The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-04
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was refused admittance. so she climbed
hre escape. saw and talked with him
through the window.
IN spite Of the hostility Of certain mem
bers Of the medical profession 10 the Use
OF antitOxin in. diptheria cases, official in
quiTy into the results of the treatment
strengthen the belief in its efficacy. The
81 Louis board Of health has found that.
oul OF - cases OF ciptherla, only nIteen
were fatal.
A gentleman recently returned from
a business trip through Mississippi says
70 the New Orleans Times-Democrat:
It's a hard matter to get bath in
certain parts OF Mississippi, and il was
a realization Of this fact that compelled
me 10 make the effort at getting a bath
while making the run between two towns
on the caboOse Of a freight train. Ny
bath tub consisted OF a large lineup and
my bath room Of the body OF the ca
DoCse, which, as you know, IS as open
as an observation car. Well, ! had got
ten into the usual condition essential to
bathing, and was pouring water over my
limbs, when 10 and behold; the cabOose.
with every door wide open. rolled into
city where 800 people were gathered at
the depot waiting for an excursion train.
The cabOOse. as luck would have il, stop
ped precisely opposite the station, and, as
the crowd caught sight of me, / could
hear angry mutterings. I looked around
l figured the eXpediency of perSOnating
q wild man, and finally leaped at the top
near the roof while the train rolled out
Of town. Ii was a terrible experience, and
l do not care for another bath. in a ca
bOOse."
Two years ago an English officer visi-
ting on the island had a craze for max
ing a collection of Java reptiles and,
with a 16-year-old boy, wandered bout
utterly needless of the warnings of the
natives. One day when he was roaming
these corridors he saw dimly in one of
the chambers a yellow glimmer. Quickly
walking up he pr0dded the yellow mass
with his cane, and, suddenly as a flash,
with a leap like tiger, a big Bari snake,
the most aggressive OF all Java snakes,
had him in his grasp. The reptiles fangs
were buried in his shoulder and the dead
~ coll, strong as steel, was about his
body. he would have been killed If his
companion had not struck the snake back
of the head, seVering his backbone. As IL
was the two men both INDUCED in spell
of fever and the officers arm was useless
ever after his experience. The snake was
black and yellow, fifteen feet long, and
could have killed horse. hunter gum
ming near q river one day saw some wild
hogs come down to drink. A python
seized full grown one. feet high at the
shoulder, and threw two coils about its
body. The hog simply nattened out and
in a minute was a strip of meat, nothing
more. The snake was shot and found 10
be IL feet long and inches through, yet
IL crushed the bones of its victim as
though they were paper. A man who has
in his possession the lOinclOth and jumper
constructor says the cloths were knOtted
so tightly that they seem to have been
done by hand. The only part Of the
coolies body found was the lower jaw
bone. all the rest having been dJgested
by the big snake.
The cost OF the cars coronation is set
down at $4,000. OC0, but. as it was all spent
within the empire, the realm probably
esteems itself no poorer on account of the
redistribution of that considerable sum,
says the New York Tribune. 1t all came
out of the people originally, as did every
thing else in the endowment of her whole
procession of cZars, and as they are
highly impressible folk, with a Seml-bdr-
barrie love of pomp and show, they are no
doubt satisfied TO have it expended in
that way 1t can now be SAID of Russia
that she leads the world in pageants, Il
she falls behind it in everything else.
Neither NapOleon's coronation at NOtre
Dame, nor Emperor Williams at Yer
sailles, approached that of Car Nicholas
in spectacular display or in the stupen-
dous procession of ceremonies which led
up to and followed 1t, though both of
them We're of much more historical i'm
portance In the latter respect the inaug
uration of Abraham Lincoln intrinsicaily
exceeded them all, though no great stress
was laid upon its cost. 1t is doubtful if
any considerable number of taxpayers
ever knew or cared to ask anything about
it, and there is no evidence that the
great emancipation even bought a new
suit of clothes for the occasion. The Mus
W.
which has generally in that country been
a declaration of the victim for the rite
of sacrifice, but there is no denying that
il has always been a magnificent one,
the last the most resplendent and dazzling
Of all, fit TO give pause to the cOnstella-
tons Of her northern sky and draw the
gaze of the hunter Bootes as he circles
around her titulary bear. Never was SOW
ereign bonneted with more eclat and cir
cumstance, and, having been put thus
handsomely upon the course, it remains
nj p17r1 inc haa Will
make.
In a letter to the London Times on the
metric system Lord Kelvin says: The great
advantage of the metric system is Its uni
form simplicity, all measurements of length
area, volume and weight being founded
primarily on the kilometer. The kilometer
IS very convenient Tor measuring great
distances on the earth's surface, because
a journey quarter round the world is
nearly enough 10000 kilometers for almost
all practical purposes. If our travelling was
habftually not on the earth's surface but
along diameUers through the center there
would be some practical value in the mer-
it discovered for the British inch by Sir
John Herschel that il is approximately
one One-hundred-million of diameter of
the earth. The thousandth of a French ION
is the kilogTamme, and the cubic decline
ter, or the thousandth of the cubic meter
Is the liter, which is the common popular
unit of the liquid measure; so that any
one VINO has correct weights can verify
for himself his liters or other measures
for liquid. This particular merit of the
metric system, which, so far as l know.
has not been much, if at all, noticed by
your correspondents is of very great i'm
portance in mechanics, and engineering
In virtue of it. the weight of any quantity
of material is found in tons or in kilo-
grammes, or in grammes, simply by null
tiplying its volume in cubic meters or GU
bic decimeters or in cubic centimeters bv
its specific gravity; and thus a very
great deal of labor which is entailed upon
mechanical engineers, civil engineers and
surveyors in Britain under the present
system viii be done away with when the
metric system comes into use. But now,
considering the wants and the conven-
fence of the whole population, think of the
vast contrast between the practical valua-
bic simplicity of the metric system and the
truly monstrous compIeXity of British
measurements in miles, furlongs. chains,
poles, yards, feet, inches; square miles
acre, square yards, square feet. square
INCHES; cubic yards; gallons, quarts. pints,
gills; tons, hundred weights. stones
pounds avoirdupos 7,O0O grains). ounces
avoirdupois abs grains), drains avoirdu-
p9is (2I34575 grains), pounds troy, 3 76O
grains), ounces troy (4S0 grains), drains
apothecaries' go grains) etc