The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ton into the relations between brain. nerve
and muscle it is announced that a wave Of
j thought will traverse a mile OF nerve in about
a minute
The Chicago newspapers are rejoicing that
| they are delivered from the tyranny Of the
messenger boy. The City Press Association
/ has had the ot1ces OF al its members con
, nected by pne umatic tubes, with all the i'm.
/ portant news-gathering Centers, the central
/ police station, the associations Offices the
/ various national ana international news asso-
! clatlons, ana the teleg aph of1ces, and the
/ news Is now delivered at the editors desks
/ with lightning speed and unfailing accuracy.
/ The tut es used are seamless, drawn
and are laid beneath the streets in a solid
| mass OF cement, below the water and gas
/ pipes, and all other distractions. A useful
| peculiarlty Of the system Is that by an cleo
| trl' al CONTINUANCE whatever moisture con
| denses IN the tubes from the air is at once va
! porlZed and carried of V the air current. thus
keeping the tubes perfectly dry. The carriers
1 USED are made OF leather. 20 inches in diane
| ter and inches long. They have a band of
| fur around each end to make them III tightly
| IN the tuoes.
! The recent talk about the danger of persons
being buried alive has led genius of St.
Joseph No, to invent and patent what he
| calls grave alarm" In the conn is placed
a small electric battery, to which is attached
an alarm something like the contrYanCe
| that is placed in clocks The alarm Il
fastened to the lid Of the coffin. = strap is
| attacheg to II and to the hand Of the corpse,
| so that the slightest movement VIII set the
| alarm IN motion. a wire attached TO the
alarm runs up through the grave, up a pole
| o. battery and bell are attached.
| slight movement in the coffin will start
| the alarm and ring the Tell in the sections
| house, and If person has been buried alive
| tne alarm IN the sections house notifies him
| OF the fact at once. The inventor of the
grave alarm" has also provided an iron pipe
! 70 te used on the graves where the attach
/ menb is to be set. The pipe will furnish
/ enough fresh air to sustain life. and can be
| taken up when the friends of the deceased
have become fully satls led that death has
! really Ia zen place The device has been
| adopted Dy the Iowa cemetery, but so far il
has not been put in operation by any OF the
| Corpses.
! The person whose name will go into the
! book that will some time be compiled on
| ',Curiosities Respecting Human Beings as
| the elephant Man died in London hospi-
| GaI IN the early part OF the year 1890, says the
! ST. LOUIS Republic. The poor fellow was
! amlcted with two OF the most terrible disea-
! ses known to the physicians and surgeons
| oVeTgrowth OF the bones and humorous ex-
| crescenceS OF the skin. Two enormous bony
| o4tgrowths developed on his forehead and
! Iater on the bones Of the upper jaw. nose.
! right arm, and toIh feet grew to gigantic pro
| portions The skin disease caused great fan
| IKE masses OF flesh to hang from different
! .ortlons of his body. particularly from the
/ -SI al ucdu ne u)SG was the RACIAL
| feature uIon which the disease seemed to
! nave taken special spite, the overgrowth of
! zone, aeSh and skin causing it to hang down
| so as to give the man very repulsiFe. ele.
! phantne appearance Just before his death
| the head, which had been increasing in size
| with wonderful rapidity for about four years
| attained such proportions that the neck could
! no longer hold it erect. During the whole of
! the last year OF his life he slept in a crouchiug
| position, with his hands clasred around his
| legs ana his enormous head resting on his
| knees and arms
| Kingdoms and principalites run certain
risks in the marriages of their rulers that
students Of biology could tell them were dan
| gerous. says the st. Louis Glo5e- Democrat
| For instance, Queen Victoria S grandd lighter
| Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and SAKE
| 90 urg, IS to marry the queens grandson
/ Duke Ernest LoulsiOf Hesse- Darp7stadt-
| cousins. But they are also second cousins on
! the Darmstadt side of the house as well as on
| the English royal side The grandmother of
| the Princess Victoria was sister OF the Grand
| Duke OF hess, from whom Duke Ernest is
! descended; the Empress Of Russia wife OF
! Alexander II. having, as they say in Russia
| nroQght consumption into the Romanoff
family witnessed not only her own but her
/ eldest son death by it at Nice and the deli
| cate health OF the two sons of the present
! car. The betrothed pair are not only first
| cousins, DuJ second cousins beside on the
| Russian and Darmstadt side ana SO the com
| pllcatons that too Closely-connected mar
! rIages sometimes develop are already shadow
| both sides is healthy. however the marrying
| in and in does not harm, it is affirmed by
| trens b stAtlcians, the good qualities are
| doubled W and accented as the prepOnderat-
| Ing defective ones occasionally are in these
marriages of near relatives.
In reply to the query Of which is the storm.
| lest region Of the ocean, Pearson's, Weekly
| says: Taking the question in the ordinary
| sense of the words. this evil distinction must
| be given to the region lying about Cape Horn,
| or cape smoke! as 1t is aptly AMI wlths
| good reason called by mariners. 1t is true
! that no storms so violent as the hurricanes
! Of the West indies the cyclones of the North
| Amsric can Atlantic coast or the typhoons OF
| the CHINA seas are to be met with here But
| on the other hald the waters of Cape
| Horn have never been unvisited by storms
| tor more imam week or two at a Stetch
| within the memory of man Standing on
| the outpost OF the world, Cape Horn is the
meeting place Of ocean currents of yery
| different temperatures, from the lev cold wa
! ters OF the Antarctic drift to the warmth OF
| the 6razu and Peruvian return currents The
! prevailing winds are from the northwest and
west, and these, coming from the warm
! regions OF the Pacific, condense into the fogs
which sailors call Cape Horn blankets " and
| which are the sure fOTerunre:s of storms
| The extremely low Level to which the gIacfe s
| OF Tierra del Fuego descend, she perpetual
! cOngeation Of the sub-soil the meeting of
| conflicting winds of very different tampera-
| lures. are ali direct or indirect causes com
| bining to make this the most constantly
/ stormy region OF the world.
Dr. J. E. Huxley, OF Maidstone Eng. thinks
| he has hit upon the natural remedy for sleep
! lessness, says the Medical Press It is in brief
| to curl under the clothes like kitten or pur
| the head under the wing like hen lie saws:
/ This insomnia seems TO he now a universal
! afhlcton. We live wrongly; sit up late and
| overWork the brain, and then go to bed in an
1 excited condition. NO one seems to have hit
! upon the natural remedy. l think ha
! People take choral and the like at their
| peril, and the fatal conSe 9uence not seldom
| ensues. It is all wrong, for you cannot con
| troll the dose required for the exact Circunl-
| stances. But try natures plan instead; lower
| the supply OF oxygen to the blood produce a
little aSphyXla, limit the quaint of air to the
| lungs, and the heart and circulation Lecomipg
! quicker. the brain loses its Stlrnulant and
| sleep follows. When you find yourself i'm
| for seepless night, cover your head with
| the led clothes and breathe and repreathc
| only the resptred air. Thus you NAV reduce
| the stimulating oxygen and fall as eep There
| is no danger, When asleep you are sure to
! disturb the coverings and get as mulh fresh
| air as you require: or, when once drowsiness
! has Leen produced it is easy to 70 on sIeep.
| ing, though the air re fresh What do the
| cat and dog do when they prepare to sleepy
| They turn around, generally three times. and
lastly bury their noses in some hollow in their
hair and on they go. They are in no dan
ger, although 1t m1Eht LOOK as if tuev were
| from the closeness with which they embed
their noses"
The churches of Naples are nothing re.