The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ passed ffty-two icebergs. OF Cape Race
twenty-five bergs were in sight at one time.
| An on1cer OF the ship said that many Of the
pergs We're so close alongside that one might
nave stepped off the steamship to them with
| out wetting his feet. The weather was per-
/ fectly clear.
horde of sewer rats, which pestered a
downtown restaurantkeeper.- have been de-
clmated by ingenious electrician. says the
fhiladelphla Record. The rodents came up
Gay aiter day through hole alona side a
| grated covering of sewer inlet in the yard
back OF the restaurant. The electrician
onered 70 construct an effective trap, and the
| festauranteur told him to 20 ahead. He laid
| coils OF copper wire about the hole and made
/ an attachment to the electric hight wires
WITHIN the building supplying key to turn
on the current. A watch was kept on the
| hole, and when a dozen rats were p!aving
/ about the yard the key was turned. AS the
keeled over dead. In this novel way nearly
\ 100 rats have been killed of in little over a
/ week.
| Renowned though Switzerland be for the
| freedom and democracy OF its institutions.
| there is no country in the world tnat is SO
| drastic and severe in its treatme MT of in.
| ebr1a;es. The laws vary in detail in the
! twenty-five cantons, but in their essential
| principles they are very similar and provide
/ Tor the punishment not only OF those persons
VINO ina 1lge In strong drink to excess. but
| also Tor the people who supply the liquor in
| question. Drunkards are visited with pen
|
| imprisonment with hard labor and three
| years Introduction from exercising the fran
| chise and from the purchase of any alcoholic
/ drink. while the dealers and lnnkeepars who
| permit their customers to become intoxicated
| or who furnish liquor to ''interdicted" per
! sons are likewise sentenced to the payment
/ OF heaVy lines, Imprisonment and forfeiture
| OF license. Altogether, Switzerland can
arcely be considered as drunkard para
| disc
! The gizzard Of a white Leghorn rooster
may prove to be the means OF making Santa
! Rosa famous as gold mining center saws a
! correspondent Of the San Francisco Ex-
1 amlner. AT any rate, the finding of ove-
/ twenty pieces Of free gold In the grin ding APP
! paratuS of brOller here bas proved o sur
| prise 10 gold miners and will cause the
| scratching up of consider able gravel in the
| gulches near Taylor mountain " H. Girls
! sim seat his cook to local poultry dealers for
some son pro DToilers today In cleaning one OF
| some OF them as large as a pin s head
| gllttered before the cooks eyes. A close
| examination shows them to he free gold
| Then GrlsSlm ran down to the poultry
| men at 2:40 clip He wanted to know
| where the fowl came from. They could not
| or from whom To the best of their knowl-
| edge 1t came from the ranch about three
| miles southeast of Santa Rosa formerly
owned by ex-AsSemblyman Plndar and now
| occupied by his brother It is lust west Of
| Taylor mountain on the Petaluma road and
| a number OF small gulcheS extend from the
/ 1her6 8 a
| small stream that goes dry in summer and
| this is near the barn. 1t is the superstition
that the white Leghorn was scratching and
| picking in the gravel bed when he introduced
| the gold into his system.
| An essay by Prof. Franklaud in the Nine
teenth Century gives striking view of recent
| Investigations into the influence of sunlight
| upon bacteria, and suggests possibilities of
| future knowledge and achievement of almost
| incalculable beneficence TO mankind The
1 common notion r a ve Of ha
| mote the multiplication of bacteria, and. con
| SeQuently, fermentation, putrefaction and de-
| composition is. 1t appears, incorrect. On the
contrary, sunlight has a lethal effect upon
| bacteria. especially when acting in coniunc-
tlon with the oxygen of the atmosphere
Liquids thai become tainted or ferment
| IN the dark remain entirely sound
| and sweet in direct sunlight Two Ger
| man sc entlSts re emily spent whole
night, from sunset to sunrise, on the hank
| OF the lSer, near Munich. says the New York
| tribune. Every hour they dipped up some of
| the water OF the river, and aScertained the
number OF bacilli in drop. Early in the
| evening there were only few-eight or ten in
| a drop. But they steadily increased in num-
Der, until just before it began to grow light at
morning they were most numerous perhaps
| thirty in drop. With the return of.sunlight
| their numte began to diminish, and contin-
ued to do so all through the day. 1t had al
| ready been observed that in certain English
| rivers baclll were about three times as mum
| erous in winter, when days are short and
| often dark and cloudy, as in summer. when
| days are long and more sunshine prevails 7
The well-known German engineer, Neu-
kirch, in paper on making foundations in
| quicksand urges that the sand on which the
| foundation is to rest be converted into solid
| concrete by blowing into it, by air pressure
| powdered dry hydraulic cement, using for this
purpose a one-and-a half inch pipe drawn to
| point at its lower end and having three or
more three-eigthth inch holes. In practice
| says the New York Sun, this pipe is Joined at
| its upper end by rubber tube to an injector
ff a $50
| air and is fed with dry cement, the sinking of
the pipe to the depth required being facilitated
by blowing air through it during its
depth reaching to nineteen feet being thus
| quickly accomplished. After this the &C.
ment is fed in and carried into the sand
| by the air, which, being forced up through
| the former, insures a thorough mixture with
| the cement, and the tube is then slowly with
| drawn, the supply OF cement being continued
until IL reaches the surface, the concrete
| formed in this way taking several weeks to
harden, ana requiring some months to attain
| It's full strength. Further the whole area to
| be treated is divided into mum Der of small
areas of about one square foot each and, the
tube being sunk successfully and operated on
| each OF the squares: it is found that the mix
ture OF the sand and cement produced occu-
| pies less space than dio the sand alone before
| the operation. This method of operation has
been resorted to successfully in cofferdam
construction and sewer work. where such had
| to be laid in qutcksand
well known physician recently told the
| following story to an Indianapolis Sentinel
| reporter: "A prominent Marion county farmer
| discovered that he was gradually getting deaf
He couldn hear the hlre1 man blast stumns
/ with giant powder. He came to my office ana
| made signs that he wanted his ears exam.
| 1ned. examined them. and in an instant
| almost, found that his defective hearing was
caused by the gathering OF a waxey substance
/ In the ears When 1 removed this obstruc-
| ton OF the hearing was surprised at the re
| suit. The old gentleman jumped from the
| chair where he had been seated and put both
| hands to his ears He couldn't stand the
| noise from the street and the least sound
| startled him, He was one of the most pleased
| men ever saw. He went away and it was
| several weeks before l saw him again He
| called at my ONCE with his wife and she did
| all the talking. She hardly raised her
voice atove whisper, and every now
J and then she looked at her husband in
| timid way. She said that for several davs
| he would not allow the least bit of noise in
! the house and that he butchered some pigs
! before their time on account of being affected
| by their squeal. His daughter and her hus
| band had lived with them for two wears and
| they had TO leave on account of the CRYING Of
their 6-months-old baby. There were two
| clocks in the house, one in the dining room
| and one in the bedroom. These he stopned
on account of the ticking The clock In the
bedrood was an alarm clock. 1t went off one
y1iUbt q had