The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-15
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guard. however, two of the older nuns
must always be present when an inmate
answers a hello"
The, drought is felt even up in Maine
recently party of Bangor bicyclists
stopped at farm house to get a drink
or water. The man told them that ne
could not accommodate them with water
out they could have all the milk they
wanted. He said that he had to drive
his cows five miles to water them and
on account OF the dry weather he found
II almost impossible to get water enough
Tor use in the family.
AN inferno at the city hospital at Gin
clnnati has invented a curious surgical
instrument. BY it any kind OF a knot
can be made day or night or deep in the
body with the utmost confidence 1t will
tie perfectly eight knots in the same time
the IN most expert surgeon can tie one. Wet
or bloody threads Gut no figure. The in
strument, when IN use, is worn on the
third finger of the left hand. II is made
OF aluminium, and weighs less than a pen.
hyWeight. By its use sutures can be held
open indefinitely. 1t is pronounced one of
the greatest little things ever invented
IN the way of surgical instrument and
a life saver.
--Bicyclists in Golden Gate Park, San
francisco, who violate any of the park
rules are brought up short in a surpris-
poicemen there are experts with the
3asso, or RATA as they prefer to call it,
ana many stories have been told of their
skill in lassOing runaway horses 1t is
against the rules for bicyclist TO ride
more than ten miles an hour in the park
ana II any scorcher is carried away by
Is femorselessly roped and brought up
IKE fractions steer, by the cowboy DO
llceman. And they can do the trick
every time, without single misthrow.
The members of the New York Social
Culture Club. who met to talk about
what they knew about hypnotism, shat
tered a popular idol recently. The speak
ers, among whom were DIR. Drayton DR..
r. Fisher m
meflSm and hypnotiSm, said that il was
Impossible for young woman like Tril-
Dy 70 sing as she did under the influence
of Svengal. They said she had no voice.
no ear for music and no brains and even
II she had all these things it would have
been improbable that SvengaH could
have Influenced her as he did. DIR. Dray-
ton said that he was thoroughly con-
WINGED that Du Maurier knew little or
nothing about hypnOtism and that the
hypnotizing incident in his book was
mere romancing
That ants can actually kill snakes is
a., hard thing to believe, says Pearson
weekly. There is irrefutable evidence
however, that they do, and scientists have
discovered tnat the snake has hardly
more dangerous enemy The large red
brown forest ant is the sort that is the
most fatal to snakes, and curious thing
ABOUT the attack of these tiny creatures
on TINS comparatively enormous reptile is
that they kill il for food and not on ac-
count OF any natural antipathy. When
SINE of the ants catch sight of a snake
they arouse the whole community at once
In platoons and battalions the little fell
lows set upon the reptile, striking their
hlppers into It's body and eyes at thou
sands of points at once. With such rand
movement and such splendid concentra-
tion is the attack made that the snake
mas no chance at all of escaping. 1t is
IKE thousand electric needles piercing
MIN at once. The snake soon becomes
exhausted, and dies ANONYMOUSLY. Then
the ants set harder at work. They begin
to tear off the flesh in small pieces, grad
u .i stripping away the skin and working
u ufs Not until they have carried
on everything, except the bones and the
skin itself, do they retire.
Despite the fact that bicycling among
women Is said to be in1uring the corset
largely into the construction of corsets,
has risen to a famine price says the
New York World. Half century ago
great many ships used to start from Sag
Harbor New Bedford and Boston for
long cruises in the Arctic seas in search
OF whales. Those that returned from their
readily sold their cargoes of oil and bone
at what were then considered fair prices
Nhaleoone for example, used to bring
about $500 ton, most of it being used in
limbrella-making. Steel. of late years
has been almost entirely substituted for
1t In this as well as for almost all other
manufacturing purposes. Whalers grew
discouraged, and the industry declined al
most to the disappearing point Whale
bone has been steadily growing scarcer
and scarcer, and its prices have gone
steadily upward. This year ii is worth
about $500 a ton. and there have been
years within the last decade when for
time 1t has brought twice that sum-
Unless the whaling business takes new
lease OF life however. there seems to be
little prospect of the bone ever bringing
less than $4,000 a ton.
The American nimrod will soon be able
70 decide to nicely whether his gun has
tailed him or not. says the New York
World; He will be able to. tell at a glance
when he has shot strolling COW instead
of the expected bear. or perchance, riddled
one of his hunting friends or a passer-by
with buckshot. This he Will do bv simnlv
removing from the gun barrel a small
Photographic apparatus affixed to it. The
German emperor recently introduced 1.-The
at bennington prairie. 1t proved to be an
immense success in deerstalking In this
form of hunting the sportsman matches
patience. endurance and skin ag Tihaa
the marvellous defensive instincts
OF OF the game. The swift an
wounded than killed outright by a bal.
In that condition they run many miles
with the hounds and huntsmen often fol-
lowing, and then may escape. The new
apparatus adopted by the kaiser shows
eNactly where the shot took effect and
mus enables the hunter to determine
Whetner or not it will pay to follow up
the game. The naked eye may deceive the
hunter, who is usually trembling with ex-
cdtemsht. but as the axis of the gun
camera always corresponds with the
slgnt, 1t must necessarily reflect the
exact spot where the bullet is aimed. The
camera opens the moment when the
sight" is taken and closes with the pic
lure fiXed in it fraction of a second he
fore the firing of the shot The devise
Is light and easily detachable. The hunt
er' breast pocket serves as a dark room
Tor the record of his skill
ut appears strange says the New York
home Journal that the fall of the lear
may be sometimes connected with the an
proach OF cold, and sometimes with hot
Weatner, but 1t is very conclusively shown
mat this is the case. Heat and cold are
only indirect causes, the primary cause
pelng the danger threatened to the miami
py the continuance of Transportation and
~ is contended that the throwing off Of
the transpiring surface and the tempora
~ stoppase of the sap current furnish
one OF the best protective measures in
plants plan surrounded by air. against exces-
siVe transportation Again, in auf1Imo
the absorbing activity of the roots iss
SO reduced by the low Temperature Of the
soil that the water which is lost bv trans
b Plration !. is no longer replaced Frost
partially accomplished before the fros3
set IN: and, where the leaves stiil cling
10 the branches, preparations are ais
ready made for their detachment. Ker-