The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

According to official statistics, the rich
est Prussian subject is KruDp, the gun
maker. OF Essen. Last year he was taxed
on an income Of from assoc 20 6.590 go
marks. For the current year he is taxed
on an income Of from 7.l35e00 70 7.140.0O
marks.
When the rainy season sets in on the
island OF Cuba it pours rain in torrents
every day for several months. II Is said
however. the more rain falls during that
season, the less Is the spread Of yellow
fever. II only showers fall every day il is
worse than II heavy .cloudbursts came.
The Inventive Age" says that the
latest invention to facilitate field opera
tons is the typewriter bicycle. This con-
-slsts q typewriter mounted on a ser
Niceable Wleef. which can follow the
movements Of the army through an Ordi-
nary stretch of country. The operator
can take commands and general orders
IN shorthand and strike off several du-
phcates on the typewriter being held erect
ny portable props. 1t has been tried in
England and worked very satisfactorily.
An Indian sealping knife was found in
tree in Clearfeld county Pa. a few
days ago. The blade was imbedded TWEEN
" feet from the ground, according TO an
account in Hardware, and as the tree
counted 10 rings from the point of the
knife to its hilt. it would indicate that the
blade had been in the same position for
almost two centuries. The stamp on the
side Of the knife consists of the reDresen-
tatlon OF crown and a bottle, and IL was
no doubt imported from England in the
early days of the colonies ana was proba-
bly, traded TO the Indians.
The Japanese are very rapid and accu-
rate in their repetition of a method Of
making or harding a machine, saws an
eXchahge, and they threaten to soon dG-
pHcate the occidental patterns, as Ameri-
cans patents are protected by no treaty
II JheJ need a machine made in the civil
lzed countries they secure one specimen
ma then copy II ad minimum. At present
they use very little wood working ma
Cnlnery and very little shOemaking ma
chnery' for the people do not wear shoes.
As only ABOUT DO00 of the Al 100000 people
wear stockings. knitting machines are
very little in demand.
The rampant reformer of the day. saws
an article quoted in Current Literature, {"
has now invaded bedrooms. The ortho-
dox fashion in making up beds so as to
gently slope, toward the feet and having
good-siZed pillow or two under the
mead, is all wrong. A prominent French
uOctof' NJ; Wilhelm Fischer, is respon-
slble Tor this statement He asserts that
AFTER a long series of experiments he has
proven conclusively that to sleep in a
bed prepared in the old-fashioned way is
simply TO induce ailments of all kinds.
You must have your head on a level with
or lower than your feet. If pillows are
10 be used they must be under your feet
instead OF under the head. The result,
ne claims, will be amazing, being a sure
cure for insomnia, as well as a pre-
yentive of nightmare. DR.. Fischer says
Iurtner that sleep in this new position
Will always be intellectual because more
profound, the entire nervous system anne
liorated, while people inclined to lung and
kidney troubles will be vastly benefited
by sleeping in this position" To prevent
any Inconvenience by too sudden a change
the pillows should be gradually reduced
and hnally placed under the feet.
The property owners of village can
not make better paying investment than
in the maintenance of well organized
Improvement society," writes John Gilmer
Speed in the Ladies' Home Journal -
Through such a society the value of
every piece of property in the village,
enhanced in value; village life M Y be
made TO take on new interests ard new
dignities; stagnation may be ,kindled into
an eXhilarating activity. Let the people
become interested in a village improve
ment society and they will soon begin
TO discuss plans and policies with a graf
flying alertness. They will discuss how
best to secure public library they will
talk over the means and ways of get
ting running water into the town; they
will argue over the best way of estab-
drainage and sanitation; they will rec
Qgnize the value of street lights when
Nhe moon is shining on the other part
81 the world; and when they vote on
| these questions they will vote with entire
intelligence, and they will go away from
| the meetings refreshed by what they have
heard and what they have done"