The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

STRIP Of land and contains salt water
| under the surface in which spOnEes, COO
nsn and other marine animals flourish
/ The surface OF the water however is
! perfectly treshs and supports daphnias
and other fresh water creatures.
| The electric searchlight was used re-
/ Gently to put down a riot in Lancashire.
England A manufacturer. whose men
! mad struck, was determined to keen his
/ null going. and he promptly secured new
| hands and set them to work. At the
| same time he fixed a searchlight on the
/ factory building, to prevent the strikers
4 from setting fire to the sheds erected for
/ the new hands. During the continuance
/ OF the strike this light was used nightly,
/ IN conjunction with the police established
! IN the works. TO scour the country and
/ 10 Illuminate the parts where pickets We're
/ placed II was found so effective that
/ large number of temporary police were
| dispensed with
The principal cause Of the movement
of the blood in the veins is what the ply
! siologists refer to as "the pressure from
/ behind" says the St. Louis Republic. BY
| this is meant the capillary circulation, or
/ movement of the blood caused bv the
! constant pumping action of the heart.
! which forces the current into and through
/ the veins. To prevent the engagement
/ or the veins-that is, to prevent their be-
| coming so filled with blood that their re-
| sistance would counterbalance the pres
| sure from the arteres-each pulsation of
| the heart by emptying the right Ventri-
| Gle, allows part of the blood accumulated
| in the veins to be removed. In this way
/ the backward resistance in the veins is
! Kept inferior to the pressure Of the arte-
! rial circulation. 1t is a well-knOwn fact
! that when a muscle contracts il thickens
| and becomes diminished in length. The
j erect OF this lateral swelling is to COM
! press the veins lying between the mus
/ Giles, thus forcing the blood forward. An
| other popularity is the half-mOon shaped
| valves with which the veins are we'll pro-
] Vided These 'Semi-lunar" valves open
only toward the heart, making any back
! ward movement of the blood into the We
| nous system impossible.
when 1 went to a nerve specialist
first" said man who was once an in
valid. to the Pittsburg Dispatch. "he tod
| me that one way to Judge of the cOndi-
| ton of a persons nerves was to watch
| his thumbs Ever since that time / have
| found the greatest fascination in look
! ing at peoples thumbs The doctor said
! that If they moved involuntarily outward
! ii was sign that the nerves of that man
| or woman were not in the best condition.
| l find myself now sweeping the line OPP
| poste me in the car and if that doctor s
| test is a good one there is a surprising
number OF people in this town whose
! nerves need looking after. There are few
| among the women who do not inVOlun-
tariiy move the thumbs outward a inter
| walls of every few minutes, and when
your attention has been once attracted
] to ii the process of watching their glOved
| hands grows very interesting. / have
found the habit much less frequent
| among men, but take the average num-
| Der of women in a street car, and it vii
| be a surprise to you to see how many OF
| them indulge unconsciously in this little
/ habit. I only hope it does not mean any
| thing as serious as It might indicate, if
! that nerve specialists diagnosis was a
| good one"
A method of sinking wells in granite
and other crystalline rocks, where water
is not generally supposed to exist, has
been brought to the attention of the Paris
| Academy of Science. The communication
| stated that certain pilot and light house
| stations in Sweden having been troubled
! by the lack of a suitable water supply,
/ and in view of the fact that water had
been found in deep bore holes on rocky is
/ let's, it was concluded that the tempera-
ture changes produced shearing stresses
| between the surface rocks and that lower
down. forming horizontal assures into
| which water must percOlate through
the surface 1t was believed that his
water would be fresh, as The water reach
ing from mines extending far under the
sea is never saline. Acting on this theory
a we'll was last year sunk in the island of
| ArkO to the depth of 100 feet below the
sea level, when a horizontal tissue was en-
countered, from which was obtained a
daily supply of AGO gallons of perfectly
fresh water. Similar wells in other To-
calities are mentioned as Welding water
at depth of from 110to 120 feet. The rock
in each case rs described as granite
gneiss or diorite, and the wells were of
two and one-half inches diameter, bored
by diamond drills.
1t Is lIdFu 10 lilu anything IN the world
that has not a dark as well as a bright
side-and that has not bright spot no
matter how dark the outline may be- saws
| Meehan's Monthly. Prof l.. H Bailey
has a good word for the vilest weed He
says the truth is that weeds always have
been and still are the closest friends and
helpmates of the farmer. 1t was they
| which first taught the lesson of tillage of
the soil, and it is they which never allow
the lesson, now that ii has been partly
learned, to be forgotten. The one only
ana sovereign remedy for them is he very
uliage which they have introduced
When their mission is finally matured.
therefore, they will disappear because
there viii be no place in which they can
grow II would be a great calamity if
they We're now to disappear from the
earth, for the greater number of farm
ers Stlll need the discipline which they
| enforce. Probably not one farmer in ten
would till his land wen if it were not for
these painstaking schoolmasters and
many of them would not till at all. Until
lat L%IIn ti vi ior tlliage sake, and not TO
XIII the Weecs 1t is necessary that the
weeds shall exist; but when farmers do
III for tllage sake. then weeds will dis
appear with no effort of ours.
The making of skates of glass was
noted in this column yesterday, says the
Pittsburg Dispatch. The use of so brittle
| and breakable a substance for such a mr.
! pose seems surprising enough and dan
| gerous, too. Glass skates wouldn't last
long in a Ptttsburg hockey game, that
church bells A trade paper. uuoting
from an English paper, says: I'VE have
heretofore refused to publish that item
about glass church bell in England be-
cause no place was mentioned. But here
Is something definite at last: "A church
bell of green glass, IA inches high and IA
| inches in diameter, was placed in the trr-
| ret OF the chapel at Grange Barrowdale
in October, 1859; and now we are told that
the glass is to be used as a filling for
| teeth, especially the front ones, where if
VII De less conspicuous than gold, and in
fact, indistnguiEhab from the tooth
| surface. We don't believe the above our
| selves, but anyone interested can write
! for information to Barrowdale' 1t is
not clear why our contemporary is so
| skeptlcaL Glass is extremely elastic, and
has. ever tapped a glass lamp shade. and
heard 1t ring for a minute or so after
ward can testify. So if a glass bell were
made thick enough, and if the momentum
of the clapper We're restricted to a safe
| limit, there seems no reason whv II
should not be possibility, and success
| full one at that.