The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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| out 1900 TO 1900 children yearly, cOnsid-
! ers it is the best plan Of dealing with pau
| per orphans.
Contracts have been let for the first
| two boats OF the longest car ferry ser
l vice in the world, says a special dispatch
I to the Buffalo Courier. The boats viii
ply between Peshtigo. Wis, and South
I Chicago. This route is $50 miles long,
and, IN brief, connects the railroads Of
] the northwest with those east of Chi
cago. The specifications for the ferry
Doats can Ior larger ones even Tran those
now IN use on the Ann AFbOr ferry line.
I They will carry IS loaded cars. Equipped
with improved construction and machin-
cry for crushing ice foes, the boats are
built to make a round trip every thee
days in the year. Traffic contracts have
already been made with northwestern
and eastern lines, and the ferry route
VIII start with paying business. As
soon as the two boats are in service con-
tracts will be let for additional boats.
in order to make delivery Of twenty
eight cars every day in the year. Double
daily service can easily be had. and, of
rants it,
The Mechlin cathedral pulpit is re-
garded as the second finest in the world,
the finest having been done by the same
artist for the cathedral in Brussels. The
writer, who has seen both, while admit
ting points of superiority in that of Brus-
sells. prefers this, which is in the cathedral
at Mechln. 1t Is made of oak and the
/ figures of Christ and of the women are
life size. The sounding board is formed
by oak leaves twined with those of a
grapevine. The stem of the latter rises
naturally from the ground at the en-
trance to the pulpit which is apparently
( hewn out of a rock. The preacher stands
under the shadow of the leaves, the cross
I at his right hand. Below him and in
! front of the pulpit, forming a part of
] the base, is a horse which has thrown
| its rider. 1t looks as though some inn
! pjous horseman had approached Calvary
! heedlessly and been hurled to destruction
/ over a precipice. The explanation of the
design is not given by the guide at the
cathedral nor in any book, so visitors
and regular Worshipers are at liberty
| TO interpret il to please themselves.
The New York Herald's European edi-
| ton publishes an article from its medical
/ correspondent, suggesting a harmless and
/ apparently efiicaciOus treatment of boils
and carbuncles by yeaSt-beer given inter-
nally. The cause of boils is now held to
/ be the penetration of the skin by a mi
| crobe known as the staphylocous aureus
/ and, hence, the treatment should be or e
/ which kills these microbes. The old-fash-
| Toned linseed poultice does not kill the
/ staphylococi burrowing into and poison
/ ing the flesh, but it helps them to multiply
and to do their mischievous work. In
mild boils tincture of iodine may be applied
with good effect, or a compress gauze
| soaked in solution of sublimate heated to
| a temperature of 125 degrees. Often,
spraying a painful boil with per cent
solution of carbOlic acid works an extra
medical correspondent says Their
mo-cautery Qn preference to the
to evacuate the pus. and he suggests the
new remedy, "a dose of yeast beer; two or
three tablespoonfuls mixed with glass
/ OF beer and taken at meal times" 1T can
do no harm, and is reported to do iIs
work rapidly. DIR. Debouzy states that
he has seen carbuncles the size of small
apple, covered with thin, violet-colored
skin, perforated in places and on the point
OF undergoing gangrene, in which the skin
recovered It's vitality and the whole thing
healed up in an incredibly short time.
Horses with sore shoulders will be
rarity, it is said, when the pneumatic
morse collar comes into general use. 1t
mas been invented by a LOndoner, and is
DelhS introduced in the leading European
cues. The patent consists of the usual
leather casing, but instead of being packed
with a hard. non-yielding substance, the
pneumatic principle is applied. a rubber
air chamber being substituted for the
packing, this in turn being covered with
leather and when the collar proper is
/ IS presented to the horses shoulders. 1t
must be apparent to the most casual OBJ
| server that the collar in present use must
! cause, ana give mans noble companion
an immense amount of pain. owing to
/ the harsh padding it is impossible for
| the collar to adapt itself to the animals
! shoulders, and therefore chatting and sun
] dry other ills ensue. With the pneumat-
| &c collar, as before stated, chatting is i'm
| possible, as, instead of the horse having
/ to adapt himself TO its collar, the collar
adapts itself to the horse the moment
/ il is put on The collar is inflated by
means Of small rubber tube which fits
INTO the leather casing, an ordinary cycle
air pump being used. There is no valve
and there are absolutely no complications
whatever so that it is impossible for the
I collar itself to get out of order while in
| use. The collar itself is considerably
lighter than the one in present use and
is quite rigid The cost is only a small
amount more than the ordinary straw
padded collar. When the invention gets
INTO universal use there is bound to be
d great saving IN horsenesh as the wear
and tear and labor will be considerably
! lessened Sudden jars and strains will
be avoided, an even and gradual pull
rather than sudden jerk being the result
of its adoption.
People sometimes complain that the
opera is expensive. Why should It not be-?
asks Nine. Melba i'm Lippincott's Paint
/ ings by Daubigny Rousseau, Vibert, Ca
Yin. Jean Beraud, Dctti. etc are expen-
siVe, because they are excellent, and the
| posseSSors of the technique required to
produce them are few in number and
know their own value. There are very
few composers who are able to produce
really great operas, and they must be well
paid. Then how many vocal artists are
there IN the known world who are con1pe-
tent 10 interpret the music? Do we ap-
preciate the enormous expenditure of time
and effort, the long, laborius, Uninter-
rupted training which the singers must go
through with before audiences will listen
to them? This species of training 700
demands the sternest and most conscien-
be Spartan regimen, great forfeiture
of social pleasures, daily and unceasinR
study and practice, no matter at what
cost Of WEAKNESS and often irksome labor
All this must be accomplished while the
golden hours of youth are fleeing, and
without the sure promise of ultimate
success as an incentive. The attainment
of renown as a singer is like the high
prize in lottery, and after all the asDi-
rant may draw blank. Even when fame
| is achieved and in the great cities of both
I hemispheres the brow of the singer is
crowned with laUrels, and opulent man
ayers outbid each other in order to secure
engagement, some unforeseen accident
may [ once destroy the entire fabric of
availability so carefully constructed of
genius, musical skill and capacity. dra
matte fervor and conscientious devotion
to art. Then the voice is silenced forever
and the singer lives only in memory
while the income stops. Even al the hest
the career of the vocalist is brief The
great lawyer or physician often touches
his zenith at three-score, or perhaps three
score and ten: a Gladstone retires only
from choice al 85; a Bismarck is never
greater than in old age; but what of tbs
singer when memorable time attacks the
vocal organs? W
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