The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-24
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me purpose Of solteEius the hairs This,
however. it seems. Is a mistake. II is
used Oh the contrary. 70 render them hard,
ar5- sim and brittle, ID which condition
they best yield 10 rhe blade Hair beue
naturally oily. Were one 10 shave dry. or
with water only. the razor would either
slip over the limp hair without cutting It,
or, entering about half way. bend the hair
back and slice IL lengthWise, all the while
sIaillls Do most painfully at the rOOt,
and as a razor would thus slice and pull
probably q large number Of hairs 1t once.
the pain produced would be intense Most
shaving soap contains a free alkaN. either
potash or soda which combines with. and
80 removes the oil or the hair leaving only
the hard nbre, dry and stiff, as may be seen
by taking a solution Of carbonate of soda
and dipping d single hair into it.
a F'renehman who has been travelling
H. tAls country says In lie Temps thar
what struck him most iu the United states
was the American habit of filing the
teeth with gold About $4,000 OF gold
ure9 that at the end Of three centuries
the cemeteries OF America wil contain
gold 60 the value of $50, 900. 0QO IT am
afraid ne adds, that this will prove TOO
tempting 10 the practical mind Of the tu
ture American and we shall see the day
when companies viii be organized to mine
the cemeteries ana recover the gold Sc
cre-ed III the jaws OF dead ancestors.
The writer then goes on and figures on the
average amount of gold in the teeth OF
consulting the record Of vital statistics,
for he says that $4,000 people died in the
United States in 1859. This would hrins
the value Of the gold in each dead per
sons teeth 20 an average OF about OJs4
cents, and he thinks that In well crowded
cemeteries the mining of the gold could
be carried On prOhtably, despite the small
average value.
Reports state that a cure has been made
by DR. Carlo Sanauirici Of Sienna, which,
ii his hopes should be realized, may alto
gether reVOlulOnize the treatment Tor
some forms of mental disease. Two sets or
animals We're poisoned with the same
doses Of srryChnine, choral, alcohol and
other drugs Into one set was injected
saline solution amounting in quantity 70
per cent of each animals weight, the other
set being left without treatment THESE
latter all died, but the treated animals all
recovered showing that vegetable aka
Holds can be diluted and washed out Of the
system before their toxic effect is COM
plete. Taking advantage of this, Dr.
George +. Keene has treated a patient
suffering from form Of insanity believed
to be due to autoinfectlOn or intOXiCauoa.
He subscutaneously injected a salt solu-
ton in not less quantities than two quarts
daily. and he states that results up TO the
present have been altogether satisfac-
tory The patient was a woman, single,
aged thirty-three, with religious melan-
Cholia. quart of the solution was used
night and morning up to the eighth day,
and the Improvement was marked and I'M
mediate.
4 WO very ItludIkdDlt occurrences al g
connected with the earthquake that de-
strOyed a large portion of Thebes. says
the New York Advertiser. At Birmins-
ham delicate pendulum, suspended for
the purpose of recording earth tTemOrs. eX-
hbited marked disturbance about four
minutes after the principal shock occur
red at Thebes. The observers at Birm-
inShdm attributed the disturbance of their
pendulum to the transference of the shock
across Europe from Greece to England.
the rate at which 1t travelled being about
one hundred and ten miles a minute. On
the same night, DR.. Gill, the British as
trOnOmer at the Cape of Good Hope, OBJ
served extraordinary undulatiOns in the
surface of the mercury which he was
using TO detect errors of level. and which
continued during half an hour Dr. Gill
thinks that these, like the tremors mo-
tlced at birmingham, may have origi-
mated in the same disturbance of the
earth'S crust that produced the disaster
at Thebes. Apparently however. if the
undulations We're conveyed all the way
from Greece to the southern end of Africa,
they came from different shock from
that which manifested its effects at Birm-
lrgham, for the undulatious We're noticed
by DR. Gill before that particular shock
had been felt at Thebes. These are by
no means the first instances I'm which per
ceptible effects from earthquakes have
been noticed hundreds and even thousands
OF miles from the focus of the shocks.
There is Il general belief that japan is
poor country; that a long war would
exhaust her more than many other cOun-
don Times Probably the idea originated
i'm the extreme lowness Of prices In Ja0au,
but that is no criterion Living is cheaper
i'm London than in Hong Kong. but no
body calls London a poorer place on that
account. As a matter Of fact IaDan is
now rapidly becoming self-supplying. and.
therefore, need have little fear oil eXhaus-
ton. She has money enough for ali re-
quirements: her taxation is very Neh. vet
her revenue leaves a surplus over ex-
penditure every year: her imports about
balance her exports, and both are in
creasing yearly. and are not suffering in
the least from the war. When the accum-
uated surplus about 40 600 900 ven. had
all been voted away in war expenses. a
war loan of 3O.Oo0. 900 ven and now another
of 10000 900 have been readily raised.
without causing any appreciable dfsloca-
ton. Government bonds were about 6
per cent. premium in the beginning of the
wear. when there was a distinct boom i'm
the market; now when the war has gone
on three months. the surplus been spent.
and the loans been raised they are still
at per cent premium. with an upward
tendency The country is not poor in any
sense of the word The land. though Of
hardly larger extent than England. and
in some parts too mountainous for culti-
walton siIDports a DODulatiof1 Of az O1l HlO