The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A German scientist has invented mir
ror of celluloid which accurately reflects
every object The celluoid mirror is I'M
breakable, is cheaper than glass and
lighter.
The heart of the common oak begins
to rot at about the age of 300 years. The
holly oak is longer lived, and there is a
specimen of this trees aged 415 years,
in existence near Aschaffenburg, Ger
many.
Tho carpet in the queens private rail-
way carriage cost $3.50. The curtains are
hung upon silver poles, which are sus-
pended upon small gilt figures, which
cost 10 guineas each. The door handles
cost $3.50.
Windows along the route of the car
in Paris were let at very high prices.
Top-story windows on the Champs Ely
sees and in the Faubourg st. German
brought $50 while those on the first floor
fetched from $500 to 5000.
-Toothpicks. prepared by nature, are a
product of Spain and Mexico. A COM
paratively small plant in Kew Gardens
was estimated to have 1900 and a
large specimen in the same place could
not have had less than $1,000.
The judicial statistics of Scotland for
last year, just published. show a re-
duction of serious crime during the year
More than 100000 persons We're arrested
for drunkenness and disturbance, nearly
one-fifth of which was in Glasgow alone.
"A serpent in confinement has been
known to refuse all food for period
of twenty-one months. A viper will live
ten months without food and bear six
months, while even a horse will live TWEEN
ty-five days without solid food, merely
drinking water
Visitors to New Orleans always notice
with interest the negro nuns who are oc-
casionally seen on the streets of that city.
They belong to the holy family of sisters,
which was founded in 1912 by four free col
ored women. In the convent there are al
present sixty-eight sisters, twenty-six no.
vices and six candidates.
-Abdurrahman Khan, Ameer of At
ghanistan has introduced vaccination in
his country, by the advice of Miss Ham,
ilton, his English physician. Two calf
lymph stations have been established and
a procla nation has been issued from Ca
bull calling on the people to bring in their
children to be vaccinated before next
spring.
There is an essential difference be-
tween the waves supposed to constitute
light and those forming sound in air; both
must have an origin as center within an
elastic medium, but sound arises from
vibrations in the air in the direction in
which the sound waves travel but not al
right angles or transverse to it, as the
phenomena of light require. We can cas-
lily see that the vibrations forming sound
must be longitudinal, or in the direction
of the sound ray. from what takes place
as a bell is struck, the side of the bell
communicating its vibrations to the air in
the direction in which the sound travels.
The grave of Capt. Jacob King at Ma
rietta, o., who died in the army thirty
three years ago, has been opened in or
der to make room for his wife, who has
just passed away, says an exchange
Capt. King was buried in a steel casket,
sealed and perfectly alright. In con-
sequence of this fact, there was quite q
crowd of relatives and friends of the fam
lily present when the coffin was exhumed
to view the remains. When the plate over
the glass was removed and the remains
exposed to view the whole of Capt. Kings
features were plainly visible. His face
had not even blackened to a great eX-
tent, and one of his grandchildren, who
had never seen him in his life declared
that he could recognize him from the
picture he had left Capt. King was
buried in full uniform, which was as
fresh-looking as the day it was inferred.
The buttons had lost none of their bright
ness, and even the cotton on which his
head rested was not discolored in the
least. The only part of his face that
showed the ravages of time and decay
We're his eyes, which were gone entirely.
The glass was broken and the effect OF
the air on the corpse was not ascertained.
Capt. King was a mason, and his badge
was plainly visible. He was lying in
Mound cemetery, whose soil is quite
sandy, but whether this had anything to
do with his preservation is unknown.
When a doctor asks a patient to To-
cate his pain the patient does so by a mo-
ton of one or both hands and this motion
not only indicates the locality Of the
trouble, but describes its character and
distribution, says the Chicago News. If
the pain is widely distributed over the
whole chest the patient indicates it with a
circular, rubbing motion of the palm of
the hand, indicating the diffused soreness.
The pain of a serious Inflammation is al
ways described by drawing the hand away
from the body and then with the fingers
close together or with the index finger,
the rest being closed, approa ching the
seat of Inflammation. In appendicitis.
the patient does not touch the skin at all
when asked to locate the pain. He simply
holds the palm of his hand over the spot.
With violent abdominal pains which are
not infammatory, the patient will slap
himself across the abdomen on being
asked about the trouble. If a child refers
to persistent pain in the stomach and
there is no tenderness, pressure being APP
piled, it indicates spinal difficulty. In hip
joint disease the pain will be referred to
a point in side the knee. In pains in the
joint the patient approaches the seat of
trouble very cautiously with hand ex-
tended. If pains in the legs are sharp
the sufferers gesture is perfectly descrip-
tive, an energetic downward motion, at
the same time twisting the hand as though
holding a corkscrew
1t is claimed that color exercises a
potent influence over the human race and
mystics profess to believe that every per-
son is surrounded by an aureole of color
pertaining to his or her nature, saws the
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