The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-TulnOl. another coal tar derivative. IS
now being extensively used in place of
quicksilver for filing thermometers This
substance. II IS stated. while IL contains
a slight percentage Of water. can stand
a much lower temperature without freez-
ing than mercury can Another adVan-
tage 1t has over the latter is that II eX-
pands with great uniformity and regular
ltE when exposed TO warmth In color
tuilol is a dark blue
A Dubuque Oowa) special says: II
Blssen OF Howard county was bound over
on the charge Of defacing silver dollars
He has a freak of chipping out the IT,
in the inscription, making IL read, In
God We Rust" When examined he
that he would know them again, but be-
fore his arrest he bOasted that II was
10 bring ridicule on the name Of God, as
he did not believe there was any God. He
mas been engaged in the work for some
time.
"A bullet provided with tiny photo
graphic outfit of It's own is the late inven-
ttOn of q German named Herr Necsen: In
carrying out this ingcnius idea, Prof Nee
sen, has provided a bullet which carries
miniature Photographic plate. This plate,
which IS very sensitive, is slipped into a
slit in the bullet in such a manner as to
receive its light through a pinhOle in the
comic or forward end of the missile. In this
manner a gyrating line is traced on the
plate which is a complete record Of the
bullets oscillations from the moment it
leaves the muZzle of the gun until the i'm
pact with the target.
1t may not be so generally known, says
the Arena, that recent post mOrtem eN-
ANNA tiOns of the bodies of the blind re-
veal the fact that in the nerves at the
ends of the fingers Well-dehned cells Of
gray matter had formed, identical in sub
stance and in cell forma ton with the gray
matter of the brain What does this show?
1t proves that man can think not alone
in his head, but all over his body, and es-
pecially in the great nerve centers like
the palms of the hands, and the soles Of
the feet The coming man Will assuredly
perceive and think in every part, from his
head down to his feet.
1t is a well known fact, says the Mas
cot that horses can hear sounds that are
not perceptible to human ears For days
previous to the great earthquake in the RI,
Niera the horses of that locality showed
every symptom of fear, which continued
without change of character. unless it was
in the direction of greater frenzy, till the
fury of the great convulsion broke forth.
Not until a few seconds, however, before
the earth began to tremble did human be-
ings hear the subterranean rumblings. one
writer from the scene says that in his
opinion the horses knew that the quake
was on the way from seventy-twO to one
hundred hours before their masters heard
or felt the first jar.
The very latest thing in the fuel line
says the st. Louis Republic is made of
water that useful element which temp
ors the excess of solar, artificial and ami
NAL heat" The above statement may ap-
pear to be IAN improbable paradox" but 1t
is a fact nevertheless, that a gas is now
made Of pure water, and that that same
gas is a splendid fuel. The principle of the
manufacture of these water gases is to
pass aqua pura over red-hot irons, there
by resolving it into the two infiamma BILE
substances known as hydrogen and car
bonic oxide gas. As scarce as water now is
in the United States, we had hoped that
no new plans Of getting rid of it would be
invented.
The thin. silvery coating of fish scales
derives its luster from many minute crys-
tails of lime, mixed with a peculiar sub
stance called "guanin." This coating of
silver crystals is very easily rubbed off the
scales, and in the case of a European spe-
cies of carp known as the bleak" the
crystals are so numerous that a metallic
pigment, commercially known as "argen-
tine, Is made from them. The large glob-
ular glass beads, known as German" or
roman pearls, are coated on the inside
with this substance In some species of fish
with lusterless scales the siivery lining is
found on the inside of the body. A we'll
known example of this Is seen in the COM
mon smelt.
Did you ever notice, while enjoying
your tavorite cigar that the smoke that
curls up from the burning end of the
weed is blue, while that exhaled from
the mouth is Of a whitish gray? The ex-
PLANTATION of this oddity is not far to seek
me wreath from the fiery end of the cigar
is in the shape of infinitesimal duct parti-
OF the atmosphere is explained in the
same way reflect the color In the case
Of the exhaled smoke the fine particles
have united with the moisture of the
breath, and have thereby become several
folds larger than those escaping direct
from the burning tobacco. This being the
cas-, lhey nave become large enough 10
reflect the white light which gives the ex-
nailed smoke an entirely different color
Americas celebrated dark day" CIav
~ Iio9, mas mad its counterpart quite re-
Gently in the Russian Caucasus particu-
larry in the vicinity of Neadikafkass on
the morning Of April of this wear the
whole province, of which Neadikaflxass Is
the center, an extent of territory covering
nearly 1000 square miles, was treated TO a
period OF abnormal darkness. more Dho-
nomenal, perhaps, than that which spread
CONSERVATION throughout the colonies in
tne year mentioned above. The peoDla of
the whole province were terror stricken
fearing an earthquake or "A cloudburst and
spent the entire day grovelng around in
thelr caves and cabins, momentarilv ex-
pectlng to be annihilated. The phenome-
non appears to haev been observed in
other provinces of Russia proper, as well
as in Siberia, Tartary and Northern China
but at no place was the darkness of ercI
impenetrable thickness as that at Veadi
kafkass, where. like the proverbial "Egvp-
ma nan uafkneSs, 1t could actually 'be felt"
me mention of the Russian incident and
by reference, that in America 1O6 years 20
reminds me of an analogous case In Inc
" est Indles IN 1872, when the darkness con
unued Tor hVe days. In the colonial case
OF 1883 it lasted fifty hours and i'm the late
RUSSIAN phenomenon forty-two hours.
"A singular medical freak was exhibited
before the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical Socie-
~ on Friday evening, says the PhiladeInhia
Record: Dr. y. c. Aldrich presented tbe
case. The subject, whose name is Brokaw
ana who works in a steel mill is q vears
OF age, and finely developed phvsicaiIv
ne went to Dr. Aldrich a few DAYS ago
TO have his lungs examined, and as re
physician tapped and hammered on his
braWny chest he presently noticed thai
nttie elevations and ridges were apDea rin9
everywhere he struck. Amazement snr2
ceeded interest as the doctor discoverod
IN IN a few minutes that the mans whole
breast was swollen and angry looking He
was informed that that condition had lone
existed, and that the effects of irrifatinS
the skin in like manner lasted sonetirnnS9
Tor hours; When the patient was placed
on exhibition before the society. a Iettor
which had been Impressed un0n biS 49,,
CURING the afternoon, was still visible
some Of the physicians experimen+ed 1,jtL
match sticks until the mans back was a
Verltable autograph album in enboesod
letters. Brokaw said he was in narfa4
health, and that this peculiar sensitfvareecC
caused MIN no trouble, the only seneotioSHS
being that of slight burning. Tatt tloI
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