The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Aiohammed. The diamonds and rubies
used IN The decorations are worth 100000
Electricity has been successfully en-
ployed by Dr. N. C. Jenison in checking
hemOrrhage from the extraction Of teeth.
Il ne current caused instant Goa gulatiOn of
the blood and gave relief where the usual
remedies were without effect
The yes. ma'am." and Yes. sir" 6is-
cussion, says the Boston Transcript, mas
interested one correspondent who thinks
the drOnping Of this method of expression
from polite converse ton was gr=a
loss. She illustrates the tendency Of the
thing by story Last fan she employ
81 a servant and this servant, though q
comparatively new arrival. soon demand
ed that she be allowed TO sir at the
table with the family. There's a change
IN this country now the girl said. and
she could hardly be refined. or she would
address a lady IN more respectful man
ner. "Oh, the girl replied. you are
one OF the people who think your nelp
should say Yes ma ann Well. now. that
mas been given up. We don't mean to
say that I'm this free country Why. Amer
leans don't teach their children TO say
that, and no help viii do il that knows
anytnlng. Strange as II may seem, the
lduy OF the mouse severed her cOnnec-
ton with this up-to-date person forth
with.
Since nearly 500 years ago the Chi
nese are known 10 have irrigated their
lands for agricultural purposes Small
plats of land about a third as large as
an acre are made level and bitches put
through and around them in such a way
that after the land has absorbed a : much
water as is needed IL Will flow on TO the
next plat which is some inches lower
than the first one. These STRIPS of UNI
even land are to be seen throughout the
great plain of China. The most common
way of obtaining water for irrigation is
TO raise II by manual labor from the
rivers and creeks Two children are
placed on the bank holding the ends OF
q rope about ten feet long. TO the middle
Of which is attached large bucket. This
is lowered into the water and with a
horizontal pull a each end of the rope
the bucket is raised to the tank and
emptied. Two girls viii, i'm this manner.
raise from sixty TO eighty gallons "A min
ute. From morning I'LL night these chill
dren may be found toil.ng in the dry sea-
son to keep the irrigatng tanks filled. If
windmills were used all this unnecessary
labor would be done away with. There
the country, and all the flour is made
by girls who work a primitive grind
stone.
The electric railway now building be-
tween Baltimore and Washington and
which may ultimately be extended north
ward to Philadelphia and New York, is
attracting attention The track, says the
New York Tribune, is to be built with 90
pound rails, which are heavier than those
used on most steam lines, and II will be
stone b9llasted. A some what costly VIA
duct and bridge where the electric road is
to cross the Baltimore and Ohio road and
a few other not Inexpensive bits of engi-
neering indicate that the enterprise is be-
ing put through in irst-class shape. A
speed of at least 80 miles an hour will be
the minimum, and 50 the probable maxi
mum; so that the line ought to prove
formidable rival to the steam roads serv-
ing the same communities. Nearly Is miles
of road-bed have been graded from the
Washington end already out as far as
Laurel, and the rails viii be laid and
power turned on some time during the
coming summer. From Baltimore the line
runs out to CatOnVille, and then forks,
one branch extending to Ellicott City and
the other to Leicester. Both of these points
are about seven or eight miles from Bal
tmOre, ana service on this portion is also
promised i'm two or three months The mid
die link, from Leicester to Laurel, some
thing like dozen miles in length, will be
undertaken during the late summer and
autumn. 1t is not expected that cars will
run over the whole line (Which is TO be 50
miles long, until next spring.
An electrical department, says the New
York Sun, was added to the Oakland (CaD.
high school some time ago, and a course
in electricity established. The poor pro-
lessor in charge has had dreadful time.
During the lessons the delicate instru-
ments have played him all sorts of tricks,
and all his experiments have been of
doubtful success. Every once in a while
girl would step up TO tell what she had
learned about volts, ohms and amperes,
gyrate wildly and the needles o. the va
riOus dials would wabble, and all the
laws of volts and ohm and faraday would
go 10 smash, and the findings of Edison
and Tesla would become strangely lost
Then the professor knew the student be-
side him had on high-grade corset with
not affected by the presence of some stu
dents, because they wore health waists of
some sort and were braced with whale
bone or some substitute for steel. Finally
Prof. Meade was obliged to issue a rule
barring cOrSetted girls from the electrical
department, and the governors Endorsed
the rule. 1t might seem TO be a rule diff
cult to enforce and delicate to handle. But
Prof. Meads finds it easy. In entering the
electrical department the girls have to
pass one of the professors sensitive gal
VanOmeters. The professor stands uno0-
trusiVely beside it. The ''impertinent Jig
GER work like a charm, and there is no
way in which the girls can beat the game.
on the near approach of a girl wearing
steel-ribbed corsets the needle gyrates
frantically. and the girl is respectfully but
firmly reminded of the rule, and expostu-
lations are useless.
Mr.. W. J. Rainbow, an Australian
naturalist, gives in the American Natu-
ralist the following description of the
large bird-entrapping spiders of his coun-
try: Representatives of this genus
abound in tropical and Sub-trOpical re-
gions. Their webs are composed of two
kinds of silk, one yellow, exceedingly
Viscid and elastic, the other white, dry
for the framework of the web, the guys
and radii, and the former for the concen-
trio rings. these snares are at varying
nights, sometimes within reach, again
ten to twelve feet from the ground, but
always in position exposed to the rays
of the sun. The diameter is also vari-
able, from three feet upward. One seen
by Giraffe in the Fiji Islands constructs
web thirty feet in diameter. These
snares are strong enough to entrap small
birds In the authors opinion the web is
not set for such game, and the spider
does not feed on her pathological VIC
tim. In the cases where she has been OBJ
served with her fangs in the body of the
ensnared bird it is probable that it is for
the purpose of fastening the death Of
the bird in order to prevent it's injuring
the web in its struggles to escape. Spid-
ers of the genus Nephila are easily tam
ed. Although exceedingly voracious
they can nevertheless exist for many
days without either food or water. They
pair in autumn. The sexes inhabit the
same web for a considerable time the
female in the center and the male On
the upper edge of the web. His efforts 10
ingrauate himself in favor of his mate
are not always successful. 1t not infre-
quently happens that he has to retire from