The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a private exhibition Of me latest mar
vel in Photography was given recently
in Ke.th's theater. Union square. New
York city. The device IS called the en-
ematOgraphe, and is the invention OF q
Freedman. By name Lumiere. The ma
chine presents living photographs. ana
il ls hard for the spectator 10 DeiieFe
that he is not really booking upon living
persons. The Photograph Is placed IN a
slide on the magic lantern principle. and
the reflection increased 10 l-re-siZe Is cast
upon a screen. BY a chemical process
the appearance Of life Is given 10 the
picture. and a mechanical arran cement
by disturbing the shadow brings the pho
tograph out in bold relief, moving the
hands and arms as living person would
do. The c.nematOgraphe was invented IN
September. 1895. and has been the rage
for some time in Paris.
A writer on the far eastern question"
speaking Of missionary influence in China,
says. Missionary work is practically the
only agency through which the influence
Of western civilization can at present reach
the masses. The missionary alone goes out
into the byways, as well as the highways,
and. whether he resides in a treaty port
or in some remote province, strives TO live
with and among and for the people. The
life which he lives whether II be the as
celtic life Of the Roman Catholic mission
airy or the family life Of a protestant mis-
standing reprOach TO the life Of gross self
indulgence led by the average mandarin.
But in the eyes of the latter IL becomes
public scandal when, in glaring contrast
to every vice of native rule, the foreign
missionary in his daily dealings with the
people of mis- district conveys a continuous
object lesson of justice and kindness, of
unselhshness and integrity
A druggist has discovered that patent
medicines have their fashions like hats
and canes. says an exchange. There was
a time when plasters were all the rage.
but after sticking to them for some years
pubic taste changed, and then kidney
and liver medicines came into vogue.
People who never knew they had kidneys
began to take stun that they had heard
was good for them, and men first in the
Held got rich. BiJters were in vogue uni
versaNy at one time. a man whose side
board was not provided with half a dozen
different varieties was considered old
fashioned and destitute of enterprise.
Then there was the craze for pads. There
We're lung pads, and liver pads, and kid
ney pads, and foot pads. No man who
wished to keep up with the times failed
to 80 to his druggist and be measured
Tor pad. with fun quota OF pads
properly adjusted undershirts were super
huous. Cough and grip remedies had their
innings last winter, there being something
like 800 in the market, with any number of
doctors and professors sitting up nights
connecting more.
A Swiss scientist, NJ. Pictet of Ge-
neva, has devised a plan by which the
waters of the Nile, by means of the spare
heat of Egyptian sands, can be turned
| into the Sahara and make the desrt bloom
| like the rose, says the Boston Herald.
| His idea IS to use the sandspouts, which
correspond to the waterspOuts at sea,
| as means of generating a steam-pump-
| ing force that will pour the waters OF
| the Nile in immense floods over the
barren sands. BY this means the whole
| OF the desert of the Sahara might be
watered by the Nile, but if this plan
| were adopted it would turn lower Egypt
| into desert, and the Nile itself would
be lost in the sands of Sahara. The pro
| Ject has the merit of novelty, and the
| scientlnc fact on which II is based, the
| use of the suns heat to generate steam
| along the banks of the Nile, is some
/ thing within the powers of man. 1t is
| hardly a greater undertaking than was
| the building of the Suez canal If the
/ sands of the desert could be irrigated
/ from the Nile, and IL does not seem tc
| be an impossibility. it would bring e
Hhe service of malnkind an immense
! area that would make Northern Africa
the garden of the world.
-Driscus-throwing says the Century
was a later and more refined form OF
| hurting the stone. In Homeric times. an6
| even at Olympia, a stone or mass of iror
| was first used for the purpose. This
| was held by a leathern thong, swung
| in circle and thrown as far as possible
| A circular or lenticular disk of bronze
| was used at least as early as the begin.
| ming of the fifth century. A standard
| weight must, of course, be assumed fol
the great games, A discus now in tbs
| British museum. which seems to have
| been used, weighs eleven pounds nine
| ounces, but whether this was the stan.
GARD weight or not is not definitely
| known. The thrower took his stand upoT
! n cd dir far
| ence, where he could have a secure foot
| mold, and was prevented from running
| then, with swing Of his arm and a cor
| responding movement of the whole body
! he hurled the discus as far as possible
| The value of the body movement was
| recognized by the sculptor Myorn in his
famous statue The Discobolus," and
| is understood by the modern athlete
| when he swings the hammer, or ever
| when he makes a drive at golf As fol
| records at discus-throwing, Phayllus
| again, IS said to have thrown the discus
| ninety-five feet.
A correspondent of the London Queer
gives the following description of Rus
sian peasant wedding: 1.-THE evening be
| fore the marriage the bride goes through
| the village with a cake, and enterine
| each 1zba COTTAGE breaks off a piece
which she offers with an invitation Il
attend her wedding the next day Before
| leaving each iZba she kneels down anf
asks for general pardon for any of
lenses she may have committed, and alsC
for the benediction of all present. ever
of the children. On the morning OF hel
marriage, before leaving for church, thu
kneading trough is covered with a white
linen cloth, and upon this she seats her
self, while her mother or godmother, cut.
off three locks of hair, which are ther
solemnly burned in the presence of he
family. The same ceremony IS performed
at the house of the bridegroom, tn,
three locks of hair in his case being Gu
| off and burned by his father or neares
| relation. He then proceeds to his BRIDE
house, where they go together to tn
church. The ceremony over, the bride
mother hurries home first, that she MAJ
receive them at the door of her 4zba AM
offer the newly-married couple a piece o
cake, bread and salt. The whole part.
| then enter and remain standing, Will
the bridegroom walks three times arount
the table on which the feast for the wed
ding guests is prepared In this cake
and honey, quas. mead and vodka are in
dispensable, with more substantial Wand
in the form of pork and poultry, so ia
as the means of the brides family permit
A dance on the green follows and is con
tinued until nightfall, when the bride de
parts for her new home In this case III