The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

nobleman of the name of Maligan has
just been condemned by the Dutch au-
thorities in Java to twenty years penal
servitude, after being captured while
directing the operations of the fierce ma
tive insurgents at Lombok, where so
many of the subjects of young Queen
Wilhelmine were massacred. The Eng
hsh authorities at Suakim are now en-
gagged in investigating the case of a for
mer Austrian cavalry officer, captured in
the attire of dervish, while on his way
to rejoin the Mahdi at Khartoum. The
officer is believed to be a member of the
princely house of Schwarzenberg, who de-
serted from his regiment in Austrian Po-
land four years ago. In Tongking the
French authorities have recently arrested,
court martialed and shot a Swede and
Dane, whom they found acting as chiefs
of bands of native pirates
Here, says the New York Times, is a
marvel in the history of the construction
of public buildings: The report of Barnard
R. Green, in charge of the construction
of the congressional library, in Washing
ton, shows that the total cost will be less
by $4,000 than the limit fixed by congress.
The average political constructor will pos
sibly look upon this as lost opportunity.
For years the capitol building at Hart
ford, Conn, had been pointed out to trav-
Hartford railroad as one of the wonders
of modern times because it had been
erected well within the limits of the orig
inal appropriation. For this reason, with
out referring to any of an architectural
character, the building was wholly unique.
Now ConnecticutS capitol seems to have
lost its principal reason for distinction
| The congressional library is unique in an
other direction. A published description
of the building reminds one of that parve-
uu who, stepped into a publishers Of
flee, and ordered zip yards of books, with
plenty of red and gold in the binding to
fit my library" The vast mausoleum for
books at the nations capital is referred
to as having in its finished portion about
forty-four running miles of shelving,
which will accommodate 2,0S5,120 volumes
of books, reckoning nine to the foot The
ultimate capacity of the building for
books is upward of 100000 volumes, or
| something less than 100 miles of shelving.
1t is known generally that the mont
tor Terror, which has just gone into COM
mission, has been building for score
of years, says the New York Sun. The
same is true of the other monitors Puri-
tan, Monadnock and Amphitrite. The Mi
antonomoh, which went into commission
about two years ago, was also started
at the same time that the others were
laid down. That was in 1874 and in 1875
This group of monitors represents a diff
| ferent grade of vessel from that for which
they were intended originally. The delay
in finishing them has resulted in making
them modern. They are now unsurpassed
in their fighting qualities. They have
modern guns modern armor, modern en-
| gineS and twin screws. These ships have
been built and rebuilt. To convert them
| into fighting machines of an advanced
h9 nv tn %
under the guise of repairs" 1t is be-
| lieved generally that the Terror has never
| been in commission until recently. The
| executive officer of the Terror surprised
| his mates in the wardroom the other day
| by saying: do you know, l once sailed
| into Havana harbor on this very ship
| That is to say, the Terror was in com
| mission when l was a young officer and
| l was attached to her. This is supposed
| to be the same vessel. 1t is a new ship
| instead. Still, there must be some one
piece of the old ship in this one. She has
been completely rebuilt under the re-
| pairs system. Some day I'm going to
try TO hunt around and see if L can find
that piece of the original vesstl. 1t must
De mere somewhere, but l venture to saw
1t Will be many moons before we find it,
"A frequent remark of a famous thera-
peutist, says a technical journal, was: "In
| my carly udyS - lldu twenty remedies for
| every disease, but as l grew in experience
l found twenty diseases without a single
| remedy. The number of incurable dis
| eases is gradually being reduced, and some
| of the most formidable have yielded to
| modern therapeutic advance. A great
| many remedies and drugs have lately been
| produced by chemists or discovered by pa
| tient experimenters Pellotin and hypnol
| or monochloral-an are two new
and powerful hypnotics. Sanoform and
| tribeomohenol bismuth are the latest can
| didateS for the place long occupied by iodo-
| form of malodorous notoriety Argonin
a combination of silver and casein, is pro-
posed as of great value as a local applica-
| ton to mucous surfaces. Benzosol, or
| guaiacol-benzonte, is winning the conf
/ dence of medical men as possessing the
virtues without the danger of creosote
Aumnol, a compound of aluminium, naph-
| thol and sulphur, is found valuable as an
| antiseptic astringent. Agathin is the ar
tistic name applied to a salicyl-aldehyde
| preparation of Wanted anti-neuralgc and
| anti-rheumatic properties. Basic orexin
| has been demonstrated to possess peculiar
sedative powers. In Germany serothera-
Ply is being applied to a great variety of dis
| eases in manner analogous to the anti
toxine serum of dptheria. In many cases
| they have been wonderfully successful Sc
runs have been discovered for cholera by
| kitaSato and by Haukine; for tetanus by
| Qffizzoni and for tuberculosis by Maragli-
| ano. Organic extracts are also gaining
wide favor and among the most import
ant are extracts made from thyroid gland
| from bone marrow, from pituitary body
and from suprarenal capsule.
The United States proving ground at
Indian Headon the Potomac, below Wash
| ington. is in a shallow ravine, half a mile
or more WIDE and running back a mile or
so from the government wharf. Outside
| this depression, as the tale is told by We
racious graduates of the naval academy
who have been stationed at the post, there
is semi-circular belt some ten miles
| broad, where chicken raising is impossi-
| BILE. Within the ravine the ordinary hen
| of commerce lays eggs, and If undisturbed
| in her intentions of domesticity. matches
| them with only the vicissitudes to which
| hens and eggs are subject The sharp.
cracking bang of the big guns that are
fired at heavy armor plates, day after
day, does not disturb the process of incuba-
ton within the post But the farmers in
the adjacent country, north, east and
| south, tell unanimously mournful tale of
setting" after Setting" Of selected eggs
that have gone the malodorous way ~