The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The battle of Brandywine was one Of
the worst OF Washington's numerous de-
I from a Dutch brandy distillery on the
banks Of the stream Brentwine. variously
I spelled. being Dutch name for brandy,
] or burned wine
The Battle OF the Emperors was fought
at Austerlitz. 1896. The emperOrs present
7 Napoleon. Frances of Austria, and Alex
/ anuer OF Russia over 10000 men were
actually engaged in the battle, and Of this
I number 2. 0O0 were killed or wounded, or
/ l3 per cent of the whole.
The battle OF Arbela is wrongly named,
as it was fought B. c. SSl at Gaugemela,
the camels' house. twenty miles from
4 Arbela. The Greeks, with $1,000 men, OPP
posed the Persians, with l,g19,Vv0 The
/ Greek historians claim that 100000 dead
J Persians were left on the field.
AT the battle of Thrasymene. between
/ the Romans and the Carthaginians, there
I We're 5000 men engaged. The Romans
/ were taken by surprise and defeated with
I great slaughter. The total number OF men
I killed on both sides was 1901, or about
/ 2 per cent. Of the number engaged IN
1 the conflict.
/ how many seconds you could keep a
I stream of air flowing into your lungs
/ If not, make the test, and you VIII ilnd
/ that no matter how small the stream you
cannot keep il constantly flowing in Tor
more than fifteen, twenty, or possibly
/ thirty seconds; but if you Will try two or
three times each day you can double the
/ time within two weeks. The boy or SRI
/ who viii try this and keep IL up regularly
I for a year, Will not be likely to die of con-
I sumption, and should they ever become
public speakers or singers they will be
/ very thankful that they commenced when
| young to take lung baths HarperS
/ Young People, in speaking about breath
/ ing, says: Did you ever think of taking
] lung bath? Ones lungs need cleansing
as surely as do the hands and face. This
/ is especially true after one has been in
/ crowded hall or church, breathing in so
/ many impurities. How can one take
hot Ia al 4 ~avna~ 1sans
breath and then expeiling the air from
the lungs You will feel wonderfully re-
fresshed thereby; and the general health
a new method of extinguishing fires
! by means of an automatic chemical pro-
cess is proposed, and tests have been
/ made in which the inventor claims to
/ have proved the value of his device. He
argues that If the oxygen can be dis
! peileu from the atmosphere combustion
/ VIII De arrested and the IRE viii i'm
/ nediately die out. An insulated wire
/ is run in the ceiling of a room and con-
nected to a thermostat. When the tenn
! perature of the room rises to a certain
! point above normal say 10 los degrees
4 Fahrenheit, an alarm bell is sounded
/ and the wire is parted. This sets free
a number of weights arranged at set
! intervals which fan on small walls of
chemically prepared solution This dis
/ engages gas that forces oxygen from
! the room through valves fixed for that
1 purpose. As soon as the oxygen is forced
out the valves swing back into place
| fire is eNtinguished at once, bat twenty
minutes is allowed before pure ar is adj
mitted, and the room can be entered.
! The inventors idea is 20 connect the
/ wires running to the various apartments
! in large building in the general Office
/ 50 that when tho alarm is sounded the
! fre is instantly located A special ar
/ rangement Is also provided by which
/ all windows that might be opened at
! the outbreak of the fire are Immediately
closed when the thermostat Indicator
/ reaches the warning point.
A series of very wonderful experiments
/ which have just been concluded ny DR..
/ Luvs of Paris, whose observations and
/ discoveries IN connection with magnet
I ism and electricity in relation to hyp-
/ notism made profound impression upon
? the scientific world some time ago. has
/ leo to a remarkable result The latest
4 discovery, says the London Telegraph
J establishes the fact that cerebral activ-
lty can be transferred to a crown OF
! magnetiZed iron, in which the activity
! can be retained and subsequently passed
4 on TO second person. incredible as
thls may seem, DR.. Luys has proved its
{ possibility by the experiments Just re
/ ferred to. lie placed the crown, which
in reality is only circular band of
4 patient suffering from melanchoIa with
q mania for self-destructiOn. and with
/ such success was the experiment at
| tended that within a fortnight the patient
! could be allowed to go free without dan
/ ger, the crown having absorbed all her
J marked tendencies. About two weeks af-
I terward he put the same crown which
meantime had been carefully Tree from
contact with anything else. on the head
I OF male patient suffering from hysteria
/ complicated by frequent recurrent per
! iOds of IethaTgy. The patient was then
! hyphoilzed ana Immediately conducted
himself after the manner of the woman
! VINO had previously worn the crown
/ Indeed, he practically assumed her per-
sonality and uttered exactly the same
4 complaints as she had done Similar nm
! uomena have, II is reported. been oh
served IN the case OF every patient expert
that the crown retained the Impression
/ acquired until 1t was made red hot
II might be supposed that railroads
which bear usually geographical names
! they connect but there are many evcep-
/ tons in this respect and some of them
are surprising, says the New York Sun.
/ Ihe st ouls and San Francisco railroad
! for instance, might be supposed to run
/ from ST. Louis to San Francisco. Actll-
ally Il runs 32l miles west of st. Louis
/ The minneapolis and st. Louis railroad
| would appear to run from MINNEAPOLIS
! to st. Louis. 1t actually runs from Min
neaPolis to Angus, Ia. about half way
to St Louis The Omaha and St Louis
1 railroad does not run from Omaha to ST
Louis, but from Omaha to PattonsburE.
Mo. St Louis is 267 miles farther east
/ The Toledo. St. Louis and Kansas Civ
/ railroad Tor Glover Leaf as if is rnors
! general called runs from Toledo TO
! -. Louis, which is the western terminus
! of the road Kansas City is 325 miles
away The Toledo, Peoria and Western
/ raiIroao does not run from Toledo to Pc
ora, but from ~ Tndiana state line to
! Warsaw Ill. The New York, Chicago and
/ st. Louis railroad COR Nickel Plate as II
! IS universally called does not run from
| New York to Chicago and st. Louis
| 1t runs from Buffalo to Chicago. and a
/ passenger upon it coming east and landing
/ at Buffalo would be over 400 miles from
/ New York. while a passenger upon II CO.
ing west and landing at Chicago would
be 500 miles from St. Louis. The Phila-
66elphiap and Erie railroad runs from sun
! Poughkeepsie and Boston railroad d.
nineGty-siY miles long, from siatington.
TO Campbell Hall, an the Ontario ana
Western; The Fort Worth and Denver fS1sT
/ CITY railroad is wholly in Texas. does
not touch Denver and does not run into
Colorado These peculiarities in rail-
road nomenclature are supplemented nv,
another. All the coal-carrying roads
running latitudinally in the eastern
states have as part of their title tbn
words land western" Here are are
some of them; Delaware Taci-a
wanna and Western, the New York 80
Erie and Western. the New York. 0ntsrio
and Western, the Norfolk and Western
the New York, Susquehanna and western
/ the Pittsburg and Western. The ousnti,
" OF coal transported bV these 70 iiora -