The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1T has always seemed curious to me"
said an old sailor 10 a New j OK ou-
by any possibility can learn any Jnllle
about a ship I've known men OF great
intelligence and learning VINO Simply
couldn't remember, no matter now harq
they tried, which was the starboarC ana
which the port side OF a ship. But then
I've known. too. men on shore who never
could remember which was the nlgh morse
and which the of horse Of team
John Daniels, the millionaire dry goods
merchant Of Broadway end Eighth
streets. is private in the Seventh resl-
nents stationed az the car depots az l1ytlIS
and Gates streets in Brookiyrl- he n51
some difficulty with the sersea o. the
guard, who, by q strange -lEony~or t2ts'
is one OF his own clerks. Private Danleas
attempted to leave the Depot Tor some
purpose, and was halted blythe guard
The Sergeant ordered him TO. return 70
the depot SIR Daniels refused 70 do 90.
and was reported for insuborcItla trcs1f -ty
his clerk. DIiliLiamen in both cities ms
cuss the incident, Wondering what Will be
the result after the strike is over.
That no less than 1900 people should
have persisted last year IN the 1raSal prov
lnce Of Bengal from snake bites SHOWS
how little progress has heen made py
science toward the discovery Of some anti
trouble is that the poison Of nearly each
species seems to affect different organ OF
the body. Thus the bite "a COBRA seems
to paralyzs the lungs, while the poison OF
the daboia. produces terrible conYulsio ions.
From time immemorial physicians OF ev-
cry cline and race have devoted their
energies to the discovery OF cures for-thsse
bites; but, judging from the heavy list
of casualties from this source alone II
Bengal, the most highly civilized province
and possessed of the best. system OF med
ical supervision of all English colonial de-
pendencies il would seem that all efforts
in this direction have been aborfive.
a prominent physician says that more
than half of the ear troubles from which
ng0nIa n he
be traced TO the habit OF picking at the
ears with the finger nails or hair pins
or some other hard substance, which IT
rltates the delicate inside Of the: ear.
Instead of this injurious picking the
ears should be washed out with warm
water and a little good soap. and thor
oughly dried after the operation. If the
ears are sensitive a little cotton may be
put in before going into the open air,
though this is apt to make them more
sensitive. In extremely cold weather be
fore venturing out, good way to clean
the ears is TO wrap the corner of q towel
around the finger and with little cold
cream wipe out the auricle. 1t win re
move every particle of dust and viii really
protect the ears from the cold, burt IL can
scarcely be recommended for regular use.
At an engine works at Massillon, O.,
compressed air has been used for power
transmission for six or seven years. BY
its means there are now in Operation
twenty-siX hve-ton cranes, one cupola
stock elevator, and large number OF
small hoists varying from 400 to 1000
pounds in capacity Shears and punches
in the boiler shop are operated by COM
pressed air. One form of shear is ap-
piled to the cutting off of stay bolts In
locomotive boilers. With compressed air
two boys can cut off 200 to 800 stay bolts
per day of ten hours, which is far IN eN
cess of what could be accomplished by
hammer and chisel, as its elastic action
makes 1t very convenient in drawing pat
terms, closing TANKS, etc. The air is stored
in three reservoirs conveniently situated,
each of $50 cubic feet capacity and the
cost is put at something like So per day
of ten hours. Two of the. reservoirs are
1000 feet apart The piping aggregates
about 2 800 feet. This and other instances
show that compressed air is cheaper than
steam for various purposes of distribution,
and may be used in many places where its
merits have hitherto been overlooked.
Mr. Hiram Maxim. the inventor Of the
famous gun which bears his name, is a
firm believer in the possibility of so far
perfecting flying machines that they may
be used in warfare. He has been ex-
planning his views on this subject to a
contributor to CasselPs Saturday Jour
nal, who has been to see him at his En- g
lish residence at BeXley. MIR. Maxim
thinks that highly civilized nations, able
to make and use first-rate machinery, Will
in the near future utilize flying machines
in their armies. This mode of warfare, he
believes, could be carried on in spite of
ornaments and weapons of war as we
understand them now, and if one civilized
nation used flying machines in such a
way, others would be compelled TO follow
SUIT. AT the same tlfne, ne mas no fdICh
in navigable balloons the whole thing being
inherently wrong. In France, especially
attempts have been made to navigate
balloons, and vast sums of money have
been spent upon them; but no balloon
has ever been navigated against even d
very light wind. Another point. Mr. Max
i'm, thinks, is this that man will never be
able to fly by energy derived from his
own muscles. A man with sufficient en-
ergy would have TO weigh 70 pounds to
have 40-pound muscles to his arms and
NO. sole RI nc h.
would have to have a breastbone % inches
deep.
Chicago University's feat of creating a
library of several hundred thousand vol
unes a single stroke. as ii were, is un-
surpassed in the line of lightning library
making, but ready-made libraries are
bought in New York almost every week,
says the Sun Of that city. Several book
sellers stand ready to furnish on short
notice libraries of from 100 to 10000 vol
umes, and some of them would hardly
balk an order for $4,000 to be hlled in a
month, though no conscientius bookseller
recommends such haste in getting to-
gether a library of that size. There are
many books in existence purporting 10
name the best 800, 1000, 5000, or 10000
books for 4 library designed for popular
use, and there are similar lists for other
sorts of libraries. Sunday school libraries
OF from 80 to 1000 volumes have been
ready for immediate delivery any time
these fifty years, at prices that seem as
toniShingly low. The most careful book
sellers, who make a speciality of furnish
ing libraries en- masse to private persons,
cities, villages, school districts and coll
leges, accept no printed lists as final, and
desire for the completion of their task
from a month to six moths, according to
the size and character of the library.
Many public libraries Of from 1000 to TO-
600 volumes are created every year, and
they are selected upon all sorts OF plans
and perhaps as often as not upon no plan
at all. Sometimes a committee Of proni-
nent citizens, no one OF whom is on init
mate terms with so many as dozen
books undertake the task and get hope
lessly mixed. The request for advice
from publishers and booksellers brings
a shower of catalogues that only Increase
the confusion. and only a providential
interference can prevent a foolish ex
penditure of the money appropriated for
the library. The expert in the matter
of selecting books for an ordinary public
library that is to be created at a stroke
is usually a man who has been com
merciaily acquainted with books for some
thing like a, life time. That means that
he can give an intelligent opinion as to the
value OF perhaps 10000 books for library
purposes. 1t is his duty as an expert to
know something about more books than
any bookworm, in q. course of long life,
could read.