The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

] numbers barely lOO1O men, yet no less IMAM
twenty-efght generals are engaged in its com
mand. Each OF these generals is attended by
an entire STAFF including chief of STAFF, aides
de-camp, orderly officers, surgeon and mill
| to what extent the Spanish army is over
orhcered.
Navigation Of the great lakes during the
season Of 1898 resulted in the loss of 1923 lives.
The number Of vessels lost was fftY-three.
| with an aggregate tonnage OF 24,25S, and
! valued at 81 ,04040O. Partial losses by strand
| lngs, collisions end fires bring the total up
/ q il2,5SS. The shallow waters Of Lake Erie
| claimed nearly half the lives lost, Lake Huron
| being second.
The Russian authorities have interviewed In
| behalf of the nightingale. The police Of
| Kew found some bird catchers on their way
| 10 MOSCOW with t0J nightngales in cages.
| The bird catchers were captured and fined,
| ana their little victims were taken to the
Botanic Gardens. and released. 1t is said
| they rose IN the air in song. which was re-
| sponded to by the other birds around.
The national airs of great countries are
short. while those Of little countries are long.
God save the Queen" is IA bars the Russian
| hymn is 10 bars and Hail Columbia" has %
| bars. Slams national hymn has 76 bars and
| that OF Uruguay 20 bars. Chile's 40, and so
on. san Mar1no has the longest national
| HYMN. except China's, which is so long that
people take half day of to listen to it.
At meeting OF the association of Austrian
engineers and architects, in Vienna, the
other day. George Wellner, professor in the
! Brunn Technical Academy. exhibited an in
Ventlon In the line OF aerial navigation, which
| is said to be on an entirely new principle
/ The machine is to be propelled by sails
| worked by steam motor, and is intended to
ny IN the same manner as a bee does. The
| association thought so we'll of the invention
/ that IL promptly voted an appropriation of
| 1000 forms for the construction of an expert
mental machine capable of carrying two per
| sons
| Prof. Tyndalls death by accidental
| poisoning has served to draw attention TO the
tact that in 1892 no less than $50 out of the s56
4 deaths certified as having been caused by
/ poison were due to misadventure. OF these,
| more than one-half were attributable to the
| accidental administration of choral chloro-
| form. opium. laudanum and morphine. fact
| which has now led the Pharmaceutical Soci-
! ETY. OF Great Britain to demand the enactment
| or statute compelling all chemists to sell
| poisons OF this kind in bottles Of fiuted glass,
| corked with screw shoppers. so that bottles
| containing poisons may readily be distin-
guished from others
The camel is a good soldier, says the Even
ing Wisconsin. 1t may be stupidity and it
| may be bravery, but camel is as steady I'M
| der fire as tower. The Persians mounted
! small annon on the backs Of their eafnels,
| ana call ed them Fam b-wahs or little waSpS
| This fashion was adopted IN India. and after
| the battle OF Sobroaon 1000 of these artillery
| camels we're captured In the Indian mulny
| and on the back OF each camel sat Scotch
| Highlander In his kilt In 1915 Sir Charles
| Napier had camel corps in Sindh, and in
| one day he marched Seventy-five miles, de-
| feated brigand chief and marched home
| again. In 1873 the British used camels against
the Afghans and the government paid for
| 10000 camels that died in those campaigns.
| Many Of these we're driven to death by their
| owners, in order that they might claim the
| government bounty.
In a dark room with alternating cur
rents OF 100000 voltage, Nicola Tesla, by
means Of atmospheric operations, caused a
faint glow Of light to appear Explaining
| the atmospheric vibrations, say 1,000.t0) to
| 100000, l can produce sunlight in this
ROOM OF course, can increase the vibTa-
lions by increasing the voltage. can make
| the voltage S,000,000 as easily as 500 000 but
| am not ready to handle 5000 900 volts of
| electricity. Currents of such strength would
| Kill everybody in the room. / expect, how
| ever to learn how to control large voltage.
| When have increased the atmospheric vi
| brations probably thousand times the phe-
nomena will % longer be electricity. 1t will
| be light am satisfied that sunlight can be
| made from electricity without doing harm to
| anybody, and expect to discover how 1t is
| done
1.-THE spotted veil habit will have to have
| it's asylums, or gold cures, or something.
said an occulist lately. Its, victims increase
| constantly, and they seem to be as devoid of
| will power to resist the mania as is the devo-
| tee OF any evil practice. Intelligent women
| come to me to be treated for eye troubles
| that in some cases are wholly produced by
| the use of the dotted veil. and in others seri-
/ ously aggravated. The harm is more percept-
! ible now than formerly. for women wear wells
| almost necessarily. At the theater, at social
| afternoons, at church, everywhere almost
you will see the covering film of lace. I've
| questioned my wife, who is is bad as any of
/ you, and she says that it is positively neces-
| sary-that ones hair flies and other disagree
able things happen if the veil is left of, so I
1 GnTT NTrfll kafNrn col
| eyes. At least, however. wear one without
| dots, or with them so far apart that one need
not come within eye range.
1t is said that Shamokin, Pa, rarely hears
an oath uttered now though not long ago
| there were good many men there who freely
| INDUCED In profane language. The reform is
due 10 the strange experience of one John
| Slmpk1nS, an employe of the iron mills
| SlmpklnS was very profane man. and sew
eral months ago heidew into passion and
| swore most horribly. Immediately, while the
| words were in his mouth, he was stricken
/ deaf and dumb and has not been able to hear
/ or utter sound till few days since he at
| tended church meeting and went up to be
| prayed for with other penitents. Those around
| him were surprised then to hear him
| praying with a loud voice, and for a
! time mis- Faculties was entirely recovered. He
alleged that Just after his last outburst of
| profanity he has seen an angel a being OF
/ dazzling brightness, who told him that his
| amictlon was the consequence of his sins and
moved him TO repent. A few days ago he told
his wife that the angel had appeared to him a
| second time in the night. and had informed
| him that he should again lose his speech and
| hearing and sight well. The following day'
his speech and hearing left him and his sight
began to fail. He is losing strength and is
| not expected to survive long. The affair is
| looked upon in the community as divine
| visitation.
II is no joke to set lions leg, says a New
York dispatch. That's what three surgeons
| said after getting through the experience to-
| day Nero. who plays hypnotic part in
| Huber's museum, is the lion operated on
| He quarreled with Victoria, a lioness. and
| she seized him by the thigh of the right hind
| leg and bit into the bone Nero went hout
| on three legs for as many days getting more
wretched every day, and the museum peopIe
| sent to the College Of Veterinary Surgeons,
in East Twepty-fourth street. and stated the
case to Dr. Henry Amllng. He got Dr. Oscar
E. Busener and DR.. Mckay as assist
ants and thirty seven medical students
whom he armed with weapons yaryine
from barrel stave to stove pokers as
body guard. They succeeded in strappine
Nero upon the operating table after he had
chewed up the cushions and spit them opt
disdainfully. Four grains of morphine were
injected hypodermicaily, and cocaine was in.
leced to produce local anaesthesia. Al the
first touch the lion got his front paw free and
made slap at the head OF DR. Busener VINO
was standing at his shoulder that would ha no