The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

On the Island of St. George. one Of the
| Pribylov group in Boring sea, the breeding OF
blue foxes has become very profitable They
/ generate very rapidly. and when an island Of
! good size once becomes we'll stO- k ed IL is i'm
possible to deplete it, as the law provides
/ that they must not be shot. but trapped. the
restriction being imposed mainly to keep
| them tame.
Mr. and Mrs. William Huyler Of Bergen
/ county, New Jersey. having been
1891, leaving an estate worths 1000
the New Jersey chance-y court is trying to
1 determine. at the instance Of the rival
set OF helrs. whether the husband or
wife died first. Mr.. Huylers body was so
! mangled that he must Qave dIed instantly. A
| woman testified TIA, she felt Mrs huyler's
! slight pulsatiOns. But physicians testified
! tnat the seeming pulsatiOEs Of the heart was
/ simply reflex muscular action On the whole
/ ~ rs apparent, says the Philadelphia Record
| tnat chancellor Mc5ill VIII need to piece out
MS decision with prece5ents.
A traveller in Ceylon. writing to a London
| paper, says that the crosodiles are not so
| stupid as they look. They know enough to
| take care OF themselves. On one occasion
] n ana some others proposed to catch a lot
OF Ihem IN net. Dozens OF them had been
! seen swimming across it, and then the
! hunters and their ate Ldants undertook TO
| drlve the crocodiles toward the net, which, of
course, was very strong and carefully
| weighted and supported by strong ropes. The
men entered the pool holding poles with
| which TO stir the mud in the bottom. walking
| toward the net. The crocodlleS seemed to
! detect the int ntion of the hunters, and not
! one was driven into the net. They had
! buried themselves so deeply in the mud at
! the bottom Of the pool that they could not be
| reached.
| Our name for the umbrella being obviously
taken from the Italian ombreno naturally
| refers US to Italy as the source from which
we nave derived that useful article. says
| Pearson Weekly. II we had obtained II i'm
| medlately from France. we would. DOUBTLESS,
| have taken with it the name OF parapluie,
| winch IN the present use OF the implement is
| more expressive and proper name than that
| or ombrelo, which signifies little shade,
| and refers to the original use as a defense
| agains the sun rather than to its present use
| as shelter from the ram. There seems to
| De no doubt that the umbrella was first intro
| duced into Italy from the east and thence
| found its way into Europe. 1t seems also that
| the applicability Of the instrument as a de-
| tense from rain was quite an afterthought,
| and that it was originally. as In the east
| only used TO protect the person from the rays
| of the sun.
| remarkable instance of the growth OF dry
rot has recently been discovered in the
armory Of the Tower of London, says an ex-
| change. In November a communication was
| made to the royal gardens from the Horse
| Guards war office, to the effect that on re
! pairing one Of the wooden horses in the
| armory. believed to be more than 100 wears
| old. mass of fungus was found in the in
! terror 1t was cut out with the portion OF
| wood to which it was attached and sent to
| Kew. when it proved to be large and char
! acterlstic specimen of the ordinary dry rot
| fungus tMerulluS lacrymanS, Jacq) This
| fungus, as is well known, Is very destructive
| to timber in close and i'll ventilated situa-
| lions. The singular circumstance IN this
| case is that 1t appears to have been arrested
| in its growth and killed and desiccated before
| 1t had produced the smallest fragment OF
| qualification.
Some physicians of st. Lois are disposed
| to question the value Of Dr.. MOI. mans much
| talked about discovery that perInanganate
| OF potash is an antidote for morphine poison
| ing. They went to experimenting on their
| own account on some dogs, saws the New Or
leans Plcayune. They gave two gOod-sized
| dogs each four grains of morphine hvpoder-
mlcally administers {. IN half an hour 10th
| or the dogs we're thoroughly under the infu-
| ence of the drug. Then they administered
| Tour grams OF the permanganate to one Of the
dogs, leaving the other to take care of him
self The antidote had no appreciate effect
but in al oIt 2la hours both of the dogs feyan
to recover from the effects of the morphine
and the one that had no antidote got well as
fast as the other. The doctors concluded
that the pernanganate had no effect at ALL
ana that the nor nine would not nurt the
dogs. 1t may be very true, but it must be re-
membered that Or. MOorman's most con
elusive experiment was not tried on a dog
but on himself.
During the civil war the private was safer
1lltAL OLlO OlllICI- says INC new DIX lines.
At Gettysburg the officers lost27 per cent in
killed and wounded while the enlisted men
lost per cent, At GettVs Jurg the percentage
OF loss among the officers was one half greater
than in the wilderness The Slxty-first
Pennsylvania lost more officers killed than
any infantry regiment in the union army-l9
| including three colonies. The Eighty-drst
Pennsylvania and the 145th PENNSYLVANIA
each lost eighteen officers. The SiXty-second
Pennsylvania and the Sixty-third Pennsylva-
MA each lost seventeen officers. At Waterloo
| the French had 5000 men and 252 guns the
| allies 12,OJO men and 1856 guns AT Gettys
| burg Meade had $1,000 men and 200 guns and
| Lee 10000 men and $50 guns. Wellington at
Waterloo, lost 2}1S5; Meade at Gettvsburg
| 26OJ3; Napoleon 26; 90 men. and Lee 20 448
| At Grayelotte the Germans lost 20 77 out of
| l46C0J troops engaged At Borodino the
| bloodiest battle since the Introduction Of
| gunpowder' the Russians lost $1,000 and the
| French over 20 600 but the percentage of loss
was less than at Gettysburg. Chickamauga
or Waterloo
1t is not an extravagant statement to saw
that never before in the history of the world
| has there leen II scientific discovery about
| which centered such magnificent dreams as
are being built up on certain recently dis.
covered electrical principles Among these
the foremost place, according to the SPRING
neld Republican must be given to the as
founding discoveries Of the young Servian
genius, Nikola Tesla, which are so novel and
so extraordinary that the most Imaginative
OF inventors are unable to fOreSee what form
their development will take Just as eyDari-
mentors were beginning 10 think that they
knew all that could he learned about cleo
tricity. and that further improvement must
be IN the line Of more perfect mechanical ap-
pltcation, Mr.. Tesla shows US the electric
fluid under conditions in which it differs
from ordinary electricity as much as LIGHT
differs from heat. A current of 1000 volts
will kill man in the twinkling Of an eve, but
this modern wizard let's currents pour through
his hands with a potential of 100000 volts.
vibrating a million times a second and show
ering from him in dazzling streams of Light
For some time after the experiment ceases
his body and clothing emit streams and haIos
OF Splintered light. The widest dream of the
inventor could not have foreseen that while
currents of low frequency are deadly. these
are harmless Mr. Tesla says that he will
soon lie able to wrap himself in a complete
sheet OF electric fire that will keep a man
warm at the north pole without harminy him
Neither Merlin nor Michael Scott nor any of
the wizards of old ever wrought more not aat
miracle, even in fancy. The meaning of This
is too far beyond US to realize at present. We
can no more graspitS significance than Frank
lin could discern the electric motor
in his captured thunderbolt Equally
astounding and with more visible
usefulness is Mr., Tesla's discovery that cur
rents OF such enormous potential and fire.
quency can lie transmitted without the use OF !
wires. a room can he filed with electricity
from copper plates in ceiling and floor 81
that electric lamps will burn without any con
Meeting wire as soon as they are brought in
Tho MO