The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

compared with the steam engines at ureseut
Rad are ls-horse power. While the e .e, tric en-,
glne weighs but $500 pounds and is IOlhorse
power: which could easily be doubled If
neeo '5o ne mas offered to grant the city the
Tree use OF his invention.
This will be great year for ocean telegra-
ply The Anglo-American Cable Company
will lay new Atlantic cable this spring
Whlch is now making In England. The copper
conducting wire OF this cable will weigh $50
pouhds per knot while hitherto no cable has
had conductor weighing so much as 500
pounds per knot The Atlantic cables have
conductors weighing 400 pounds or less Uer
knot. Many short cables have cores weign-
ing as little as l07 pounds. Gables 800 miles
long on the eaat coast of Africa have cores
weighing $50 pounds TO the knot The heayi-
est G, core Is that of the French cable from St.
fIerre' hlqueion, to Brest. lt is 243 miles
long and weighs 4sj pounds per knot. The
estimated cost for making and laying Ion
catles is aboat 81 200 per knot. he cost Of
Ihe proposed Pacific cable will be somewhat
greater because it cannot e manufactured in
the vicinity. The total length. exclusive of
az Knots already laid in Australasian wa ers,
Will be aUout $500 knots making the total
alone. ---s
Inc composition Of the cheap sausage has
furnished topic for jests from time imme.
mortal case that came up in London
Lonee court the other day gives renewed
point TO many Of these venerable Jokes and
strange as fiction. 1t appears that some sort
OF disagreement arose between a baker ard
cohleSloner OF the Seven Sisters road and
ouo vi MS apprentices. and the matter was
taken LeIore magistrate for settlement
mere Is an extracG from the testimony:
~ pa you among other things, teach the
boy 70 make sausage rolls?" the baker was
asked ana he replied in the Affirmative
Dlu you teach him TO make sausage-rolls of
req ochre pepper and salt. and brown bread
soaked: the counsel continued and Yes :"
was again the reply. But where is the
sausage: was the next question. You don't
require IL, the witness responded, as il pity
ing the lawyer ignorance That is how
the beef sausage is MADE he added nv wav
OF explanation. Unfortunately he was not
questoned concerning the manufacture of
pork sausages, and the ingredients of that
compound are still mystery for the imagina-
ton. 0' '--N '--Ue ~"
The needle, one Of the indis psnsa5le little
tools, and now so common in all countries
was unknown in It's present form prior to the
year llO. Tourangsn, wiremaker of Paris
was the inventor OF the needle in It's modern
lzed form. AT first the construction of such
uelicate little implements was very tedious
ana SLOW process consequently thew were.
counted among articles rare and costly as
wei as OF necessity, and as such were found
only among the European royalty and no.
LiIIty. IN the old &C cunts of Louis TX of
rance IL is mention that a daughter Of that
monarch received paper of needles as one
OF the most luxurious wedding presents thai
could be bestowed by her royal parents and
20 thls Day the French and Germans use the
expression 'nadle geld same as the Ameri.
cans and English pin money! which proves
that such articles we're once very eypsnsiye
Up TO the time OF Henry VIII. the ne e lie was
unknown iii Britain. At about that time the
wiz out beautiful Anne Boleyn brought them
from France to England and it has Feen
mentioned as probable that the saying refer
ring to the needle bringing b d luck. '.zers.
TIGHT die liebe IS is an illusion to the case nj
that Inflated queen.
The weekly electric paper, Electricity
thinks that Great Falls Mont, appears
fairly entitled to the distinction OF being
called the Electric city. At Black Eagle
falls, three miles above the town an i'm
missouri Not only are the street cars pro.
PEELED and lighted by electricity from the
power he Ses, but they are heated as well
6y electric radiators placed in each car
Elevators. prin Ing presses, cranes and ali
KINDS OF machinery are operated by the
lorce mere are automatic eGcaVators
eLectrlc pumps and electric rock crushers
A not Uncommon sight on the sire It is a
mortar-mixer attached to an electric wire
leading down from POLE. j he restaurants
cook by electricity. the butcher ernp ovs il
10 chop his sausages, the grocer to grind his
Gomez ami the tailor 10 heat his goose The
subtle huid is a welcome blessing in every
nome; the housewives run their sewing
machlnes and heat their tatirons by cleo
trlclty; they have electric boilers and tea
kettles. ana they bake their cakes in cleo
trlc WOODEN ovens thoY can be set away on
The early traditions concerning the CITY Of
Damascus are curious and interesting, even
Though Enthusiastically and contradictory
seys the st. Louis Republic BY some Of the
ancient writer's 1t was maintained that the
city stands on or near the site of the Garden
OF Eden and Just outside there is beautiful
meadow of red earth from which it is said
God took the material from which ne created
Adam! his held is called Ager Damas
Genus, and near its center there formerly stood
pillar which waa said to mark the precise
| spot where our first parent was created.
| few miles out there is an eminence called the
| Mountain OF Abel, supposed by some TO he
| the place where the two first brothers offered
! their sacrifices; also the spot where the first
! murder was committed. The most interest
ing spot pointed out, however. is about three
| leagues from the city, where an old ruin is
shown which all the orient believe to be the
tom OF Cain, I he traditions respecting this
famous spot are known to antedate the Chris.
tain era by several hundred years. Up to
the time Of Vespasian the interior of the
tomb Is said to have been lighted and warmed
by one OF the ever burning" lamps SO com.
monty used by the ancients.
A surgical operation of unusual delicacv
and Importance was performed yesterday at
the Jefferson Hospital by Prof. Keen. saws
the Philadelphia The patient woman well
advanced in life, has for years suffered
greatly from persistent neuralgia OF the
face, which was especially painful in stormy
weather. Numerous attempts had been made
to remedy the affection, both by internal
treatment and by the cutting of the smaller
branches OF the nerve supplying the face but
these efforts proved only temporary benefit
Finding that the patients co dition Continued
unimproved Prof. Keen determined to omen
the cavity OF the brain and sever the affected
nerve from its connection with the brain
tissue After the womans head had cen
shaved and portion of her scalp removed
an electric drill cut out piece of the skull
twice the size OF silver dollar from he region
q owe the left ear. The brain. with its Gov
ering, was then exposed, and pushing
back the delicate tissues the bony door
OF the brain cavity was irought to
the surgeons view, exhibiting the
assures and openings through which MANY of
the most important nerves leave the skull
| The nerves OF sight and hearing the white
and glistening thread OF tissue which gives
power to the muscles OF the eye and ali the
other important structures conneetel with
the brain in that portion of the head were
carefully moved aside and at the bottom of
the cavity thus formed was the nerve trunks
which give over and sensation to the face.
The sensary branch, with the ganglion at
d, he'd to 1t, was severe /. thereby cutting of
all Connection between the brain and the lis
sues Of the face, so far as recos milton of pain
is con erned. he other nerves were MT
caref " in place again and the skull ire
pinned and Prof. Keen is confident that the
operation will result successfully. The sen
S r. nerve having teel severed, the patient
can "a perlencc no sensation OF any sort In 10
face tissues influenced ny that nerve conse-
0uentl she reed have fear of 90