The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-28
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anyone coming from a newspaper. While
in Paris recently he was guarded by
Bristol on cycles. When the king went
out for his early morning stroll they
followed on foot, pushing their machines
along. King Carlos is in the habit OF
rising at dawn, and even earlier. He was
up and about the bOulevards at the
busiest hours-that Is to say, between
faced, and his figure, hair and COM
pleXiOn show German blood.
IA remarkable lake has been discovered
on the island Of kildine, in the Arctic
ocean, by NJ. Herzenstein, Russian nat
uralst. The lake is completely separated
from the sea by a narrow strip of land,
and the water Of the surface, which Is
fresh and flows from springs IN a neigh
boring marsh, Is inhabited by fresh water
animals. The discoverer was struck, how
ever, by the finding of an exclusively
marine fish-the common cod. Further
observation has shown that under the
superficial layer of fresh water the lake
mOnes and other marine animals. The
muddy bottom exhales sulphurated hydro
gen, and is not inhabited. A regular ebb
and flow of the lake, though much less
than the adjacent sea, indicates some
subterranean connection between the sea
and lake.
The progress of photography under the
sea, by means of the newly devised mag
nesium light-a marvel of ingenuity-may
justly be described as something wonder
full, though the timing of the exposure
serious difficulties yet to be overcome
says the New York Sun. 1t is stated
with reference to this important point
that thus FAR in the process an exposure
of ten minutes at a depth of three to four
feet VIII give good results. At a depth
however, of fifteen to eighteen feet, an
than thirty minutes when the sun in
brightest, though even at this depth IL
becomes necessary to apply a plate OF
blue glass in front of the lens in order to
obtain pictures that are really pure, while
in deeper regions photography would, ii is
declared, be impossible but for this i'm
proved device. 1t not only saves time and
trouble. but good pictures, it is said, have
been taken during storms and without
appreciable light from above.
Singing is highly recommended as a
nerve tonic, and justly, says the Ameri-
can. 1t is noticeable that birds are silent
when they are sad, and unless they can
be ,e1oaxed to sing they pine away: Human
viii ana reason can rise superior to in
clination, and force from the very talons
of distress that with which to conquer
II. When the world looks bleak and af-
fairs go wrong, sing "The Star-Spangled
Banner" at the full compass of your voice
II you sing it every morning the neigh
bors will become used to ii. Plaintive
songs are not to be encouraged unless
one has surplus vitality to get rid of, but
no matter how much or how little voice
you Wavelet 1t out in ballad or carol now
and then or join the church choral society
to improve your spirits, both by the vocal
exercise and the social intercourse with
gatherings where early hours are kept
are beneficial. IT, as a great psycholo-
gist declares, happiness is health" we
need to go where enjoyment is and catch
some OF it when We feel like immuring
ourselves in solitude and nursing our mis-
cry.
What to do with the dead bothers the
living in San Francisco, where the ola
battle of intramural versus extramurai
interment is being waged again, says the
New York Post. The city is peculiarly
unfortunate with regard to cemeteries, sit
uated as they are in elevated positions,
with the great part of the city lying be-
low and TO windward of them. During
ten months of the year trade winds blow
directly over the cemeteries into the city.
The foss and mists, of course follow the
same direction, and, in the opinion of many
medical men take IN the exhaled poisons
from the cemeteries and descend upon the
city with tenfold Virulence. To this cause
is ascrbed the outbreaks of diphtherla
and other diseases near the cemeteries.
So Virulent is diDhtheria near one of the
cemeteries that It has been found neces-
Sary TO close large school house. This
has so focused the attention of the peo-
pie on the subject that a powerful club
has been organized, having for its object,
not alone the stoppage of burials within
the city and county of San Francisco, bus
the removal of the five large graveyards
from the hills overlooking their residences.
The board OF health had been persuaded,
year or more ago, to recommend a whole
sale removal to cemeteries without the
city, but an appeal was taken to the leg
lslature, which body referred the matter
back to the board of supervisors The
fight now RACES before the latter board
Long since the rule was established in
railroad practice of making up trains
with the heaviest cars at the rear END
Ihis custom has recently been reversed.
On the northwest system of the Pennsyl-
Eania lines west of Pittsburg says the
Railroad Gazette, passenger trains are
now made up with the heaviest cars in
front, and the officers of the road say
tnat they are well satisfied with the
change. The mail and baggage cars are
placed ahead, and then the sleeping or
pai lor cars next the dining car. and
last the day coaches. The smoking car
is generally the foremost of the common
cars. The principal reason for masking
this Change viii be readily understood-
the deSira bility of getting the heaviest
cars as near the engine as possible, and
of having the class of cars which 1t is de-
sirablc to add to or diminish during the
| journey always at the rear, where one
| or more can be detached without dis
| turbing the rest of the train aud with
out .hc least delay. These reasons are
more important than we sometimes
| thln, Everyone admits that . pull a
| half dozen sleeping cars by means of a
| 2a0 foot rope would be placing the engine
| at a disadvantage, especially on curves /:
| but ia a train of three sleepers of forty
| tons each. placing the sleepers at the
! rear introduces a condition something
! like thar-that is to say, you place at a
distance from the engine a portion of
! the load (45 tons, or % per cent?, which
! might be placed nearer by reversing the
! situations of the two kinds Of cars.
The knowledge of a criminal physiog-
! nomic type, which at first appeared most
novel and was most generally denied by
| the savants, is often instructive among
| the common people, says Lombrosso in
| the Forum. There are often persons es-
| pecially among women, who are far more
/ suspecting even the existence of criminal
| anthropolOgy and who yet, at the sight of
| those who bear criminal characteristics.
| instantly experience a lively repulsion
1 and know that they are in the presence of
! a malefactor / was acquainted with one
| lady whose life was quite withdrawn
| from society, who, on two occasions, dis
| covered the criminal character of certain
young people, not before suspected but
| afterward detected by the police How
| often we read in the reports of trials of
! perfectly honest people, unfamiliar with
the slightest anthropological observations.
| who escape certain death from being
warned in time by the sinister glance Of
| the assassin, in which they read his crimi-
| nal intention. 1t was in this way that the
| first letter carrier who was to have been
| the victim of the murderer, Francesconi
| had time to flee. haunted by that glance
| At my request schoolmasters have shown
| to forty young girls twenty portraits of
| thieves and twenty great men, Four-ffths
| of these children recognized the first as
| wretched creatures or as scoundrels and
/ the second as honest men. The 1pivareo1