The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-16
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the authenticated age Of 105 years and al
most eleven months. He was born in
Maryland March T. 1872 and went west in
ISIS. He was married four times, and
had two great -great-g grandchildren living
at the time Of his death.
in Dakota queer wedding gifts are in
vogue. Following is a list Of presents re-
ceived at a recent wedding: A bull pup,
yellow dog, a water spaniel, meers-
chaum pipe and tobacco pouch, good
shot gun, a bowie knife, a rifle, three
dogs. a game rooster, one fiddle, one
banjo, one spotted pup, one English mas
tin and pair OF silver mounted pistols.
A short time before DR.. Charcot died
he said in a lecture that semi-scientists
had for more than fifty years ridiculed
the idea that the full Of the moon was
dangerous time for mad people. Better
informed men are coming back to that old
time notion, said DR.. CharCOt, as the re-
suit of increased learning on the subject
of earth tides, similar TO the oscillation or
sea tides.
If the report be true that Wizard
Thomas Edison has already discovered,
by means of his f1uorescent tubes and the
new light rays, a method of hardening
aluminium to the same degree as steel,
that bauXite product viii truly justify It's
title as the metal of the future" Hard
ness has been the one essential need of
aluminium for extended utilization; and
IL would be dOubly valuable IN that II
might be rendered like steel after having
been originally shaped in its elastic con-
dition.
Still another decisive step in the pro-
gress of discovery of the adaptability of
the remarkable new Roentgen light must
be chronicled. Two well known Toronto
University professors are reported to have
found out a method of so focusing the
cathode rays by means of a glass bell jar
as to secure instantaneous photographs
by the new process. This knowledge is
necessary in order to induce any vide
application of the light to practical pur-
poses and confirmation of this report
will he more eagerly awaited than in the
case of its many sister rumors.
Sausage poisoning, which is common
and so often fatal in Germany, is FORUM
ately very rare in this country, though a
similar affection from canned and dried
meats is becoming too frequent The poi
son is generated by partial decomposition.
Sausage which has putrid odor or ran
cid taste, or has greenish yellow spots IN
its interior, should not be eaten. Bad sau-
sage, and other similar, are usually in the
interior, at least, soft and sticky, and
when broken show small cavities. This is
true even when the outside appears to be
should be taken in a finely divided state,
for when swallowed in Jumps, II is Well
nigh indigeStible Many a child, which has
been reproved for refusing to eat fat meat neat
will readily take the same amount OF fat
as butter spread upon bread.
What worse domestic calamity can be-
fall a poor mans home than the advent of
twins. unless it be triplets? asks Pear
sons Weekly. That, at least, Is the idea
upon which the projectors of the Provi-
dent Bounty Association, organized re-
Gently, propose TO bank the prospects OF
the concern. AS a financial document, II
is unique. 1t bears some respectable
names and subscriptions to the capital
stock of $4,000 are invited, with most
tempting inducements. 1T is no
torious," says these projectors, that
many people marry in the hope OF
improving their fortune, but frequently
disappointment comes with the advent OF
an unexpectedly large family. This asso-
citation provides to some extent for that
contingency by at once giving substan-
tial sum in the case of the birth of twins.
THE forge of the future" that favorite
dream of the electric engineer, has al
ready got here; was exhibited one evening
last week by a lecturer in the scientific
course given in the lecture hall of the
museum of natural history during the
winter months, and will be added within
the month to the laboratories of Columbia
College and the University of the
City of New York. Many years may
elapse before the forge, with its coal and
its blast, will have disappeared, but the
workshop of the future viii see what the
interested audience of young mechanics
at the museum saw, says the New York
World. On the table before the lecturer
was a lead-lined vase of glass as nearly
malleable as glass can be to-day. The ca
was filled with cold calculated water. The
vase was connected with the positive pole
of a dynamo. The lecturer held in his
handles. The tongs were connected with
the negative pole of the dynamo.
The lecturer seized piece of
iron with the tongs and plunged ii into the
sour-water bath In less time than it took
the professor to tell it the iron was at
a white heat that is, the portion of the
iron immersed grew hot, for so rapidly did
the electric current work upon the acidu-
lated water that the water itself did not
reach the boiling point, in fact, it was lit
tie more than warm. There is nothing
mysterious, secret or new about this The
principle involved is elementary-the re-
sistance of the electric current. To per-
feet the forge of the future is simply
matter of study as how best to control
this force, which is sufficient to weld steel
bars or to extract metal from refractory
ores.
Whatever else may be said about Lord
Wolseley, says the Westminster Budget,
1t cannot be affirmed that he is deficient
in pluck. In an interesting article Mr.
Archibald Forbes recalls the bold stand
his lordship made in the Crimea. AS an
engineer officer of the right attack he was
in post of exceptional danger, for of
the fourteen engineer officers killed dur
ing the siege, twelve belonged to that no.
siton, or were killed when on duty there
1t seemed, indeed, as if almost to the last
he bore a charmed life. On one occasion
his coat was pierced by a ball; on another
a round shot struck the embraSure at
which he was working, and his clothes
were cut by splinters; on a third his cap
was knocked off his head by a ball Twice
he was slightly wounded, but it was not
until the end of the siege that he was
wounded so severely that his injuries were
thought to be mortal. Lord Wolseley was
it seems, holding a gabion when it was
struck in the center by a, Russian round
shot, and the stones it contained were
dashed with great force into Wolseley's
face and body. The sergeant working
with him pulled back without ceremony
what he believed to be a. dead body, in
tending to bury it in camp, when he pres
emily discovered that the life of his Off
Ger was not extinct. The whole face of
Wolseley, as well, indeed, as most of his
body, was honeycOmbed with wounds A
large stone was driven through the cheek
and jaw into the neck, where it lodged; the
right wrist was all but smashed and a Sc
rious wound was inflicted on his right
shin, the bone of which eXfoliated later
Both eyes were completely closed. and the
sight of one was permanently DESTROYED
The surgeons first casual diagnosis was
tersely expressed in the words He's a
dead 'un," but Wolseley reused himself
TO eXclaim, feebly: II am worth a good
many dead men yet"
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