invariably ran
In straight line and Thus
| was easily lodged. In habit fbe
| white rhinOcerous was usually more duII
slow and wallowing than its black. two
horned klnsman. But, like the latter il was
| singularly stubborn and perverse and subject
10 sudden and causeleSs fits of the most Vio
lent fury. 1t would at times, Tor no conceiv-
able reason bar the passage OF a road with
the persistence of the Greeks at Thermopv-
lac, or bound from its lazy walowinq and mr.
sue some 1nonenslVc paSSer-by with the nj
most manifestations Of ferocious wrath II
was, however, little feared by the natives
who easily avoided its straightforward
charges, and drove their heavy assegais into
its sides with deadly effect. The Zrlus and
Matabeles call 1t the mohoohoo, and greatly
priced its flesh for food, its hide for wins
and shields, and, above all. it's horns for tbo