The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of ine and robust physique and ali practical
agriculturists.
In lecture before the Academy Of Sci
! ences of San Francisco, Robert Stevenson
said the true cause of gravitation had Just
been discovered. He declared that Newton's
s thsory OF eentripetal force is as complete a
deluslon as the Ptolemaic idea OF the motion
| OF the heavens. There is he said no need
| Tor an ETHEREAL medium to transmit force or
energy, as both can be made to pass through
| a vacuum Any weight given horizontal We
loclty near the surface of the earth equal to
l,OS6 feet per second would never fall 10
| earth
The nave Of the church at Greenstead. or
Greenstead Ongar, one Of the most ancient
| churches of Britain. is extremely curious, be-
| ing composed Of the half trunks Of oaks set
| upright and close to one another. The trunks
| acout Ia feet in diameter. have been split
| through the center and roughly hewn at each
end TO let them into sill at the bottom and
| into plank at the top, where they are fast
ened by wooden pegs. The nave is % feet
Inches long by IA feet wide, and is believed
70 have been erected about 1913 as a shrine
for the reception of the body of St Edmund
king and martyr
Flies are the pest and worry of all tidy
| housekeepers, and how TO rio room Of
| them is an unsolved problem to many. saws
| the St Louis Globe Democrat. This is
quite easily accomplished by taking ad-
vantage of the flies habit of flying to the
| window or place from which light is
admitted, and to accomplish this, darken all
the widows with heavy shade, or any ma
| terlal, cutting hole in one of the shades
over which is firmly pinned a sheet OF the
common transparent fly paper, and. IL DOS
siole, have this located at one Of the east
south or west windows from which the most
light may be obtained. 1t will be but q short
| time ere the flies in the room will be sticking
to this paper in their effort to be near the
! llght. Ihls IS far easier and more clearly
than placing paper about the room for them
| TO accidentally light upon, or killing them
with poisoned liquid or pyrethrum powder.
The good, old-fashioned drink, soda water
| is said to have first been made by a man
named Austin Thwoites. of Dublin. in 1900. ~
sald Dr; L. Z. Venlre, OF Philadelphia to a
st. Louis reporter. But it has been vastly
| improved upon during the last thirty or forty
years. In few other departments of inventive
taste and skill have greater strides been
mace toward perfection. American ingenuity
| seems to lead the van in this march of i'm
provement, for even the French, with all
their skill In matters bibulous, learned some
thing new when an enterpriSing yankee set
up an American soda fountain at the great
| exposition 1867, which was decided novelty
| to the Parisians and their guests, and met
| with hearty welcome from all AS many as
| 1000 glasses were sold in one day, and the
| crowd that collected around the fountain was
so great that they had to be formed into line
| by the police, and, after first receiving checks
| went up and took their drinks by turns"
A statement has been prepared at the navy
| uCPaAbu bhONIuS Jll6 HuLu DEF merchant
vessels available for naval service in case Of
war, either as transports or as cruisers, saws
| the Washington Star. There are at present
| on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts eighty mer-
chant vessels that could be used as trans
| ports and slightly over half this number that
could be fitted up with light batteries and do
| enective duty as cruisers. Most of these
| ships are located on the Atlantic coast, the
| Pacific coast having comparatively few YES
| sells that could be used by the government in
| any emergency. subsidies are granted the
owners of the vessels inspected for this pur
| pose. When inspection is concluded the yes
| sci is rated as belonging to either the cruiser
| class or one Of the four classes of transports.
1t is estimated that in case of war the United
| States could send an immense force to any
| foreign country on board these vessels. At
| least 100000 men could go on the trans
ports alone, and the cruisers could also carry
| a large number, as their size in many cases
| is much greater than that OF any of the trans
| ports.
Witchcraft seems to flourish in France to-
day as vigorously as it did in the long ago
The London Standard tells the following
curious story of case which was recently
| before French court A middle-aged lady
living at Fountainhleau was very anxious to
| know whether her lover, and handsome
| young soldier, would ever return to her so
she went to consult Nine. Bretheaux. The
reputed which Immediately announced to her
client that she had been placed under a spell
| and that 1t was urgent to remove il. To ac-
complish this SiXtyfour francs and fifty CEN
times sheet and chemise were necessary
| The money and the articles were brought the
next day by Mile. Bauchet Nine days later
| Nine BretheauX said that she had removed
the spell which had been thrown on on Mile.
| Bauchet. but she had discovered that the
| witches of the country in which her lover was
living had thrown spell on him. The ''witC h"
declared she would succeed in saving him,
| but to do so she wanted 1871 francs and
dozen linen pocket handkerchiefs. A few
days later the ingenious cheat succeeded in
getting her victim to give her an additional
sum of 500 francs on the pretext that she had
| been obliged to burn a golden crucifx at the
| shrine OF the virgin, and that she must 20 on
| with her incantationS if the soldiers life was
| 10 be saved. It was not until some time after
| this-after Nine. Bretheaux had swindled her
out of 975 francs 50 centimes, to say nothing
| of the sheet, pocket handkerchiefS. etc.-that
| the contiding victim related her adventure to
| less credulous friend, and at length dis
| covered she had been swindlcd. The case
| was tried at Fontain bleau. where Nine Bre.
| theaux was condemned to three months i'm
prtsonment The appeal court confirmed the
| sentence.
"Of course you know there is no connection
between the hot weather and canine mad
ness" said a Washington veterinarian in
speaking TO Post man the other day. The
dog days are myth, for statistics have
shown that rabies in dogs or any other ami.
NAL does not depend on the heat for it's de-
| Velopment; but, in fact, there are more mad
dogs in Paris every winter, according to gov
| eminent statistics, than in the summer Rut
1t is true, nevertheless, that there have been
| a great many mad dogs in Washington lately
The most OF them are not recogniZed,as such
| but they are real rabies nevertheless, and
| every time now that any one comes to me to
| attend a dog with "a bone in his throat l
| start out loaded TO kill mad dog, if necessary.
The most people do not know it. but there
| are two sorts of rabies, the dumb
| and the raging. In the latter there is no mis-
| taking the disease. The dog starts out to run
amuck and goes swapping and biting at
| everything in sight till in falls exhausted
But the other variety is principally indicated
by paralysis of the lower Jaw, which makes
the animal go about with his mouth hanging
open as though he had bone in his throat
| The disease does not seem to make the ami.
NAL vicious but he goes around looking for
| sympathy, rubbing affectionately against his
master and begging to be caressed. He will
lick the face and hands of his owners If al
lowed, and the virus is as easily transmitted
in this way as through bite, should the sun
ject Of the caress have any cut or abrasion OF
the skin that the poison can reach The ami
maj will try to drink, but cannot owing
| to the paralysis OF the throat muscles and
| the madness is rarely discovered till in the
| last stages. have had several cases of This
J sort lately among the owners of fine pet dogs
| but, OF course, when the animal is killed the
matter is kept very quiet Madness does not
! seem to be so common among the ours OF the
! city as with the high-bred specimens. Pound.
! master Einstine, when questioned said that
| he had not met with case of rabies this sum
mer. but he says it is hot enough down at the
pound ONCE to give the poundmaster all the
| different sorts of madness and brain fever in
! the catalogue, ana now he is poin0 around