The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


= curious case has Just been recorded
in which an electric current was found
10 be generated by a plate Of artificial
teeth, says Industries and Iron. a pa
tient consulted his doctor an account OF
a severe pain ia his tongue But the
sufferer was assured that there was moth
ing the matter. He then paid a visit 70
his dentist, who informed him that his
teeth were perfectly sound. Being, how
ever dissatisfied, he called upon an cleo
trician whom he knew, and asked him II
II II was possible that he could have any
electricity in his mouth on examining
the teeth his friend found that two metals
were used 10 TX them TO a composition
plate. To these metals wires were then
attached and connected TO a galvanom-
eIer. Then the teeth were replaced in the
patients mouh and the metals moistened
with saliva. No sooner was this done lnan
the galvanometer showed quite a large
current from so small e soUrce-enough,
II IS stated, TO cause liberation and Sc
we're pam when long continued upon so
sensitive an organ as the tongue The
plate was covered with an Insulating
varnish, and thencsforWard all the trou-
bic ceased.
= learned Syrian traveller. at present
enjoying solourn in Buffalo. says that
the Syrian papers probably contained not
the most distant allusion TO the massacres
IN armenia says the Buffalo Courier.
AFTER observing the ways OF American
newspapers he declared that the yankee
editor was in Paradise and did not know
IT, In Beyrout, said he. there is q censor.
an ofncer OF the Turkish government,
and TO him must be submitted the first
copy OF every newspaper, and until he ap
proves II not another one may be taken
out OF the pressroou. And there are some
thirteen daily papers in BeyrCut. it is easy
70 imagine what an inconvenience this is.
lt viii not do to give the censor proof
slips. He must see the entire sheet as il
Is intended for circulation. While the
press waits the censor runs his eye over
the Journal II there rs line of news
which the government would prefer. not
to have published, il there is a leader re-
lecting in the slightest degree upon the
conduct of affairs in Constantinople, the
censor draws his pencil through it, and
the matter must be taken out In antici-
patton OF such an occurrence, Syrian edi-
tors always keep in reserve several col
umns Of matter in type. This is all most
laudatOry of the sultan, of the grand viz
Ter. of all Turkish officialdom 1t is care
fully made up in portions of varying
length, stickfuls. two-stickfuls, half cor
umns, columns and squibs. If
rst o f6r@g ORDERS o1t be part the
fulsome hattery are Immediately substi-
tuted, fresh impression is. taken, the
censor, approves, and the presses are
started UP.
Nobody would suppose, says the New
York Sun, that the two prima donnas of
the Metropolitan Opera Company, who
live at the st. James hotel are American
women. Both Emma Eames and Sibyl
Sanderson talk French continually. and so
do the members of their little households
A@dCu ulC mas brought with ner 70 TINS
country little colony of her own; and no
body but the guests of the hotel has any
Idea or the number of people necessary
nowadays for the comfort of prima don
ma of the first rank. The number of call
ers upon one subject or another is so great
that there is constant running to and fro
III the corridor given up to the two prima
dOnnaS. Each one has her own personal
manager. So has Melba, for that matter.
ana secretary as well. The secretaries
ana personal managers appear to be busy
a h col
element Whenever the prima donna is
to appear at the opera the hotel is in a
state of suppressed excitement. and she
nnally gets to the opera house. There is a
scurrying about the hotel, the carriage
IS filled with robes, and maid servants with
toot-warmers, extra robes and innumera-
BILE bundles and parcels of costumes make
frequent trips between the carriage door
and the hotel entrance. Finally the hour
arrives, the elevator door is thrown open,
ana an animated bundle Of rich furs and
tendants preceding and following her
FINALLY the prima donna is tucked away
efileLuilS ~ the carnage, the uoor Is
slammed smut, and the driver takes his
way carefully up town. while the maids
and other attendants follow in the next
cable car.
Sandow, comments Or. G. F. Lydston m
a medical journal, is probably the finest
living example Of muscular possibilities
He shows the wonderful results to be OBJ
tained by systematic and philosoubical
methods of muScle-buildng, but such de-
velopment is neither necessary nor advis-
able. The average big-muscled man is
muscle-bound, and even Sandow himself
Is probably at disadvantage i'll feats re-
curing combination of skill strength
and agility. Corbett is an ideal athlete
with muscles that are well laid, but not
bulky Shadows exhibitions call for
word of caution to youths who imagine
that his feats of strength Illustrate ideal
training for he is of very phlegmatc
temperament and persons of more sensa-
tive organization would soon pays the
danger line in attempting to emulate him
The personal equation must be considered,
even in athletics while diet and drink
cannot be neglected. Sandow's apparently
perfect condition does not justify the in
ference that great feats of stregnth are
harmless in any case, for at his best he is
confronted by two dangers-death at an
early period if his athletic strain is sus-
pended, or death at middle age from
continuance Of his work. To rest is i'm
possible without decay of his enormous
heart and lungs. 1t has been said that
a man IS Just as old as his arteries" and
at As SandoW will be in the prime OF his
strength, while his arteries and heart
will not be in their prime of elasticity
ReadJustment after strain Will be no
longer possible, and degenerat ton and dis
ease of heart and arteries viii follow.
Shadows system of muscle-building is siI-
perb, hut dangerous.
Desiring to learn just how much tun-
Melting a mole can do in a known num-
Der of hours, says a writer in st. Nicho-
las, we caught a good large specimen,
anu 1ulIuGQldtSly turned 1t loose IN the
middle OF hVe-acre field of clover. The
grass was so thin and winter-1illed that
the ground was practically bare, but not
loose like the soil of a cultivated field
Five seconds after the mole received its
freedom, it had burrowed out of sight
This may seem past belief but the fact is
vouched for by the official timekeeper.
Sticking stake al the starting point, we
retired and left the digger hard at work
The start was made at II a. m, and the
direction taken was eastward. By D. m
the mole had dug twenty-three feet in a
zigzag line, but keeping the same general
direction all the time, and without dig
Eing any side galleries. BY II a m. of the
following day the tunnel had been driven
thirty-one feet further, with numerous
SIDE galleries, and four feet had been
added at the end next to the starting
point In another hour ten feet had been
zadded to the extremity. making sixty
eight feet of main line and thirty-six and
a half feet of branches, or total of ten
and one-half feet of tunnels, dug in
twenty-five hours The bottom of the tun-
nels ran very evenly about four
inches below the surface. Some
times the hole was ellipitical in
shape, measuring one and a half inches
in width by two inches in hight. and
sometimes it was triangular, measuring
two inches each way. The surface of
the ground was usually cracked and
raised about an inch along the course of
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