The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Massachusetts Gazette for Nov. 4. 1865, men
ton Of the ship BLIZZARD, and he therefore
/ thinks that our word blizzard" originate
/ among seafar1ng people. says the IT. Louis
( Post-Dispatch. BLIZZARD. however. is a family
name, and the ship may have Teen named in
honor OF some person. sir William BLIZZARD
I was a distinguished anatOmist and surgeon,
and there must have been other Billiards..
The word blizzard, before il was applied
/ TO winter storms, was used to describe gen
eraI discharge OF firearms.
In Scotland it was for a long time usual to
place on mans tombstone the symbols OF
his trade. Especially was this the case at
; Dun0lane. where in the burial ground Of the
/ abbey 1t has been found that. OF those tomb
/ stones which are from 100 to 200 years old.
/ about one fourth are thus marked, the sym
/ nols celng in low relief. sugar cane may
I be seen as showing the grave Of grocer; an
J ak ana saw. with hammer and nails occur on
Lhe grave OF a carpenter; an awl and ham
| mer on that OF a shoemaker. There are many
! otner graves similarly marked.
Philadelphia physician thinks that a
great deal OF mons nse has be IN written about
hypnotism. Any one. be says, may hyp-
notice himself in few minutes by closing
I MS eyes. directing them inward and down
NHro, ana then, imagining his breath to be
/ Eapor. watching its inhalation and expulsion
IRON the nostrils. BABIES invariably look
/ cross eyed before going to sleep, in this way
producing what hypnotiSts call translation
1 FISHERMEN often hypnotize themselves watch.
| ing cork on surface of shining water An
| hour passes by as If II were a few minutes.
A foreign paper devoted to subjects Of
mechanisms says material called flexible
! glass is made from dissolving from four to
| elght parts OF gun cotton in one part Of ether
or alcunol and adding to the solution from
! TWO TO Tour parts OF non-resnouS oil and from
| TOUR 70 ten parts OF Canada balsam. This
| mixture is spread upon pane of glass and
| uric u IN a current of air OF a temperature Of
| % degrees. There Is thus obtained hard
| L. a naG nf IA Tpn
! may De regulated at will, and that offers "a
PeIIect resistance to salts, alkalies and acids.
| IheSe plates are odorless, very flexible and
I tougn. Inelr lnhamma ility may be dimfn-
! lshed through the incorporation of chloride
| OF nagneSlam. The addition Of zinc white
gives them beautiful ivory color.
During trip which 1 took through the
west Indies several years ago" said a tray c.
Ter to st. Louis Globe Democrat man. Il
saw sight IN one of the villages which
| DIolght me old proverb Necessity is the
| nother OF invention forcibly TO my mind. In
| 'front.' OF one OF the houses on a veranda stood
| a sentry whose business il was to keep the
| Iline lor the village by means OF primitive
| sahd-gIass. Two beer bottles were firmly
| tled together. mouth TO mouth. and fixed IN q
| wooden frame, made to Nstand in reversi pie
positions. A quantity Of black sand ran
! from one bottle into the other in inst half an
| hour, and when the upper bottle was EMMY
| the frame was reversed. Twelve short sticks
| marked with noteheS from one to twelve
| we're hun9 upon string and a hook was
| placed between the stick bearing the number
| or notcheS corresponding to the hour last
| struck and-the one to be struck next The
! sentry announced the time by striking the
hours on large gong.
Prof Zakharln, Of Moscow. who attended
! the car during his recent serious illness. is
| almost as well known in Russia for his eccen.
| Irlcltles as for his eminenee as a physician
| The British Medical journal states that when
ne Is called TO attend patient special ar
Iangements must be made in the house: all
| uogS must be kept out of the way all clocks
| must De stopped, all doors must be thrown
| VIDE open. The professor on entering begins
process OF gradual undressing leaving his
| iurs IN the halt, his Overcoat in the next room,
| MS goloshes in the third. etc He insists on
perfect silence on the part OF the afflicted rel.
| atlVeS, except in reply to his qeestions when
| their speech mCst be literally 'yelr and
| nay. lie has theory which he expresses
| IN the maxim, Take rest before you are
| tlred, and accordingly he sits down every
| eight or ten steps. His eccentrlcities how
| ever, cease at the bedside of his patient:
| there he is courteous and considerable, most
| pa1nstaking and minute in his examination
| ana very thorough in his treatment. So sue
| ceSStul has he been in his profession that he
Is believed to be worth some half million
| sterling.
There are many traditions handed down,
says London Answers, that the doors Of Ger.
| tain OF our oldest churches had been GOV.
| cred with human skin fiayed from the bodies
| OF transgressors who had been guilty of the
| SIN OF sacrllege. Some years ago Sir Harry
| Engleheld trst called the attention Of the
| Society OF Antiquarles TO the existence of
| such tradition regarding the churches of
Hadstock and Copford. in Essex; and the
| Hon. Richard Neville. in his "Antioua Fly.
| plorata," at1rms the record preserved nv
! popular belief in those parishes. 1t appears
| that similar tradition was held in Worces-
doors dor n relation OF the to the great north
| 10 have been covered with the
| skin of a person who had robbed the high
| altar; Ihese doors had been renewed. and
| the old woodwork deposited in the crypt but
| a portion of the supposed human skin was
| obtained, which had remained under the iron
| work and clamps-the skin evidently having
| been laid upon the doors when thew
were first made. The skin, on examination
! by powerful microscope. proved to be hu-
| man skin. Portions of skin obtained from
Lhe chIfch doors at Hadstock ard Copford
| have also, on scientific examination been
| shown to have been human. Mention is pade
| by Pepys, Ia his diary, of visit IN 1861 10
Rochester cathedral to see the skins of the
Danes, with which the doors, as it was then
| believed, were covered.
Two instruments for measuring SUNLIGHT
have been adopted by the United States
weather bureau, and duplicates have been
| placed at every important station controlled
! by that service. The principle upon which
| TINS instrument operates is essentially the
same as that OF Leslie diferentiaI air fhar
mometer in the form of o straight glass tuIe
| with cylindrical bulCs at each end of the in
| strument, the whole enclosed IN a glasS-nro
| tecting sheath. Mercury is Used to separate
| the air in the two bulbs a small quantity be
| ing inserted in the bottom and stem of the
! lower bulb. These bulbs are coated with
| lampblack The bulbs are filled with pure
| dry air and sealed at temperature of about
Fahrenhet o, to secure greater density
! OF the air. The space between the buIfs
| and the protection sheath is then
| perfectly exhausted OF air is also sealed In
| operation the glass instrument is mounted ON
| an adjustable metallic tase, to which IL is at
| tached y springing ii into tubular cIamn
! provided for the purpose. so that the miner
| e ectrode shall extend through the hole and
! the lower electrode through the Slot in the
| back Of the instrument After the instrument
! had been carefully adjusted and attached 10
! Its support on the roof so that the glass tute
| points to the north and south il is ready for
! operation. 1t is then attached to the auto
| matte register by wires. The automatic reg.
! lister consists of large paper cylinder which
! is operated by clock mechanism,
/ and over, the face of this paper
| upon which the hours and Minutes
| are marked in sections. two 1ne self.
| feeding pens trace ink lines during The
| period that they are Influenced hy the re-
/ corder on the roof. For instance il IL is
cloudy day the clear glass bulb and the coated
! bulbs exercise an equal amount of influence
| on the mercurial column. but when the SIM
! is shining the coated bulbs. attracting
greater amount OF heat force the mercury mn
ward, and il passes the ends of the wi 20 r,