The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-23
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" for a long period twelve months when
possible, keeping them busy during that
time. The patients always come in an
advanced stage of alcoholism. 1t has been
found, as the Lancet reports, that no
harm, but good, is done by the sudden
and complete disuse Of alcohol in such
cases; that a large number Of the cases
are permanently cured, and that habitual
drunkenness in women is by no means
-One of the latest discoveries in the ba-
GILL kingdom is the hay bacillus" found
guilty OF what has hitherto been called
the spontaneous combustion" OF lmprOp-
erly cured hay A scientist-who knows
all about il, of cOurse-says that the hay
bacillus is a minute, ''stick-like" being,
always and everywhere found on grass
ana nay When hay is not sufficiently
dry, the bacilli continues to live on, the
moisture stun present. BY their breath
ing these miSchieVOuS atoms generate
neat, and as there are billions on billions of
them the heat rises until it reaches 100
degrees centigrade and more Then the
poor Things die. But the mischief goes on.
Inc blades Of grass are turned into
threads of coal; the coal. cOndensing the
~, When this transformation has prog
ressed to the surface, slight draft fans
the smoldering mass into flame. In like
manner, bacilli of the same genus cause
the ignition of manure heaps
RESPONDENT: ..AIi who have had ' Oc-
of Cypress Hills cemetery dur
ing the last few weeks have had their at
tenuOn arrested by the Hfe-siZe statue
OF dog standing a few PAGES in front
Of a massive and handsome vault The
vault has just been erected by the widow
or J. George Burckle Mr.. Burckle died
IN the Dakotas, moving to Brooklyn sew
eral years ago. He. his wife and daugh-
ter were devoted family, but there was
almost as much affection lavished on a
pet collie dog he brought from his ranch
as upon any member of the family After
Mr.. BurclEle's death the animal was in
consolable and wandered about vainly
90 re hn oil farr lfer- B.,va hot
had caressed him daily. To the Burckle
burial plot the collie. with the fidelity
that has made the breed historic, often
found ITS way. In short time he, too,
was dead This devotion so touched the
family that ii was decided to reproduce
the dog in statuary. So there the faith
full collie stands in lifelike attitude,
steadily gazing at the resting place of
all that was mortal of his master"
with the growing popularity of the
bicycle the introduction of trolley cars
and the advent of the electric wagon" re-
marked a well-known veterinary surgeon
the other day, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord, THE horse is losing his grip. In fact,
ne is sometimes worth more dead than
alive. Few people have any idea of the
various articles which may be derived
from the carcass of a dead horse. q There
are people who make a business Of hand
ling them, and il has been estimated that
one concern realizes an average profit of
S24 on every carcass that they handle.
In the first place, the hide is valuable,
and the leather known as cordoVan is
taken from the skin over the rump. The
other leather is soft and is used mostly
for slippers and heavy driving gloves
The hair from the tail and name is made
into hair-cloth, and the short hair is used
for stuffiing cushions and horse collars.
From the hoofs oil is extracted and the
horny substance is sold to comb manu-
facturers. The leg bones are used for
knife handles. The ribs and head are
burned to make bone-black after the glue
has been extracted. BY various processes,
phosphorus, carbonate of ammonia, cyan
ide of potassium and prussic acid are OBJ
tanned and sometimes the meat is canned
and shipped TO Europe"
The electric arc lamp has always been
open to this objection: II casts very dark
shadows, says the New York Tribune. It's
illumination is not dffused enough for
many of the purposes for which light is
needed indoors. Hence the experiment
has been tried in several factories on both
sides of the Atlantic during the last year
or two of throwing the rays upward first.
and rejecting them from a clean white
ceiling. The results thereby attained SAL
isfy those who made the tests that the
new plan Is a distinct Improvement upon
the old one for certain establishments;
and now special inverted arc" is being
manufactured for the trade The refiectot
surrounding the arc opens upward in
stead of downward, and the mechanism
for feealng the carbon pencil as ii con-
sumes is arranged below instead of above
the arc. The direction of the current is
reversed, too, so as TO make the lower
carbon the positive pole. Even without
a reflector over 1t, the ordinary arc lamp
ward, because the extremity of the upper
carbon at the gap is more luminous than
that of the lower one But by causing the
current to flow in the opposite direction
the lower tip is made. to glow more in
tensely, and hence to increase the pro-
portion of the total radiance thrown up
ward.
The Paris press comprises nearly fifty
daily newspapers, the aggregate not hav-
ing varied greatly during the last ten
years. Most OF these are sold for one sou,
says writer in the National Review. An
extremely limited number is sold for two
sous, and two or three only for three
sous, or little less than three half-pence.
1t is hardly necessary to say by way OF
preliminary comment that dozen really
able Journals would be better supported
and better serve the interests of the
public. The French people, taken as a
mass, have little money to pay for the
qualification of the small amount of liter
airy taste they possess, an opinion en-
tertained by the novelist lola, who de-
clared in an interview a few months ago
that reviews and magazines like those OF
England and America would not find In
France a sufficient number of readers to
Justify their publication The Revue des
DeuX MondeS is supported by the profess
siOnal literati, the learned professions
and an aristocracy of birth and money II
is rarely seen outside these circles. Even
the handsome and readable weekly illus
trated newspapers, such as the 1llustra-
ton and Monde lllustre, have only a small
circulation, confined principally to the
cafes, though the literary matter they con-
tain is generally of an elevated charac-
ter, and especially adapted for family use.
Just at time when electric lighting
had almost ruined the Illuminating gas
business, says the New York Tribune, the
latter received aid from two important
sources One was the development of the
use of gas as a fuel and the other the in
vention by an Austrian chemist of a new
burner which greatly increased the light
produced by a given consumption of gas
The so-called incandescent gas burner
composed of a delicate fabric of rare
earths. and made to glow intensely with
the heat of a non-luminous flame, had to
contend with numerous difficulties when
introduced. Some of the earlier burners
gave CHASTITY, greenish light, which is
now avoided by changing the composition
of the cone" or mantle" Misrepresen-
tation as to the effect of this system of
illumination upon the air of room in
which the incandescent gas-burner is
used also gave the latter a Slight ternpo
rary setback. But the new idea is stead
lily gaining in popularity in Europe and
America, and during the last year or so
has been successfully adapted to street
light service. Still another advance has
now been made in the same direction. al
though the latest improvement has not
yet been put on a commercial basis a
Frenchman, NJ. Denayrouse, finds that If