The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The true wild boars and the feral hogs
/ which has escaped from captivity in va
I rluos parts of the world go about in herds
/ for mutual protection, says a writer in the
I North American Review, and when one is
/ attacked the others stand by him and de-
! reno him. This affords an explanation of
I the original use of the shrin voice of the
pig, and of his readiness to exercise ii
I whenever he is in trouble. In fact, when
/ ever your near a pig squealing you hear a
/ testimony to the intrepid deeds of his race
I IN the past as eloquent and emphatic as a
/ Fourth OF July grafton. In the wild state
/ II was mis- appeal for help to which he
/ knew his brethren, one and all would re-
/ spond with splendid loyalty and courage.
Many hunter has had to climb tree to
save MS he after WOunding one of a herd
| OF peccaries- Now the hog would not ex-
pend MS breath in ear-splitting squeaks
unless ne felt pretty sure of getting some
| DeneHt from so doing. His squealing.
therefore, amounts TO a lively expression
OF faith in the noble moral qualities of his
Dretnren. 1t conveys precisely the same
sentiment as do the words of a stump ora
Tor Wnen he says: Gentlemen, l well
know your consIancy and your courage!
You have proved many times in the past
thdt you are no mugwumps who go to
IooSt on fence when the party is in dan
ger! L confidently look to you, therefore.
70 STAND by me in the present tremendous
Experiments are being made bv two
Well-known physicians in this city with
new anaeSthetic. by the use of which
| Ihey nope to do away entirely with the
many dangerous and nauseating effects of
anaesthesia as produced bv prevailing
mehods, says the New York Tribune
Inc component parts of the new discovery
dIS pure oxygen and ether. and il is
asserted that by a proper combination
OF the two "A person may be put into a
state of insensibility for operating pur-
poses without fear of a possible fatal
termination or any immediate debilita-
ton of the system. The combination of
oxygen and ether, its introducers hope
soon to demonstrate to the medical fac
ulty, VIII obViate the extreme pallor or
sutfusion of the face and the weakness
induced by the means now used to de-
prive people of the sense of feeling
W hlle the doctors who are working to
perfect this new process of anaesthesia
reIuse TO give any details just now for
pubhcatlon, on the plea that it is as yet
only IN It's experimental stage, they de-
clare that they have used it in several
operation cases with the most satisfactory
results. One of the doctors Interested
who does not wish his name to appear in
connection with his theory until its truth
is practically assured said to a Tribune
reporter yesterday: we have adminis-
tered the anaeSthetic to several persons in
the present year, and in not single case
has 1t been attended by sickness or nau-
sea ting symptoms or perceptible weakness
or the respiratory organs of the heart
Very often under the prevailing system
stimulantS have to be administered or
injected in order to keep life in the pa
tient. But in the cases to which l have
just referred stimulants were not once
found necessary. A short time ago OPP
Grated upon my little boy and as an an
aesthetic gave him this mixture of oxygen
and ether His appearance under it's in
| fiuence was just as if he were peacefully
sleeping, and within two hours after
ward he was around playing with his
toys"
The oldest of all the obelisks is the
beautiful one of rosy granite which stands
alone among the green fields on the banks
OF the Nile not far from Cairo. 1t is the
gravestone of a great city which has van
ished and left only this relic behind, says
a writer in the Pail Mall Gazette. That
city was the Bethshemes of scripture, the
famous on, which is memorable to ali
Bible readers as the residence of the priest
of On. Potipherah, whose daughter Ase-
nath, Joseph married. The Greeks called
it HeliopOlis, the city of the sun, because
there the worship of the sun had its chief
center and its most sacred shrine. 1t was
the seat of the most ancient university
in the world. to which youthful students
came from all parts of the world to learn
the occult wisdom which the priests OF
On alone could teach. ThaleS, Scion, Eu-
doXus, Pythagoras and Plato all studied
| there; perhaps Moses, too. 1t was also the
birthplace of the sacred literature OF
Egypt where were written on papyrus
leaves the original chapters of the Oldest
book in the world, generally known as
striking account of the conflicts and tn
umphs of the life after death, a whole
copy or fragment of which every Egypt
ian, rich or poor, wished to have buried
which are found inscribed on every mum
my case and on the walls of every tomb.
In front of one of the principal temples
of the sun, in this magnificent city, STOOD
along with a companion, long since de-
stroyed, the solitary obelsk which we
now behold on the spot. 1t alone has sur
vived the wreck of all the glory of the
place. 1t was constructed by Usertesen l.
who is supposed to have reigned $500
years y. c., and has outliVed all the dy-
nastic changes Of the land, and still stands
where it originally stood nearly forty
seven centuries ago. What appears OF
its shaft above ground is sixty-eight feet
in hight, but its base is buried in the mud
of the Nile, and year after year the inun.
dation of the river deposits its film of
soil around its foot and buries it still
deeper in its sacred grave.
AT the recent meeting of the South
Stanordshire Institute of Iron and Steel
WORKS managers, Thomas Morris pre-
scented some interesting facts about the
remarkable achievements that have been
reached in the manufacture of fine wire
or the antiquity of wire, Mr.. Norris said.
there could not be the slightest douht
That used in the dress of Aaron the high
priest was stated to have been cut from
thin plates of gold, and wire had been
discovered that was made as far back as
100 B. c. 1t was not however. until
about the middle of the fourteenth CEN
fury that WITHDRAWING was first prac-
ticed, and then in Germany. Wire-draw-
ing was practiced in France at the end
of the fifteenth century, and it was mere
~ hundred years later before the in
q. r.
ing the reign of Elizabeth The Forest
of Dean was long the seat of the wire
drawing trade. In 1868 the first mechani-
cal wire mill property was erected A,
Sheen, near Richmond. Birmingham an
peared to have taken up the manIIfact1,ra
of wire in the eighteenth century with
characteristic energy, but early in the
present century Lancashire began to take
the lead. both as regards quantity and
quality. Mr.. Morris gave an interesting
description of the various articles thai
illustrated his paper, especially the yari-
Gus wires. and pointed out that the War
rington wire manufacturer who presented
him with many of the specimens got 81 20
per pound, or over So, 900 per ton. for the
specimen of drawn wire, which was large
~ used in the construction of pianos ana
other musical and mechanical insfriI
ments. For the pinion wire he got sol 81
per pound, or $43,200 per ton. 1t took IA
hair springs to weigh an ounce Of 427iS
grains. 1t took p, 900 of them to weieb
a ton, and, taking one to be worth a cent
and half, the value of ton of these
apparently cheap little things ran m 10
over 100000. The barbed instrument iIseI
by dentists for extracting nerves from
&c av,,..