The morning news., 1894-11-01
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| population Of $4,000, 100 people
| Electrical energy from a primary bat
cry at the present time costs at least
/ zen times, and probably twenty times, a
| much as that obtained by the use of {
/ steam engine and dynamo.
| The horses eye has a thick, glutinou;
/ secretion because his eye being large anC
much exposed to dust the viscid secr6
/ ion cleanses it more effectually thai
| would a more watery agent.
Artificial clouds were recently mad
! or the protection of vines from frost a,
Daeleain, on the Swedishk orwegiaI
I rOntier In carrying out this novel in
loVation, liquid tar was ignited in til
boxes placed along the vine rows, ant
'arge sections of soiiGifed petroleum wers
| Ired at various places in the vineyard
crom these cOmbusubles large clouds
| moke arose and thoroughly protected tn
parucular vineyard in which the expert
nent was being tested, although vines il
| he immediate neighborhood were badl.
injured by the frost. one of the Euro
! ZEAL metropolitan weeklies. in comment
ng on the utility of the method, spOk'
Fery unfavorably of It, declaring that il
'ould only prove effective in very cain
weather. If the editor of that journa
| WIZ brush up a little on meteorology, say
| ne New York Advertiser, he will learI
| nat calm weather is about the only time
which killing frosts occur.
English cyclists are now testing th'
| merits of new instrument for register
ng the speed of the travelling wheel. The
| instrument is two inches in diameter an6
| weighs about three ounces. 1t is mad
| with dlals, so divided as to register up tc
| hfty miles, or with dials registering to 50
| miles. 1t is also made to record in kilo
| meters, according to the practice on the
| ointment OF Europe. 1t is attached to tho
| axle OF the front wheel by a nut and the
| dial Is easily visible from the saddle. i
! is claimed that when used with a special
| arrangement of gear wheels, in coniunc-
uon with large worm wheel having
| great number of teeth this instrument
| can be caltbrated TO a nicely. The hand
| should make exactly one revolution per
/ rider tharnfOpp ~ in al
| ible means of determining the amount Of
| error: If any, and can alter the gear to
nished by the maker. A decided advan-
| tage OF this instrument over those re-
| Huirng calculation is that when once the
| right size of wheel has been determined
and the register adjusted correctly, subse-
| quent error is impossible
Some little time ago officers of London
| metropolitan police were deputied to make
| certain observations concerning road
| traffic generally during the discharge of
! their daily duty in the busiest thorough
! fares. These observations extended over
| fifty days, of twelve hours each day
| namely, from a. m. to D. m.-and gran
| ite, asphalt and wood pavements We're
no fewer than 1856 horses and vehicles
| passed along Cheapside, and . $50 along
! Cannon street. During the fifty days
! upon which observations were taken, 5i2
! accidents took place on wood pavement,
! 7l9 on granite and ,066 on asphalt. From
! these figures it was estimated by an ex-
( pert that horse could travel $50 miles on
/ wood pavement during the fifty days
| without meeting with an accident, 191 on
granite and 1S2 on asphalt. Therefore
the great sup eriority of wood pavement
over all others-at least, where horses are
| concerned-is at once apparent Alto
| gether ,054 falls were recorded and an
| analysis of this number UOndon says,
affords some curious information. On
! asphalt, 4I partial and 1870 complete falls
! took place; on wood S26-only SO complete
| falls Roughly, for every fall on wood
pavement, four took place on granite and
asphalt.
A great many ladies labor under the
impression that flesh is inimical to beau
ty, and not few of them put themselves
| to great trouble-sometimes they serious
| ly injure their health-trying to get rid of
what they consider their superduous
flesh, says the New Orleans Picayune.
The attention of such is called to the
| conclusions of a recent writer in d society
magazine, who, from an historical review
of the prominent women of ancient, me-
| diaeval and modern times, concludes that
ties of the past and present were, or are
| distinguished for their portliness. Thus
Agrippina, Nero's mother. was fat. Gle
opatra, the serpent of the Nile, was small
and stout. Laura, Petrarch's muse, was
fat, fair with blonde hair. The Marie
Fiammetta, whom Boccacio loved was
a brunette and stout. Elizabeth the yir-
gin queen, was tall and plumpish, with
thick red hair Marguerite of Navarro
was fat. All Rubens' women, except his
wife, were fat. All Titians women, ex-
cept the Madonna, were portly. Catharine
of Russia, after her portraits, was tall
and fat. louisa Strozzi, for whom Ales-
sandro di Medici died was given to en-
bonpoint. Josephine Beauharnais, the in
dolent Creole, afterward empress of the
French, was fat and perfumed. Marie An
toinette was tall of stature, majestic and
rather inclined to be stOutish Nine. de
Stael, small, dark and fat, with small
head. Georges Sand had a beautiful head,
but was fat and small. Heine said of her:
THE build of her body has the appearance
of being a little too fat, or, at least a
little too short; the head alone bears the
cachet of the ideal" Queen Isabella of
Spain is fat; Queen Victoria the same;
going on the same way, and most of the
great singers have always been noted for
their embonpoint.
The evil effects of coffee on many con-
stitu-io are matters well known, says
| the Pacific Medical Journal. Many a
case of persistent pruritus has been made
to disappear by simply interdicting the
! use of coffee. On the other hand coffee
taken without milk and with but little
sugar, exercises the most beneficial influ-
ence in many cases of lnigraine, es-
pecally If a little lemon or lime juice Is
added to the decoction. Some weeks be-
fore his death the late Prof. Charcot was
in attendance upon family composed
of the father, mother, and six children,
who had become the victims of an un-
comfortable mental irritability upon the
least provocation. Hardly meal passed
at the family board without an explosion
| Upon the least preteXt the father became
furious, the mother scolded, and the chill
! dren would give way TO lySterlCal cry
ing The family were all hypochondriacal,
The strangest part of the history con
sisted in the fact that domestics en-
ployed and residing in the family would
soon partake of the general cachexia
and join in the pandemonium. In the mid
die ages this house would have been con-
sidered haunted, and somebody would
/ have been burned, or hung and CHARTERED
: as having enchanted the premises. This
) was the nineteenth century, however, and
= as demons goblins fairies and vampires
, are no longer the fact, Charcot looked
into the hygiene Of the locality for a solu-
tion of the difficulties On investigation
he found that the father was a manu-
facturer and dealer in coffee; the roast
ing, grinding and packing, as well as the
manufacturing of the essence and of the
extract of coffee, being carried on in the
lower floors of the premises. In the apart
ments above the odOr permeated every
nook; the furniture and clothing sneit
strongly Of coffee. The inmates were suf-
fering from chronic coffeeism few
weeks residence in the purer air of the
seashore and change Of habitaton soon
brought about a change for the better.
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