The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I time was impOrtuned by his new wife o.
nave the remains of wife No. 1 removed
/ from their resting place near a mineral
| spring and deposited in the village ceme-
/ tery- Preparations were made to that ef-
/ Iect, labOrers opening the grave in the
usual manner When the WfckerWOrk
/ busket in which the woman had been in
/ TERED was reached and, efforts made to
Ialse IL the weight OF the receptacle and
/ It's contents was found to be too heavy
I Tor the four men engaged in the work,
/ and the appliances at hand. When
the basket coffin was finally hOisted to the
surface one Of the labOrers removed the
! LID TO ascertain the cause of the unusual
| found the coffin contained a solid stone
hgure. the corpse having become perfect
/ " petrlhed The husband removed
| the remains to his home, where they now
| are and it is said that thousands are
| daily viewing the wonder.
1T is, Of course, impossible to figure
| with any degree of certainty on the i'm
! mense amount of power exerted by the
continual falling through $50 feet Of space
| of volume of water of the size of Mia
CARA river, says the st. Louis Republic.
| Approximate figures which have been de-
duced from different mathematicians
who have figured and made calculations
on that SUBJECT are startling in the ex-
IRENE. For an instance one writer shows
| that the power that daily goes to waste
| at the great falls is equal to that exerted
| in the same length of time by every STU
| tionary and locomotive engine in 9e
| world. Another, even more enthusiastic
| than the first, declares that during a sin
| gle week the water that rolls over Ma
| gara's brink exerts more force than have
| all the men that have ever lived since the
| time of creationi The most conservative
calculations, however, those by Proctor
| Webster and Spiegle, estimate Niagara's
| power as being equal to that of 100000
| horses, which would be equal to about
| one-fOurth of the horse power of the en-
gines of the world. In making these esti-
which should not exist. for it is a known
| fact that the fall is about $50 feet sheer
| descenD, and that the volume of the river
~
| over the precipice every hour. With such
/ a basis to figure from it strikes us that
| the mathematicians should be able to
| get together"
| London Lancet, that the stings of SOME
| insects are essentially poisonous in
| greater or less degree, and must there
| fore be early and carefully treated. Pam
| alone in such cases viii suffice for dam
| ger signal, and few when thus warned
| would care to neglect the puncture made
| by a hornet, a wasp, or even bee. The
| fact that other insects, like some species
| of fly, are capable of equal or even great
| er mischief is not so commonly known as
| it ought to be. The recent death of a
| woman at Kingston from septic eryspe-
| ids III us cduseu may De quoteu III iuusud-
! ton. In accounting for such occurrences
| two points are specially noteworthy
| namely, the condition of health of the per-
| son attacked and the previous habits of
| the assailant. In no case probably is it
| possible to define exactly the influence
| exercised by each of these contributing
| that no matter how trivial or how great
| the effect OF the conveyed poison, it is
| much enhanced by all conditions of weak
| ness or blood impurlty existing in the suf-
| ferer. a mere nudge or gnat bite in one
| person will prove almost as serious in its
| effect as a septic wound in another.
| There are in the system all the materials
| for a cOnfiagration, and a spark may light
| 1t up as we'll as firebrand. The habits of
| insects afford a clew to the seeming va
| gary of their occasional and accidental
virulence. The sting of the mandibles,
| viously in some putrid sore, excreta or
| offal, cannot penetrate a living tissue
| without leaving in it something of the
| same putrid character. 1t is safer, there
| fore, for the medical practitioner to re-
| gard each and every injury of this kind,
however slight, as possible source of i'll
| ness, and at once to cOntriVe it's relief by
| poultiong, antiseptic congresses or like
means.
| Out in Southwestern Utah there is an
| irrigattng reservoir covering so large an
| area in the open sandy desert that the
| wind has a sweep sufficient to raise waves
| five or six feet high. About eight miles of
| the border of this reservoir is an artificial
| bank, and unless method of keeping the
| waves off this bank were adopted the
| owners of the property would some day
| find that most of the stored water had
| escaped through a creVasse. To provide
| the necessary protection an inexpensive
| breakwater was constructed, which was
| recently described by W. 2. Hardesty in
an article on the Swan Lake Works, of
| which the reservoir is a part. The inside
| slope of the banks is one foot rise in hor-
| lzontal distance of five feet and the face
| is protected by cobble stone in some places
| and by willows in others, the latter giving
| the best results. They were obtained ear
| ly in the spring and fall, when they will
| sprout. A square trench is made in the
| bank down to the highWater mark and
the butts of the willows laid in it. Dirt is
| then thrown over the butts and rocks laid
| over the projecting ends This has been
| found to make fair temporary protec-
| ton and the cuttings begin to grow i'm
| me0latelV. reaching hight Of or five
| feet during the first year. This protects
| the bank from ordinary waves, but to
| keep the unusually high ones from it.
| Whlch are pretty sure to cause damage, a
| hoattng breakWater is employed This was
constructed by first driving line of piles
| into the reservoir about Is feet from the
| toe of the bank. They were driven from 20
| to 20 feet apart, and a row of cedar logs
| about II inches in diameter was strung
| along on top of the water between them
| The ends of the logs are fastened together
| with chains and the logs are fastened to
| piles in such way that they rise and fall
| with the waves. This boom has been found
| to break the force of the waves quite eff
fectually The fastenings to the piles are
| some times broken loose in storms and to
| protect the bank in such cases a simple
! plan has been adopted A wire about the
| size OF telegraph wire is strung at in
| terVals from the piles to the bank A loon
| or rider of wire is then passed over the
| first line and fastened firmly to one of
breaks loose it is guided by the wires
| straight to the shore and still offers some
protection to the bank
The history of cast steel, says the
| inventive Age, presents a curious in
| stance of manufacturing secret stealth
lily obtained under the cloak of an an
peal to philanthropy. The main distiTc-
ton between iron and steel, as most PEG
pie know, is that the latter contains car
pom; The one is converted into the other
| by being heated for a considerable time
| IN contact with powdered charcoal in an
| iron box Now steel thus made is une-
| quail. The middle of bar is more car
| bombed than the end, and the surface
| more than the center. It is therefore,
unreliable. Nevertheless, before the in,
! vention of cast steel there was nothing
| better. In 1870 there lived at AttercIiffe
near Sheffield, matchmaker named
kHuntsman. He became dissatisfied with
| the watchsprings in use, and set himself
| to the task of making them homogeneous
| If thought he, Il can melt a niece
| of steel and cast it into an ingot its com
| position should be the same throughout'
| He succeeded. His steel soon became IA
| nous. Huntsmans ingots for fine work
| were in universal demand. He did NOT
| call them cast steel. That was his Sc