The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-15
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| used in Paris for street locomotion Ii will
be the first applied to the line from the
Louvre TO Versailles and also on that to St.
Cloud. On these two lines each locomotive
VIII draw two or three carriages. Compressed
air IS also to be used as a motive power ION
the new st. Augustin- de Nincennes
tramway line, but in this case the motive en-
glne will be on the tramcar itself.
For many years popular superstition has
found favor in the minds of many, regarding
the mistortunes which would follow the per
son who broke mirror, but at last this fear
OF ilI-luck promises to become a thing OF the
past, says the House Furnishing Review
The celluloid mirror Is a new invention which
should have future. The manner of con-
structlng 1t is as follows: A plate Of transpar,
ent celluloid is coated with silver or other
polished metal, over which another layer Of
Opaque celluloid is placed. and a mirror is OBJ
tanned which may be burned but which will
not be broken by an accidental fall. 1t is
qoEeQ tEat this invention may be applied
with advantage TO optical Instruments of
large dimensions. owing TO the ducfility Of
me substance, which permits of its taking the
required form with greater ease than reiec-
tors in metal, while possessing all the merits
OF the glass reflector.
Queen Bess' 5 Pocket Pistol" the formid-
able piece of brass ordnance which for gem
erations has overlooked the channel from
Dover Gins, has been removed from its place
OF honor in order TO make room for a battery
OF modern guns and now rests IN honora BILE
retirement in a less conspicuous part of the
castle, says the London Telegraph. This re-
markable gun is tWenty-four feet long. re-
quires charge Of 10 ounds Of powder and has
range, II Is said, OF seven or eight miles. The
verify Of this assertion has however, never
cen ascertained. Around the tube are
carved figures representing Victory and Lib
erty. The gun was gift from the Low Coun-
tries to Queen Elizabeth IN recognition of her
efforts to protect them and their religion. On
it is an iucription in flemish which is pop
ularly supposed to mean;
Load me we'll and keep me clean,
And I'll carry a ball to Calais Green"
idea that the gun was able to sweep the
French port which lay in front Of it, This
translation is. however, completely erroneous,
as the words really mean:
"O'er hill and dale can throw my ball
My name is Breaker of Mound and Wall :"
The Pocket Pistol" has long since ceased to
act up to its reputation, but will still be re-
garded as worthy memento of the spacious
time" of Queen Elizabeth.
George B. Pense, SUPERINTENDENT OF Mic
ara qua gold mine, has sent the following
letter to the Scientific American: Last fall
in company with Mr.. II. Carlos, of Cane era
ciaS Nicaragua l was coming down the river
Pts PTS In the Sumo country, from the Con.
a Sumo Indian village we found that the
chief had been bitten on the foot by a toma-
gas, the most venomouS snake in this uoun.
try. The man was in the most pitlable con.
his mouth, nose. ears and even from the
tattoo marks on his arms and breast His
urine was also dis 20 ored by blood. The
people were all clamorous for US to give him
some Merican Seekla american incidence
knowing that we always carried a medicine
chest with US It happened that we had
Teen discussing that same day the various
remedies for snake bites, and Mr.
Carlos had said that he heard that
TO cautertze the wound with car lolic acid
and give the same internally was a sure cure.
After explaining to them that it had been so
long since he had been bitten 1t might not be
possible to cure him. we decided to try the
above cure. The question was how much TO
give him. We decided upon three drops dis
water. We gave him two doses at an inter
val of half hour that evening. Two hours
after the second dose We gave him an emetic
that greatly relieved him and he soon went to
sleep, The next morning we gave him an
other dose OF the acid and left him. l was on
my way to the worlds fair and have lust re-
turned. Mr.. Carlos has got ba;k from an,
other trip 10 the mine, and tells me that our
patient is fully recovered and that he had sue.
cessfully treated another one the same way.
Halley's comet is coming back -the comet
which in the year 1865 shed. a celestial
splendor over the Norman conquest and
whose terror-inspiring visit was commem-
GRATED by the hand of Queen Matilda in the
Bayeaux tapestry; the comet that in 1856. the
year of the battle of belgrade scared the
Turk and the Christian alike and was
aHdtneuaIl@eu py Dull from the pope; the
comet whose strange scimiter form stu
chilled the marrow of the ignorant and
superstltlouS at its latest return in 1885 1t is
yet far away, says the Providence Journal
but the eye of science sees it, already within
the orbit of Neptune. rushing sunward and
earthWard with constantly increasing velocity
as II falls along the steep curve of its orbit
ANA call TO arms, a call for preparation has
Just Geen issued from one of the
chief watch towers of astronomy
Prof. Glasenapp announces that the
comPuting bureau esta nlished by
taken the calculation of the true path of
HALEY S comet with view to predicting the
exact date Of the next return. He hopes that
astronomers acquainted with unpublished
observations of the comet Will communicate
the Information to the society. After its
perihclion the comet was watched retreating
out into space until May 1886. when it was
| finally swallowed from sight. 1t will be in
per1helion again about 1911, but with the
great telescopes now in exis ence and the
greater ones that may have been constructed
1t Is probably that the comet will be detected
coming sunward year or more earlier than
that. The fact that the labor of computing
the pre- Use time OF its return is already abo1t
10 begin gives assurance that the next time
1t Will not be Il question of how MANY DAYS
but rather OF how many hours or even min
utes. the calculations Will be in error
The cities of the south have, relatively, but
small representation in congress. says the
New York sun The great body of southern
representatives hail from small country
towns or hamlets and the big cities are prac-
tcally ignored. Atlanta. Ca. with
population of $500, Is with.
out member of the House OF
Representatives. Nashville Tenn. with n
population of 10000 is without "a member of
the House of Representatives. So is vii.
mington, Del ; so is Dallas Tex with A
popul1tion of 10000; SO is Covington XIV.
with $1,000; so is Norfolk, Va. with IS 900: So
Is Austin, Tex, with Is 600: Birmingham
Ala, with 26.0CO: Wilmington. N C. with
10000; Raleigh, N. c., the capital city. with
1900 and Paducah KY, with the same num-
per. The southern representatives, coming
chiefly from the very small country towns
represent ,rarian interests chiefly and do
so In a majority Of cases TO the neg.
lie L OF the business interests Of
the large cities Nor is the case
much different in the Senate, Mobile as no
representation in the upper house. one o the
the other from kufaula. The big city of Bal
timore has no representative in the United
States Senate: neither has st. Louis Neither
OF the present Virginia senator's halls from
Btch mona, nor OF the Kentucky senator's
from Lo -iSville, nor of the Arkansas senators
from Little Rock. The one rep ceSentatiye of
wilmington. Del, in the Senate is a rept p1i.
can. The two Texas senators come from
Waco and Corsicana, though Galveston is the
biggest town In tine state. and the two West
Virginia senators come from Parkers burg
and sMaTtinsnurg, though Wheeling is The
chlef city, and the two senators from South
Carolina come from Edgeheld ami Laurens.
though Charleston is the chief city. 1t is this
peculiarly in the way of representation
which accounts in part for the radical posi-
tlOQ taken V dCmOpratiC mann hers froy,1 A.