The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LENS OH AN
Mascagni, the composer of "Cavaleria
Rusticana, is exceedingly superstitiOus. He
/ carries amulets to protect himself from the
influence of the evil eye;n and when he
crosses the street he walks on the very edge
of the crossing. if possible. relieving it to tie
4 / al luck TO walk as ordinary mOrtals do He
also carries two watches - one extremely
/ valuable, and the other a simple silver one,
which. he says, always brings him luck.
A Welsh engineer has prepared designs for
/ a vessel which he claims will attain a speed
/ of sixty miles an hour. says the London Court
/ Journal His proposed vessel IS nat bot
/ toned. $50 feet long, 80 feet IN width, wedge
! shaped at each end for 100 Get OF her length,
with displacement or some I40O tons.
/ Such a vessel, fitted with sixteen paddle
/ wheels, driving al 10 revolutions minute,
| this sanguine inventor believes would be pro
! PEELED through the water at the rate OF sixty
/ miles an hour This would be breaking the
/ record with q vengeance. for the LUcauia,
/ which has just eclipSed all previous perform
/ ances, averaged barely twenty-five miles an
| hour. The sixteen paddle wheels OF the pro-
/ posed express passenger steamer would be
! placed eight on each side. one behind the
/ other in water channel running fore and aft
/ Just ABOVE the ships bottom. Thy are OF
| peculiar construction. the paddle always
! MAINTAINING perpendicular position, ana al
ways entering and leaving the water a. ex-
| actly the same point.
The largest Of the caravans which so an
|
! caravan. This starts from Scutari the
| Astattc suburb OF COnstantinople and, after
! gathering pilgrims through Syria. makes
| final rendezvous at Damascus. Here IL re-
| mains three weeks and changes camelS he
| fore It finally starts for Mecca. IT consists of
| from 30. % to 500 pilgrims, and Is under the
special protection of the Turkish sultan. The
! next greatest is the Egyptian, which starts
! from Cairo and goes oy the head of the Red
| Sea. These are now the only two caravans
which go every year, but there are several
| others which go nearly annually The most
| important of these are the Persian from Bag
| dad and that from Jeddah. The great indian
| caravan from MuScat has been given up. and
| those from Babylon and MoTosco have be
| come very irregular. Only a few NOLAN
| medanS perform the pilgrimage from pious
/ devotion The majority undertake IL with
! view to trade, while many are pilgrims by
| profession. and are paid to perform the
! sacred journey for others.
At the Bicetre hospital in Paris says the
London Daily News, the we'll known surgeon.
| NJ. Landry, has performed curious opera
! ton on a workman of the Belgian nationality.
| The Belgian, it appears got drunk a short
time ago. and was taken to the police station
at GentlIy when in state OF utter helpless
| ness. While he was in the cells another
| drunkard. mechanical engineer named Ma
| chant, was brought in in state bordering on
| deurlum tremenS. Machant was in a terribly
| excited state and he attacked his fellow pris-
oner with extraordinary ferocity, striking
| him, and horrible to relate, biting off both his
| ears. w men ne came 10 himself AdCQant be-
| came very penitent. and asked to be taken 10
| the bedside Of his victim, who was now in the
| Blcetre hospital, in order to ask his forgive
! ness. DR.. Landry, who was there SAID
| should you like to give him back his ears"
| Certainly said the man Then" said the
| doctor, let me cut a couple of small slips of
flesh from your arm, ana il can be done
| 1 ne man consented. and the doctor did as he
! had suggested. The pieces of flesh he shaped
as well as he could to the likeness OF a pair of
ears, and joined them to the wounded places.
/ mo 70 40 aaA Fl,a.,
| ton has Leen complete success.
The recent test in harness of small por-
ton of the force Of Niagara Falls marks the
realization of an old dream in engineering
SAYS the Pitsomg Dispatch. The recently
| completed tunnel is horS eshoe- sha ped. being
IL feet 10 inches at the widest part and il feet
! D inches at the bottom. When used to its full
| capacity. this vaulted fume has 5O)O0O cubic
| feet or water passing through it per minute,
| or a weight of over 5000 tons. The water
| that PUSHES down the penstOCks turns turbine
| wheels, each OF which sends up to the surface
| 5000 horse power, and the tunnel has a can
| aclty of force, it is claimed, amounting to 30
| times this amount. But this Is n mere
handful + the )rce r3preS anted in lis co o ;-
! sal fall IN the N agara river. The grand 10
| tai exceeds horse power of over 200 600 or
more power than Is developed Uy all the va
| rious kinds of S cam engines in the United
| states. 1t almost inspires II feeling of awe
| to reflect that this one locality has more en-
| ergy than is developed in our entire country
Nv IUt Nldlly CONSUMPTION OF all the coal
pied to mechanical purposes. The generator
OF this force Is the great solar furnace in the
heavens, which lifts the vapor that deScends
on the large area drained by the river, whose
| leap makes the worlds greatest cataract.
| The great lakes viii, h constitute the great
est fresh water bodies on earth are only
imIseuse storage reservoirs OF force. to hold
ana equanZe this power, which thus lie
comes constant and practically without
limit. The tunnel system can be eX-
| tended to score or more on each
side and to greater lengthss u than the
| present one, thu rising the power over and
| over, and, should there once be an object in
| the most economic use Of this energy, it will
| be found that 5000 COD horSe power is not be
yond what is here represented. When the
| century closes this factor in illumination ana
| electric car propulsion will be potent from
| New York to Chicago and power center
| will be established, radiating probably 500
miles in any direction When 1t is considered
that this form OF force is pretty well diffused
throughout the country and that the aggre-
gate OF what is represented elsewhere many
times exceeds the force of Niagara we may
gain some conception OF how crude we shall
appear to our successors. Most barbaric shall
the persistent water boilers stand before
them.
The skirt dancer has most of the ills to
which flesh is heir to combat with SAYS the
Philadelphia Press. Perhaps the most com
mon of the ftful aches an ailments is a gen
eral arrangement of the breathing apparatus
Any comfortably situated person who views
her spasmodic action from the audience, can
realize why the writhing, gasping convulsive
celebrity should be the most short winded
creature on earth It seems a marvel that
some of her cords do not snap. and the whole
tension suddenly give way and let her down
in u realistic heap in the middle of the stage,
10 get a comprehensive view of her in col
lapse-and she does collapsed is necessary
to take a peep behind the curtain. At the
ecstatlc moment when the audience sees the
last ow, the farewell wave of the hand the
retiring CONFUSION OF the hip ioint at the
same moment the oVerexert ed, breathless. and
painting artist falls exhausted into the
arms of a faithful attendant. who bears her
gently away to bottle of brandy and one of
horse hniment favored with turpen,ine It
Is when the skirt dancer reaches the seclu-
sion of her own apartments, however that
the real interesting part of her performance
begins. Electricity is one of her modes of
treatment, but she naturally eats something
before she starts up her battery Eating ana
drinking are prohibited by her code Of diges-
tive ethics, both before and between dances
Tor obvious reasons. When the embargo is
raised and the curtain goes down the hungry
celebrity repairs to the nearest hotel and
there follows the proclivities that nature has
endowed her with. If all this occurs after a
matinee performance the dancer next takes
q nap. the duration of which is in in varee