The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An English physician calls attention 10
. a. means Of keeping pneumonia colds.
chills and all the ailments that cold
weather brings on al a distance. Deep
and forced respiration. ne says. viii keen
the entire body in a glow in the coolest
weather no matter how thinly one may
be clad
The spiritualists OF Massachusetts, ~
a recent convention passed resolutions
against the medical laws OF the state
and against any extension Of the laws
relating 20 contagious ana other dan
gerous diseases They believe people
ought 10 be allowed 10 die without state
interference.
The Philadelphia Record quotes trav-
eller in Japan as saying thar. be- spite Of
their adV6nce IN civilization. the Jananesc
retain much Of their primitive simplicity
They always leave their shoes a c the door
Of a house when they enter and walk in
side in their stocking feet When the first
railroad was started from Yokohama TO
Toxic al the japanese gentlemen were
crazy 10 ride They hurried 20 the station.
kicked their shoes of on the platform.
and entered the train. When they ar
rived al Toxic they eagerly looked around
the PLATFORM for their shoes and great
CONSERVATION prevailed when these shoes
" ere nowhere TO be found.
At the annaul dinner Of the Society Of
Medical Jurisprudence, in New York, De
Lancey Ntcoll was made the victim OF A
curious practical joke. He receievd a let
ter asking him 10 respond 10 the toast Of
The Law and the Prophets" He ac-
cepted. When he reached the dining hall
he discovered that the printer had nut him
down for response TO THE Law and the
Profits He, however turned the joke
on tne doclofs bN calllng them 70 the &C
count FOR the enormous fees charged by
them as medical experts. During his term.
| he said. he personally paid out 500 090 for
I such testimony. In the Carlyle Harris and
! Buchanan cases the medical men got
$4,000.
This year a curious race is TO take
place, the course being the hghroad
from Paris TO Bordeaux saws the Lon
don Times. II will be a race of vehicles
I without horses. Electricity. or steam. or
any other mocha meal motive power will
/ be allowed. and competitors of all nations
I VIII be admitted. committee, presided
/ over by NJ Marcel Deprez. the well-known
/ electrician, has been formed to carry out
/ the project. and already there are so
many entries that 46500f has already been
/ subscribed The first arrival will receive
one-half of the total subscriptions. Bi-
/ cycles and tricycles will form a class
/ apart, special prizes, amounting 10 5.00o
being allotted to them Vehicles
I that break down must be re-
paired only by the owners. with appii-
ances specially carried for the purpose
How much does a newspaper man write
7 in year? An Old newspaper worker e. as
sat down and figured ii out for the IN
Indianapolis Journal. He figures that he
writes an average Of column and a halt
! every day. except for his Sunday paper
. when he contributes three columns. This
! makes - columns week, and allowing
for two weeks vacation, he has 80 weeks
+ in year, in which time he turns out SO
/ 900 words. An ordinary book Of short stO-
/ ries contains about 1000 words, therefore
/ his years labor is equivalent to - books
I At this rate of comparison the feat of
/ Marion Crawford in publishing two books
per annum does not strike the newspaper
man as an incredibly hard task, even al
/ lowing for the etra amount of though,
/ involved in story writing. Mr.. Howclls
/ considers thousand words a good days
work. Thomas Janvier is satisfied with
/ 400 words, or little over a quarter of a
column.
y new sort of ornamental glass is now
made in Paris by NJ. Bay, which he calls
} 10y the name of boar frost glass ''Verre
givre " from the pattern upon il. which
4 resembles the feathery forms traced By
I frost on the inside of windows i'm cold
/ weather The process of making the glass
! is simple The surface is first ground
/ either by the sand blast or the ordinary
/ method, and is then covered with sort
I of Varnish. On being dried. either in the
/ sun or by artificial heat, the varnish con-
] tracts strongly. taking with it the par
/ ticles of glass TO which it adhereS: and.
/ as the contraction takes place along def
mite lines the pattern produced by the re-
lnoNal OF the particles of glass resembles
I very closely the branching crystals of frost
I work. The pattern may be varied in char
/ acter by changing the thickness Of the
/ film of varnish. \ single coat gives a
! small, delicate effect, while Il thick film.
] formed by putting on two. three or more
] coats contracts so strongly as to produce
/ a large and bold design. BY using col
/ ored glass, a pattern in half tint may be
! made on the cOlored ground and after
/ decorating white glass. the back may be
/ silvered or gilded.
According to the engineers Of the Nv
/ geographic Bureau, the level of the Gulf Of
/ Mexico is one foot higher than il was in
! 1893, and, of course, the encrOachment on
/ the surrounding coasts has been greater
/ or less, depending on their character. says
the St. Louis Republic In some places.
where the marginal lands are composed Of
/ high, rocky bluffs, this change of level mas
gone on from year 10 year without at
/ tracing attention. on the other hand,
many low-iying points (some that wore
/ once inhabited by the primitive inhabl-
/ tants or by the pioneer white settlers) are
/ entirely submerged. The cause Of this
! ci ange of level has not as yet been ascer-
! tanned, but il is reasonably certain that it
/ is the result of either a settling of he drv
/ land or of a general and uniform rising or
upheavel in the Gulf bed. No man who
/ has given the matter moments thought
will argue that there is more water in the
/ Gulf now than there was thirty-five years;
( ago On the contrary. there isn't the
! least doubt but that there is much less
! However this may be. if this aqueous ELI
! CrOachment is steadily maintained Keo-
/ kuk will De a deep-water harbor and St