The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Emperor of Germany stands
twenty-frst in the direct line of success
sion to the British throne.
From an Indian official report it is
learned that in the year 1895, 2,S93 persons
lost their lives through tigers. panthers,
| pears, elephants and other wild beasts; 81
oSo dled from serpent bites three-fourths
OF which were caused by cobras. Quite
1900 domestic animals were killed by til
gers panthers and serpents.
Paris proposes to put an end to the
. complaint that policeman can never be
found by establishing 20 police kiosks in
dlnerent parts of the city. A policeman
Will be always on duty there who will
communicate with the nearest station by
telephone, and at night viii have another
policeman with him to send out at once
in case OF need.
In several villages of Finland the wo-
man has authority, for a religious sect
exists there whose disciples are forced to
marry and to take vow to submit to the
wife in all things. The women choose one
woman for the governing head whose duty
1t IS to see that the men behave themselves
and to punish them if they transgress.
Similar are the "Puriieants" of Liberia,
who also recognize the supremacy of wo-
men.
A queer fish. common around Chicago,
is known as a water dog" or a four-leg-
ged fish. This animal is no fish, however
| but Is one, of the lowest of the group of
| animals called batrachians. 1t may become
! a foot long, and has a broad fiat tail, four
| short legs, a wide mouth and three pairs
| OF bushy gills. Fishermen fear it, and think
| 1t venomous, but it is wholly harmless
! They do not depend wholly on their gills
he n ~ how tttr -,
| come to the surface for air, and have we'll
/ developed lungs.
"A committee of doctors in charge of
the hospital at Crewes, England, recently
gave striking testimony to the value of
! electric lights for hospitals. In this hos
pital the number of beds in the various
] wards was apportioned in such a manner
/ that there would be 1900 cubic feet of
| space for each patient, thus insuring a
| suthciency of fresh air. This apportion-
ment was made while gas lighting was
employed, but now, on the recommended
! ton OF the committee, electric lighting
has been adopted and the committee fur
Their advise that the number of beds in
the hospital be increased from % to 49,
| stating that as electric lighting does not
Vltiate the air like gas, the cubic space per
| patient can be diminished in the above
ratio without harm.
One of the most valuable patents was
the result of a dream, says the Boston
! Transcript. An engineer named Spring
err had been trying to devise an automatic
| lock which would brake a carriage going
down HILL so that the driver would not
have to get out, but might lock the brake
by pulling his horse in. He dreamed that
| he was driving down a steep hill and had
/ just such a lock on his wagon He no.
| uced exactly how it was constructed. and
ON waking he got up and sl7etched the de-
| tails Of the mechanism. Then he went
to bed again. Three days later he applied
for patent, which was granted. 1t
yielded $4,000 THE first year OF the heaps
/ of patents issued every week by the United
/ States patent office only very small per-
centage of them have any practical useful
ness. But it is not always possible to
judge before a thing has been tried A
/ few years ago a man thought of incosing
| trees in canvas and filing the canvass
| with deadly gases for the purpose of de-
StrOying insects. He was considered a
luna.tic, but this method is now practiced
| on a great scale and with much success in
! California
Two rivals for the steam engine in
its usual form are now receiving much
attention, says the Engineering News.
! the steam turbine and the gas engine
! Which one is eventually to displace the
! reciprocating steam engine for the direct
! driving of dynamos is a matter of doubt
| but the Westinghouse Iachine COMPANY
/ which builds the Well-known Westing-
| house steam engine. is preparing itself for
| either event by embarking in the manu-
! facture of both steam turbines and gas
| engines. 1t has recently placed both
! upon the market The turbine is of the
Parsons type, which has for some years
been on the market in England. The gas
| engine is a new design, the result of
| some years of experiment by George
| Westinghouse. 1t is a two-cylinder en-
CINE, using the Otto cycle, but with a
/ governor which controls the admission Of
! both air and gas in such a way that an
| explosion occurs at every stroke The re-
! suit is a very good regulation, such that
! dynamos driven directly on the shaft of
| the engine furnish an entirely satisfactory
! light, free from Pickering. Two of the
gas engines are now running in the Pitts
burg exposition.
In view of the prospects of the future
| developments in orange production in this
| country, attention has been drawn to the
| supplementary uses to which the products
! OF the orange tree can be put saws the
Pittsburg Dispatch. In their natural
| state the orange flowers serve to flavor
! drinks, candies, etc. When distilled thew
| yield the much-esteemed orange flower
| water, and an essential oil called neroli
Nheh treated with sugar, the flowers
! form a delicious candy, which is said to
be not only exceptionally palatabIe but
more wholesome than many other produc-
! tons of the confectioner's art The flow
| ers are selected with care weighed and
! immersed in cold water for twenty-four
hours after which they are dipped in cold
! water, re-washed, and finally spread out
| on linen cloth or sheet to dry. When
! quite dry they are laid out in low, wide
| dishes, each flower separate from its fell
| low, and then sprinkled with double their
weight of sugar, administered at intervals
over period of eight days They are
meanwhile moved and kept in the shade.
At the expiration of that time they are
| once more placed in the sun, whose ravs
| dry them completely. The orange flower
water is made Of equal proportions in
| weight of blossoms and water. which Weld
on an average about one-fifth Of a mound
weight of water and flowers and AQUA
nanfa, with about .0OO7 per cent. of essen
tial oil. AT present the best manufacto-
ries of orange flower water are TO he
] faNN In 100 nh