The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-07
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"A new Connecticut law forbids the de-
/ facing OF trees. rocks or buildings by the
! consent.
/ George W. Cobb. chaplain OF the Bethel
Mission chapel Of 81. Louis. offers lunch
OF sandwiches end coffee TO all poor peo-
I pie who will attend an hours preparation
I for its appropriate celebration
The Tooth anniversary Of the 'estab-
nshment OF Hungary as state will occur
next year. and the Hungarians OF this
| country have already begun 10 make prep
aration for its appropriate celebration.
"A great Photographic camera for TAX
ing Iull-length, life-size portraits has been
made and used with much success by
Werner & Son. Dublin. The camera takes
a plate seven feet high and five feet wide.
Prof. Wiley, according to the New York
| discoveries OF modern science" is the agen-
| cy OF microbes IN enabling plants 10 absorb
| from the air the nitrogen which is the chief
| factor of their growth. The theory was
| nrst suggested by Pasteur and IL is thought
| 70 De fully confirmed by the researches Of
| independent investigators. II II does not
deceive expectation it will completely rev
olutionlze agriculture. To increase the
/ growth Of plants it will only be necessary
/ 10 iced their roots with water containing
| the proper microbes.
"A journalistic feat of no little novelty
has Just been accomplished at Vienna
| where a reporter succeeded in having an
/ interview with a man suffering from the
/ del1rium tremens. The result OF the eXper-
/ lment throws even ZOla's description of
| COupeau in the shade. The patient, brok-
en-dOwn actor. declared that he was Baron
H hot1sehild' ana that MS constant era wing
| Tor dainty dishes made II necessary that
| he should take weekly trips acres the
ocean TO New York, a city built on beer
/ bottles, unfortunately all empty Drinks
were not to be had in New York. and there
| fore he was obliged to take as much as
ne could carry before starting IN his bal
loon, and from which he shot flies, Bene-
dlctlne rabbits, and other game, which
were brought to the car by flying retriev-
/ ers. The man Is now an inmate of the Me-
| tropoltan hospital at Vienna.
| -Oberlin Smith has been allowed a pat
ent upon an entirely new type of combi-
nation lock invented by him. embodying
! several unique and novel principles. says
| the Philadelphia Record The knob is with
| out dial, heXagon in shape presenting the
| appearance of an ordinary knob, with
/ small push button device in the center II
! is stated that the tumblers of the lock are
| so arranged as TO get 100000 combinations
| by rotating the knob about its axis to each
| one of fire angular positions. which are de-
| termined by the sides of the hexagon shap-
ed knob coming approximately vertical.
| Nhen unlocking the first and second fin
gers loosely grasp the neck of the knob,
| and between each of the positions, as the
| KNOB IS revolved, a number of pushes are
| given the button in the center of the knob,
numbering anywhere from nothing to nine,
as the combination may be set. The lock-
| and pull. This lock certainly appears to
| be very ingenious and secure. 1t has been
named the Erebus, because 1t can be work
ed as well In darkness as in the light.
One of the difficulties in repairing an
/ asphalt pavement is to make a good joint
| without leaving an elevation or a depres-
SION IN the street surface, says the St.
| LOUIS GlObe-DemOcrat. The ordinary way
| Of making such a patch is to cut out
| piece OF the old pavement and fill the hole
in with fresh asphalt, which is then lamp
/ n @Ff. ~.
| junction of the old and the new material
| IS imperfect, and a ridge or crease OF dis
| migrating material is left. To remedy this
frequent source OF badly maintained paw
| ing a surface heater has been designed,
| consisting OF a portable tank containing
/ gasoline mounted on wheels and provided
| with suitable pump and burners. The meth
| Oh OF operation is TO place the heater over
| the space to be repaired and turn on the
| heat. soon the entire surface of the pave
ment under the hood of the heater IS
| softened by the heat so that the top can
| be removed with a hoe. Only sufficient of
the old material is taken off TO secure a
clean, new surface for the application of
the fresh asphalt The use of the burner
leaves the old asphalt soft and hot SO that
the new material YIELDS perfectly with it.
by the employment of this method il is
| necessary to remove simply the disinte-
| grated portion of the old asphalt say from
half an inch to one inch so that not only is
| less new material used, but the thin coat
| ing is more easily rolled and tamped and
| less likely to leave inequalities of surface
In Surlnam, says knowledge, there is a
| remarkable toad-like creature, the female
| OF winch carries the young in a series of
| cells in the thick skin of the back which
| assumes strange, honeycomb-like an
| pearance. When this lady toad is carry
! ing her nursery about with her she is a
! very repulsive looking object Single
| handed, she would be quite unable to cope
with the important question of placing
| eggs where they will be most faVorably
| disposed for Matching; and for this she has
| 70 rely on the good services of her mate.
! soon after the eggs are laid they are taken
| up by the male and pressed, one by one,
| into the cells in the thickened skin of his
| partners back; there they grow until they
| Mt closely TO the hexagonal form of their
! prisons each of which is closed above bv
a kind of trap door. After a period of
| some eighty-two days the eggs reach their
| full development and produce not tadpoles.
out actually perfect little toads. The rea-
son of this is that the tadpoles, which re-
! quire to breathe the air dissolved in water
by means of their external gills, could not
exist in the cells, and, consequently this
stage of development is passed through
very rapidly, within the egg In due time
the young toads to the number of eighty
or lOO, burst open the lids of their cells
poke out their noses and make their en-
trance into the world The mother toad
rubs off the remnants of the cells against
any convenient stone orsplant stem. and
comes out in brand new spring outfit.
A medical authority says that grief
Is disease and must be treated as such.
1t cannot be ignored, neither can it be
Democrat. 1t must be accepted and al
lowed to wear itself out. AS a rule re-
adjustment comes slowly. Sorrow grief
and the emotions caused by all great mis-
fortunes should be regarded as akin To
acute infectious diseases, which they re-
semble in result: and later, as GONZALES
cence from such diseases. In this class of
Illness, seclusion, rest, Sleep appropriate
food, fresh air, sunshine and interests
that tax neither mind nor body are re-
quired. After extreme sorrow the nerv
Gus system needs, above everything else
complete rest. The poison of grief is more
than name. To urge work, study travel
the vain search for amusements is botn
useless and dangerous. For a time the
whole organism is overthrown and tern
porary seclusion is imperative for proner
readjustment. Recent medical obsert,a
tons show that the physical results Of
depressing emotions are similar to those
caused by bodily accidents, fatigue chill
partial starvation and loss of blood Rirds'
moles and dogs, which apparently died in
consequence of capture and from condi
lions that correspond in human beings 10
acute nostalgia and broken heart " were
examined after death as to the cordition
of their internal organs. 1t was found tbat
the nutrition of the tissues had been intnrI
fered with, and the substance proner "a
various vital organs had undergone tba
same kind OF degeneration as thar hrouebt
about by phosphorus or the germs ~ g.